Sacramento, CA2023
California AB 665 testimony
Testifying in Sacramento against AB 665, which would have removed key safeguards for minors seeking residential shelter and mental-health services.
Watch / read coverage →On the record
Testimony & Advocacy.
Ethical care is not only a clinical issue. When legislation threatens to redefine good practice, clinicians and parents have to show up in the room where decisions are made.
Legislative appearances
Speaking for families and ethical practice.
Four legislative appearances. Each card links to the verified Substack write-up and opens in a new tab.
Kansas
Kansas testimony
Testifying to protect Kansas children and preserve ethical, exploratory mental-health care for families.
Watch / read coverage →Delaware
Delaware testimony
Testimony to protect Delaware patients and parents from rushed medicalization and the exclusion of families from care.
Watch / read coverage →Multiple states
Testimony on therapist liability / "conversion therapy" claims
Confronting conversion-therapy claims and the liability threats used to silence clinicians who practice careful, assessment-first care.
Watch / read coverage →Why this matters
Policy shapes practice.
The same parents who come to me confused and frightened are the ones most affected by bills that rush assessment, redefine acceptable care, or treat exploratory therapy as suspect.
When I testify, I am not there as an activist. I am there as a clinician with 25 years of experience, asking lawmakers to write policy that matches reality, not ideology.
Press & booking
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