Grad School Assignment: Map My Erotic History. My response? This.

A therapist-in-training breaks the silence on what’s happening inside mental health education—and what it will cost all of us.

Look, this was not plan A. I planned to finish my Counseling Psychology MA, get licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and help people.

Then I was told to write a 10-page paper detailing when I first noticed my genitals, how I masturbate, and what I hope for in my future sex life—for a grade, in a required course, at a Catholic university.

I filed a complaint. That didn’t stop them. But the sexuality class was just the mask slipping.

What I uncovered was something deeper: a profession quietly being reshaped by a narrow, ideologically rigid group of thought leaders. Their worldview—once fringe—is now baked into licensure standards, APA ethics memos, and textbook definitions of “competent care.”

It gently pathologizes traditional values and calls it progress. It treats dissent like danger. And it’s leaving a growing number of clients—and clinicians—out in the cold.

This isn’t training. It’s conditioning future therapists to override their own boundaries and moral codes, call it growth, and pass the test. That’s coercion, not education.

Clinically Incorrect is the title of my forthcoming book—and, for now, my pseudonym. I’ll be using it here until the book is published. This newsletter is where I’ll share what didn’t make it into the manuscript: too raw, too recent, or too revealing. At least for now.

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