Antioch University Counseling Whistleblower
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- Counselors are being taught not to be objective and neutral with their clients, but rather to view the emotionally vulnerable people who come to see them as opportunities to imprint and spread "Social Justice" ideology. In this video I provide shocking examples of the current state of counselor training at an American university.
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Thank you for speaking up. I’m grateful as a woman of color that none of the white therapists I ever saw forced me to obsess about the least interesting thing about me: my race. If a client wants to discuss that, wonderful. But to assume “BIPOC” (hate that acronym) are all just walking wounded race cripples is, well, pretty racist. I’m dealing w this as a nurse at a nonprofit and my kids’ super woke school (esp w gender “affirmation.”) We have to stop this illiberal takeover. It’s so dangerous.
You're right- it is very dangerous. I'm sorry you are seeing this at work and in your children's school. And I agree re: BIPOC. What a dehumanizing acronym.
The radical left need their manufactured "victim" groups for legitimacy and a cloak for their unending pursuit of absolute power and control not to mention self gratification and self enrichment.
@@theradicalcenter That's so true! BIPOC literally dehumanizes -- by removing our common humanity and reducing us to skin color and ethnicity and a set of racist assumptions about us.
Love your comment.
I’m not black but I’d be offended if they started tossing brown in with “Black and Brown” persons…….I mean Blacks were suffering way more than brown people over the centuries……..never figured that one out
My daughter is a practicing family therapist with a degree from Antioch. Everything you are saying is true. She was in a Sea of craziness not able to speak up for fear of reprisal! Thank you for speaking up! These crazy so called professors are criminal!
Oh gosh, I'm sorry she went through that!
Your daughter is a coward. This is why evil is growing, people are afraid to stand up for the truth. Every day I risk my career and I refuse to give in to liberalism, Marxist evil. Cowards will kill us and bravery will save us.
They should be banding together against this. I get that no one wants to.
@@Rabbitburnx interesting aggressive response to me. Calling someone’s daughter a coward is a cowardly act. Helping young humans to regain their autonomy. Now that would be admirable.
@@Lola-cg6yp I hope she stands up for truth and righteousness before it's too late. Because cowardly people caused this to even be an issue, starting with the professors.
I went to counseling at Antioch 2019 had a white therapist, I’m black. She was wonderful I am glad she didn’t follow what was taught to her. All I know is that we were two humans and she helped me through it all
This has been INTENTIONALLY done. And has been planned for, since the late 70s. You're extremely brave, for speaking up about it.
Absolutely. All the communist hippys from the 60s became "educators".
I would argue it has been planned for since the 60's if not the 50's.
@@chuckschillingvideos Actually further back than that- but that's only "planned for". The actual attempts ended in failure, as our Constitutional Republic held strong.
This is why they're working diligently on this new plan, having learned from the past, by ENDING our Constitution- what they'll call, "updating", in one fashion or another, but literally destroying all aspects that could hinder their power- destroying the family unit, and removing GOD, from every public place they can.
So much more to it, but you're quite correct.
What I should have made clearer? I was speaking since my own involvement in it all, when I was basically "recruited", (for lack of a better term), by these same people, to be a part of this newly planned out destruction of our country- what we're seeing today? Is the fruition of that disgrace they laid out before me, back in the late 70s in Berkeley, Ca.
Struggle sessions targeting people at their most vulnerable. Revolting.
I admire your courage for not "going along to get along" and for speaking out!
Thank you for your support!
Please keep telling people about this. It must be very lonely in your position. I hate this “woke” ideology. Listening to you shows there are educated seemingly normal people who actually think like this. I was hoping it was a minority and they would just get over it. I don’t understand how people can swallow this way of thinking. I give you so much credit for speaking out. We need more people like you. Please continue speaking out. I’m so sorry you’re in this position. Bev
She'll likely lose her license since the APA embraces all of this CRT and Feminist nonsense.
@@theradicalcenter I am a recently retired counsellor, having worked in primary and secondary schools, prisons, hospitals, and community health facilities, and in most specialist fields and with most demographics. The clinical psych and counselling industry is infested with leftist/feminist/woke/pc manipulators hell bent on dividing and "equalizing" society, wrecking marriages, bringing down the white male "patriarchy", making clients weak, dependent, and outraged while calling that empowerment, encouraging "safe" drug use (because drug use inhibits the development of an internal locus of control and psychosocial maturity, encourages being emotionally focused, and thus makes more lefties), conducting fake surveys and studies, and falsely fattening statistics to justify more funding for more "social change programs" and more employment security in the welfare industry -- they operate according to the community existing to support the welfare industry rather than the welfare industry existing to support the community -- they consider white heterosexual men as the problem in the home, the society, and the world, they harbor a deep hatred of western culture, capitalism, conservatism, and of Christianity, encourage women to leave husbands, students to protest, people of colour to be resentful of white men, and they do it all subtly and while portraying themselves as society's most "caring" and "compassionate" people. Working in this field taught me how manipulative the worst of clinical psychologists and counsellors are, how they are deceivers and deceived, and how they manipulate students and clients in crisis to make them agents of leftism. It taught me how the worst hide among the best, and that the opposite to good is not apparent evil but apparent good. I am relieved to be free of such a morally corrupt industry.
@@theradicalcenter - Well done👍
What's popular isn't always right... and in today's world what's right is NEVER popular.
You may now face ostracism or outright threats... but, know that you did the RIGHT thing exposing this.
