In a required course for my Marriage and Family Therapy program, I was instructed to write a “comprehensive sexual autobiography.” The assignment: detail my earliest sexual memories, masturbation history, past and present sexual experiences, and future fantasies— with a plan to act on them.
Naomi, your experience reveals something profoundly unsettling—not just about one course, but about the direction of therapist training itself.
A “comprehensive sexual autobiography” requiring students to detail their earliest sexual memories, masturbation history, sexual experiences, and future fantasies—with a plan to act on them—goes far beyond introspection. It imposes disclosure, and worse, performance. That it was mandatory, with no opt-out, and submitted to a third-party platform with no guarantee of confidentiality, only heightens the coercion.
This isn't just invasive. It blurs the very boundaries therapists are trained to respect.
The ethical hypocrisy is glaring:
- In therapy, consent must be clear, ongoing, and revocable.
- In this program, students had no meaningful way to refuse.
- Therapists are taught to guard client privacy—yet students were denied their own.
Requiring future action plans on sexual fantasies isn’t reflective practice. It’s institutionalized pressure to conform to a vision of sexuality framed as essential to therapeutic maturity.
Your account exposes a disturbing trend: therapy programs asking students to violate the very principles they’re being trained to uphold. Thank you for calling it out. It deserves far more scrutiny.
It’s horrifying. I agree with you completely Greg. Trust that I exhausted every internal channel to remedy this before going public. But institutionalized sexual harassment by psychologists is a hill I will die on.
> In therapy, consent must be clear, ongoing, and revocable.
It would be great if that were the case, but in fact there is such a thing as involuntary commitment, and there is such a thing as "assisted" (i.e. forced) outpatient therapy. And even voluntary treatment sometimes happens in the shadow of those things.
Moreover, minors can be forced into therapy by their parents.
The experience described in the post seems perfectly consistent with the values of the profession; the only things I would expect to be controversial within the profession are the use of third-party software that might expose the data to outsiders and the particular left-wing ideology being imposed.
I really don't know what planet the notion that therapists respect boundaries comes from. But I'd like to visit that planet.
Found your Substack through Lila Rose's podcast. Looking forward to listening to the interview! Keep honoring the Lord and speaking the truth, and He will honor you, sister. 💞
Wtf? None of that professors Gdam business. This makes my blood boil. Thanks for coming forward. I view this as straight up sexual harassment, made to make people very uncomfortable. Likely the professor gets some kind of sexual gratification from reading the documents. Imagine they talk this way to preteens. As a survivor of attempted sex abuse as a kid, this is exactly how it’s done. Twisted, dark.
I used to be a huge proponent of therapy. I am who I am today because of it. It was enormously beneficial for my development as a young adult and later in the early years of my marriage. Today I find myself with a teen daughter who I desperately want her to try therapy. I have been reluctant. I am usually looking for older looking therapists or someone who has been in the profession for over 20 years, or a Christian therapist (neither a guarantee). Absolutely no young therapist, especially women. We are people of color and I am one hundred percent sure that ideology would make the activist therapists make erroneous assumptions about our lives and our beliefs. I am certain that it would make her issues worse. What a sad state of affairs for a profession that helped me so much.
Naomi, I’m so sorry you’ve been enduring this in your academic program. It gets harder and harder for reality-based people to pursue interests and professions and join communities.
I am also heartsick for the people in those classes who inevitably are victims of sexual trauma.
Naomi, your experience reveals something profoundly unsettling—not just about one course, but about the direction of therapist training itself.
A “comprehensive sexual autobiography” requiring students to detail their earliest sexual memories, masturbation history, sexual experiences, and future fantasies—with a plan to act on them—goes far beyond introspection. It imposes disclosure, and worse, performance. That it was mandatory, with no opt-out, and submitted to a third-party platform with no guarantee of confidentiality, only heightens the coercion.
This isn't just invasive. It blurs the very boundaries therapists are trained to respect.
The ethical hypocrisy is glaring:
- In therapy, consent must be clear, ongoing, and revocable.
- In this program, students had no meaningful way to refuse.
- Therapists are taught to guard client privacy—yet students were denied their own.
Requiring future action plans on sexual fantasies isn’t reflective practice. It’s institutionalized pressure to conform to a vision of sexuality framed as essential to therapeutic maturity.
Your account exposes a disturbing trend: therapy programs asking students to violate the very principles they’re being trained to uphold. Thank you for calling it out. It deserves far more scrutiny.
It’s horrifying. I agree with you completely Greg. Trust that I exhausted every internal channel to remedy this before going public. But institutionalized sexual harassment by psychologists is a hill I will die on.
> In therapy, consent must be clear, ongoing, and revocable.
It would be great if that were the case, but in fact there is such a thing as involuntary commitment, and there is such a thing as "assisted" (i.e. forced) outpatient therapy. And even voluntary treatment sometimes happens in the shadow of those things.
Moreover, minors can be forced into therapy by their parents.
The experience described in the post seems perfectly consistent with the values of the profession; the only things I would expect to be controversial within the profession are the use of third-party software that might expose the data to outsiders and the particular left-wing ideology being imposed.
I really don't know what planet the notion that therapists respect boundaries comes from. But I'd like to visit that planet.
Bravo to you for standing up to this wickedness, Naomi! It was your grad school that was being oppressive, not your beliefs. God help us...
Thanks your your encouragement Rebecca
Found your Substack through Lila Rose's podcast. Looking forward to listening to the interview! Keep honoring the Lord and speaking the truth, and He will honor you, sister. 💞
We live under an extortionist pervocracy.
Thank you for taking a stand against what you aptly described as “ideological control masquerading as compassion.”
It’s insidious is what it is.
Wtf? None of that professors Gdam business. This makes my blood boil. Thanks for coming forward. I view this as straight up sexual harassment, made to make people very uncomfortable. Likely the professor gets some kind of sexual gratification from reading the documents. Imagine they talk this way to preteens. As a survivor of attempted sex abuse as a kid, this is exactly how it’s done. Twisted, dark.
I came across the perfunctory pronoun share when, in a zoom meeting, the hostess PUT MY PRONOUNS IN FOR ME. How infantilizing.
This is ridiculous mania. Do not comply.
I used to be a huge proponent of therapy. I am who I am today because of it. It was enormously beneficial for my development as a young adult and later in the early years of my marriage. Today I find myself with a teen daughter who I desperately want her to try therapy. I have been reluctant. I am usually looking for older looking therapists or someone who has been in the profession for over 20 years, or a Christian therapist (neither a guarantee). Absolutely no young therapist, especially women. We are people of color and I am one hundred percent sure that ideology would make the activist therapists make erroneous assumptions about our lives and our beliefs. I am certain that it would make her issues worse. What a sad state of affairs for a profession that helped me so much.
Have you considered going to your student ombudsman ?
Naomi, I’m so sorry you’ve been enduring this in your academic program. It gets harder and harder for reality-based people to pursue interests and professions and join communities.
I am also heartsick for the people in those classes who inevitably are victims of sexual trauma.
What the actual fuck. 😤😢🤢🤮