How Therapists Are Failing Our Children: Pamela Garfield-Jaeger

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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“I felt like I was a Rip Van Winkle therapist. I left my profession due to a health condition in 2017 ... In 2021, I came back, and it was radically different,” says licensed clinical social worker Pamela Garfield-Jaeger. “All the teens that I had worked with before had never talked about being trans, and then the new program I was working at, half the girls were identifying as trans.”

Known as “The Truthful Therapist,” she is the author of “A Practical Response to Gender Distress” and is featured in the Epoch Times documentary “Gender Transformation.”

How has the mental health profession changed in recent years? What’s behind the spike in teens identifying as transgender? Why has “affirmation” become the norm? What alternatives exist? What impact is the widespread prescription of antidepressants and other drugs having on teenagers?

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	I felt like I was a RitFam Rinkle therapist.
0:04.0	I left my profession due to a health condition in 2017.
0:09.0	And then in 2021, I came back and it was radically different.
0:14.0	All the teens that I had worked with before had never talked about being trans.
0:19.0	And then the new program I was working at,
0:21.3	half the girls were identifying as trans.
0:23.5	Pamela Garfield Yeager is a licensed clinical social worker,
0:27.6	known as the Truthful Therapist.
0:30.1	She's the author of A Practical Response to Gender Distress
0:33.9	and is featured in the Epoch Times documentary,
0:36.6	Gender Transformation. If you are a parent looking for a therapist for your child, and is featured in the Epoch Times documentary, gender transformation.
0:37.8	If you are a parent looking for a therapist for your child,
0:41.3	make sure that you are very involved, and if the therapist says,
0:44.3	no, I need to have my special place with your child, that's a red flag.
0:50.3	There's so many elements to the mental health profession that has shifted,
0:53.3	and the prescription of psychotropic drugs has really heavily increased.
0:58.3	They're just passed out like candy.
1:00.2	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.
1:05.5	Amla Garfield, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
1:09.1	Thank you.
1:10.4	So you spent over 20 years working with young people in a clinical social work setting.
1:17.1	Then you had to take a bit of time off.
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