Now you will have to choose your friends and associates VERY carefully... comes with the territory lady.
Be well and stay safe...
My daughter went to a therapist for years as a young adult who was just like what you describe. Eventually, and many dollars later, she caught on to the manipulative b.s. It was making her anxiety worse. Im glad she saw the truth.
My coworker’s daughter went to a councillor and she was quite vulnerable at the time. The councillor seems to first question her to see where she stood on a range of woke topics, then she asked if she knew people who were against these topics. After finding out who around her who were against these woke topic, she said that these people were the reason for the problems that she was having. The good thing is that she found a purpose and went after this councillor for trying to brainwash her into this nonsense and the administration that was pushing this nonsense. She’s better no thanks to the woke councillor, other than the drive that she was given to get these people away from the vulnerable. They are literally preying on the weak. They all need to be exposed and removed from these positions. It’s great to see other people coming out and exposing these woke radical hustlers. They need to be gone.
When I was a young black person getting psychotherapy, it would have been incredibly stressful to have a white therapist ask me a question like 'how does it feel talking to a white therapist like me?' And if she then kept directing the conversation to race while I talked about other things, I'd actually think she thought of me solely as a black person and not as a person. This would have undermined my feeling of being seen or understood by her, since I see myself as a person who has many characteristics, including being black.
Additionally, being put in affinity groups by race has always been toxic when I encountered it. Which isn't to say that I've never joined a BIPOC affinity group on my own. If one is available in any group I'm in, I sometimes will avail myself of it. But to be put in it by default is terrible. I remember the first time that happened to me. I was visiting colleges with other high school juniors and chatting with new friends I was making. They all happened to be white. Then I got pulled out of the part of the room they were in and sent off to another part of the room where the black student visitors were being organized into housing with hosting current students. Then we were housed separately and all activities we participated in the entire weekend were separate. I never again saw the students I chose to hang out with by feeling a connection with them according to interests (track team). Talk about racial prejudice causing people to be discriminated against, ie racism.
These are great examples of how divisive the racial rhetoric of the "social justice" movement is. It forces us all to focus more intently on race than we would otherwise- to our detriment, individually and socially. They are teaching us exactly that: to see first a "black person" or a "white person," not a person with many characteristics, as you say.
Sounds like you were a victim of segregation. :(
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. It is very helpful to see very specific examples of how these experiences have effected people. Negative or positive.
@@theradicalcenter Thank you for this courageous video. I would also ask, how has any of this improved economic circumstances for black people? Are they about making actual, material changes for the better? - sounds like the answer is no.
I’m White and I would feel very uncomfortable behaving in this way. I wouldn’t do it. It’s completely bizarre.
I can’t imagine going to a black therapist and having this conversation either. This could get very ugly.
if I were your mom I'd be so proud of you. you are needed in the counseling field and I pray you find a way to achieve your goal without sacrificing your principles.
That is the sweetest thing to say- thank you so much. My mother passed away not long ago and I felt her smiling at me through your words. So kind of you. Thank you.
@@theradicalcenter im so sorry to hear of your loss of your mom. She must be a very special woman to have raised such a strong and grounded daughter. I'm praying that her memory will be a blessing to you.
@@theradicalcenter Bless you for your courage.
@@theradicalcenter She is no doubt, attending you. You must have been set apart for this before you were born and she knows it, too.
Thank you for speaking out. My experience working for Kasier (Oregon) was very similar to this. The director of diversity is a trans male, previously worked as a mental health clinician before transitioning. During a training he asked clinicians to share their history of trauma (not appropriate) and one clinician became emotionally overwhelmed sharing her experience growing up in foster care. Rather than being supportive/sensitive to the clinicians experience (not to mention some reflection on the innapropriateness of such a 'training') he and another BIPOC attendee (and subordinate) mocked the clinician and her "river of white tears". It seems no matter how fortunate one is in life (close supportive family, financial stability, strong education) being of LGBTQ or BIPOC alone is the worst suffering one can experience.
Good grief, how horrible. Intentionally traumatizing that poor woman by kicking her when she was down.
This is classic behavior seeking narcissistic fuel on the part of a man who must constantly find women to validate him as one of our sisterhood. My ex-husband is one of those, and claimed to be unemployed when he worked as a consultant for $700 a day (I have proof in a case against him) and then engaged in fraud in court a second time, with false documentation of his employment. He is now COO of a tech company serving museums all over the world, at the same time claiming to be the mother of our two sons. I must have cried a river of "white tears." I do not espouse any harm of any kind to these psychiatrically ill men. Instead, I expose the psychologists who "affirm" and harm them at Ute Heggen YT channel.
Thank you for sharing this important information
Un be lievable. And these people are supposed to counsel and help students? This sounds like a larger agenda. Implanting psychosis and neuroses into kids. Scary, scary stuff.
Victim Olympians!
I went to Antioch Santa Barbara and our curriculum was nothing resembling what you're speaking about - this breaks my heart. Thank you for speaking out about these changes and the brainwashing happening in schools. Antioch was free spirited when I went and delved in depth about the origins of diagnoses and how to help clients reach the core of their trauma. I hope your video shines light for the public that institutions are governed by power and what's popular in the media doesn't necessarily serve the best interest of humanity and we need to stand up for objectivity and truth
Thank you for speaking out! Let the truth prevail!!! They are causing so much division in the name of justice!
Thank you, Kim! They truly are.
