Recovering Therapist

Introduction

What is a recovering therapist? A few years back we (this author) socially met a lawyer who first introduced himself as a “recovering lawyer”. To us, by identifying the qualifier of “recovery” from his profession, he was acknowledging that he learned something from his lived experience and was deciding to practice his profession differently. As a professional in the field, his lived experience had made him morally continue to be what he was trained to be, but educated enough by his lived experience to behave differently in his profession (See O’Brien, 2024c for the difference between trained and educated).

As a person in long-term recovery ourselves we felt a kinship with this exchange and acknowledgement. His answer did not come from a place of substance recovery, but from a place of knowing that lawyers (or the whole profession) can be addicted (living in a state of dependence or dissociation) (O’Brien, 2023a). In this acquaintance’s response, he demonstrated a level of awareness of recovery and its importance in the professional milieu, ethical accountability, and the professional moral imperative (O’Brien, 2024c; O’Brien, 2024d). But what is the addiction to? In previous works (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2024b), we explored the possible answers to this question and other aspects of the professions in question, their impact on the field of psychology, and the client’s ability to heal. We have to defer readers to those works in the references section.

Every profession and professional must reach a stage of (ethical and moral) development to be considered at the top of their game. They would be at the top of their game because they have the training (ethical) and the lived experience (moral) of a professional. Paradoxically, the lived work experience of the lawyer is what made him morally in recovery from his profession, once he saw the underbelly of what the industrialized ethical beast can do to clients and citizens. So, what if professionals and professions (remember, corporations and associations are people too!) do not reach this level of professional or moral development? How would we know? Is there a moral character clause that is required by state officials that equate ethics to law (O’Brien, 2024c)? The choice to be in recovery is the difference between ethics and morals. The difference to us is action against unjust laws.

The Problem

If one can become addicted to a drug, then one can become addicted to anything (O’Brien, 2023a). The relationship is a dependent relationship that we unconsciously have to create to gain our interdependence. Dependence is a stage of development, not a disorder, disease, or diagnosis. Ironically, what most of us were taught (directly or implicitly) in our professional programs is that “in the real world” is different from what is taught and what is learned in school. If hypocrisy is anything, it is that everyone who graduated and continued on and accepted degrees already knew this. Yes, we may have promised to be different, but soon found out that “the game” being played is not one that supports making an honest moral living in a profession that helps people figure this out.

Luckily, we know that there are many paths to healing and recovery (O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a). We see healing and recovery as synonymous. However, our concern and the identified problem (e.g., not fully identifying/defining/operationalizing addiction or normalizing it) that we see, is that recovery and morals are lacking in the field of psychology, medicine, and Western culture that addiction to this denial has co-opted common sense and common decency; hence, mutual respect. This is because the definitions they use are not what they do (O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). As they are dissociated and addicted (dependent) to not knowing (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c; O’Brien, 2024d); therefore, they do not see or know the difference between what is real and what is not what is truth and what is not, and what is theirs and what is ours. What if they do not learn from the precedent they preach, will they need to enter into a program of recovery (or re-education programming)?

Solutions to the Problems

When we get into the job market and learn about how “real life” works, we see that we have spent our careers “chasing carrots” (particularly with continuing education credits). We find that the people who have come before us have not been ethical because they have not been advocating against systems of abuse, power, and control (O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). Our standards are our work, recovery, and level of healing (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c O’Brien, 2024d). So, we all have to ask, where is the line of common sense (e.g., moral imperative) amongst fully developed and mature adults when it comes to industrialization and standardization of psychology (O’Brien, 2024a), medical model (particularly psychedelics) (O’Brien, 2023b), governing bodies (O’Brien, 2024b), and diagnostics/pathology (O’Brien, 2023a))?

