Our profession must take a firm stand against interference with therapy wherever possible. Therapy-interfering behavior, which amounts to practicing without a license in many cases can exist for reasons having to do with improper motivations to frame therapy for the benefit of others and not the client, thereby harming the latter.

PsiAN pushes back on No Surprises Act, and stands up for therapy and therapists.

PsiAN co-chair, Linda Michaels, was featured in an article in the New York Times in an important article on mental health parity, Teachers, Police, and Other Public Workers Left Out of Mental Health Coverage.

PsiAN co-chair, Linda Michaels, wrote a Medium piece in response to Kara Swisher’s interview (appearing in the New York Times) with Oren Frank, CEO of Talkspace, a text therapy service.

PsiAN drafted a petition protesting the “weaponization” of therapy against the ORR and ICE and their agreement to share therapy notes for therapy sessions with immigrant children. This policy not only formalized these children’s betrayals but goes toward destroying the integrity of psychological therapy as a whole.

We stand with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). On strike for more mental health professionals in the schools.

PsiAN is focused on changing the narrative about psychotherapy in the media. For the very first time, we were featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Starting in 2022, PsiAN took on the issues of app companies using deceptive practices and functioning as advertising vehicles.

In a nationwide class action suit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has found that United Behavioral Health (“UBH/Optum”), the country’s largest managed behavioral healthcare organization, illegally denied mental health and substance use coverage based on flawed medical necessity criteria.

Governor Pritzker of Illinois presented his first budget address since taking office, and we appreciate his focus on increased mental health spending, and are hopeful that the budget is a harbinger of a positive trend. However, Illinois does not only need increased mental health and substance abuse funding but increased access to individualized mental health care of depth, dedication, duration and relationship.

In August 2018, PsiAN wrote in support of the letter crafted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other profit organizations, and highlighted the needs to support police officers and others, such as 911 operators, who may be impacted by trauma, and to increase resources dedicated to mental health treatment, including supervision for those counseling first responders.

Mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente have gone on strike, because they, as trained and licensed mental health professionals, “want more authority to apply their professional judgment to how often they see their patients and whether individual or group therapy is indicated.” See PsiAN’s letter in support of high-quality mental health care.

With the ongoing and increasingly lengthy detentions of families, parents, and children coming into the U.S., PsiAN has signed onto a letter sent to the President outlining the psychological and emotional effects of such potentially damaging treatment. To help disseminate, please download both letters and send to congress.

Psychotherapy Action Network’s Children’s Committee (PsiAN) has tasked itself with responding to a new Illinois state law requiring social-emotional screening of school-age children.

Help PsiAN preserve patients' right to choose from among the many forms of effective treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)!