@Hehafqu Ahhwish not before Obama
@@tabathac444 oh yes it was. The left has been getting lefter for a hundred years. Truly. A hundred years. They just got worse faster with Obama.
Wow. It still shocks me when I hear firsthand accounts like this. So glad people like this woman speak out and don't just fall in line. That shows real strength of character.
I had a similar experience as a college student going to therapy as a Muslim. It wasn't comforting AT ALL when some therapists centered questions around culture and religion. I ended up being put in a position to defend my background, saying that I'm not being oppressed.
Fort Hood..Texas shooting..
Total conflicts of Interest..
Center oneself ..Not Sex , Race..
I respect all Cultures..However don't Brow beat me..
Many Hindus will not Discuss Religious or Political ideas..
This makes me sad and angry. It's like Jim Crow calls himself s social justice warrior while spreading alienation and hate without allowing people to say what they actually feel as individuals. I miss my old job. Inclusive without this kind of BS. Actual respect between people of different backgrounds.
Imagine entering therapy with an agenda to indoctrinate. It goes against the concept of not projecting onto someone who is seeking help.
As a survivor of child abuse and someone who suffers from PTSD I can say with absolute certainty that if I were told, that simply because of my race/Color, that I have been the cause of suffering of another human being by my councilor, this could easily tip me over the edge towards suicide. Especially during a state of mental health crisis.
Nicely done Leslie, thank you for speaking up. We can not allow mental health professionals to be trained as ideological predators. -Aaron Kindsvtatter
Thank you very much, Aaron! I appreciate your support and I hope you are well!
This is outrageous! Thank you so much for speaking up, the public must be made aware of how insidious this movement is.
This has been going on in psychology and counselling for several decades.
@@just-a-fella3212 From one degree or another but it wasn't quite as bad. I remember when my parents took me to a couple of sessions as a teen and they all seemed like cold programmed robots. It was a good concept, but counseling imo is a broken program that wastes people's time and money.
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Wow, thank you for speaking up. More people need to stand up against this craziness.
This is what they do to a woman like me, whose husband now claims to be a woman: the counselor reminds you to call him "she" and tells you that you need to "educated" yourself and learn that your departure from the marriage was a personal downfall. They regard their mission as guidance into how the wife needs to adjust her sexual, personal and relationship expectations to "respect and honor" the "now woman" you had married, despite his unfaithful behavior, his spending and his lying to people about which one of you is the mother of the children. All true.
Jesus Christ, how has it come to this? Surrounded by the mentally ill. Even in seeking the counsel of a supposed mental health expert, you are gas lit and attacked, made to feel like a monster for wanting a normal heterosexual monogamous relationship and not feeding into the delusional psychosis of a narcissistic man-child. What the fuck has the world come to... I really hope you're doing okay. No one deserves to be treated like that.
Hope you kicked that evil therapist to the curb
My condolences to you. I'm sorry you are going through this. These ppl sound arrogant beyond belief.
Thanks for this. We must stick together, show the trolls we are a community of thinkers, we do not give in to cults. @@marenernst1841
I have no words. Without sounding dramatic I’m truly in tears. I have been licensed since 2005. The one neutral objective and client centered space that this world holds for the multitude of human diversity, is in a clinician‘s office. For the last six years I have worked with extreme leftists, and those on the extreme right end. I approached each client and provided them the space they needed to address their issue. I did not try to influence nor sway their needs. Every individual is treated with the same amount of respect and I recognize their truth as their own and me as an objective party assisting them in meeting their defined needs and goals, inserting tips tools and training when needed to help move them towards their goal and belief. I have never heard of these tools you are talking about but I absolutely believe you, I am here to offer support and advocacy. You are so very brave and truly thank God for people like yourself. This university should be charged with crimes against humanity. Taking the most vulnerable individuals and using your power as a therapist to alter and guide their personal belief system. This is brainwashing, coercion, mind control and criminal.
It's another little piece of the enormous Political Subversion puzzle known as the United Nations:
(Agenda 21/2030)
And the
(17 Goals to Sustainability)
And has also been called
(The Great Reset)
It's gonna be a bumpy ride, and will only get worse from here.
it was painful to watch ....this woman has made a difficult decision , it shows plainly on her face
i am encouraged by hearing her , so few seem that strong and smart
to refuse to sign such an obscene "pledge" is to lose years of study , and who knows what sums of money poured into a corrupt "education"
would i could think of any way to help , only hoping she has support
You are absolutely right in all of your assessments.
They are taking people at their weakest, most vulnerable moments in their lives, and using that against them, because that's when they are most easily manipulated. Therapists used to understand that, and most knew how delicate they had to be - ask questions and let clients find the answers, instead of forcing their opinions on them.
I'm sure it's even worse in the (formerly) most regulated field of therapy - hypnotherapy.
If this isn't stopped now, this will absolutely be the end of America.
I think a civil war is almost unavoidable now, and unlike last time, no one is going to be wearing uniforms, so it will be much worse.
An ethics board in the near future will be de-licensing anyone who uses these techniques. A lot of lawsuits are going to be brought and these clinicians and their profs are opening up a giant chasm for malpractice.
Yes, Americans gave been subject to sustained, intentional, calculated and malign mind control under the post WWII literal nazi designed, directed and perpetrated MK Ultra program.
Mind Kontrol Ultra.
Wake up Americans.
It's the tip of the iceberg of the cultural coercion and programming which is now taking its mask of and revealing the therapeutic state has always been complicit major plank of the mind control agenda, verily one of its medicalizing, scientific reductionist main malignant vehicles.
