PsiAN joins the Kennedy Forum and other major mental health organizations in protesting the reversal of the Wit v UBH ruling.

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.

The Good, The Bad, and The Depraved— Embracing Your Inner Life Through Therapy. A look at the ongoing conversation between the therapist, the patient, and the “depraved character” can enable the patient to tolerate, accept, and perhaps even come to like, all of their internal characters.

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

PsiAN has concerns about Talkspace as a company, and the category of apps and asynchronous texting positioned as psychotherapy. Lionda Michaels talks about Kara Swisher’s interview of Oren Frank, CEO of Talkspace, on the July 22, 2021, in an episode of her podcast Sway.

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.

Santiago Delboy and Linda Michaels hosted a special presentation for PsiAN members covering the large-scale original research study PsiAN conducted examining the general public’s attitudes, beliefs, and biases about therapy.

Dr. Reidbord, a San Francisco psychiatrist, and editor of the Forum, discusses how psychotherapy training programs never advise students to “fake sincerity.”  Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship are founded on genuine human connection, which can’t be duplicated with AI.

PsiAN was featured in The New York Times, in an article on therapy bots. PsiAN co-chair, Linda Michaels, was quoted in a NYT article on Woebot, a therapy app that uses AI to deliver CBT-style interventions.

Dayna Sharp, a relational psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, talks about how some therapy clients want souvenirs to remind them they’ve been in therapy. But what if focusing on souvenirs in therapy adds to the anxiety and fear, and distracts us from what’s really important—the relationship and the experience?

Irene Yancher, PsyD, a San Francisco-based clinical psychologist talks about how Lyra Health limits Access to high-quality treatments for their own benefit by raising money to connect employees of companies, such as Facebook, to mental health treatment. We cannot allow the financial interests of one startup to denigrate high-quality treatments and to limit patients to brief therapies that may not work for them.

In response to a New York Times article on bringing “retail therapy” to the masses, PsiAN’s co-chairs wrote a letter arguing that drugstore therapy is the wrong approach.

Keith R Wilson, a counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY, talks about how farming has changed into big business much like mental health. They say industrial medicine gives the public more access to better care, but he discussed how it reduces patients to quantifiable symptoms and healthcare workers into unthinking and unfeeling machinery.

In a letter to Nick Kosky, Chair of the NICE Chronic Pain Guideline Committee, PsiAN offered feedback and revisions to the organization’s Guidance Recommendations for pain management, based on a wealth of evidence about the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Primary Pain.

Irene Yancher, PsyD, a clinical psychologist from San Francisco, talks about how therapist and patient find themselves in a similar situation during the pandemic.

PsiAN joined the Kennedy Forum Illinois, Inseparable, and other organizations to support the Health is Health Illinois campaign, which is focused on ensuring mental health parity and writing the standards of care.

Keith R Wilson, a counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY, talks about why people ask their therapists why, when they could be asking how, and if insurance companies, researchers, and employers of therapists could be more accepting of why, then clients would get the kind of care they want and need.

Dayna Sharp, a psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, talks about her own experience with therapy, how she benefited, and how she learned critically important lessons about therapy.

Rehana Naik Olson, from Carleton College, talks about her feelings and observations during a three-week externship at PsiAN, and what she learned about evidence-based therapy.