What is Old School Counseling?

Old School Counseling is a term I am using to contrast what I do with what most modern psychotherapists do. It is a way of thinking and working that understands there is growing deviance, dysfunction, and disorder in the world and provides compassionate treatment for people thus suffering from those problems.

Old School Counseling is a rejection of the bio-psychiatry take-over of our field that has produced the polypharmaceutical American. It is a critique of postmodernism and moral relativism that tell us there is no truth and no God. It is a rejection of gender feminism, queer theory, and critical race theory, which are each based on lies about human nature. It has a preference for what I refer to as “traditional understandings”.

Traditional understandings of human functioning that are based on natural laws, science, and common sense have endured centuries because they are true. Adhering to natural laws and traditional understandings are good for people. Being in alignment with true things and nature tends to make people healthy and happy. Thus, psychotherapists should base their diagnoses and their interventions on what is true and real, not on the faddish wish lists of cultural anarchists who are hell-bent on deconstructing everything normal about traditional societies in order to create their faux egalitarian utopias.

In brief, we are caring and thoughtful psychotherapy professionals who love all people, AND

• We do not believe "whiteness" is an illness. We like it.

• While we recognize the existence of racism, we believe differential social outcomes are largely the result of human bio-diversity, not discrimination.

• We remediate white guilt neurosis.

• We believe ethnic pride for all peoples is a normal attitude.

• We do not believe masculinity is toxic.

• We do not discriminate against white men in psychotherapy.

• We believe men and women are biologically different.

• We believe men and woman have different types of power.

• We promote healthy femininity and healthy masculinity.

• We promote heteronormativity.

• We promote heterosexual marriage as the healthy ideal in western countries.

• We do not believe all family forms are healthy. Some are dysfunctional.

• We believe people can adopt cosmetic or surgically altered gender expressions, but sex identification is a binary/biological permanent reality.

• We believe there are miniscule numbers of intersex or sex-discordant people in the natural world. Most people recover from transient Gender Dysphoria.

• We believe human sexuality deserves thoughtful care that is unencumbered by socio-political contamination.

• We believe sexual orientation is fluid for some people.

• We do not practice conversion therapy.

• We practice watchful waiting, compassionate companioning, family therapy, and care of comorbidities for gender orientation/questioning/dysphoric individuals. We believe other medical or psychological treatments may be harmful.

• We do not believe all sexual expressions and sexual behaviors are healthy.

• We promote sexual behaviors that lead to healthy communities.

• We believe in justice, not social justice.

• We believe good psychotherapy builds rather than destroys civilizations.

Old School Counseling ignores most everything we have been taught for several decades and brings us back to common sense.

We support:

• Applying critical thinking rather than political correctness or social justice in our work.

• Fostering the capacity for self-control, psychological differentiation, personal agency, interdependence, interpersonal wisdom, and respect for authority.

• Teaching people how to be happy, loving, productive, and wise.

• Advocating the strengthening of marriages, families, and civic institutions, as the essential ingredients for healthy communities.

• Advocating the creation and maintenance of high-trust communities in which good mental health and community participation can flourish.

• Advocating what works, based on state-of-the-art research rather than conventional wisdom.

• Systems reform that frees helpers to be maximally effective.

• Fostering personal responsibility, neighborliness, and thrift as core communitarian competencies.​

• Honoring the positive power of the spiritual mystery of the helping relationship.

Old School Counselors get great results and help to build healthy communities.