Well said! I have been a clinical social worker for over almost 25 years. When I was taught about social justice in graduate school in the 1990's, it never involved forcing an agenda about race or marginalization during an initial session with a minority client. Rather, the focus was on being mindful of the existence of oppression amongst certain groups when providing treatment. The emphasis was "starting where the client is" (presenting problem) and viewing the client from an ecological/person-in-environment perspective. If a client did not verbalize an issue with race, it was not a theme of discussion. I worked at the DC VA Medical Center for 14 years where the majority of the veterans I served in the mental health service line were African-American men. I forged meaningful, therapeutic relationships with them regardless of being a White cisgender woman. When veterans wanted to discuss their experiences with racism and discrimination, we had those discussions in both groups and individual sessions. I would never dream of forcing such discussions, which could easily fracture a therapeutic relationship. Being objective, providing empathy, active/reflective listening, and exploring people's thoughts and feelings through Socratic questioning is often the best way to help others in the field of mental health. And self-awareness is key. It is obvious that you embody the latter.
Thank you, Caroline. I'm glad you have been able to practice successfully prior to the takeover of this ideology. I have tried to push through this grad program, seeing it as a necessary evil to get the career outcome that I desired, but it has recently become more clear to me that if people who see this for what it is will all walk away and #boycottschools we will be far more effective than if we keep our heads down and tolerate this cultural deconstruction.
I am also a social worker and earned my masters in the late 90’s at a state school in California. We were trained in the same approach you describe. This video’s telling of the current curriculum/training is truly indoctrination and is alarming to say the least. It will only give the profession a bad name and will fail to meet the needs of current and future clients.
Thank you for speaking up. I am a counselor educator, and I have been aware of the issues you brought up in your video for quite some time. Ironically enough, I have been teaching a graduate level multicultural course for decades. I do my best to tone down the 'woke' bits in this class, and all of the others that I teach. It just cuts out the heart of counseling. There is a reason why most counselors are expected to work on the goals that client's set for themselves. We have an obligation to work WITH them, NOT work ON them. The 'woke' perspective turns the whole profession into a political action committee. It is Lysenkoism. (Might want to read up on this. For now, it is a political approach to botany that damn near killed damn near 30 million people in Russia and China. This business of signing some kind of honor code might be an outlier, and if you decide to fight it, you may be able to base your defense on two things: First, not many other graduate counseling programs are asking their students to sign a similar document. Second, an honor code about diversity is not required for CACREP accreditation. My ideas are off-the-cuff. I'm going to take some time to think about your situation to see if there is something else you can do to make sure you get your degree. If I can come up with more, I'll be back. Just like Arnold.
No. It is iatrogenic indoctrination. All problems are stereotypical inversions of whatever the Dominant culture valorises. The solution is inciting victim-mongering, indoctrination into neo-Marxist dogmas like collectivist action and policies, as long as anything of traditional value is excised like a cancer tumour.
Thank you for your courage in speaking out and standing up for what's right. As a white, straight, cis male that only graduated community college, my opinions on all of these cultural issues mean absolutely nothing... But I will never fall in line with all of this. This is so backwards and wrong. Fighting racism with racism. Being made to feel like I'M racist for not hating my own race. We need more brave people like you.
I don’t even acknowledge the “cis” as a word or definition. It’s part of the gender woo religion. I don’t believe in that religion, so I refuse to acknowledge that as a word.
@@tarak9412 I don't either. If I do say that word, I'm saying it in a mocking way, with air quotes around it. I hate that word.
You mean heterosexual male.
Cis is buying into their delusion.
Pass it on..
I know this is happening - but it still gets to me.
I am a person from the left who are no longer ON the left precisely because of the issues you are talking about.
Thank you for speaking out. Stay brave and keep fighting the good fight! I hope that you sooner rather than later will find that you do not stand alone!
I think there are many people like us, Nina, who have "left the left" because of the sweeping authoritarianism that has taken hold there. Many more would join us, I think, if they understood how serious these issues really are. Thank you for your support!
Right there with you. Struggling with how to vote in November. A very mixed ticket for me for the first time in a while. Love the idea of The Radical Center. It feels like both the left and right have lost their minds and we need to come bursting out from the center like a volcano 🌋 or something to change what's happening.
@@lmt1701 I'm from Sweden and in the election in September, for the first time in my life, I didn't vote left. I knew what was at stake: that an unsavoury party might get a lot of influence on a right wing government - and previously I might have cast my vote for the left as a kind of "balancing" vote. But I just couldn't do it.
So I ended up voting for a new party that is slightly right of centre with libertarian influences, explicitly anti woke - and with no hope of getting even close to getting into the Swedish parliament. And I am content with my decision.
@@ninagohlsson6053 Yes! Every vote teaches the political parties what kind of candidates the people really want. So your vote is not a wasted vote. It's a vote for better future nominees.
Welcome to the club. For me it was other issues and 15 years ago. But same behavior of indoctrination and lack of truth or facts. Just more of this insanity and opposite of all that is actually liberal in thought.
This is exactly what James Lindsay has been writing and speaking about. Thank you for your courage and independent thinking they seek to crush.
Hey Leslie, just wanted to say I appreciate you standing up and taking a stand even though it took a hit to your reputation and potentially your masters. I know from experience how uncomfortable it is and all the doubts, uncertainty, and fears that crop up in front of you. It's people like you who are the true heroes of society and help keep things moving forward. Even if things don't work out, know by speaking out you've done more for society than other people will know or appreciate.
