Why Counseling? Its Slow Death Part 5

The worst disease to weaken counseling is the Investor-Based Company. Their timing was perfect as they moved in when therapists were losing clients due to Covid and people losing their jobs, their insurance and extra money to pay for the best counseling. With an...

Why Counseling? Its Slow Death Part 4

Why Counseling? Its Slow Death Part 4 In 2016 I was earning $1440 a week by using insurance but getting paid only $500. Not even the Georgia Insurance Commissioner was able to force them to pay me. Insurance companies had stopped paying doctors the years before and...

Why Counseling? Its Slow Death Part 3

Why Counseling? Its Slow Death Part 3 Employee Assistance Programs was another disease that weakened effective counseling. Companies paid the therapists so their employees got the therapy for free. Again, the damage to effective counseling was the belief that it was...

Why Counseling? Its Slow Death Part 2

Health Insurance was the first disease to weaken professional counseling. In 1992 Managed Care Insurance promised $60 per session and hundreds of therapists starving for patients joined. Many of the best counselors charging as much as $140 quit for lack of patients,...

Why Counseling? Its Death

Why Counseling? It’s Slow Death I believe that we are witnessing the slow death of effective counseling as we know it. The disease that is killing it is Greed and Ignorance. For the next several days I will be telling you of the diseases that have been and are...