What Do We Do About Professional Competency?

Can We Save Professional Competency? Anyone who has been around since before the year 2000 knows that the bar of practice competency in the mental health field is arguably much lower than it was just two decades ago. It’s been slowly and subtly redefined to operate not from a base of replicable, peer-reviewed science to…

Kathleen Mills Public Comments 5-1-26

By Kathleen Mills LPC-S

I’m Kathleen Mills LPC-S and co-founder of AMHP. Our legacy professional organizations are publicly encouraging their members to ignore State law and the TX AG’s Opinions. A formal Coalition of professional organizations is openly encouraging their members to break the law and risk the loss of their licenses. The ACA and their state chapter, TCA,…

Phillip Crums Public Comments 5-1-26

By Phillip Crum

I’m Phillip Crum, Joe Citizen, co-founder of AMHP. What’s the Problem? The long-term feminization of the discipline has produced a woke professional mindset that believes a practice should be run on feelings, equality of outcome as long as someone else is paying for it, and virtue signaling. Underlying it all is a group-think, “terminal empathy”.…

Board Members Serving Two Masters

By Kathleen Mills LPC-S

In a separate post we cleared up the misinformation about the licensing boards having anything to do with the genesis of SB14, but that brings up two questions we need to address. Where do the loyalties of each professional board member live, and what is their duty towards encouraging TX licensees when it comes to…

Rick McCarthy’s Public Comments 2-20-26

By Rick McCarthy, MFT

Rick McCarthy’s Public Comments Good afternoon, my name is Rick McCarthy, LMFT, a former Subject Matter Expert and Oral Examiner for this Board. In 2003 this Board discontinued the oral examination, and California eliminated its only direct method for assessing applied competence at the point of independent licensure for LMFTs. This is the pivotal motivation…