At this point in our professional career (and stage of recovery), we see that it is our advocation to bring forth a necessary change due to recent trends in psychology, modern industrialized society, professional and governmental overreach, and our research (O’Brien, 2023). As we have addressed the professional legal, ethical, and moral aspects of the professional milieu, we will leave those solutions there (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). Where we will turn our focus next is on available solutions and the problems caused by their solutions and what their solutions represent.

The fact is that anyone can work the solution of meditation to help alleviate “mental health” symptoms (O’Brien, 2023b). Furthermore, anyone can learn exercises from Youtube and Netflix from qualified people and professionals. People can learn from the best and the brightest and not pay a dime. People can even learn how to do, use, and grow psychedelic medicines in the comfort of their own home. So, we do have to question how “real” the professional life they are selling freshman is compared to the “real world”. With AI quickly learning, it is a good time to ask these types of questions because what reality you are allowed to live will continue to become a bone of contention for those who mandate realities that are not real.

Apparently governing these professions that “know what is best” or “know the score” and monitor/police other professions (through a system of “checks-and-balances”), seem to follow a different ethical standard then they do to those they morally monitor (O’Brien, 2023b; O’Brien, 2024b). However, do we know if they have the moral development to do their job/career or are “morally fit” to hold such a position? What is their code of ethics based on? Morals? Who are they morally loyal to? If these questions have to be asked, then the answer can be known. As things go, licensing boards are made up of state workers who are not known for being current with the times or allowed to critically think in their work because of their training, obligation, compliance, legal repercussions, and ethical obedience.

If the “powers that be” are behind the times, this becomes our problem when they do not fix their own shortcomings. If the “powers that be” are addicted to power and control, then that is our problem because their decision making skills are seriously lacking from a psychological and qualitative perspective (O’Brien, 2024b). The research is clear on addiction, recovery, and psychedelic medicines and those in addiction recovery (citizens) have earned the right (as a product of being a victim of their short-comings) to have an opinion on how the system has treated them, how they operate, and what we have lost by not acknowledging what addiction is (O’Brien, 2023a). At this point, their denial is clinical, hypocritical, conscious, and criminal to the working licensed professional. For example, you can legally buy microdosing portions of psychedelic mushrooms online and have them delivered to your door, with a protocol and a psychedelic professional to match. If you are a licensed professional (non-prescribing) you cannot talk to your clients about this (or any medication really) without threat of working outside your scope of practice by other professions providing “checks and balances”. They may know how to prescribe them but they do not offer ways and means of honoring the medicines. Therefore, while the outside world moves forward, psychology is left holding sick and confused children wondering where she went wrong because the medical model is like an ailing grandparent who is well past their prime.

As we have explored, when we accurately define addiction as a dissociative disorder, our universal theory and model of addiction (Addiction as Dissociation) can be applied to people, professions, and systems (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). Addiction is transdiagnostic and pandiagnostic and is not only related to substance and gambling addictions (O’Brien, 2023a). Our doctoral work (O’Brien, 2023a) has demonstrated that our current diagnostics are off. Our meta-cognitive analysis (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c) of our doctoral work see patterns of professional servitude, ethical hypocrisy, and moral abuse (known as addiction) may be more self-serving (addicted/dependent) than they realize. Because of this, “the system” keeps society lagging in moral development, otherwise it would affect their bottom line, retirement funds, and their children’s safety or future social standing. This is the fear-based “normal” that is “working” for people who do/did not want to change it because their professional development is dependent upon chaos. This is another inconvenient truth that we all have to contend with, but represents the same root cause of dissociation. However, when science, research, and evidence is clear enough to start making necessary changes, citizens pay the price due to systematic incompetence and this “checks-and-balances” system that is really professional gatekeeping (O’Brien, 2024b) that protective and becomes addictive (O’Brien, 2023a) like a personality defending “its’ self” from themselves.

