Kathleen’s Public Comments LPC Board Meeting

On June 7 of 2024, The Austin BBQ Club from the AMHP organization, made the trek to Austin in the wee hours of the morning to make our public comments in person. The post below is the message delivered by Kathleen Mills LPC-S and may be viewed in its entirety in this video. The public…

Quadrennial Rules Review Discussion

By Phillip Crum

Let’s talk Quadrennial Rules Review. In the State of TX each state agency, including BHEC, is required to review all of its rules and regulations every four years to make sure that they: Do not run afoul of existing state code (law). Are still relevant. Do not conflict with each other. I have it on…

Public Comments to LMFT Board 4-5-24

By Kathleen Mills LPC-S

I’m Kathleen Mills LPC-S and co-founder of AMHP, the association for Mental Health Professionals. Public Comments to LMFT Board 4-5-24 After a personal review of BHEC and the various boards’ actions over the past 3.5 years I have come to the following 3 conclusions: #1. That the BHEC Administrative staff have done an outstanding, herculean…

GAC and My Duty to Report

By Phillip Crum

Last year SB 14 was passed outlawing transgender conversion therapy for minors in TX. Kathleen became aware of a local, N. TX counseling group that publicly offers to write the GAC letters required by the WPATH conversion protocol before any medication or surgery may be applied. This particular counseling group also sees children which raised…

About Your License Renewal Requirements

By Kathleen Mills LPC-S

Okay, I guess we better do this one more time then we’ll move on. Effective Jan 1, 2024 if you are a licensee of the TX LPC, LMFT, Psych, or SW Boards then your bi-annual license renewal falls under the complete set of guidelines that were argued extensively (not by the boards!) in ’22 and…