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Can We Even Call This “Counseling Training” Anymore?
Background My name is Lauren. I work as a small business accountant and language teacher in…
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Are Gen Z Males Deflecting Masculinity by Developing a Paraphilia?
Vincent Deboni, a professional counselor based in Sweden, provides a very interesting discussion of how pathologies…
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Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Dissenter Speaks out against the Woke-Left Hegemony
Rejected Have you ever opened an email that sent you straight into fight or flight…
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Politics in Therapy: An Interview with a Client
There are many posts on CTA by practitioners concerned about the politicisation of therapy but there…
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Compassionate Recovery from Indoctrination for Parents Concerned about their Children
Resources created by Christine Sefein and Bonnie Snyder Part 1: Deprogramming Ideologically-Captured Kids As children of…
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A Social Work Psychotherapist Reviews Cynical Therapies
In a famous scene from the now-iconic film “The Matrix”, the character Morpheus offers Neo a…
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How my Liberal Upbringing Led me out of the Toxic Maze of Anti-Racist Training
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the…
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A New Professional Awakens to the Dangers of the Woke Movement
Dear Readers, About a year ago, I graduated with a degree from a US institution…
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Therapy Research is Being Ideologically Contaminated
As is now common knowledge, I am in the midst of a legal challenge against my…
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What’s a Gender Critical Therapy Trainee to do?
The counselling and psychology landscape is changing, and trainees who don’t subscribe to an ideological ‘gender…
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How Ambitious Women Can Heal from their Feminist Miseducation
As I’m writing this, my best friend is in the hospital because of a suicide attempt.…
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Calling all Clinical & Counselling Psychologists: Your Regulator needs you!
What can you do if you are worried about the incursion of Critical Social Justice (CSJ)…
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Preferred Pronouns: Neo-Etiquette or Radical Self-Rejection ?
Last week the Registrar at my university sent out a memo to all students and faculty…
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Coaching in the Era of ‘Woke’ Counseling: Some Reflections
While I was in graduate school for clinical mental health counseling, I began to have…
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The Future of Counseling is Racist
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure,…
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Masculinities: Who Gets to Define Them?
In Australia we have an august organisation called the Mental Health Professional Network. It is federally…
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The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) Takes a Dim View of the Male Gender
CommentaryTherapy Written By Martin Seager Many psychologists question the wisdom of the DSM diagnostic system and…
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Some Comments on the Power-Threat-Meaning Framework
A colleague recently described to me in supervision her client’s vehement and hostile rejection of a…
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Our Professional Bodies no Longer Represent the Best Interests of Therapists: a Resignation Letter Spells out Why
The full text of a resignation letter from a long-term member of the UKCP. 07 September…
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My Harrowing Experience of a Critical Social Justice-Informed Counseling Psychology Training: Part 1 – Abusive Pedagogy
I am a nontraditional student in the last half of my Graduate level Clinical Mental Health…
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How Critical Social Justice Ideology Impedes the Teaching of Psychotherapy
As a professor of psychology in a West Coast University I am responsible for training graduate…
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Letter from a Reader: My New Therapist
I can’t verify the specific claims about the therapist’s behavior in this email. The emailer provided…
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The Righteous and the Woke – Why Evangelicals and Social Justice Warriors Trigger Me in the Same Way
I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went…
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My Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology Taught me a lot about “Social Justice” but very little about Counseling or Psychology
One month ago I finished my final class at graduate school, completing the academic requirement for…
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#MeToo Victims vs Survivors
I came from a family of 9. I am number 5. My father was Transgender when…
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How Woke Feminism Kept Me Sick for Decades and How I am Rebelling
If I could get the ear of a modern day feminist, I would ask her (or…
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My Experience of the Hidden Politics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
A tweet exchange popped up on my feed recently that embodied very succinctly some ideas that…
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Psychotherapy: the Nemesis of Critical Social Justice Theory
“Where would I find enough leatherTo cover the entire surface of the earth?But with leather soles…
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CTA Guidance for the Diversity Module
Introduction Diversity modules among therapy students’ graduate/professional training by now are no doubt imbued, at least…
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My Story of how Therapists are Ill-equipped to Deal with the Damage Inflicted by Critical Race Theory. Part 2: The Therapy
“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are your secrets. Our…
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The Anti-Therapy. Part 2: The Anti-Resilience Mousetrap
Hello again, Student J here. This is the second segment of my Anti-Therapy series. In my…
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My Story of how Therapists are Ill-equipped to Deal with the Damage Inflicted by Critical Race Theory. Part 1: The Damage
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;…
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The Anti-Therapy. Part 1: My Experience as a Counselor in Training
Call me J. I am a first semester student of clinical mental health counseling at the…
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Original Text of a Resignation Letter Published and then Retracted by The British Psychological Society
(Linked to blog post dated August 28th 2020 in Critical Therapy Watch) Why I no longer…
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Heading for the Hills: My Departure from the Mental Health Profession
As I write this, I struggle to find words to offer that would be particularly helpful…
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Diversity, Oppression, and Decolonisation – Are There Too Many Social Justice Articles in The Psychologist Magazine?
An Opinion Piece by Dennis Relojo-Howell On February 22nd this year, Nicola Beaumont voiced her disappointment…
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How and Why I Stood up to Critical Social Justice Theory in Counselling Training
Before the diversity section of the counselling course I was on, our tutors were training us…
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