The Therapy Sisters Podcast

| Association for Mental Health ProfessionalsKathleen Mills, LPC-S, CEAP, CIMHP and Kip Rodgers, LPC-S discuss pretty much whatever's on their mind about the issues of the day and how those things affect their beloved counseling profession. Not for the faint of heart or thin-skinned, nothing is off-limits and no apologies are made. We have a spiritual war for the minds of America to win!

Episode 25-The DSM Part 3

Episode 25-The DSM Part 3

In Part 3 of this series The Therapy Sisters continue to blow up the Pharma industry. It's not what you've been led to believe it is. Be part of the solution. https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Episode-25-The-DMS-Pt-3.mp3 Food for Thought 1. What are your thoughts about how most psychiatrists operate these days? 2. What % ...
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Episode 24-The DSM Part 2

Episode 24-The DSM Part 2

Part 2 of a series in which The Therapy Sisters discuss the viability of the DSM, its history, and its role in your practice. Buckle up! https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Episode-24-The-DMS-Pt-2.mp3 Food for Thought What are your thoughts on who should be doing pharma-research, and why? Who should be funding pharma research? To whom ...
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Episode 23-The DSM Part 1

Episode 23-The DSM Part 1

The DSM. The practitioners' diagnostic bible,....or is it? Some swear by it, some rarely touch it but this week The Therapy Sisters are going to swear at it, or at least near it, and begin a discussion about its origins, its usefulness, and the money that binds it all together. ...
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Episode 22-Let’s Talk About the DSM

Episode 22-Let’s Talk About the DSM

In this episode, Kip and Phillip will set up the tentative outline for an upcoming series of discussions about all aspects of the DSM5. Should be hot stuff! https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Episode-22-Lets-Talk-About-the-DSM.mp3 Food for Thought What are your thoughts about the DSM5? How big a part does the DSM5 play in your practice? ...
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Episode 21-Spontaneous Counseling Excellence

Episode 21-Spontaneous Counseling Excellence

Join us as these 3 cuss and discuss the major fronts of this digital information war we're in and try and determine a George Patton plan of attack! https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Episode-21-Spontaneous-Counseling-Excellence.mp3 Food for Thought Have you viewed as what's going on "out there" as a war of information? A war requires at ...
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Episode 20-John Wick and the Stossel Interview

Episode 20-John Wick and the Stossel Interview

Kathleen Mills, LPC-S and Kip Rodgers, LPC-S discuss the recent Stossel Interview and why it's an unexpected surprise in the war on Woke stupidity. Kip also reviews a few other current events and offers movie-going tips for the clueless. A splendid time is guaranteed or your money back. https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Episode-20-John-Wick-and-the-Stossel-Interview.mp3 Food ...
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Episode 19-Kips Inbox and the DEI Question

Episode 19-Kips Inbox and the DEI Question

DEI is the current version of Affirmative Action and the dumbing down of America through the corporate workplace. The Sisters have a few things to say about that. Oh, and of course Kip will cover a few current events of interest from her burgeoning Inbox. https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Episode-19-Kips-Inbox-and-the-DEI-Question.mp3 Food for Thought Do ...
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Episode 18-The Integrative Approach

Episode 18-The Integrative Approach

The integrative approach to mental health is not new but it's not widely practiced. Yet. It is rapidly picking up steam especially in the past few years given the events of our time and the fact that the pills our clients are taking aren't working well and at best, they ...
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Episode 17-Self-Esteem

Episode 17-Self Esteem-Your Kid is Not Special

Episode 17 is all about self-esteem; what it is, the self-esteem movement, how it was hijacked and deeply affected our social fabric in a bad way and how it affects us all to this day. Have a listen then chime in in the Comments section below. https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Episode-17-Self-Esteem-Your-Kid-is-Not-Special.mp3 Food for Thought ...
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Episode 16-Odds and Ends Pt 1

Episode 16-Odds and Ends Pt 1

Before we actually record anything we always chat for awhile beforehand and sometimes Phillip hits the record button just in case we catch some interesting stuff. He thought this warm-up chat was good enough to warrant the share so here it is. Hope you like it! https://associationformentalhealthprofessionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Episode-16-Odds-and-Ends.mp3 Food for Thought ...
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Episode 15-Im a Walking Microaggression