The current system says it supports the masses, while also protecting the few who benefit. Those who benefit exponentially will claim that they work for those who don’t. For example, daylight savings time was to be changed because the research was so clear that on those days, an increase in ER visits and unexpected deaths occur. This is due to the shift in circadian rhythms. Science is so clear on this that they are ready to pass a law to change it, but it has been over two years since they announced it. The law will most likely not get passed in a few months in the current political dynamic. So reader, which “science” is the government following and which one are you being made to follow? Another area where the research (quantitative), science (qualitative), and evidence (both) is psychedelics (O’Brien, 2023b). While we can appreciate the progressive nature of psychedelic research and “the cause”, what is missing from these professional systems and the professional organizations that run them is: recovery and morals.

When ethics are equated to law and morals are not allowed to be advocated for, as citizens, we experience dysregulation, dystopia, dysphoria, disorder, and are disillusioned. The problem is that they have conflated ethics with law (O’Brien, 2024c) and punish the people for having morals. The irony is that, to be moral, one must be ethical to break the law. When laws are not ethical, those who conform to their ethical law are not being moral (O’Brien, 2024b). The reason why they do conform is because ethics are equated to law, which is not moral (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c; O’Brien, 2024d). Therefore, we conclude that more professional preparation is necessary to help people with what psychedelic medicines offer. We also mean the current professions need re-education to ensure that true change happens. We know that in order for true change to occur, recovery and morals must align. Without this, culture is in denial of a great lie that helps perpetuate exponential professional profits, not healing. In essence, our approach (O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a) is preparing people for their deaths (personal, professional, or other) because we do not see the professionals being willing to make the changes necessary in themselves, let alone their profession, because they are dependently addicted.

As a solution, recovery can be reduced down to the word “humility” and for the last 10 years we have been helping people heal from medical, psychological, and psychedelic traumas caused by the systems failures and lack of understanding (O’Brien, 2024b). For example, ketamine is still being used like the drug that does the healing and not the therapeutic relationship combined with a grounded practitioner dynamic or the induced drug state that produces dual awareness (O’Brien, 2023b). They put people under the medicine without intentions, a guide, and an anchor. We find that there is more we can do to help people and the practitioners get the outcomes they are looking for but have to recognize how their best thinking and conclusions got them to do what they have done and are still doing.

This is one of the main reasons why we started the Wounded Healers Institute and developed our programming the way we did. The other reasons are because we are now ready to re-educate Healers as an advocation (O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024) against the industrial organizations that claim to be working for the citizenry. While we can appreciate other professional (psychedelic) training program purpose and development, a recovery perspective from substances holds more lived experience on how to use dissociative states that psychedelic medicines produce. We also know how not to use these medicines, which is more than what the current medical and psychological models can claim. For those in recovery, we can support anyone who is honestly willing to tell their story and hear our experience, strength, and hope. If not, Healers are ready to lead the charge of awakening or enlightening those who aren’t.

As professionals, we have heard from every profession and the common threads are addiction and dissociation. We are all sick and suffering from the issues that addictions and dissociation cause so those who cannot see that addiction is transdiagnostic/pandiagnostic may need to review our dissociation and recovery-informed and research-based definitions (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2023b; O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c, O’Brien, 2024d). Our “modern” medical and psychological models of care have serious ethical (O’Brien, 2024d), moral (O’Brien, 2024a), and common sense/philosophical dilemmas (O’Brien, 2024b) to deal with. The case of psychedelics is a good one to highlight because people are using them for recreation and to support their mental health. There is no real difference between prescribed psych medications and psychedelics (O’Brien, 2023b), meditation and trauma reprocessing (O’Brien, 2023b), and different psychological professions (O’Brien, 2024b); therefore, professional equality is required by professional licensing boards. By labeling the “other” side as “other”, we define their relationship between the two, but our qualitative stance is that we are all one (O’Brien, 2024c).

