So Rebecca, I got some juicy emails for us to read and respond to what you say.

I'm all in.

So anonymous patron, she writes in and says,

I recently had a fairly disturbing encounter with a man who claimed to have a PhD in clinical

psychology and worked with vulnerable people at a meditation center. He started talking to my

friend and I while we were meditating in a fairly public area on a bit of grassland.

He asked us if we were meditating which took us out of our peaceful state quite abruptly and

rudely. We started talking as we both work in the field of mental health. He mentioned that his

method of helping people get better is to make them feel the worst they can possibly feel and just

sit with that feeling so they can learn how to tolerate them and break the cycle of avoiding

emotions. I mentioned that I have quite a lot of experience working with people with trauma

and that this method can sometimes traumatize them. Throughout the whole conversation with him,

he was very dismissive of any mention of kindness or compassion in therapeutic process saying that

this is just going to reinforce bad behaviors and clients. We then ended the conversation as soon

as possible as he asked to have a threesome with us. We got out of there very quickly. We both

felt quite shaken after the encounter and almost felt as though we had come across someone quite

evil. He seemed to relish in making his clients feel pain and obviously enjoyed our discomfort.

Is this kind of treatment effective in helping people overcome their mental health issues by making

people feel negative emotions? I am also quite worried for the people under his treatment.

Since he works at a meditation center, does this mean he hasn't been able to work in a more

certified mental health treatment setting due to malpractice? Rebecca, what do you think?

Probably. I just did a two-day Zoom training led by Bethel Vanderkulk, the probably the most

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