Episode 15-I’m a Walking Microaggression

This may sound like a 2nd grade book report but this week we're going to review, "Kip Goes to a School Board Meeting" and see what shakes out of that tree. She got an earful about the overall attitude of school counselors and what they think about how our kids ...
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Episode 14-My Pronouns are WTH

Episode 14-My Pronouns are WTH

Our culture, our world, is being attacked by a powerful group of people who obviously want to divide us all and keep us at each others' throats. How else do you explain what's going on? Kathleen and Kip spend a few minutes talking about the gender pronoun nonsense, and why ...
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Episode 13-Are You The Last Hope

Episode 13: Are You The Last Hope?

Kip Rodgers and I talk about the taboo topic: are the covid shots causing more problems, and in larger numbers, than it's solving? We come at this topic through the lens of the recent "event" on Monday Night Football and the large number of athletes dropping dead on the field. ...
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Episode 12-Making a Living as a Counselor

Episode 12: Making a Living as a Counselor

Like a lot of traditional professions, especially those in which you work for your self, you're not likely to be pulling down the big 6-figure income straight out of school. Even those who have been at it for awhile may find it tough sledding. You have to build that practice ...
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Episode 11

Episode 11: The Holistic Approach to Mental Health

Two things I've learned, especially since 2021, is that mental health issues are definitely linked to what's happening elsewhere in the body, and more pills just aren't cuttin' it. In this episode Kip and I are going to get into that and talk about my experiences in the past two ...
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Episode 10

Episode 10-Have We Been Hijacked?

Kips' fired up about the idea that the mental health profession is a "captured operation". If you've ever felt like ideas, processes, and regulations that feel very foreign to the counseling profession you grew up with are being forced on the profession, well you're not alone. Listen carefully as these ...
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Episode 9

Episode 9-Risky Business and Blurred Boundaries

Sex with your clients or anyone else you're not in a monogamous relationship with is a risky business. Forget the moral clause associated with that statement, convince me from a pure math perspective that you're safer. You can't do it. This week Kathleen and Kip throw this topic around and ...
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Episode 8

Episode 8-Are We Now Professional Friends?

We're becoming "professional friends". Counseling used to mean holding clients accountable, helping them determine boundaries, and steering them towards brutal examination, where needed. (Still does in my office!) Sadly, we seem to be devolving into a professional culture that that, as one friend of mine put it, is all about ...
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Episode 7

Episode 7-Schedule the Surgery

To the very small segment of our society that thinks the standard response to every boy that ever played with a doll, or every girl that likes to play sports with the boys should be, "schedule the surgery", we're asking, what's your hurry? What kind of world have we devolved ...
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Episode 6

Episode 6-Thoughts On Supervision Programs

Supervision programs, good ones, are scarce. We just finished another 40-Hour supervisor training class with a fantastic group of future mentors and that got me to thinking about a few things, which got Kip to thinking about them, too, and here we go! Tell me what your thoughts are on ...
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Episode 5

Episode 5-13 Points of Mental Toughness

Mental toughness isn't toxic or harmful, but it is lacking these days and that hasn't gone unnoticed by The Therapy Sisters. In this episode, Kip Rodgers LPC-S leads the conversation in an effort to chart a course back from the edge of the River Weak, and help us all understand ...
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Episode 4

Episode 4-Raising Mentally Soft Generations

Mentally soft vs mentally strong. The story of our counseling professions, right? We'll always have some of both but it seems as if the past 50-60 years has really tipped the scales toward the weaker side of the spectrum. We're raising mentally soft generations! Maybe we're wrong. I don't think ...
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Episode 3

Episode 3-What Mass Delusional Psychosis is Doing to Us

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me! In this week's episode Kip Rodgers and I explore a topic, mass delusional psychosis, that plays a large part in the whole group-think mentality and causes large numbers of people to blindly follow a lead. And as history ...
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Episode 2

Episode 2-Cultural Diversity

In this week's episode Kip Rodgers and I talk about cultural diversity training and attempt to sum it all up in a tidy 26 minutes. Have a listen then tell us what your position on the subject is, in the Comments section below. We've provided quite a few links to ...
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