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This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - 143mykid - 23-Jul-2021
I have been racking my brain trying to find a therapist who is gender dysphoria neutral- critical would be best, but I cant even find a neutral therapist willing to take on anything that has any inclination of GD and they tell me they can’t take on our family.
I have had extensive conversations with therapists, who deal with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues and I explain how unfair it is of them to not address these issues with my DD. I made it clear to those who were “hands off” how much of a detriment it is to shy away from working on those issues. I got the impression that they were very fearful of being accused of conducting conversion therapy. I am so confused. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath these medical professionals took?
Then I come across this in my search. I am so lost and just don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like we just need to close ranks and weather this storm under some major protection spells.
https://www.apa.org/practice/guidelines/transgender.pdf
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - MintChip - 23-Jul-2021
Yes, therapists are afraid of losing their jobs. That is all.
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - MagKnits - 24-Jul-2021
Not all therapists are afraid. Some see affirmation as having been co-opted by the trans activists, and are working to take it back from them in order to affirm many parts of an individual and not just gender identity, whatever that means.
That said, my best advice is always for parents to seek out therapy or consultation from a GC clinician. There are many more who are willing to work with children indirectly through parents, and this makes sense because the gender crisis is a family crisis. Also, the parents are the ones who are with the kid 24/7 and can learn to intervene and respond as things happen. It's truly a long and tedious process, and very often a trans-identifying kid won't even agree to work with a therapist who is picked by parents.
Wishing you fortitude.
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - Guest - 28-Jul-2021
Is it even possible to find a psychiatrist who will dig to uncover trauma and underlying mental health conditions before marching them down the affirmation path? My daughter is 20 and the only thing I have on my side is that she will let us choose practitioners because she is still on our insurance and we are paying for it.
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - JennyH1963 - 30-Jul-2021
Yes I’m looking for a gender dysphoria neutral therapist for my daughter as well. Argh
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - Guest - 17-Jan-2022
Exulansic has a YouTube channel that goes into detail information about the many damaging effects of medical transition. She's doing a series called Jazz's waking nightmare.
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - Seanrhodes - 17-Feb-2022
Please help! My child attends [redacted] Elementary School in New York. I just found out one of the school counselors is a female to male. This counselor is telling small children not old enough to understand they can do whatever they want including mutilate themselves. This is your tax dollars hard at work. This is [redacted] Elementary School in New York. Call [redacted] if you want to reach out to the school and tell them this is not what we pay taxes for. The counselor's name is [redacted]. Her email is [redacted].
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - Marge Bouvier Simpson - 17-Feb-2022
(17-Feb-2022, 04:22 PM)Seanrhodes Wrote: Please help! My child attends [redacted] Elementary School in New York. I just found out one of the school counselors is a female to male. This counselor is telling small children not old enough to understand they can do whatever they want including mutilate themselves. This is your tax dollars hard at work. This is [redacted] Elementary School in New York. Call [redacted] if you want to reach out to the school and tell them this is not what we pay taxes for. The counselor's name is [redacted]. Her email is [redacted].
Hello Seanrhodes,
I am sorry for what you are dealing with. It is criminal how children are being taught pseudoscience, for example that there is such a thing as being "born in the wrong body" or that kids can choose whether they are boys or girls.
I truly, truly empathize with your situation, but I have removed the counselor's name, the school's phone number and the counselor's email address from your post. Perhaps I will reconsider at some point, but this would require more information as well as confirmation of what this counselor is doing.
If you will please join the forum as a member, this will allow you to send and receive personal messages. Please join the forum so that those who are interested in calling the school or emailing the counselor can send you a private message asking for the information that has been redacted.
There are organizations that can help you communicate with your child's school regarding how inappropriate and dangerous it is to teach kids that they can choose their sex or be born in the wrong body. One is Genspect (check out these two links in particular):
https://genspect.org/guidance-for-schools/ and https://genspect.org/advocacy/
Another is The Child and Parent Rights Campaign. Check out these two links in particular: https://childparentrights.org/advocacy/
https://childparentrights.org/legal-representation/
I hope you will join the forum. Best wishes.
Edited to add: registered forum members don't frequent this public area of the forum all that often. You will get more eyeballs on your post and probably a better response if you register/join and post in the members-only area.
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - theComet - 04-Dec-2023
I am interested in this issue - and looking forward to being a member of this forum! I myself am a licensed counselor and finding myself with no resources whatsoever in relation to my super smart, sensitive and capable daughter who is 17 and now planning to transition with hormones when she is 18. She has voiced this off and on for years and I kept thinking that with her excellent grades, small social network and job in a field she loves, that things were going to be okay. To listen to her adamant plans for hormones and absolute refusal to consider adult life in the body of a woman, recently seemed to break me. I feel as if I'm grieving and have nowhere to turn, because I of all people know how my field views this issue at this time. I am seriously considering creating a private practice so that I can help parents in my situation and they can speak freely. And also working with teens but the threat of losing a license or even legal action is absolutely real and until recently (practicing within a MH agency) I could not risk the backlash. Maybe now I can. I hope to be approved soon to see if there are other threads in the forum in which I can get more information about treatment for my family and my child. I am ready to send my child to an amish community - if it was a disorder viewed like anorexia, I would say 'residential treatment'- but in this case, I feel that 'treatment' would simply be to affirm her ideas and send her on to a pharmacy with her golden ticket, a Rx for "T'.
RE: This is why I am so very untrusting of the mental health systems… - Marge Bouvier Simpson - 04-Dec-2023
(04-Dec-2023, 04:01 AM)theComet Wrote: I am interested in this issue - and looking forward to being a member of this forum! I myself am a licensed counselor and finding myself with no resources whatsoever in relation to my super smart, sensitive and capable daughter who is 17 and now planning to transition with hormones when she is 18. She has voiced this off and on for years and I kept thinking that with her excellent grades, small social network and job in a field she loves, that things were going to be okay. To listen to her adamant plans for hormones and absolute refusal to consider adult life in the body of a woman, recently seemed to break me. I feel as if I'm grieving and have nowhere to turn, because I of all people know how my field views this issue at this time. I am seriously considering creating a private practice so that I can help parents in my situation and they can speak freely. And also working with teens but the threat of losing a license or even legal action is absolutely real and until recently (practicing within a MH agency) I could not risk the backlash. Maybe now I can. I hope to be approved soon to see if there are other threads in the forum in which I can get more information about treatment for my family and my child. I am ready to send my child to an amish community - if it was a disorder viewed like anorexia, I would say 'residential treatment'- but in this case, I feel that 'treatment' would simply be to affirm her ideas and send her on to a pharmacy with her golden ticket, a Rx for "T'.
Welcome to the forum. Your account has been acitivated.
I'm so sorry about what you and your daughter are dealing with. We certainly need terapists who are helpful and who understand that affirmation only is a dangerous approach that is ahrming kids ad young people, so your interest in helping is welcome.
Have you heard of the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association (GETA)? You might be interested in chekcing out their website. It looks like they have changed their name to "Therapy First." https://www.therapyfirst.org/