The AMHP Blog Post Archive

The War on Reason Part 6

The War on Reason Part 6

There are at least 3 major, systemic pathways that are negatively influencing and impacting our profession: Academia via the Post-Modernism/Woke movement, Big Pharma, and Big Finance. In this post, the 6th in a series of 7, we will address the first leg of that trifecta, how the Post-Modern/Woke culture has ...
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Social Contagion

Social Contagion and the Permanence of Fads

I am contending that "social contagion" explains the rapid rise in transgenderism in the last 20 years, paralleling the advent of social media as the primary vehicle for facilitating the active spreading of information. That's a mouthful but all it means is that social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and ...
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The War on Reason-Part 4

The War on Reason-Part 4

The table that follows lists two schools of thought you need to understand for our next segment: Modernism, which is what built America, and Post-Modernism, or Woke as it's called now. The main pillars of each camp are listed below. The tenets of Modernism are listed on the left-side of ...
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The War on Reason-Part 3

The War on Reason-Part 3

This is the second-half of a blog post which details an overview of the Post-Modern/Woke Movement in the 20th century. It's a detailed backdrop against which the Woke tactics can be viewed in an attempt to explain how we got here and what we need to do to save our ...
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The War on Reason-Part 2

The War on Reason-Part 2

I remind you that Modernism is the predominant philosophy of thought in America. It started in England in the 1500's, transformed the British economy and was quickly picked up by the French. The Germans toyed with the concept for a while before historical events conspired (French Revolution and Napoleon) to ...
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The War on Reason-Part 1

The War on Reason-Part 1

In a recent email I used the term, "war on Woke stupidity". One reader asked me what I meant by that and while I thought that was fairly obvious from prior posts on the topic I responded to his fair and straight-forward question. My reply appears below with some additional ...
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Our Conference Narrative

Our Conference Narrative and Your Practice

Our annual conference is shaping up nicely. In fact, Day 2 has been totally populated with the speakers we targeted, and Day 1 is a whisper away from being complete. As of this writing we have them all lined up, just awaiting confirmation on 3 of them and how many ...
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The War on Reason-Part 5

The War on Reason-Part 5

Any era of philosophical thought is played out in at least two stages: the academic arena where ideas are hammered out and refined, and the societal level where they are tested and police cars and careers burn. Part 2 requires that all of the lofty ideas, ivory-tower terms, and academic ...
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S.B. 2529

S.B. 2529 and What It Means to You

There is a proposed bill before the TX Senate to amend Chapter 111 of the Occupations Code (that's one of the additional 9 Codes BHEC requires you as a licensee to be familiar with, right?) to include all (4) license types under BHEC's jurisdiction. Here are our first-blush notes on ...
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Holistic Approach

Could Holistic Options Help?

The past 10 years, especially the last 3, have made me question every single aspect of our profession, with a particular focus on whether we're being as effective as we could be with our clients. I'm not seeing it. Could holistic options help? The number of pills my clients are ...
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Who Tracks My CEU's

Who Tracks My CEU’s?

  April 2023 Update: A quick review of the LPC Rulebook late last week revealed the existence of a 2nd "effective date" that 3-4 pair of eyes belonging to some of the most eagle-eyed talent in all of N. Dallas had failed to spot. Essentially, part of the newly minted ...
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Approved Provider List

How Do I Get on the Approved Provider List?

A friend of mine asked me a number of questions earlier this week about becoming a CE provider here in the state of TX and getting on the Approved Provider list. Thought I'd pass that Q&A session along in the hopeful knowledge that it might help someone else as well. ...
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What is Therapy?

What is Therapy?

This week a client asked one of my associates, "what's therapy?" When she told me that my initial thought was, "it's therapy, what do you mean, "what's therapy?". But then I gave it some thought and began to wonder what might prompt such a question from a non-counselor. Like a ...
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Nirvana via Marxism

Nirvana via Marxism: We’re Letting This Happen?

The woke community uses something I call the 10% rule to achieve their objectives. That rule would have you change a definition ever so slightly in your favor, just a little bit, when no one's looking. Then let your target audience hear your argument through the filter of their understanding ...
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AMHP Annual Conference

The AMHP Annual Conference

We're already well underway planning the AMHP Annual Conference and I'm confident in saying it will be like no other counseling conference you've ever attended. In fact, that's our stated goal. How Will It Be Different? We see two very specific areas of concern affecting counselors that we want to ...
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All work and no play

All Work and No Play

"All work and no play makes a dull counselor" is how I think that quote goes, right? So this week let's have a little fun. I want to know in the comments below who the very first concert you ever attended was. Who did you see and what was the ...
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Our Yellow Brick Road

Our Yellow Brick Road: You Coming?

I am so excited for you, for me, for us, that we're coming together like this in the AMHP program. I believe in you, I believe in me, and I believe in the work that we're doing and I'm asking you to travel our yellow brick road together. I believe ...
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AMHP-Association for Mental Health Professionals

An Open Invitation

Welcome to the Association for Mental Health Professionals. Kathleen Mills, LPC-S, CEAP and I are creating this institution just for you and this is an open invitation to join us. It's our effort to provide a home for disenfranchised counselors who do not feel welcome anymore in our long-standing professional ...
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