DATE: May 20, 2025 at 08:58AM
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Most patients regress after a short term therapy is finished. But with therapy of depth and duration, people continue to improve for many years after the therapy is over.
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DATE: May 20, 2025 at 08:58AM
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We believe in treatment that gets beneath the surface. That helps people understand themselves, not just manage symptoms. We believe in therapy of depth, insight, and relationship, which research repeatedly shows tends to stick longer than briefer and simpler treatments.
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DATE: May 20, 2025 at 08:58AM
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We believe therapy should be more than a checklist or a 6-session treatment plan. It should be meaningful, flexible, relational—and rooted in the complexity of real people’s lives. https://t.co/RDRck7zCzp
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DATE: May 19, 2025 at 09:03AM
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Brief & manualized therapies are designed to show the patient where the clinician assumes they need to go. Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship are structured so that the clinician and patient—together—follow each other & inevitably and regularly surprise each other.
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DATE: May 18, 2025 at 10:41AM
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When therapy starts to follow corporate logic, something vital is lost.
In TAP Magazine, co-founder Linda Michaels dives into how corporate frameworks are invading the consulting room and reshaping mental health care.
#Psychotherapy #MentalHealth https://t.co/VQFN6yAXfN
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DATE: May 17, 2025 at 10:34AM
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The Trump administration suspends enforcement of the 2024 mental health parity rule signaling a retreat from its responsibility to legally protect mental health parity.
#MentalHealthParity #HealthcareAccess
#HealthcareEquity
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DATE: May 17, 2025 at 12:48AM
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TITLE: Policy Alert: Trump Administration Suspends Enforcement of 2024 Federal Parity Rule
Statement from the PsiAN Policy Committee: Trump Administration Suspends Enforcement of 2024 Federal Parity Rule
On May 12, 2025, the Trump Administration filed a motion to pause litigation over the 2024 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) final rule and announced plans to issue a non-enforcement policy. This move effectively halts federal enforcement of the most comprehensive mental health parity regulation, creating serious concerns about access to care and accountability in private insurance.
The 2024 MHPAEA final rule issued under the Biden Administration in September 2024, for which PsiAN submitted comments, was designed to enforce parity by requiring health plans to demonstrate compliance, particularly around non-quantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs) such as prior authorization, reimbursement rates, and network adequacy. This rule represented a long-overdue step toward correcting the insurance practices that undermine patient care every day. The identification of low reimbursement rates as a potential parity violation was particularly significant, given the impact such rates have had on creating inadequate behavioral health networks and limiting access to needed services.
In January 2025, the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), a trade group representing large employers, sued to block the rule, arguing that it imposed undue burdens and exceeded federal authority. Rather than defend the rule in court, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury requested that the case be held in abeyance while they reconsider its future. They also informed the court and the plaintiff of their intention to issue a policy of non-enforcement for provisions scheduled to take effect in 2025 and 2026.
This is a deeply troubling development. By pausing enforcement and potentially revising or rescinding the rule, the federal government is signaling a retreat from its responsibility to legally protect mental health parity. What this means is that the 2024 rule is now unenforceable, and the regulatory clarity it aimed to offer clinicians and patients is disappearing.
To be clear: this rollback does not repeal the 2008 act itself. The bipartisan Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 remains in force and must continue to be upheld. Likewise, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which expanded federal parity enforcement, still carries the weight of law. What is being undermined is not the law but the federal government’s willingness to enforce it through the regulatory tools designed to make parity real in practice.
At a time when our country is navigating a mental health crisis, this is the worst possible moment to delay federal enforcement. Clinicians understand that parity is essential not only to comply with the law but also to provide equitable, patient-centered care. The Trump Administration’s decision undermines years of bipartisan work to hold insurers accountable and threatens the infrastructure of mental health care delivery.
PsiAN will monitor and respond by:
•Launching an Insurance Issue Tracker: The PsiAN Policy Team will be launching an Insurance Issue Tracker soon where clinicians can report insurance-related problems and potential parity violations.
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•Collaborating with Advocacy Organizations: PsiAN will work closely with other mental health organizations to amplify advocacy efforts and ensure that the voices of those affected are heard.
