California Marriage and Family Therapist for Marriage Equality
In the summer of 1986 , while attending Reclaiming’s first summer intensive, I called home and received news that I had passed my licensing exam. From that moment on, I have been a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. For years before that moment, as a registered intern, and for every year since, I have annually sent checks of a couple hundred dollars off to CAMFT , the California association that represents those of us in my profession. Several weeks ago I found out that CAMFT is NOT representing me, or any other GLBT therapist in the state. The CAMFT board members have refused for months to take a stand for marriage equality. All the other major associations representing mental health workers have public statements regarding the importance of marriage equality and see homophobia as an important issue that effects mental health. Because, it does. I am a marriage and family therapist who’s own marriage is in jeopardy of becoming legally inv...