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Posting the Truth on YouTube? You Might Be the Only One Who Sees It
When your words vanish and no one tells you, you’re not paranoid. It’s just the algorithm.
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Suzannah Alexander
What If We Built a New Therapy Profession That Put Clients First?
Creating a new path for those betrayed by the current system.
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Suzannah Alexander
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Communal Catastrophizing. Or How Social Media Trains Us to Despair Together
Bad News Is Addictive. Even When It’s Fake.
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Why It’s Time to Rebuild Counseling from the Ground Up
The therapy establishment is a pipeline for ideology, not healing. This is how we fix it.
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Suzannah Alexander
10 Hilarious ways to Fund a University Without Federal Dollars
What to Do When the Government Ghosts You and the Alumni Block Your Calls
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Suzannah Alexander
The War for Higher Ed Has a New Battlefield, Your State Capitol
Ideology goes in the classroom through the backdoor. These laws change the locks.
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Suzannah Alexander
Breaking: Disneyland Converts Corporate Embarrassment Into Family Entertainment
This is what happens when Imagineers get stuck in HR training.
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End the Stranglehold: Tools to Confront Antitrust Violations in Counseling: CACREP Antitrust Part 6
The monopolization of healing hurts everyone: clients, students, and practitioners alike.
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In Praise of Childhood Bullying
The long-term consequences of short-circuiting childhood challenges.
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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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The War for Higher Ed Has a New Battlefield, Your State Capitol
Ideology goes in the classroom through the backdoor. These laws change the locks.
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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
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Investigative Reporting

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The Psychology of Control: How Emotional Manipulation Protects Corruption
Don’t let the soft words fool you—they’re often hiding sharp claws.
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Suzannah Alexander
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What If We Built a New Therapy Profession That Put Clients First?
Creating a new path for those betrayed by the current system.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
7
Why It’s Time to Rebuild Counseling from the Ground Up
The therapy establishment is a pipeline for ideology, not healing. This is how we fix it.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
The War for Higher Ed Has a New Battlefield, Your State Capitol
Ideology goes in the classroom through the backdoor. These laws change the locks.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
End the Stranglehold: Tools to Confront Antitrust Violations in Counseling: CACREP Antitrust Part 6
The monopolization of healing hurts everyone: clients, students, and practitioners alike.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
3

Accreditation

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Why It’s Time to Rebuild Counseling from the Ground Up
The therapy establishment is a pipeline for ideology, not healing. This is how we fix it.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
The War for Higher Ed Has a New Battlefield, Your State Capitol
Ideology goes in the classroom through the backdoor. These laws change the locks.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
End the Stranglehold: Tools to Confront Antitrust Violations in Counseling: CACREP Antitrust Part 6
The monopolization of healing hurts everyone: clients, students, and practitioners alike.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
3
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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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

Humor

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Posting the Truth on YouTube? You Might Be the Only One Who Sees It
When your words vanish and no one tells you, you’re not paranoid. It’s just the algorithm.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
10 Hilarious ways to Fund a University Without Federal Dollars
What to Do When the Government Ghosts You and the Alumni Block Your Calls
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
Breaking: Disneyland Converts Corporate Embarrassment Into Family Entertainment
This is what happens when Imagineers get stuck in HR training.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
2
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
Play The Gatekeeper Game! The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Being Denied a License
Satirical? Yes. Implausible? Sadly, no.
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Psychology

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What If We Built a New Therapy Profession That Put Clients First?
Creating a new path for those betrayed by the current system.
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Suzannah Alexander
7
Communal Catastrophizing. Or How Social Media Trains Us to Despair Together
Bad News Is Addictive. Even When It’s Fake.
 • 
Suzannah Alexander
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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