Setting Souls Free to Live Their Purpose, On Purpose
Reclaiming Your Practice & Your Life!
Over the past few years, there has been a terrible disregard for the professional autonomy of those who are licensed mental health professionals, most especially psychiatrists!
About two months ago I took part in an online networking call for licensed mental health professionals. Psychiatrists were overwhelmingly represented. These professionals had terrible stories of tyranny, forced upon them by the medical-industrial complex telling them to prescribe psychopharmaceuticals and oversee their patients’ tolerance to these toxic to the body, mind-altering drugs in 15-minute appointments. The world of psychopharmacology where this became the norm for how psychiatrists practice came about in the 1980s, no longer allowing for longer appointments that included conventional talk therapy for those who practiced psychiatry under the larger insurance providers and university-hospital medical systems of medical delivery.
There are huge problems with this method of delivering mental health care to those with severe mental illness. I saw it first hand while I worked at the Gathering Place, the social club that is attached to the Tri-City Mental Health and Retardation Center in 1993. Now, I want to be very clear that the licensed mental health professionals who worked in the four programs that were housed in the facility in Malden where I worked at the time were loving, caring people who taught me everything I needed to know about how to work with clients with multiple mental health diagnoses, learning how to never take on the client’s anger or upset as a personal matter because it was not personal – it was a matter of the clients own issues involving the mental illnesses that they were dealing with at the time.
However, that job was only granted for a year and then I had to move on, and so I did to work in supportive housing programs in Haverhill and a couple of programs that were then located west of Boston from 1994 to 1996.
It was in those programs that I saw for myself how terribly my clients were treated, one being court-ordered to take intramuscular Prolixin which was causing his lips and fingernails to be blue because of a lack of oxygenation to his body with this forced medication which by the way was doing nothing to lessen the client’s psychotic features from my year as a one-to-one counselor with him. I went to bat for him because I promised his adoptive parents that I was going to figure out a way to get him out of that damaging to him program and into a much more structured program. That did indeed happen and 17 years after I bumped into one of his apartment roommates from that time I worked at the program to find out that my client was no longer in any programs, living in his own apartment with a roommate quite successfully. I can only tell you that hearing that update made it worth my while to get a terrible respiratory infection due to the chronic stress I was under working under a pathologically unstable boss at that time. My then-husband called in my resignation while I was too sick to work since every time I opened my mouth I was coughing endlessly.
I tell this story to allow you all to recognize the fact that I do indeed understand that dream that you had of being able to use your own philolsophies of healing were undermined by a system that was only there to endlessly sell drugs whether or not they truly helped your patients to feel any better. I know that you know that most of these drugs have little to no positive effects while having many side effects. Tardive dyskinesia was one I witnessed many of the older clients of the Gathering Place dealing with during my time working there – a terrible side effect that was never going to be reversed.
I also have learned through much of my own research how damaging yet minimally effective the SSRIs are to help with either depression or anxiety per the decades-old research of Dr. Irving Kirsh of Harvard University with his research replicated by Dr. Walter Brown, of Brown University – further finding out that the National Health Service in Great Britain will only these medications to patients who are diagnosesdwith major depressive disorder having found that they do not work on any patients with lesser forms of depression.
So, the question is this: WHAT CAN BE DONE TO BRING AUTONOMY OF HEALING BACK TO YOUR PRACTICES?
Let me tell you a bit of a story from my days of learning Neuro-Linguistic Programming with Matt James back in 2003.
The story went that the clients of hypnotists show up in a hypnotist’s office because their conscious and unconscious minds are fighting one another creating great confusion, so said the late great Dr. Milton Erickson, himself a psychiatrist and hypnotist.
It is our job to bring these two minds together to form the ability to create new choices where the client no longer feels ‘stuck, no choices’ helping the client to create new helpful choices.
MY MOVEMENT: BRINGING LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS THEIR AUTONOMY TO PRACTICE MENTAL HEALTH FOLLOWING THEIR OWN PHILOSOPHIES OF HEALTH DELIVERY ALIGNED WITH THEIR OWN VALUES & BELIEFS!
How would you like to be able to learn how to:
- Intergrate the quick & effective healing techniques of Hypnotism & Neuro-Linguistic Programming to your practice so you can help many more patients and at a much higher price point?
- Be able to create a business instead of merely a practice so that your income is in line with your medical and psychiatric education & practical experience?
- How would you like to do that either in an individual VIP program or in an 8- Week small group with 4 other licensed mental health professionals who have come to the same conclusion as you that there is a better way to earn a living than being undermined by a bunch of managers who have absolutely no understanding of the art and science of the profession that you are in?
- To have autonomy once again in how you conduct your own practice choosing your own self-paying patients/clients and charging whatever fee you feel is in line with your level of training and practical knowledge?
I can assure you that there is plenty of hope to be had if you are willing to shift your paradigm of treatment so that you can have the authority that you so deserve to practice the healing of mental health healing in a manner that is in line with your own values, beliefs, and philosophies of healing.
I invite you to check out the two programs I have created just for you at:
I have your back – only if you are willing to think a bit outside the proverbial broken box that is currently the system of mental illness as I have noted since 2002 when I found a much better holistic manner of helping my mental health clients heal – without medication, using their own minds. (PLEASE NOTE: This will NOT work for those with personality disorders or schizophrenia).