The Black Sheep Therapist: Unconventional Practices in Mental Health

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09/16/2026

Ask one question about unconventional therapy practices in a therapist Facebook group and suddenly everybody has a doctorate in ethics. 😂

The comment section will humble you QUICK.

Black Sheep Therapists know exactly what I’m talking about.

09/15/2026

Some of y’all are letting VERY confident people make decisions about work they’ve never actually studied.

They haven’t trained in the modality, examined the integration question, or reviewed the theory, consent, or documentation.

But somehow the verdict is:

“Absolutely not.”

Based on... vibes?

Before you change your entire integrative practice, ask what the recommendation is actually based on.

Which ethical standard? Which scope concern? Is the issue competence, consent, documentation, or the modality itself?

Those are clinical questions.

“I personally wouldn’t do that” is an opinion.

Unconventional therapists, comment 35 and I’ll send you The Black Sheep Training Vault with trainings on scope, documentation, clinical language, and ethical integration.

09/15/2026

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09/14/2026

I wanted a therapist community where you could ask:

Okay…but WHY is that unethical?

And instead of everyone clutching their pearls, we actually look at the question.

What does the ethics code say?

What does your scope say?

What does the research say?

What are the competency considerations?

What does this look like clinically?

And where are we dealing with an actual professional requirement versus something that has simply been repeated in our field for a very long time?

Because I don’t want a community where everybody agrees with me.

I want one where we can be curious before we’re certain.

Where you can bring up spirituality, energy work, intuition, unconventional interventions, clinical theory, ethics, scope, informed consent and all the complicated s**t that happens when those worlds collide.

And then actually THINK together.

That’s why inside The Black Sheep Therapist® Community, we don't just have a Facebook-group-style feed where people throw opinions at each other.

We meet live every week.

We train. We have conversations. We unpack the gray areas. We learn from each other. And we build a community of therapists who take their work incredibly seriously without needing to take themselves seriously all the damn time.

You don’t have to agree with everything.

You do have to be willing to get curious.

Comment COMMUNITY and I’ll send you the details. 🖤

09/13/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions I see in our field is that evidence-based practice means choosing from a list of “approved” modalities.

It doesn’t.

Evidence-based practice asks us to consider the research, our clinical expertise, AND the values and preferences of the client.

But I want to add something to what I’m saying in this clip:

Taking a training does not automatically make you competent.

We don’t collect trainings just to tick a box and say, “Cool, I’m trained in this now.”

Competency also means being able to demonstrate that you understand **how to apply what you learned at the level you’re bringing it into clinical practice.

There’s a difference between learning about an approach.

Using pieces of it as an intervention.

And representing yourself as practicing an entire modality.

Those distinctions matter.

Especially when we’re talking about unconventional, complementary, spiritual, or energy-based practices that weren’t exactly covered in Ethics 101.

This is the s**t I want therapists thinking more critically about—not just “Am I allowed to do this?” but:

What supports this clinically? Am I competent to use it this way? Can I explain my rationale? And does my client understand and consent to what we’re actually doing?

If you want to nerd out on this with me, I put together 35 trainings for $35—35 HOURS of education on topics like this designed for therapists who want to think deeper about ethics, clinical practice, integration, and doing things a little differently without throwing professional responsibility out the window.

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09/13/2026

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09/12/2026

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You can have 15 trainings, a shelf full of books, and a whole toolbox of modalities…

…and still struggle to answer one deceptively simple question:

Why do you practice the way you practice?

Not what you do.

WHY it makes sense clinically.

If you’re integrating Reiki, energy work, oracle cards, astrology, past life regression, somatic practices, spirituality, ritual, or other unconventional approaches into psychotherapy, your intuition may tell you the work belongs there.

But intuition alone doesn’t create the clinical container.

✨ Theory helps explain what you believe is happening.
✨ Theory connects your modalities to a clinical purpose.
✨ Theory helps you articulate your rationale if your work is ever questioned.

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This is my live, 3-week intensive where I help you develop your own Integrative Clinical Practice Framework by connecting:

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And this isn’t a “watch some videos and figure it out yourself” situation.

I review your work. I give you feedback. I challenge connections that don’t fit. And I help you strengthen the ones that do.

Because the goal isn’t a pretty list of theories.

The goal is being able to say:

“This is how I practice. This is what informs it. And this is why.”

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Your clinical approach doesn’t need to fit neatly inside someone else’s box.

But you should be able to explain the framework holding it together.

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09/12/2026

“I probably wouldn’t do that” is not an ethics code.

A supervisor can be clinically excellent and still have limited experience with integrative psychotherapy.

So when caution comes up, ask what it’s based on.

Scope of practice? Competency? Ethics code? Employer or payer policy? Risk management? Or professional preference?

That distinction matters.

Ethical integration still requires clinical rationale, informed consent, client autonomy, appropriate documentation, and work within your competency and scope.

But someone else’s discomfort should not automatically be treated like a regulatory requirement.

If the guidance is “I just wouldn’t do that,” ask the next question:

*What professional standard is that concern based on?”

Want help sorting through your own practice? Comment FREEDOM and I’ll send you the link to book a discovery call.

09/11/2026

You can have plenty of therapist friends and still feel completely alone when your questions sound like:

“How are you documenting this?”
“How are you connecting it to the treatment plan?”
“What belongs in informed consent?”
“How are you explaining the clinical rationale?”

These are legitimate clinical questions.

Unconventional therapists need opportunities to talk about therapist documentation, scope, competency, informed consent, and clinical judgment without spending half the conversation defending the modality itself.

Good documentation should clearly reflect what happened clinically, why the intervention was relevant, how it connected to the treatment plan, and what the client understood.

Because “I use this with clients” and “I can explain why this belongs in the clinical work” are two very different levels of professional clarity.

Want more training on documentation, scope, clinical theory, and ethical integration? Comment 35 and I’ll send you The Black Sheep Training Vault which houes 35 of my most popular trainings on integrative psychotherapy!

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09/11/2026

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