That’s right. According to a group of licensed professionals on r/therapists, I’ve gone full “Burn Book-worthy” and am now the “Grifting Conspiracy Influencer” of the mental health world.
I’d like to thank the Academy… but I’d rather thank the therapists who gathered around their digital cafeteria table, pointed at me like I just wore sweatpants on a Monday, and let it rip.
Yes, this is real. Yes, they named me. Yes, they wrote an entire Reddit thread dragging me harder than Gretchen Wieners’ self-esteem after she tried to make “fetch” happen.
They said I blocked the original poster on all social media. (Fun fact: Reddit is anonymous. I don’t even know who they are. But sure, Jan.)
They said I “was pressed like a panini.”
They called me narcissistic, manipulative, cultish, anti-science.
They even made fun of my graduation video where I danced in my cap and gown. (Apparently, joy is unethical now.)
They were upset that I figured out how to leverage social media as a platform. That was super weird, like if you want help…just ask.
The thread wasn’t professional discourse, it was a slambook with licenses.
And honestly? It would’ve been hilarious… if it weren’t so deeply sad.
Because here’s the thing: these weren’t trolls. These were therapists, my colleagues. You know the people trained to sit in discomfort, explore nuance, and regulate emotion. The ones who preach curiosity, empathy, and client-centered care. But when another therapist steps outside the textbook, some of them act like it’s open season.
And if you’re not quoting the DSM or citing a 2006 study with a p-value under .05, you’re suddenly the villain.
Let me be crystal clear:
✨ I am not anti-medication.
✨ I do not run a cult.
✨ I do not hand out panini presses.
What I do is support people who are suffering, often because of psychiatric medications they were told were safe. I walk beside clients who are in protracted withdrawal. Who experience PSSD. Who were gaslit, dismissed, and abandoned by systems that had no plan for what happens when meds go wrong.
And yes, I talk about nutrition. Trauma. The nervous system. Because healing isn’t one-size-fits-all, and not everyone thrives on meds forever. And frankly if you’re a therapist, you should be learning about those things too.
For this, I’ve been called dangerous.
For giving people informed consent? For validating their lived experience?
That’s not dangerous, that’s therapy.
What’s actually dangerous is what I witnessed in that thread:
➡ Therapists ganging up on someone they don’t understand.
➡ Repeating secondhand smears without question.
➡ Abandoning the very values we’re supposed to model.
You’re therapists. Not the Plastics.
And to the OP of that thread: if you ever do decide to take off your anonymity and have a real conversation, I’d welcome it. Because disagreement is healthy. But mockery, personal attacks, and performative groupthink? That’s not critical thinking. That’s cafeteria table politics.
What scares me most isn’t what you said about me, it’s what that thread reveals about how we treat our own.
If this is how therapists treat other therapists, how do you treat clients who challenge your worldview?
How do you respond when someone says,
“This med harmed me”?
“This diagnosis doesn’t fit”?
“I need something different”?
Because if your first reaction is to shut them down, roll your eyes, and gather a group to gossip,
I’m sorry, but you’re not practicing therapy.
You’re playing Mean Girls: Clinical Edition.
And listen, I know I’m not for everyone.
I’m fine with that.
I didn’t sign up to be your favorite.
I signed up to tell the truth.
To serve the people no one else will listen to.
To walk beside those the system left behind.
So keep watching my videos.
Keep stitching my TikToks.
Keep writing your little Burn Book.
But while you’re throwing shade, I’ll be over here helping people get their lives back.
Because while you’re busy yelling,
“She doesn’t even go here!”
I’m sitting with the clients you turned away.
Oh, and one more thing:
You go, Glenn Coco.
Scientifically reviewed and personally experienced by Dr. Teralyn Sell, PhD, MS, BS yes, the one from that Reddit thread. Don’t worry, I double-checked with my degrees… and with Regina George. 💁♀️🎓