JakeMcEvoy
Active member
I only just came across Red Dutchess highlight "truth". Has everyone else seen it?
I found that while a lot of what she said may have been true, the videos said more about her as a professional than it did about Joanne and it seemed a little misguided.
The certificates she showed dont really prove anything about her work or ethics as a practitioner. The rant about the Beck Institute and working towards accreditation...until you have the piece of paper in your hand, you are not accredited, sure if that were the case we could all claim we were working towards whatever we fancied. So its a bit irrelevant to her point.
I'm not undermining the work she has done and the education she has behind her, but she didn't show what her post grad was specialising in. Her undergraduate degree seemed to be a science degree with a course of study in counselling (correct me if I'm wrong on that)... i am not familiar enough with that qualification to speak on its relevance to her work, but the fact she said it wasn't accredited would indicate that it is not sufficient to practice. It also doesn't state what type of counselling, so its hard to know either way based on that.
All therapists and counsellors commit to a set of ethical principles, and confidentiality is at the heart of that, imo that applies whether the person paid or not, or signed a contract or not. And that may seem like im holding her to a higher standard than any other "influencer" but when she is claiming to be such a professional mental health advocate and counsellor/whatever the point of that rant was, and that she is more qualified based on that to provide the support/content she does, then she is expecting people to entrust her with their most sacred thoughts/fears/hopes, so there is a duty of care there even if its only implicit. You cant on one hand claim to be one thing but then dismiss the responsibility that goes with that imo.
Having said alllllll of that, I am only basing this on her rant, I dont know the girl and I didnt look into her formal qualifications beyond that video, so please enlighten me if I am wrong!