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The Counseling Compact: Trojan Horse for an Ideological Monopoly - CACREP Antitrust Part 5
Why antitrust lawyers should be watching the counseling profession closely.
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Suzannah Alexander
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Ohana Means... uh…Crap!: How Disney’s Live Action Lilo & Stitch Became an Ad for Child Protective Services
Part love letter, part eulogy, mostly facepalm
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Suzannah Alexander
How a Little-Known Honor Society Is Shaping Who Gets to Be Your Therapist - CACREP Antitrust Part 4
Mental health access is collapsing—and this obscure group is helping it happen.
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Suzannah Alexander
Can Freedom Survive A World Without Consequences?
As technology redefines our choices, America must decide what kind of society we want to build.
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Suzannah Alexander
Antitrust Alert: CACREP’s Counseling Takeover - Part 3
CACREP’s standards: Protecting clients or profits?
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Suzannah Alexander
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Are You Ruining Psychology in the Name of Ethics? Take the ‘Am I the Baddie?’ Quiz And Find Out!
Because nothing says “healing” like coerced ideology.
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Suzannah Alexander
Meet the Unelected Body Blocking Mental Health Access Nationwide - Part 2: CACREP's Open Letter
This isn’t just about education—it’s about power, money, and exclusion.
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Suzannah Alexander
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Play The Gatekeeper Game! The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Being Denied a License
Satirical? Yes. Implausible? Sadly, no.
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Suzannah Alexander
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Licensure, Lobbying, and Legal Trouble: The Dark Side of Counseling Accreditation
CACREP’s deleted letter reveals a bold attempt to lock out competitors—and it could violate federal law
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Suzannah Alexander
Diogenes In Exile
Diogenes In Exile
Your compass for navigating the swirling seas of culture, psychology, and academia, where we occasionally roast elite ideas like marshmallows at a philosophy-themed campfire.
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Two New Laws Could Stop Professional Censorship in Its Tracks
You don’t have to comply with ideological gatekeeping—here’s how to push back.
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State Laws Ignored: Counseling Accreditation and How to Demand Reform NOW!
The accreditation controversy and how to force lawmakers to take notice
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No More Waiting: How to Fight for Change—Regardless of Who’s in Office
Win or lose, your voice matters—take action and shape the policies you care about
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How to Write a Letter to the Editor that Gets Noticed - 10 Rules
Everything you need to know to write a letter to the Editor that grabs attention.
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Investigative Reporting

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The Counseling Compact: Trojan Horse for an Ideological Monopoly - CACREP Antitrust Part 5
Why antitrust lawyers should be watching the counseling profession closely.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
5
How a Little-Known Honor Society Is Shaping Who Gets to Be Your Therapist - CACREP Antitrust Part 4
Mental health access is collapsing—and this obscure group is helping it happen.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
Antitrust Alert: CACREP’s Counseling Takeover - Part 3
CACREP’s standards: Protecting clients or profits?
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
2
Meet the Unelected Body Blocking Mental Health Access Nationwide - Part 2: CACREP's Open Letter
This isn’t just about education—it’s about power, money, and exclusion.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
1
Licensure, Lobbying, and Legal Trouble: The Dark Side of Counseling Accreditation
CACREP’s deleted letter reveals a bold attempt to lock out competitors—and it could violate federal law
 • 
Suzannah Alexander

Accreditation

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The Counseling Compact: Trojan Horse for an Ideological Monopoly - CACREP Antitrust Part 5
Why antitrust lawyers should be watching the counseling profession closely.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
5
How a Little-Known Honor Society Is Shaping Who Gets to Be Your Therapist - CACREP Antitrust Part 4
Mental health access is collapsing—and this obscure group is helping it happen.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
Antitrust Alert: CACREP’s Counseling Takeover - Part 3
CACREP’s standards: Protecting clients or profits?
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
2
Meet the Unelected Body Blocking Mental Health Access Nationwide - Part 2: CACREP's Open Letter
This isn’t just about education—it’s about power, money, and exclusion.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
1
Licensure, Lobbying, and Legal Trouble: The Dark Side of Counseling Accreditation
CACREP’s deleted letter reveals a bold attempt to lock out competitors—and it could violate federal law
 • 
Suzannah Alexander

Friday Musings and Fun

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In Praise of Childhood Bullying
The long-term consequences of short-circuiting childhood challenges.
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Suzannah Alexander
Ohana Means... uh…Crap!: How Disney’s Live Action Lilo & Stitch Became an Ad for Child Protective Services
Part love letter, part eulogy, mostly facepalm
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
Can Freedom Survive A World Without Consequences?
As technology redefines our choices, America must decide what kind of society we want to build.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
Are You Ruining Psychology in the Name of Ethics? Take the ‘Am I the Baddie?’ Quiz And Find Out!
Because nothing says “healing” like coerced ideology.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
Play The Gatekeeper Game! The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Being Denied a License
Satirical? Yes. Implausible? Sadly, no.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
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Humor

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Are You Ruining Psychology in the Name of Ethics? Take the ‘Am I the Baddie?’ Quiz And Find Out!
Because nothing says “healing” like coerced ideology.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
Play The Gatekeeper Game! The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Being Denied a License
Satirical? Yes. Implausible? Sadly, no.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
2
I Let AI Help Me Write. It Now Has a Favorite Philosopher
This is what happens when you feed a cynic to AI
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Suzannah Alexander
Can You Survive the Bureaucratic Hunger Games?
Licensing logic so twisted, Kafka would take notes.
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Suzannah Alexander
🔥 "Welcome to the 2026 Oscars: The Night of a Thousand Struggle Sessions"!
We are getting ready early! With a new dress code: Inspired by medieval monks and Soviet-era ration lines.
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Psychology

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New DSM-6 Disorders So Ridiculous, Even Your Therapist Will Laugh
More labels, less accountability—mental health just got a glow-up!
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Suzannah Alexander
Counseling’s Political Purity Push: Unveiling the Identity Crisis That Hijacked Accreditation and Shaped a Profession
How Mental Health Therapy was Captured by Social Justice Ideology
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Suzannah Alexander
State Laws Ignored: Counseling Accreditation and How to Demand Reform NOW!
The accreditation controversy and how to force lawmakers to take notice
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Suzannah Alexander
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The Real Reason Science Is Failing Us: A Look into Psychology’s Blind Spot
Are we silencing the studies that could transform our understanding of human nature?
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Suzannah Alexander
Is Cultural Sensitivity Undermining Mental Health Treatment?
There is an epidemic of mental illness in Japan called hikikomori.
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Suzannah Alexander
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