Not sure I would claim Therapists (Plural). That Aspen might now have a single person with a degree is plausible. However, the fact that the bulk of the staff on the campus are not licensed as therapists or counselors should be a wake up call for the parents. These people have absolutely no business or training to be working with children on mental health issues or anything else. One is either trained, or a hack. You can't be both in the same area.
It is clear from reading the court documents that indeed this was technically about Northstar and not necessarily about Aspen as a whole. However, without further information nobody can claim that Aspen as a whole is all licensed therapists. That each campus might have one single person with a degree in this field does not explain away that the bulk of those who are supposedly "treating" students and giving "counseling" are in fact not trained or licensed to do so. This "life experience" crap where staff claim that because they used drugs or were alcoholics and therefore are entitled and experienced enough to give credible counseling and therapy to teens, is nonsense.
I think most parents are duped in to thinking that they are sending their child away to a program that is legitimate and using fully trained and licensed staff to help their children, when in fact we have seen this is not the case at any of these programs. What we do see are hacks, who have worked in the system for years, founding their own programs with no experience or formal training or licensing who may hire a single trained person so they can pose as somehow legitimate, but in general they usually don't hire such people. And just because NorthStar or Aspen have a single person there who is licensed, unless that one individual is doing all the real therapy and counseling work, the teens are getting mixed treatment, which does not help.
The secretary in a law office might have some knowledge as a legal hack by virtue of hearing about the law all day, but this person is not qualified, nor would it be legal, for this person to offer any sort of legal advice whatsoever. And generally such secretaries and assistants in such offices actually have college credits from legal classes, specific to the work they are performing. But without the license, and without the law degree it is wrong and illegal for them to offer even advice on matters pertaining to law, let alone practicing it. Therefore, for Aspen or any of these other places full of hacks, they have no business messing with teens who are fragile and in need of serious care and not that provided by hacks.
