Even in New York, Licensed Mental Health Counselors Cannot Treat a Minor Without Parent Consent
But school counselors and psychologists can...See a pattern yet?
Mary Margaret Olohan at the Daily Signal reports:
A New York school district socially transitioned a girl without her mother’s consent, repeatedly lying to the mother about the child’s mental health and social struggles, according to a new lawsuit.
I knew, even before opening the link to the complaint, what I would find. And sure enough, a school counselor and school psychologist were involved.
Mrs. Vitasaxaki knew something was wrong with her daughter - a native of Greece and an English language learner struggling to make friends and adjust to her new life in America just as she was entering those tumultuous years of puberty. But school officials reassured her - nope, nothing wrong, nothing to worry about.
But it was a ruse, a smokescreen. A lie.
Like schools across the country, Skaneateles Central School District employ counselors and psychologists. Go their website and you’ll see, probably just like your children’s district, resources for “student support services” with links to seemingly innocuous “guidance counselor” tips on SATs and college applications. Or links to a school psychologist video on the dangers of vaping.
But that’s not all they do at Skaneateles. At Skaneateles “student support services” apparently include counseling, therapy, and even, as they deem needed, psychosocial interventions to foster and promote a child they have identified as potentially benefiting from cross-gender transitioning. All for free. Parents don’t even have to ask for it.
As Mrs. Vitsaxaki would learn, in America things really are different. After repeatedly assuring her nothing was wrong with her daughter, the school counselor and psychologist began regular, secret counseling sessions with the child, and instructed district employees to keep it secret:
Eventually a district employee with a pang of conscience informed Mrs. Vitsaxaki that, sadly, government employees in the US can lie to you.
So I looked up the certification and licensing regime in New York with respect to school counselors vs licensed counselors. And like just about every other state, NY state certifies school counselors to work with children in schools, but for any one else outside of schools - they’ll need a professional license to call themselves a mental health counselor.
And there are rules of professional conduct applicable to licensed providers, but not the ones at your school, counseling your children:
Including this one that requires a legal representative of a minor to authorize professional services. Rule 29.1(11) on Unprofessional Conduct:
The pattern is so routine now, so predicable that you’d think there was a grand master plan somewhere transmitting instructions to these schools: identify, transition and conceal!
And you’d be right.
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