Thank you for your courage and integrity. Your testimony brought me to tears at the end. I am an Antioch alumnus, class of '73. For the first few decades after I graduated, I regularly contributed small amounts to their alumni fund, but as the years went on, I saw the school's ethos slowly degenerating into lunacy, and I could no longer support them. We must stay strong, stay united, and call out this evil divisive ideology whenever we can. Bless you, you are a goddess.
The same thing happened to me in another counselor training program. I was dismissed for refusing to play along. They act without fear of retribution because there is very little oversight. Multiple lawyers and the ACA ethics committee told me this is wrong but without $$$ for an attorney I’m battling them alone. However, we are not as alone as they want us to be. There is woman in Great Britain who is suing the school she attended for forcing this ideology. The valedictorian of a counselor training program in Mexico (I think) was nearly stripped of his degree for violating the code of woke. There is a counselor educator who quit teaching and joined the FAIR foundation because she could not condone this. I have a chance to be readmitted and I’m going to try, but I won’t “sign the pledge” literally or figuratively. Good luck to you. The counseling profession needs you and your integrity more than ever.
what... is this woke stuff you're talking about?
@@prancer1803 watch the video…
Thank you for sharing. Might there not be an attorney who wouid take on a case like this pro bono or be paid from the $$ gained after winning. Contingency ??? Lawsuits are key I think in stopping this cancer!
@@prancer1803 ? Weren’t you listening ? It’s lethal authoritarian communism with some updated twists - including mandatory racism , deep misogyny and extreme child abuse!
@@prancer1803
Are you:
1. Just a troll?
2. Someone who sits in a basement and just play video games?
3. Been in a coma for the last 20 years?
This is going to seriously damage a lot of vulnerable people. Truly horrifying.
Thats what they want. Divide and rule
@@dogbreaththe3rd851 You just likely haven’t lost enough to need it yet.
It already has, quite honestly.
@@Gasp7000 what can they do for you that you can't already do for yourself?
Think Rwanda. That whole war and rivers run blood over racism and division surely we are better than that
I went to Temple University.
In my graduate program, I was tagrted by adjunct teachers.
The teachers told the class that they cannot just be teachers, they must also be activists.
I disagreed and received quite unfair treatment.
That's the highly abbreviated version of what went on for two and a half years.
Why can't you sue them for triple damages?
I was going to make an appointment with a counselor at the VA. After reading the “bio” of the counselor…it was clear that they had a one sided “radical” view. I canceled. This was the VA.
Sad that Antioch has turned into an ignorant radical institution. Antioch in the early 90’s was cutting edge and the music department was THE best in the country. Unfortunately, higher education has been hijacked by stupidity.
Thanks 🙏 for sharing this with us ❤
You have a lot of moral courage to speak out.
There is a tendency in human nature to over time become what you hate as you do battle with it; this is exactly what has happened to the Social Justice types. They are racists and anti-intellectuals who don't care about the deliberate damage their secular cult is doing to race relations and to the mental health field. As a white male counselor who also leans left, I have also faced discrimination in job searches after I graduated from my counseling program.
What stuns me is the utter weakness of the elders in our profession in regard to speaking out against this; But then yet again, THE way to get promotions in mental health agencies/universities these days is precisely to be on DEI committees and the like, so there is a financial/narcissistic motive behind jumping onto this bandwagon as a mental health professional.
Hi Brian, I'm sorry you have been facing discrimination in your job search. There is a lack of moral courage all around, not just in the elders. I certainly saw it in my classes: fellow students would sit quietly in class while I asked questions and pushed back, only to thank me privately later. We are watching one great big conformity experiment unfold.
@@theradicalcenter "There is a lack of moral courage all around, not just in the elders".
Yes, there is much truth to this.
please don't blame the elders for being "cowardly". Cancel culture is a real thing, I doubt if you'd rock the boat if you were only a few years from retirement and the youth would gleefully get you fired for having the wrong opinions. But I don't recommend that a young white male rock the boat either; the only people that the woke Hitler fascist youth will listen to, are black people. The only benefit to white people speaking out, is perhaps enough black folks will realize that their voices are the only ones which can affect change.
@@user-hh8fi1xk6h He is the exception rather than the norm in that regard.
I don't understand how well-established, senior therapists with private practices, who already have had long satisfying careers, are so afraid of speaking out.
They are in a much better position to do so than someone who is just our of school and doesn't have their license yet.
The Horseshoe Theory in action
Holy cow. As a person who also used to consider himself left, before left meant whatever in the world it means now, thank you for your efforts.
Absolutely horrifying and jarring abuse of the power differential between therapist and clients. Truly disgusting. Thank you for having the courage to speak up and go into specifics about this.
Really appreciate you speaking out and making use aware of what’s going on.
Watching all this from rural Ireland here. Thank you for coming forward. These people are very damaged and even more harmful to the vulnerable.
Very articulate and clear as to the issues with the training. You are accurate that this is not counseling it is political ideology pushed through the channel of 'social justice'.
This is how racism is being kept alive rather than allowing it to die the death it deserves.
Thank you for your clarity and courage
Thank you, Neil! Yes, this is certainly not counseling. In fact, this ideology is antithetical to true person-centered counseling.
Great Reply!
I am a counselor too and had some training in Multicultural Counseling at my university. Fortunately it was not this extreme. Great insights to this craziness.