The Psychedelic Problem and Solution

Since mental health is no longer due to a “chemical imbalances”, psychedelics will not be the panacea that most people are hoping and looking for – but, as they always do, people will come looking nonetheless and not get what they were expecting. Here lies a major concern of ours, therapy addiction or dependence (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2024b). Yes, professionals will perform what they can sell as “psychedelic therapy”, but what is really another ploy at the industrial complex’s way of giving the people what they want and charging them accordingly (e.g., start-up fees, taxes, jacked insurance premiums, and regulation fees). The separateness of professional services and the way that the West has culturally co-opted, appropriated, or is Westernizing these traditional and sacred medicines is a crime against humanity. The people who skinned the Buffalo are not the ones we want to side with. The ones who preserved and brought them back are the ones we want to align with. This is particularly true when there is a lack of standard definitions of the words they choose, as meaning is subjective to the development of the individual system. This hinders the ability to apply accurate meanings to those definitions, therefore, personal and professional societal awareness and disciplined critical thinking skills in the psychological professions is lacking.

Those who are qualified and allowed to perform training, provide education, prescribe, and profess psychology are the very same people who have no reason to create actual change in the system because they would not be on that side if they weren’t lacking in standard definitions and meanings. Also, educators cannot teach truth as it is, they can only guide you to it. Yet, those who teach do so knowing that there will be repercussions from some other ignorant professional. When psychology bases its worth on the latest technique, some “evidence-based” theoretical model, or decides what is “real”, they should reconsider their role. Psychology has become a rebranding of meditation or the repackaging of 12-step programs. From a qualitative or healing perspective, there is nothing else left for psychology to teach because they claim that people already have their answers. From a quantitative point of view, they are still counting the forest from the trees to try and get the right answer.

The fact is that psychedelics do not need any more regulation than aspirin (CBD), cigarettes (CBD), or alcohol (THC/LSD/DMT/Psilocybin) (O’Brien, 2023b). As a prescribed and recreational drug, alcohol (yes, alcohol is prescribed in the form of benzodiazepines, which is a depressant and not a “anti-anxiety” like they are sold) is really the only legal reasonable comparison. Anything else bureaucratically is a toll booth charging for something that citizens already pay taxes for like tolls. The reality is that we pay for their existence because our taxes fund their salaries, retirement, and health benefits. They work for you. You are their employer. This is the qualitative reality. The quantitative reality is calling the qualitative reality “fake”, “pseudo”, or “unreal”. As a reminder, we proved beyond a reasonable doubt that 1 + 1 can also equal 3 (O’Brien, 2024c).

When it comes to drugs being prescribed by unaware professionals and professions, what we need is moral-ethical reform because common sense has shifted in favor of Big Business, Big Research, Big Government, and the professional organizations who toe the line of insurance-based policies instead of research-based or best practices. How do you feel about insurance companies offering the reader ethical CE’s as a part of your credentialing contracting? The professional organizations who use their platform to secure their new job title instead of serving their profession are the type of hypocrisy we are naming. These organizations could be like unions, but can now be seen as corrupted by the same power and greed of perfectionism, altruism, and ambition addiction that plagues our profession, society, and culture (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). What moral professionals need is protection from the industrialized psychological professions and government who are thirsty for more profit over client care and is counter to healing. The irony is that because they did not philosophically diagnose correctly, other professions and professionals delayed psychedelic research out of fear and ignorance, they are missing key psychological terms like addiction/dissociation (O’Brien, 2023a), what the psychological unconscious is (O’Brien, 2024c), and what recovery or morality means.

To the point of this writing, being officially and legally trained in psychedelic work in 2021, our neighbors have called local authorities (regarding clinical practice), we have had insurance companies refuse and deny new policies and cancel existing legally and state-mandated employment workman’s comp (because they are not prepared to manage this, not because we are trained to do it), and we were personally turned in to our licensing board for working with psychedelics. We had a financial institution refuse to work with us because we are educating on psychedelics and cannabis. Lastly, we were turned in by another psychological professional (with a different psychological license) who felt that we were not qualified and putting client(s) in danger (remember, from the first line of this paragraph, we were officially and legally, professionally, and ethically trained in 2021).

