Phillips Public Comments Jan 2025

I’m Phillip Crum, TX citizen and co-creator of AMHP, the Association for Mental Health Professionals. Phillips Public Comments Jan 2025 At this very moment the Texas Medical Board, the TMB, is trying to take the medical license of Dr. Mary Talley Bowden. Her crime, her ethical infraction, was to speak up in favor of Covid…

Kathleens Public Comments Jan 2025

By Kathleen Mills LPC-S

I’m Kathleen Mills LPC-S and co-creator of AMHP, the Association for Mental Health Professionals. Our profession is deeply divided right now thanks almost entirely to our academic output of the last twenty years. Competent grad students are leaving and changing their career paths because they don’t want to put up with the abuse they’re taking…

Open Letter to Public Members

By Phillip Crum

Open Letter to Public Members Dear Public Member, Welcome to public service. I know it can be a lonely, thankless, no-paying job with long hours, but I’m glad to see you pick up the baton to run your leg of the race. Unfortunately, based on observations over many years there seems to be a disconnect…

Phillips Public Comments at BHEC Council 10-15-24

By Phillip Crum

Phillip Crum, AMHP Co-Founder, TX Citizen. After the last two board meetings I think I’ve figured out why this room is almost empty every time you meet, and I think I know why you go through volunteer public members like salt through a goose. Cultivating Public Comment Most of these people who speak up, in-person…

Kathleen’s Public Comments at BHEC Council 10-15-24

By Kathleen Mills LPC-S

My name is Kathleen Mills, Co-Founder of AHMP. Our country and our liberties are in real trouble. We have some existential problems as a nation and our counseling profession is in the direct line of fire. The legacy professional organizations, accrediting bodies, insurance companies and academia want to run this profession and they’re in the…