I applaud your courage for speaking out from a fist-hand experiential perspective and at potential great cost... Your message is also presented brilliantly, straightforward, clear and with the kind of direct honesty and sincerity that the professional talking-head "pundit" class generally cannot match... We need more people doing this. Keep up the great work.
I had a similar (though not quite as intense) experience in my creative writing masters program, and this alarming spread of didactic ideology is probably the main factor making me hesitant to pursue training in the psychology/mental health field. Thanks for bringing light to what's going on. Someone else suggested contacting FIRE in regards to your degree which seems like it could be worth trying.
Yes, it is alarming to see it spreading so quickly and throughout so many fields. I'm sorry you faced this in your program. I think teachers and counselors in particular are being trained to serve as foot soldiers of this ideology because of their high level of social access.
Thank you for speaking up. This is a growing problem across all mental health professions.
I earned my M.A. in counseling less than 30 years ago, but compared to the issues you lay out, it seems as though it must have been many centuries ago. It all feels Sci-Fi. I am very proud of you for your bravery and eloquence. I admire and respect you. I also feel grief imagining what it must feel like in your position. I hope you persevere and retain your clarity of perspective. The pressure of your position is forcing you to think about the forces at play and work to craft your responses and reflections. You are magnifying the relevant core ideologies behind policies and in expressing these you give words to others who feel the same but have not felt compelled to speak as you do. And you offer greater understanding of the broader implications for our culture and nation. I wish you knew how important you are in the graduate level work you are now producing. Strength to you.
Thank you for this information, I could not have realized the absolute threat to American society without your bravery. I know this took courage for you to expose and may come at serious personal cost. I believe you are a hero and look forward to your commitment to the truth being recognized.
This needs to be more widely shared and this lady should be supported. Antioch and anywhere like it needs investigation and neutralizing action from authorities.
Unfortunately, the authorities are going along with this mental illness!
Problem is, the authorities are getting indoctrinated too. In Canada, it is apparently becoming law that councilors & psychiatrists can only offer gender (identity) affirming therapy, and these types of laws get snuck in under the guise of equality & non-discrimination bills.
Hearing about these issues are so alarming! I hope people start pushing back like YOU!
Thank you for your support, Dani!
Thanks for this. Acknowledge your bravery, intelligence and inner strength on speaking out. Helps confirm what's going on.
Thank you for sharing the truth so eloquently and calmly about what’s happening in psychology programs across the country. I graduated from a MHC program over a year ago and had a very similar experience. Good for you for speaking up and staying composed.
Thank you Leslie for your integrity and your courage in bringing awareness to what is happening in the mental health field. We should all be extremely concerned about how deeply compromised counseling education programs have become.
Thank you, Jodi! Really appreciate your support!
I went for counselling in 2013-14 after having suffered some very severe psychological abuse. Luckily, I was able to talk about myself as an individual, and what had gone wrong in my own life. I did NOT want a "count your blessings" session in which I would be forced to think about whatever privileged groups I belong to, which is irrelevant. People in need will just walk away if this is what's on offer.
I agree. And it's not just the SJ stuff, but the "mental health" field has become increasingly medicalized. Many professionals are turning to coaching as an alternative, but it is important to carefully vet anyone you open up to...
@@theradicalcenter Thank you for this important video! When you say that the mental health field has become increasingly medicalized, do you mean that medication is being prescribed too often for non-medical issues? Or something else?
Somewhere along the way, we have forgotten the sanctity and sovereignty of the individual. There are no peoples without a person. No groups without a member. We are not who, by chance, we happen to look like. Or talk like. Or even vote like. We are first and foremost, ourselves.
This profoundly breaks my heart. 2 years ago convincing your patient that their victim status WAS their identity, trapped them in a prison of that victimhood!! At the beginning of BLM I proclaimed high and low to other black people, “this is a trap!” No one listened. I was never raised to see myself as victimized, I was raised to believe I could accomplish anything. I was raised to understand that racism was grounded in ignorance and I had an obligation…yes!! An obligation as a minority to educate others and show them who our people are. I walked proudly and I’ve taught my children to do the same. 🙏🏽. God bless you!! Love your logo and your motto. ❤
As someone who'e family was literally nearly completely devestated by gender ideology, I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for speaking up.
Thank you for your courage in speaking out in spite of the risk to your degree.
This is horrifying. I appreciate the courage you have in speaking out. It sucks that you may discontinue your degree track so close to completion, but given The Pledge you are required to sign is against your values, your character and accountability to your values may have to trump completion of your degree. I’m sure you will gain in strength in that decision. Success to you in whatever direction you go. I feel some hope when I see how many channels and authors have pushed back intelligently against this woke totalitarianism.
I just graduated from a Clinical Mental Health Counseling program on Long Island recently and had a very similar education. I found it frustrating to be pushed to become a catalyst in social justice issues rather than a psychotherapist.
I have also had professors disparage white people very casually.
They say that multicultural counseling is the most important part of this education, yet they cannot respect accept that I have a different set of values.
I have to be honest that this education that I received has been so uninspiring and rather concerning that I no longer plan to work in this field due to the oppressive woke culture found in every corner. For myself, I have prioritized finding work now that doesn’t involve having to censor myself or play these political games.
I think what you’re doing on your channel is great. Please keep sharing your message.
“A civility pledge” lmao - this is 1984. Humanity needs to wake up!
Supposed to be a warning, not a playbook as they said...
thank you so much for speaking out!! I know how high the stakes are for you, and appreciate your courage and vision to speak out.