Whether or not the reader believes that we can or should be able to do psychedelic work is not our concern now because we know it will depend on the reader’s opinion of which facts or science they choose to follow (O’Brien, 2024c). Our observation is that if they did not know that cannabis is a psychedelic (O’Brien, 2023b), maybe they shouldn’t be governing it. Therefore, Healers offer psychedelic care not therapy. However, our clinical experience is that most are not ready because they are misinformed due to professional moral delay, greed, ignorance, or arrogance (e.g., marketing D.A.R.E in high schools or “just say no”). As we have addressed this as well (O’Brien, 2024c). We will stand by our research, conclusions, and process, waiting for others to come to their own. Theirs will confirm ours in time because all roads lead to the same spiritual conclusion: we are all one and cannot be separated (O’Brien, 2024c).

What our qualitative research has done is stick to their “scientific facts” (O’Brien, 2023b; O’Brien, 2024c) and apply moral principles to the field of psychology (O’Brien, 2024d). We have addressed the professional scope of practice (O’Brien, 2024b), explored the moral and ethical imperative (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c; O’Brien, 2024d), and resolved the addiction debate (O’Brien, 2023a). Due to psychedelic research being delayed by other professions’ need to maintain their level of importance, prestige, and privilege, humanity has missed out on some key solutions that would have historically been nice to have earlier than when we did. For example, the endocannabinoid system was “discovered” in 2012, which its primary purpose is healing. Also, DMT stored in the pineal gland helps understanding near-death experiences and where “hallucinations” come from (O’Brien, 2023b).

Discussion

As a result of either their ignorance (or arrogance), somehow their professions thrive while minimum wage barely allows people to reach the national poverty level (after taxes). As taxes continue to increase without a match in cost of living adjustment (known as COLA), people are feeling the pinch. Rent is increasing, and debts are manipulated (bought and sold) to benefit those whose main job is to look after their investments.

We have shelled out thousands of dollars to the same professions (and professionals) to protect our work from them and other professions, professionals, and professional organization’s ignorance. These professions, run by professionals, have overstepped their role in society and are letting quantitative leanings justify their immoral actions against other professions. This is akin to treason in our moral playbook (O’Brien, 2024d). The only class of society who wanted things to stay the same during COVID were those who know this system is broken and that it is working out well for them. If we follow the money with the shutdown, a 4 trillion dollar transfer of wealth during the COVID occurred, which was illegal by their own standards. Definitely amoral by our moral recovery standards (O’Brien, 2024d).

Our qualitative research stands in direct contradiction to theirs because they do not have accurate definitions (O’Brien, 2024b), hence why they can justify sending someone to prison who has a disease. As we can appreciate other people’s opinion on trauma-informed psychedelic work, our dissociation and recovery-informed and healing-focused model is available for review. We highly doubt that they will honor our level of moral development because they do not believe that it could exist. For all of those who found their way during the “war on drugs” years, we salute you. The system’s level of moral development (O’Brien, 2024b) and stage of change (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2024b) is pretty obvious at this point and one that we see as clinically pathological. Their diagnosis? Addiction to Dissociation because the opposite of being ethical is being moral. Or another way to say this is that to be moral one has to be ethical; therefore, the difference between our ethics and morals are our actions. What motivates them? The value we place on our shared lived experience. Our (this writer) work experience has caused us to help establish a Healing educational program.

When professional credibility is lost (due to gross incompetence), common sense should prevail (O’Brien, 2024b). We have also shelled out thousands of dollars to buy therapeutic protocols for what amounts to mindfulness and spiritual practices (O’Brien, 2023b). From our assessment, psychedelics have no place in modern medicine or psychology because medicine has become industrialized and are a bargaining chip at the international poker game that are betting on resources. As a personification of a profession, medicine, psychology, and lawyers have a psychopathic history and are supported by other professions who profit more than they should. This is not a recipe for good things to come. And for all the altruism they advertise and call “Healthcare”, we can see an academic sales pitch that is killing the next generation’s choices due to consumption rates of natural resources.

