For the last 12 years, I’ve spent my waking hours helping people feel better.
Reducing the effects of anxiety down to nothing.
Supporting people rise out of depression never to go back.
Oh yeah… and helping them make money doing it.
I’ve been watching the mental health industry in parallel, noticing massive discrepancies but staying in my lane and keeping my head down.
I saw clients who had been in therapy for 20 years and still had the identical symptoms they had going in. Now, they had a lot of insight and coping mechanims… they could describe every trigger in minute detail, but the presenting issue was just as bad as it was before.
And clients who were medication resistant who had been referred to electric shock therapy who were losing their cognition AND the presenting issue was still returning after a couple of months.
And client after client who had been repeatedly told they would have to live with this thing or that thing forever, and the best they could hope for was symptom management.
And clients who had been institutionalized for their symptoms, and still couldn’t find any relief after that.
And client after client after client who had just been told that it was something innately wrong with them that the specialists couldn’t isolate, and they were beyond hope.
And every single other piece of bullsh*t that I’ve heard about why clinicians and practitioners were not able to help the client and it was the client’s fault.
The Data Agrees
And the data matches my personal experience: Between 2019 and 2025 the United States added 257,780 licensed mental health clinicians, a 45 percent increase, and the world added 52,000 professional coaches, up 73 percent. Roughly 310,000 more people whose job is to help.
In the same six years, a CDC survey, asked every six months between 2019 and 2025, the number of American adults who regularly feel anxious went from 28.1 million to 34.3 million, and the number who regularly feel depressed went from 12.0 million to 12.4 million. 6.6 million more people.
A 45 percent increase in help produced no measurable improvement in the people it was meant to help. The depression rate went up. The anxiety rate went up.
For over a decade I’ve said the same thing: it’s not my business. I’m staying in my lane.
Well, I’m realizing that there hasn’t yet been a viable solution presented by someone other than me, so it’s time for the mental health industry to become my lane.
Here are some of the biggest issues with the current healing system:
1. It creates dependency
Since the prevailing narrative is “you’ll have to live with this forever”, a person is encouraged to adapt to the idea that they will always need help. This robs people of their independence, sovereignty, agency and choice.
There’s nothing wrong with needing help - I don’t even take issue with medication, there are definitive moments where it is essential - I take issue in telling someone they are going to need help forever and they will never be okay without it. BULLSH*T!
2. It treats the symptoms, not the root.
In most cases that I’m aware of, this is actually unintentional. I know many clinicians who are trying to treat the root. It’s just their knowledge of what constitutes the root of the issue is limited.
If the initial trauma occurs in childhood, the client has to spend much of their time reliving and rehashing those painful experiences in the hope of desensitizing them, making logical conclusions about them, understanding why they happened, understanding how the situation benefitted them etc.
The traumatizing event is hashed over and over and over in an attempt to remove its power over the client. This will rarely work to resolve the original trauma. It is only treating the symptoms and it’s trying to do it based on logic - which is not effective.
3. It’s too slow & ineffective
Someone spending 20 years in 1:1 therapy and still having identical symptoms is too freaking slow. Our population is increasing exponentially, the need for trauma resolution is increasing exponentially, and the current increase in mental health professionals is not fast enough or effective enough to actually make a dent in the problem - which the data proves.
A Gallup survey showed depression doubling among 18 to 29 year olds between 2019 and 2025. That is a 100% increase! UNACCEPTABLE!
4. Clinicians and practitioners are not healing themselves.
There is absolutely no measure of the level of healing and resolution that practitioners and clinicians need to have or be going through themselves while applying treatment plans to their clients.
This is a MAJOR issue. Many unresolved clinicians and practitioners are retraumatizing their clients or creating new traumas because of their lack of attending to their own unresolved trauma.
There seems to be an assumption that if you are helping people heal then you are absolved of any responsibility to make sure you continue to resolve your traumas. This is egoic arrogance and is hurting people.
5. It is shame based
It is very rare that I meet a clinician or practitioner that doesn’t use shaming as part of their treatment plan.
Whether it’s shaming the client for still being unhealed - which… HOW COULD THEY BE?!
Or shaming the client for falling off with homework or practices
Or shaming the client for not being able to break out of the behaviors that are driven by the root cause
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see clearly that shaming someone for their challenges is going to be equally effective as shocking them each time they do it. Yes, you’ll create fear based compliance, maybe.
But you’ll also destroy trust and safety. You’ll encourage the client to start lying to you. And you’ll guarantee that the work will no longer be effective, because the client no longer feels safe opening up.