Thank you so much for having the courage to step forward. What is happening in our society is blatantly indicative of pathological dysfunction. We must NOT tolerate it. The lunatics are truly running the asylum.
Thank you for your courage in stepping out and speaking up in respect to the dissembling of higher education into a cookie cutter social justice factory. Your trials are similar to the cancellation of Professor Bret Weinstein formerly of Evergreen State University. Please stay strong and remain a beacon of truth and integrity, there are those who side with you :)
I'm so glad you were recommended to watch. It gets scarier and scarier, with every day.
You have great integrity and I look forward to more videos. Thank you from Wales, Uk
Thank you for watching and for your support, Becca!
Thank you for speaking up Lesley. I’m grateful there are still people like you who are willing to use their voices as a light. Keep speaking. Keep shining.
This young woman is a HERO. Calling out "this cultural takeover; this divisive and hateful ideology" and urging people to "put a stop to this nonsense" and "bring back sanity" is nothing less than an heroic act, in this environment. We NEED this good, honest, clear-thinking woman--and others like her--to run for office-- and I hate to say that, because politics is such a foul and festering quagmire, but we NEED people like her, in office, in order to put an end to the cultural suicide.
I have left the left precisely because of what I’ve witnessed in the last few years. Thank you for your integrity and courage.❤
Thank you for your courage. People like you will help end the woke nonsense.
Hello it’s Mary from CTA
you are so clear and courageous
It just gets worse
Hi Mary! Thank you for your support. These certainly are strange times.
For the school to accept this program should call into question the certification of all programs at the university.
I thought loyalty oaths went out with McCarthy. The school can not require you to sign one. Your post required courage and honesty. You will make a wonderful therapist!
All the best.
Phil Manfield
If you are concerned about your PHD and the current avenues of continuation / conclusion for that don't seem to be working - consider getting in touch with Peter Boghossian. The gentleman in question is most certainly about open-ness and critical thinking. Worst case he may be able to provide pointers/contact with others.
I wish you all the best and congratulations on finding something that matters to you. Principles are an important part of adult-hood.
Well stated. As a retired psychotherapist, after 40 years of practice (and continued ed), I am worried in the trend that you’ve described within Masters level counseling programs across the country. I’ve seen this in Oregon programs, as well as within the Oregon State community mental health system. I see this as ‘Left-wing authoritarianism.’ Emory U did research on this a few years back. This doctrinarian approach across upper level educational programs is doing great disservice to our field. Thanks for posting this. UGGHH
Yes, it really is. It undermines the credibility of good therapists and counselors and makes prospective clients (understandably) wary. UGH is right!
Psychotherapy in the UK also going down this path. @JamesEsses was kicked off a training course for expressing gender critical views. Needs support.
MSW retired late 2019. This is so troublesome. Everything is backwards and upside down and we are to accept that as normal. Gaslighting at its finest. Such a wonderful and meaningful career for the right person. Like so much else, absolutely ruined
not focusing on diet as the source of many psych problems is the biggest problem with modern psych, IMHO.
@@curiousbystander9193 I think there is definitely something to this. Mind-body connection, diet & lifestyle factors are a huge part of mental health.
Thank you for the information & Good luck to you finishing your degree elsewhere if possible. I'm very sad about current state of affairs in this country.
I have been looking into going to Antioch and researching the program. By chance I met someone in the PsyD program there and she dissuaded me from going to Antioch for this very reason. She said she is a progressive liberal person who believes in the importance of social justice, as am I, however she said the way it is being addressed- with blame and shame- is stifling open discourse and burying the issue even deeper into the shadow of the institution. She said being in such an ideologically rigid organization is making it hell to have to be there. This is so unwise and truly a psychologically ill advised way to try to solve the problem of racism. It also underscores some missing elements in the personal work of those shaping this culture of blame and shame. I think their hearts are in the right place, but people in a constant cycle of blaming others and trying to find scapegoats need to do their own shadow work and find their way to some self compassion and self forgiveness so they stop shaping what is a beautiful calling- to be a therapist- into something without the capacity to be a safe and neutral container for the healing of all darknesses of the human heart.
Succumbing to shame and blame in either direction is not the answer. An over emphasis on identity just underscores how we are all different. There needs to be a balance with raising consciousness about the common humanity we all share.
The same thing happened to me at the University of Wisconsin’s graduate teaching program. I left; it was very scary at the time but my life is so much better now.
Stay strong. You have other options.
Lizzy, I'm sorry you had that experience. It is mind-bending to sit and listen to an academic authority spout obvious untruths, and watch others seem to accept it unquestioningly.
I have had a similar experience in teaching. Watching others absorb or comply for the sake of avoiding the wrath of the leftist in leadership has been a huge, difficult process.
For some time I felt like I was inferior, just difficult and socially difficult. Professional friends were few.
Hearing how others have walked through this has been helpful.
Thanks everyone.
Hello and thank you for this video! It resonates with me deeply as a new therapist and counselor who had a mental breakdown throughout the program due to how entrenched the program I did was in social justice ideology. I'm so glad I'm not alone and that there are others who will not stand for the ridiculousness.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I cried every day during my "multicultural perspectives" course. It blew my mind that they could teach stuff like this.
We have moved into very uncertain times, and thank you for your voice.
As an educator I’m dreading a future of having watch everything I say and I know many who are leaving the profession to escape this minefield we now live in
Leslie, mad respect for your courage and your very articulate identification of the contradictions and flaws of the left of center idealogues.
