The Conscious Leadership Podcast with Gabby Ortega, MA

SMASHING THE SYSTEM WHY WE DIDN’T GET LICENSED

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Becoming a licensed therapist in our healthcare system is long grueling process filled with many sacrifices, and though it’s looked upon as the “ETHICAL” way to be an effective therapist, there are some MAJOR issues which make our system broken to the point that licensed therapists are disempowered and unable serve the people in our society that need support in their mental health.

In this Episode, Gabby and Amber share their Journeys through the educational system with the goal of becoming “licensed therapists” only to realize that in the end, they could do so much more outside this broken system, which leaves therapists “overworked” and “underappreciated” not to mention “under paid” for that matter.  They dive into the different pillars this system is built on, and why they are crumbling, and tear down the notion that “License” means “Ethics” & how systematically flawed the DSM is.

  • [1:43] Introduction to Amber, Clinical therapist, self-healer, chronic illness healer, Bad-Ass-Coach
  • [4:55] Amber talks about why she decided NOT to become licensed despite having checked off ALL of the boxes to be fully licensed
  • [7:44] Gabby explains why it is so important to always question the narrative and how  trauma cycles and peoples bias’s make it into the DSM and influence text books that have mass influence in our education system
  • [13:04] Gabby and Amber discuss the unethical nature of having to give someone a diagnosis in order to be reimbursed and just how broken this system is
  • [19:44] The false notion that a “License” means “Ethics” and how dangerous this assumption can be
  • [24:49] The Crumbling of the system and paradigm shift happening in the age of Aquarius that we are in, and how the DSM is based on empirical research is based exclusively on white, heterosexual males
  • [28:13] How women have been completely oppressed and essentially demonized by our mental health system and not so long ago were forced to undergo traumatic unethical medical practices
  • [32:49] why Coaching gets such a bad reputation(on purpose)
  • [45:45] Gabby and Amber talk about how many of the new modalities that insurance companies are rebranding as “therapy” are actually “coaching” modalities
  • [48:29] The power of Pivoting and how being unregulated can be a very positive thing when you are willing to be self-aware, and willing to heal yourself so you can heal others
  • [55:23] Amber talks about how she had to deal objections from her instructors,  therapist friends, and family when she decided not to move forward with becoming a licensed therapist
  • [1:01:01] You can actively practice both as a therapist and coach, and protect license and business
  • [1:01:37] Amber’s advice for anyone thinking about coaching and may be on the fence about pursuing the journey of being a coach

    • This week’s guest was Amber Gordon! Amber is our Bad-ass Lead Coach for the Ignite Program!

    Find more from Amber on Instagram:

    www.instagram.com/strikeignite.coaching

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