An exhaustive analysis of the 15 biggest historical feuds in psychotherapy, from Freud vs. Jung to the modern Somatic vs. CBT wars. Explore the theories, the fights, and the modern verdicts.
The Profession of Social Work is Under Siege: Nurses and Doctors Will be the Next Target
As Goes Social Work, So Go the Doctors The dismantling of one profession's evidence base is not really an attack on that profession. It is a demonstration. The same machinery is being built for nursing and for medicine, and the thing it is built to remove is the same...
The 2026 ASWB Exam Changes, Explained for the People Who Have to Take Them
What the 2026 ASWB Exam Changes Mean for Social Workers: A Clinician's Breakdown On Monday, August 3, 2026, the test that stands between a social work degree and a social work license changes for the first time since 2018. If you are preparing to sit for the ASWB...
What the Alabama House Bill 582 ban on Social-Emotional Learning Means for Therapists
In the spring of 2025, the Alabama State Department of Education released the first comprehensive update to the state's school counseling standards in twenty-two years. The 2025 Comprehensive School Counseling and Guidance Model is a substantial document. It...
How Confidentiality and the Tarasoff Case are Changing in Alabama
The clinician who has practiced long enough to see a few subpoenas eventually develops a complicated relationship with the word "confidentiality." We say it constantly. We put it in our informed consent documents. We teach it in supervision. And then, inevitably, a...
What Alabama Clinicians Should Know about HB 359 and Involuntary Commitment with Firearm Rights Revocation
Alabama Gun Laws are Changing and Therapists Need to Know Families in Alabama who initiate an involuntary commitment petition through their local probate court are almost never told the full legal consequences of what they are about to do. They are told, accurately,...
Alabama Legal Update for Ketamine Assisted Therapy
In April 2024, the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling issued a policy statement that has not received the attention it deserves. The statement addresses the question of whether a licensed professional counselor or associate licensed counselor in Alabama may...
Telehealth Updates for Prescribers in Alabama
In December, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly issued what is now being called the Fourth Temporary Extension, a rulemaking that preserves nearly all of the pandemic-era telemedicine flexibilities for...
HB 152 and Social Work: What it Means for the Future
Governor Ivey signed HB 152 into law in April. October 1 brings the first real consequences. A clinician’s analysis of Alabama’s converging social work pipeline crisis.
The Kaleidoscope: Digital Dreamtime and the Collision of Parallel Realities
How do you know that the color blue you see is the same as the color blue I see? We both call it blue. We point at the sky and use the same word. But do we actually share the same subjective experience of that wavelength of light? Some people do not. They might be...