Thank you so much for standing up. I quit my counseling program for the same reasons.
Wow. I’m so sorry to hear that! I, fortunately, was able to get my Masters just before this ideology really took hold at the university I attended. 🙏🏻
Thank you for speaking out about this. It is disturbing, but it needs to be exposed. I hope others will join you. Bless you for being brave and standing strong.
I’m a 25 year veteran therapist, Asian, and holy Toledo, I can’t wrap my head around this. I am outraged that an instiution would advocate that children are born in the wrong body. When a four year old stops putting the left shoe on the right foot we could start having a conversation abou
I hope it all worked out for you. Both myself and my daughter went to two different therapists in the same practice. We both discontinued going due to ideology. I have always been a big advocate for therapy as it helped me tremendously 35 years ago. I will now be warning people not to go. I was disturbed with my therapist but my daughter (adult) was disgusted.
It’s a shame so many people will never trust therapists any longer. Reports like yours are everywhere.
Thank you for speaking up! As a graduate of the Counselling Psych program and a practicing therapist for 22 years, I'm appalled at what you're describing. Are any other students speaking out about this? Graduates of this program will not be agents for real change and growth, but just megaphones in an echo chamber of the performative radical left. Kudos to you for retaining your critical thinking skills!
Through CTA I know a number of other counseling trainees in the US and UK who are unhappy about this ideology in their programs. I have not personally seen any other student in my own program challenge this stuff one bit.
I live in Ireland and did the first few years or my training in 2010 and it was all about the theory and practical skills. Through a series of traumatic life events I paused my training. I then enrolled at a different college in 2020 to complete my final year and honestly it was hell. I dropped out 3 weeks before graduation. It broke my heart because it was something that I felt most passionate about.
@@baroquefiddle4790 oh no, I'm looking for a counsellor for my daughter, should I look for someone qualified before 2010? I hate the way critical race and gender ideology devalue women especially white women.
@@Lemonbonbon Hi, I would definitely recommend someone with years of training and experience. And interview them first and ask as many questions as possible before any agreement is made. I empathise as my own son needed therapy and I found it very difficult to find someone that wasn't ideologicaly captured. I wish you the best for you and your daughter!
I too had this experience at a social work graduate student at a different institution. Students were not allowed to share their own views or speak up on "discussions" we could only use provided and bias material in our responses. Courses were very geared around political agendas and racism.
It is actually hopeful to hear that there are bright professionals out there who realize how wrong this is on several levels. I hope you find a way to complete your education. The world needs you!
God bless you and thanks for the courage for standing up and doing the right thing. I’ll be praying for you and for insight on how to address this issue and how to stand and do the right thing without being crucified. A fellow truths lover and patriot.
Thank you again!
Keep sharing this everywhere! They need to hear it from YOU,
I am so very sorry that you are in this position and also grateful that you are standing on your principles and up against the aggressive advancement of these destructive ideologies. I knew this was taking place, but hearing your individual experience with the details is very impactful. Thank you for sharing.
Incredibly well articulated, start to finish. Thank you so much. I'll be sharing this.
Truly terrifying how insistent they are on destroying people's minds.
Speaking about the spiritual perspective that all of us are souls experiencing life as a human being is a way through this. It will not make conversations easier, but there are soul-utions. These divisions are ruining and diminishing the experience of being a human. To get back to experience life with awe and wonder is a worthy goal.
This is so sad to hear. I am retired from health care and it breaks my heart to realize the path so many schools are taking. I am proud of your strength in your convictions and hope things work out for you. I no longer trust health care workers to be professional and motivated to help their clients/ patients in a non judgemental manner. Hopefully compassionate alternative care models will develop that will be able to do so.
Bravo - this needs to go far and wide. Imagine counselling people to develop a mental illness/mental health problem. I left the profession 20 years ago as this was slowly creeping in. You are the 'brave' one.
This is going on in libraries too. I was fired for speaking up against "woke" totalitarianism. I sued, on free speech grounds, and received a settlement.
This is utterly chilling. Thank you for coming forward to let us know what is going on.
Thank you so much for posting this Leslie. As an educator, this has been a concern of mine for a while. Viewpoint diversity has always been a battle in the classroom. It sounds like once a certain position wins that battle, learning has ended. Sorry to hear about your experience. If you end up in lawsuits and need support, please reach out. I'm sharing this video with my Counselor Ed colleagues. This is a conversation that needs to be had.
Thank you, Mark!
Shocking. Thank you for sharing this information. You are right (and courageous) to push back against this. If you can get to one of Kellie.- Jay Keens’ US tour stops that would be a good way to disseminate this information- and she is producing a documentary. Your testimony would be powerful.
What a great idea, Helen! KJK is in SanFrancisco.
Graduated from the program 20 yrs ago..... the seeds of what you speak were evident even then. At the same time, there was no critique of BigPharma and its capture of the mental health system.
Your courage is exemplary. You are an example to us all. Whatever you risk now you will appreciate your speaking out increasingly as you live on. God bless you.
Thanks for speaking out. It is certainly idiotic - to the point of deliberate social subversion - to maintain that sustainable political power can be mined from empathic grievances & by forcefully dragging language away from popular understanding.
I am wondering if FIRE could be of help if they hold your degree back for not signing the pledge.
Yes! FIRE
My program at Adler was similar in nature related content curriculum. Thank you for sharing your concerns. Thankful for your views and your courage. 👏👏
Thank you for your courage!