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•Engaging with Policymakers: PsiAN will actively engage with federal and state policymakers to advocate for the reinstatement and enforcement of robust parity regulations.
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Clinicians and advocates can respond by:
•Documenting and reporting violations: Keep detailed records of denials, network inadequacies, and other barriers. Use your state’s insurance complaint process to flag patterns of non-compliance.
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•Pushing for state-level activity: Engage state lawmakers and regulators to enact laws and implement regulations that improve access to care in the spirit of the original federal legislation. Many states have their own parity laws, some stronger than federal standards, and some mandating coverage without the ambiguity associated with “parity” to medical/surgical care.
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•Staying visible and vocal in federal advocacy: Prepare to submit public comments when rulemaking reopens and share real-world stories highlighting the harm caused by weak enforcement.
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The PsiAN Policy Committee will continue to monitor this situation closely and advocate for strong, transparent, and enforceable parity protections. We stand with clinicians and patients demanding equity in mental health care.
Sincerely,
The PsiAN Policy Committee
Lisa M. Lipscomb, PhD - PsiAN Policy Team LeaderLinda Michaels, PsyD, MBA - PsiAN Co-FounderD. Brian Hufford, JD - PsiAN Board Member, Chair of Policy CommitteeJoe Feldman - Founder and President, Cover My Mental HealthJulie Selesnick, JDLaurel Spindel, LCSW
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DATE: May 16, 2025 at 07:53AM
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Brief & manualized therapies are designed to show the patient where the clinician assumes they need to go.
Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship are structured so that the clinician and patient--together-- follow each other & inevitably and regularly surprise each other.
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DATE: May 15, 2025 at 05:00AM
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TITLE: Corporations in the Consulting Room
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The American Psychoanalyst (TAP) published an article in its 2025 Spring issue called “Corporations in the Consulting Room: What do we stand for, and what stands in our way?” written by Linda Michaels (PsiAN Chair and Co-founder).
From the insurance industry, to venture capital and private equity, to the educational system training therapists, and the fragmentation in our field, there are many ways in which the world we do is threatened.
Linda outlines the forces and factors—from within and outside our field—shaping the mental health landscape. These forces influence the public, therapists, insurers, and policymakers alike. Misunderstandings about the efficacy and “gold standard” treatments are common, and new technology applications and venture capital companies are redefining what therapy is, and doing it at scale.
Linda’s latest article in TAP addresses these factors and identifies what relational and depth therapists can do to protect and advance their work.
Read the Article in TAP
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DATE: May 14, 2025 at 08:55AM
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It’s time we demand better for our clients, and for ourselves. #TherapyThatSticks #MentalHealthAwareness #TherapistTwitter
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DATE: May 14, 2025 at 08:55AM
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These aren’t personal failures. They’re structural. And if we want better outcomes, we have to start talking about what’s actually getting in the way of good therapy. Therapists need to be freed up to do actual therapy. Patients need to be able to freely and easily access it.
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DATE: May 14, 2025 at 08:55AM
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Many providers are burned out, boxed in by productivity quotas and EMRs that track compliance more than healing while insurers find reasons not to reimburse sessions. It’s no wonder so many clinicians are leaving the field or going out-of-network just to do the work ethically.
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DATE: May 14, 2025 at 08:55AM
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It can be demoralizing to work in a system that often prioritizes quick fixes over depth, symptom checklists over stories, and cost control over care. People deserve better than a system that serves insurance companies and tech company executives.
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DATE: May 14, 2025 at 08:55AM
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Mental health care in the U.S. is simply not structured for most people. As therapists, we know the frustration of watching clients get denied coverage or forced into cookie-cutter treatment plans by insurance companies. https://t.co/jyWnvKjnpf
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DATE: May 12, 2025 at 10:43AM
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PsiAN knows that there are multiple types of treatments that work, that many problems are complex – often generations in the making – and that treatment that is useful in the long term can take time.
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DATE: May 12, 2025 at 10:43AM
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If you share these beliefs, check out our organization and volunteer, donate, or join!
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