PART TWO: The Solution
The patterns that keep people in pain are stored in the body, not in the conscious mind: in the nervous system’s predictions about what is safe, in the cells’ attachment to a familiar chemical state & in neuronal loops that fire before the thinking mind is consulted.
That is why a person can understand their pattern perfectly and not stop it. The understanding lives in the pre-frontal cortex and the pattern does not.
This is physiology. It’s neuroscience. It’s homeostasis. The body keeps you at your set point the way it keeps your temperature at 98.6 degrees.
Any change, including a good one, gets treated as a deviation and corrected. More money, more visibility, more peace: the body pulls you back to normal, and normal is where the anxiety was. The coaching industry calls this self-sabotage and blames the client. It’s just biology doing what it was programmed to do. Protect.
I spent twelve years building a method that works at that level instead of the level of thought.
I called it Miracle Coding because the results looked like miracles to the people who got them, even though it’s very easy to explain through science.
The procedure works on Four Locks: Safety, Continuity, Belief and Coherence.
What it does that the rest does not
It works on the body. It adjusts the thermostat setpoint on a cellular level. It inserts safety.
It finds the root cause and dissolves it, replacing it with something that will align with what the client actually wants.
Most methods prune branches, and the branches grow back.
ELD, Emotional Loop Dissolution, goes for the root, and all the branches are cleared simultaneously. It’s how thousands of beliefs, across decades and even inherited ancestral trauma can be cleared at the same time.
It is fast. A loop that has run for thirty years can be dissolved in a session. Not 20 years. 15 minutes.
It is measurable. I track what changed in a client’s bank account, their mood and emotional reactivity, and their sleep, and in the cohort we track heart rate variability and coherence as well.
One client came to me being owed thirty thousand dollars she had given up on. Eighty-six thousand came back.
It is teachable. Fifty-five practitioners are certified in it, and people who learn the method get the same results.
This makes the biggest difference for the numbers in part one. You do not close a gap of six million people one caseload at a time. You close it with something that can be taught, licensed and run at scale in groups, effectively.
I didn’t invent the science that makes Miracle Coding work. It is based on over 100 years of peer-reviewed research widely accepted in the scientific community. I simply adapted it for everyday humans in a practical, applicable, useful way.
What I am asking
I am asking the people in my industry to look at the charts. 310,000 of us were added in six years, and 6.6 million MORE people are regularly anxious or depressed. We can keep saying the system is overwhelmed. Or we can admit the method is wrong and go looking for one that works when nothing else is working.
I have one. It is in a private informal research study now, with heart rate variability measured on sensors rather than reported on a form, and with The HeartMath Institute advising on the research. I am putting it in the open with the results validated by an independent third party bookkeeper, so it can be tested and argued with, and used if it holds.
We can keep building on this insanity and try the same things over and over hoping to get different results.
Or we can try something new that works.
Sources:
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, national tables, May 2019 and May 2025. Occupations: substance abuse, behavioral disorder and mental health counselors (21-1018); mental health and substance abuse social workers (21-1023); marriage and family therapists (21-1013); clinical and counseling psychologists (19-3033); school psychologists (19-3034). https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm
International Coaching Federation, Global Coaching Study 2020 executive summary (71,000 coach practitioners worldwide, 2019). https://coachingfederation.org/app/uploads/2020/09/FINAL_ICF_GCS2020_ExecutiveSummary.pdf
International Coaching Federation, Global Coaching Study 2025 executive summary (122,974 coach practitioners worldwide). https://wfpma.org/files/news/2025-ICF-Global-Coaching-Study_EXECUTIVE-SUMMARY.pdf
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Health Interview Survey, Interactive Biannual Early Release Estimates. Adults who regularly had feelings of worry, nervousness or anxiety, and adults who regularly had feelings of depression, January to June 2019 and July to December 2025. https://wwwn.cdc.gov/NHISDataQueryTool/ER_Biannual/index_biannual.html
US Census Bureau, resident population aged 18 and over. July 1 2019: Federal Register, Estimates of the Voting Age Population for 2019. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/14/2020-03000/estimates-of-the-voting-age-population-for-2019 . July 1 2025: Vintage 2025 estimates, table SCPRC-EST2025-18+POP. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2025/state/detail/SCPRC-EST2025-18+POP.xlsx
Gallup, U.S. Depression Rate Remains Historically High, 2025. https://news.gallup.com/poll/694199/u.s.-depression-rate-remains-historically-high.aspx