The Black Sheep Therapist: Unconventional Practices in Mental Health

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03/14/2026

Textbook energy gets real loud when it’s based on opinions instead of statutes.

There’s a big difference between
“That feels uncomfortable to me”
and
“That violates board regulations.”

One is preference.
One is policy.

When you’ve actually read your state licensing language, understand scope of practice, and can anchor your work in theory…

The fear tactics lose their power.

Unconventional doesn’t scare me.
Misinterpretation of ethics does.

If you’re tired of confusing other people’s discomfort with actual ethics…

The Black Sheep Therapists® community is where we break down real board language, real scope, and real integration.

Drop BLACKSHEEP and I’ll send you the link.





Being an unconventional therapist can feel lonely sometimes.You’re integrating approaches your grad program never talked...
03/14/2026

Being an unconventional therapist can feel lonely sometimes.

You’re integrating approaches your grad program never talked about.
You’re navigating the gray areas of scope, ethics, and documentation.
You’re holding space for clients using things like symbolism, breath work, astrology, or ritual in ways that actually help people process and heal.

But finding colleagues who understand that kind of work isn’t always easy.

That’s why I created the Black Sheep Therapist® Support & Consultation Circle.

It’s a monthly space where integrative and unconventional therapists can talk honestly about the work we’re doing, the questions, the challenges, the wins that don’t always make sense to other clinicians.

What this space is:

✨ Peer support
✨ Community conversation
✨ A place to explore practicing in an ethical way

What it’s not:

• Not supervision
• Not recorded
• Not a place where you have to defend your approach

Details:
📅 Thursday, March 19, 2026
⏰ 11 AM ET
📍 Zoom
⏱ About 60 minutes
💸 Free

If you’ve been looking for a space where you don’t have to translate your work for other therapists…

Comment WORKSHOP and I’ll send you the details.


03/13/2026

Being told unconventional modalities are automatically unethical is lazy.

Astrology? Yoga? Ritual? Breath work? Symbolism?

Unethical?

Or just misunderstood.

Integrative therapists who understand clinical theory and scope of practice don’t panic when someone says “That’s not evidence-based.”

We ask:
Can you explain the why?
Can you connect it to theory?
Can you document it the ethical way?

Ethics is not about conformity.
It’s about clarity, competence, and language.

Most unconventional clinicians aren’t reckless.
They were just never taught how to translate their work into defensible clinical language.

If you’re tired of second-guessing your integrative therapy niche every time someone throws around the word “unethical”…

Comment FREEDOM.

I’ll send you the link to book your 45-minute IPA Strategy Call where we:

• Clarify your actual scope of practice
• Strengthen your clinical framework
• Build language for documentation and informed consent
• Align your unconventional modalities with evidence-based practice

You don’t need to shrink.
You need structure.

03/12/2026

Yall be catching my free Facebook trainings? No? Come through and join the group!

Comment BLACKSHEEP I’ll send you a link to the group

Most therapists don’t burn out because of clients.They burn out because they feel like they don’t belong in their own pr...
03/12/2026

Most therapists don’t burn out because of clients.

They burn out because they feel like they don’t belong in their own profession.

A lot of integrative and unconventional therapists are quietly holding parts of themselves back. The astrology they study. The breath work they love. The rituals, symbolism, or meaning-making that actually helps their clients process things deeply.

Not because those tools are wrong.

Because they’ve never been shown how those things can exist inside therapy in an ethical way.

One thing I’ve learned working with therapists in this space:
When you finally find a community that understands your clinical work and your unconventional lens, everything shifts.

You stop feeling like the “weird one” in the room.
You start building real language for your approach.
And suddenly your practice feels aligned again.

Seeing therapists reconnect with their work after licensure exams, burnout, or feeling isolated in the field is exactly why I do what I do.

If you’re an integrative therapist who wants more clarity around your scope, clinical framework, and documentation…

Comment FREEDOM and I’ll send you the link to book your 45-minute IPA Strategy Call where we’ll:

• Clarify your actual scope of practice
• Strengthen your clinical framework
• Build language for documentation and informed consent
• Align your unconventional modalities with evidence-based practice





Quick reminder because we’re going live in just a few hours.A lot of therapists are trying to interpret their state boar...
03/12/2026

Quick reminder because we’re going live in just a few hours.

