The AMHP Blog Post Archive
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 lot of businesses it’s easy to assume that everyone knows what we do and how we do it when, in fact, that’s not the case. We live in it 24/7, they don’t. So, What is Therapy? I think there are several very real queries packed into that simple little question. How does this work? What do I need to do first? How is therapy different than visiting my regular doctor?…
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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 of that old familiar term. You can get a lot of people to agree with your position this way, even if they don’t understand what they just agreed to, because this technique relies on the “defer to the expert” phenomenon. (We’re too lazy to go look it up ourselves so we just accept what the expert in the white lab coat tells us.) Nirvana via Marxism: What’s in a Word?…
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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 address in this conference: Navigating the new CE Renewal Rules and checking those boxes off of your list, and… Running a counseling practice in a post-covid environment, and the issues that that brings. The New CE Renewal Rules The new set of rules goes into effect Jan 2024. Before you say to yourself, “oh, good, I have time to figure them out!”, uh, no, you don’t. That effective date means…
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“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 most memorable aspect of it? And if you can’t remember who the first one was then tell us about the most memorable concert. I’ll Go First I was studying classical music as a flute performance major at the time and I was a sophomore in college. My future husband Dan and I went to see Queen on Jan 22nd 1977 (cause I just looked it up!) and the warm-up act…
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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 that together we can effect positive change in our world and nothing is going to stop us in our attempt to do just that. You are a highly intelligent, well-trained person and you have the necessary God-given brains and talent to make a difference in people’s lives. Our Yellow Brick Road One of my favorite movies of all time is The Wizard of Oz. It really is a window into…
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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 associations. We’ll also be providing a platform from which we can fight the evil nonsense that’s taking place in our world today. We do it for the God that made us, for our kids and their children, for our profession, and for each other. This is going to be exciting because evil always crumbles in the face of Truth. A Few Housekeeping Notes All of our previous blog posts may…
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