In this segment, Kristin Walker and I discuss the many risks and dangers inherent in seeking mental health or relationship help from unqualified, untrained, uneducated, and inexperienced individuals, many of whom have risen to fame thanks to YouTube. We also discuss how and why coaches are a valuable resource, but not for one’s significant mental health challenges. Although most life coaches are an exceptional resource for help, as I have sent many of my clients to them, their training and abilities are nothing like that of licensed psychotherapists.
The video invites people to judge psychotherapist incompetence, as much as any other helping profession. My wife’s life was changed because of the help of a life coach, Chuck Silverstein. I believe it is a HUGE PROBLEM that so few psychotherapists do not know about pathological narcissism, codependency, and the resolution of what I call Self-Love Deficit Disorder.
Kristin Walker is the host of Mental Health News Radio.
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