A lot of therapists are trying to interpret their state board laws without any real system. So we end up scrolling statutes, asking colleagues, or piecing together advice from the internet.

That uncertainty gets even louder for integrative therapists working with things like yoga, breath work, symbolism, ritual, or meaning-making in session.

So today we’re breaking it down.

Stop Guessing: The Master Checklist for Reviewing Your State Board

📅 Today — March 12
⏰ 11:00 AM ET
⏱ About 60 minutes
📍 Live inside the Black Sheep Therapist Facebook Group

We’ll walk through a structured way to review scope, ethics language, and informed consent so you can interpret your laws in an ethical way without spiraling.

How to join:
Open the Facebook group shortly before 11 AM ET and the livestream will appear at the top of the feed.

Can’t attend live?

The replay will be saved in the Guides section of the group for 30 days.

Comment BLACKSHEEP and I’ll send you the group link.





03/12/2026

Anyone else with a wild AF message from their professor?

Drop in the comments!

A lot of therapists are quietly trying to decode their state board laws on their own.Scrolling statutes.Reading random o...
03/11/2026

A lot of therapists are quietly trying to decode their state board laws on their own.

Scrolling statutes.
Reading random opinions online.
Hoping they’re interpreting things correctly.

It’s stressful, especially if your work includes practices like yoga, breath work, symbolism, or meaning-making alongside traditional therapy.

Tomorrow we’re fixing that.

I’m hosting a live 60-minute training:

Stop Guessing: The Master Checklist for Reviewing Your State Board

🗓 March 12
⏰ 11:00 AM ET
📍 Live inside the Black Sheep Therapist Facebook Group

We’ll walk through a practical system for reviewing scope, ethics rules, and informed consent in an ethical way using the actual sources that govern your license.

How to join:
• Join the Facebook group
• Open the group at 11 AM ET
• The livestream will appear at the top of the feed

Can’t attend live?

The replay will be saved in the Guides section of the group for 30 days.

Comment BLACKSHEEP and I’ll send you the link.





03/11/2026

I’ve had this conversation 1000x too!
No shame it’s a system failure. But this is the real breakdown… theory vs. modalities vs. interventions

* before you come for my neck. Depending on the type of breath work/guided imagery… sometimes these can be a modality as well

🌈 the more you know

03/11/2026

My response when people attack me online for teaching therapists how to ethically integrate spiritual and energy-based modalities in therapy:

Because apparently helping clinicians understand scope of practice, informed consent, and clinical theory is controversial now.

Here’s what’s funny though…

The same people yelling “unethical” are usually reacting to ideas, not actual ethical standards or licensing laws.

Ethical integration isn’t about abandoning clinical work.
It’s about understanding why you’re doing what you’re doing, being transparent with clients, and practicing within a defensible framework.

You don’t have to agree with me.
But therapists deserve education rooted in clarity instead of fear.

And I’m not getting quieter about that anytime soon.

🐑

If you’re an unconventional therapist ready to stop shrinking in private practice…

Comment BLACKSHEEP and join Black Sheep Therapists®: Embracing Unconventional Practices in Mental Health.





03/11/2026

This got me fired up today!

When did I become such a nerd 🤓

03/10/2026

Relying on a downloadable informed consent to protect your business is like bringing a screenshot to a legal battle and hoping for the best.

I know the industry told you that grabbing a template, filling in the blanks, and calling it a day was enough.

It’s not.

Your informed consent is not just paperwork.
It’s your clinical reasoning.
It’s your scope of practice.
It’s your transparency with clients.
And most importantly, it’s the document that explains why you do what you do if your work is ever questioned.

Most therapists aren’t doing anything wrong.
They’re just operating with documents that were never built for integrative, evolving, real-world practices.

You deserve to practice freely and professionally protected.

Inside the Innovative Practitioner Accelerator (IPA), we help you build informed consent and clinical frameworks that actually reflect your work, your modalities, and your theoretical justification so you’re not practicing from fear.

If you’re ready to stop guessing and start practicing with clarity and confidence…

👇 Comment FREEDOM and my team will send you the link to book a free strategy call with us.

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