What is lacking in their ethical codes is a moral clause that honors who they are really working for (e.g., tax payers, citizens) (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024d). To say the least, we are more than skeptical of a system that has barriers to moral justice and who equate laws with ethics (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). Instances like “non-addictive opiate”, no conclusive evidence that “cigarettes are addictive”, “mental health “issues” are due to “chemical imbalance”, experimental vaccines (that are not vaccines) for children who had no risk (and it was against governmental policy to shutdown), gain of function research, and “diagnostic privilege” (O’Brien, 2024) have demonstrated a level of awareness by these systems that is frightening and diagnosable. As corporations are people, they can be diseased too.

Whether or not it is ignorance or arrogance, what can only be seen as an active addiction from our point of view, we shall advocate with our evidence, science, and research for a more common sense approach to healing. Now, we (I, this writer) may decide to give/retire up my professional license for these reasons because we do not see them stopping at grasping for psychological dominance, political power, and social control (O’Brien, 2024b). To a level of common sense that most people could agree on, we see professional gatekeeping and profiteering as addictions themselves (O’Brien, 2023a), which is equivalent to a personality disorder in their lexicon of pathological truth.

Conclusion

Our observation is that perfectionism, altruism, ambition addictions are rampant in the field of psychology, medicine, and professional organizations (O’Brien, 2023a). What this suggests to us is that they, and as a byproduct of people who still believe in approved government news sources, are not ready for psychedelic care. Realistically, “The People” are more ready for them, but are conflicted with doing so because it risks their livelihood (not their lives). This is not healthy. The field of psychology has shown us that they are not aware enough, have caused more harm than good, and are psychologically impairing people’s abilities to be self-sufficient by not identifying or operationalizing a clinical definition for addiction. As a byproduct of the lack of a definition for addiction, professionals use this ignorance to maintain social control by manipulating the population into thinking that they are “crazy”, when the definition of “crazy” is really having unrealistic expectations and not knowing where they come from. However, that is not our problem but becomes our problem when professional organizations and the law equate ethics to morals and law and gatekeep research so much so that it becomes obvious that society is simply a professional pyramid scam.

Final Thoughts

At the end of the day, identifying as in recovery is different than living it. We once did a recovery assessment on someone who was applying for a position in an altruistic organization helping people in a foreign country. We respected their recovery and how they got it. For a system that could not define addiction or dissociation right, how can we expect them to get recovery or healing right? Unfortunately, they will have to do the work and here is the self-help solution that is suggested as a program of recovery. First, identify your addiction. Identify something that you cannot live without and are unhealthily attached or dependent on. Go to 90 meetings in 90 days and substitute that word for alcohol in the text. Do the rest of the program as suggested for the rest of your life. But before this happens, you have to apply for FMLA to go to a hospital detox program for 3-7 days (to “dry out”), then go to a 28-day program where you start your recovery. After that you go to an outpatient program for 3-6 months (depending on if you follow the self-help prescription above). If you are not successful there, you go to a higher level of care (long-term residential 1-2 years) until you are able to get and sustain your recovery using the previously mentioned self-help supports. If you don’t do this, you will probably die from it because anything you put in front of your recovery you will lose. Also, your best thinking got you here.

Summary

Before they can tell someone else that they are unethical or working beyond their “scope of practice”, actually walk a mile in their shoes. Calling someone unethical is to call them moral, as morals can only happen when one is being ethical. To answer the question, a Healer is what a recovering therapist is. But if readers have to ask, then they may never know. The real question is: what does a recovering therapist or Healer do? For that answer, stay tuned: woundedhealersinstitute.org/newsletter/

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