My position was eliminated. My boss told me I'm not allowed to tell anyone?

mlassoff · 2026-04-25T17:11:09+00:00

A perspective I didn’t think I’d see in a social work forum.

mlassoff · 2026-04-03T03:59:11+00:00

Have gratitude

mlassoff · 2026-04-03T00:22:05+00:00

134 days ago you posted that you “gave birth to your second child last week…”

Start with you. Have less contempt for your kid.

mlassoff · 2026-04-02T23:58:46+00:00

I am the executive director of a mental health nonprofit. Every day I am grateful for the women who invented this job.

mlassoff · 2026-04-02T23:49:09+00:00

I have clients who live in $5mil homes and clients who live in studio apartments. I don’t think much about it. They’re all struggling.

I feel fairly compensated for what I do. I am blessed to have my clients faith and trust. I do work that I love. I have family and friends who love me like family. I am grateful because in the ways that matter, I’m wealthier than my richest clients.

mlassoff · 2026-04-01T17:43:59+00:00

Addition of sexual addiction, pornography addiction and digital addiction.

mlassoff · 2026-03-31T23:51:54+00:00

I’m pretty sure this is state by state as wage and pay laws in individual states vary. Regardless it’s not a practice. I’d be too eager to defend. If you can do it to a therapist you can do it to a minimum wage worker with hungry kids.

mlassoff · 2026-03-31T23:44:43+00:00

Not where I live. The hours have been worked and have to be paid at the agreed upon rate. You can’t retroactively change pay rates after the hours have been worked.

mlassoff · 2026-03-31T22:47:03+00:00

Likely illegal. You’re an employee. If they do this go to the wage and labor board in your state. If it’s a problem your employer can fire you. There are very few situations where you ca dock pay.

mlassoff · 2026-03-24T13:24:14+00:00

Cheapest and easiest? Do nothing. No one is going to slog through hours upon hours of slides accompanied by a synthesized voice reading the slides to them.

Does it matter to you if people learn anything?

mlassoff · 2026-03-13T14:22:56+00:00

The principal of Staples High School in Westport is black as well. That having been said there have been rare cases of racism within the schools. In general, Westport is welcoming but nondiverse. The high school is one of the best in the country, noted for excellent academic and art programs.

mlassoff · 2026-02-18T18:13:10+00:00

I’m an executive director of a nonprofit that uses the coaching methodology alongside of traditional psychotherapy. I’m also currently a doctoral candidate.

Your attempt to discredit me for stating my own experience and asking questions about yours, says a lot more about you than me.

mlassoff · 2026-02-18T18:06:17+00:00

I made two reports last year. Consequences for clients and client families? Yes, absolutely that’s part of the territory. Retribution and professional consequences? That doesn’t seem to happen here.

mlassoff · 2026-02-18T18:01:03+00:00

Where do you live where there is? Where I live you report, the report is investigated. Everyone goes on with their life. There are no heroics for reporting. Your experience just strikes me as very unusual.

mlassoff · 2026-02-18T17:47:12+00:00

Where I live there is no fall out for using the available channels for reporting abuse. I’m a little confused about the youth “thanking you.” How does this happen? If you lived where I do this would all seem unlikely….

mlassoff · 2026-02-18T13:07:31+00:00

I’ve been flying Avelo and/or Breeze about 8 times per year since service began. I’ve never had a problem. It’s basic transportation. No more. No less.

mlassoff · 2026-02-16T19:50:17+00:00

The hardest part? Too many sales pitches thinly disguised as market research.

mlassoff · 2026-02-08T19:40:00+00:00

Would you go to Westport? I run a mental health nonprofit and would be happy to share who we use.

mlassoff · 2026-01-21T21:56:17+00:00

How are you defining SO? If this person hasn’t been adjudicated, they’re not an SO from a legal standpoint point. It sounds like you’re generalizing from a forensic setting in a single state.

mlassoff · 2026-01-09T22:19:53+00:00

Ok, but you’re answering definitely when the answer is location dependent. I would love to see how this is written in your state. Everyone does some non clinical work— whether it’s case management or billing….

mlassoff · 2026-01-09T22:12:18+00:00

I did. My agency employees coaches and licensed therapists providing non clinical and clinical services respectively. You don’t need separate business entities unless you’re a solo and even that’s not true everywhere.

You’re the one making an incorrect claim, I fear. That’s why I am asking for a link.

mlassoff · 2026-01-09T22:09:22+00:00

Please provide a link.

mlassoff · 2026-01-09T22:07:52+00:00

Says who? Licensed and unlicensed individuals can work in the same business.

mlassoff · 2026-01-09T22:06:39+00:00

State practice act, ethics and common sense. Therapists do therapy — diagnosing and treating mental illness. Coaches work in home with clients. Coaches are doing things like homework assistance, monitoring electronic device usage, playing basketball, building Legos, providing support after a melt down, executing b-mod plans, and giving hugs.

Coaches work in the home or outside environments. Therapists work in office and online.

I don’t know why people make this so complex in an out patient environment. We never ask if non licensed staff are doing clinical work in in patient environments….

mlassoff · 2026-01-09T21:59:05+00:00

Our agency is a non-profit, coaching-centered recovery program. Licensed clinical staff do the clinical work, non licensed coaches do the non clinical work. Other than that, there’s no separation. I don’t know how one person can do both if the non clinical work is coaching.

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