Why I Can’t Stay Quiet Anymore: What Our Mental Health System Isn’t Ready to Face

You were trained to be ethical. To follow the rules. To keep yourself out of the spotlight and let the system guide the way.

But what happens when the system itself is no longer fit for purpose?

In this milestone episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on a truth I’ve been sitting with for a long time — and the reckoning that finally made me say, “I can’t keep pretending this is working.” This isn’t a celebration. It’s a confession. A call to those of us who’ve felt the discomfort of playing small while the field we love becomes harder to recognize.

You’ll hear the story behind my 2016 keynote that went silent, the inner war between staying beloved and speaking what’s true, and the unignorable patterns I’ve witnessed after mentoring hundreds of therapists trying to do business ethically — but innovatively — in a profession that resists both.

If you've ever wondered:

• Is it just me, or is the system actually broken?
• Why does it feel like there’s no room for nuance or newness anymore?
• Can I still be a therapist if I want to burn the rulebook?

…this one’s for you.

In this episode, I discuss:

• The therapist identity crisis: why staying safe often means staying silent
• How outdated ethical codes are strangling innovation and visibility
• The story of a therapist being investigated for a Mental Health Week post — and why it’s not an outlier
• What happened after my 2016 keynote — and why I buried the leadership part of me for years
• The psychic split between scaling a beloved brand and stepping into disruptive truth
• Why the future of mental health is being built outside our profession — and why that terrifies me
• The real patterns I can’t unsee anymore: watered-down offers, clinician burnout, unethical wellness gurus going unchecked
• A soft reveal of the Mental Health 3.0 Compass — not a product, but a new lens to see what’s next
• A call to those who feel “too much to be seen, but too big to stay small”

If you’ve ever felt like you’re breaking some invisible contract just by wanting more — more impact, more honesty, more space to grow — this is the episode that will name what you’ve been carrying.

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Keywords: therapist business evolution, mental health system broken, fear of visibility therapy, ethical marketing for therapists, scaling therapy business, therapist identity crisis, therapy innovation, Mental Health 3.0, therapy ethics vs visibility, burnout in private practice, alternative therapist business models