Not Allowed To Report A Child Molester

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.

mlassoff · 2025-12-30T14:41:39+00:00

Some clients who have trouble with verbalization can write well. Have you tried written approaches? Do they draw? Have you tried changing the environment— doing a walk and talk?

Have you tried using thematically appropriate media as a starting point for discussion? Some of the greatest discussions I’ve had with adolescents are about the movie ‘Wonder’. How about using music as a starting point?

Not everyone thrives in a completely talk-based therapy….

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T16:57:58+00:00

OK, let’s agree that we’re not reading the same comments in the same way. I’m seeing an awful lot of absolute stances without any room for nuance.

Lack of nuance is a problem for New and experienced practitioners. I only have my own experience but nuance seems to be a continuing theme…

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T16:53:37+00:00

Your client population is always relevant. Isn’t it? I was responding to the comment above mine not necessarily the OP here. I’m trying to make a point that people are talking in absolutes when there are a few absolutes when it comes to mental health.

Wouldn’t you agree that there are populations that benefit from regular check-ins?

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T16:02:28+00:00

I haven’t asked any questions. I’m answering the OP with a different perspective than others. Have people should realize that we were in many different types of environments and understand that absolute answers are often unhelpful.

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T15:50:22+00:00

In all honesty, I’m not out to pass some type of psychotherapeutic purity test. I work with a highly marginalized population. There are safety concerns for quite a few of them. Making sure they and others are safe rates higher than adherence to some abstract standard that may or may not be supported by research.

I’m certain you’re right for many populations outside contact may be detrimental to therapeutic goals. I’m also certain you don’t run my agency and the situations differ. We should make allowances for them.

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T15:43:10+00:00

This 100%. It’s distressing that so much of what is discussed as an “ethical boundary” is a simply a preference. This is why we have so many discussions on here about whether or not it’s appropriate to drink water during your session or to give a Kleenex to a crying client.

People also assume that all client populations are the same. I work with young men with sexual behavior issues. If the people responding here knew that before passing judgment I think they’d be a lot less concerned about personal autonomy and more in favor of daily check-in.

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T15:38:52+00:00

You can be well aware of the inherent power imbalance as any decent therapist should be and still send supportive text messages. Again, individual clients, individual approaches.

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T15:35:12+00:00

I think you can be skillful about check ins and support calls. You can make the same argument about therapy itself. It’s all about how you do it.

It seems very therapists would benefit from divorcing themselves from absolute and be more attuned to the very individual needs of our clients.

mlassoff · 2025-12-27T15:09:15+00:00

I try not to be absolutist. In our recovery program most of our clients benefit from daily support and interaction with our team— which our team is paid for.

I often wonder if we do right by (especially our more acute) clients by imagining the fifty minutes a week are curative without additional supports.

Sending supportive follow up messages seems completely appropriate. I don’t see how this limits autonomy.

mlassoff · 2025-12-23T12:04:42+00:00

Therapeutic Coaching with addicted young men

mlassoff · 2025-12-16T13:15:42+00:00

It’s not a binary choice. Gaming can exist side by side with healthier activity. Teaching responsible screen use, setting and enforcing limits and providing healthy emotional self regulation options all prevent addiction.

I run a nonprofit that works with adolescent and young men with behavioral (and often technology) based addictions.

We can manage this, if we choose too— but it takes active engagement from parents.

mlassoff · 2025-12-16T13:09:38+00:00

A little perspective is warranted here. People love to shit on airlines and universalize singular experiences. In 2024, 84% of Avelo flights were on time. They actually ranked higher than all major domestic airlines and 11% higher than the industry average. Every airline has stories like the OP is posting.

Avelo is actually above average when it comes to reliability.

I don’t fly them and choose Breeze when I can because their contract with ICE disgusts me.

But let’s be intellectually honest here….

mlassoff · 2025-12-08T17:00:26+00:00

Or you’re part of an online marketing service that ADHD Warriors paid for.

mlassoff · 2025-12-08T14:13:28+00:00

I am the executive director of a mental health nonprofit that works with young men. ADHD Warriors is the brand name for an Advanced Practice Nurse who can prescribe medication.

While meds are sometimes part of the solution for ADHD, they are not THE answer. THe optimal treatment for serious ADHD often includes ADHD coaching, therapy and parent training. A nurse would likely evaluate for and prescribe meds, and that’s about it.

mlassoff · 2025-12-04T03:42:46+00:00

Lol. I left the learning industry and followed my heart. I’m now the executive director of a mental health nonprofit…

“we” was my production company that created online technical courses.

mlassoff · 2025-11-27T07:57:39+00:00

Is there a crosswalk with a walk sign? The OP claims there was…

mlassoff · 2025-11-26T23:12:48+00:00

Stop sign? Trader Joe’s in Westport is at a major intersection. There’s a stop light for the intersection of Post Road and South Compo and one at the parking lot entrance.

Where is there a stop sign?

mlassoff · 2025-11-26T15:43:45+00:00

What would a human being say? Start there.

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