People who claim to be "experts" can be very dangerous and a source of misinformation. Relying on them can be a mistake. For instance, I used to play historical wargames, one of my hobbies, with a man who claimed to be an expert on terrorism and related subjects. I was never quite able to find out why he considered himself one, or how he claimed to have become one, or what exactly he did if he was one, nor did he ever demonstrate any knowledge of the subject that struck me as terribly deep, insightful, or significant, I mean he had no real educational credentials publications, references, or connections in the field, but he did go so far as to put together a linkedin profile telling the world that he was, in fact, an expert on threat assessment and terrorism. No matter. He was a friend of a friend and liked to do the same things, I did so we hung out together some times.
In the summer of 2011, I found myself stuck in China with no way to get home that did not involve borrowing money. This happens to people some times. No big thing, I had a job, in China, awaiting me in the fall and was in no danger. (I was teaching English at the third highest ranked university in China, believe it or not.) The issue was what do I do for the summer? I had no real desire to spend it in Shanghai with nothing to do and the city gets hot and dirty in the summer.
One of my refugee friends in New York state suggested I might visit his old high school, perhaps even volunteer and help out, and I would get a chance to see where all these refugees I'd known for years came from. This was in Thailand near the Burmese border in a place called Mae Sot. And I did have the money to do that. I made my plans, and shared them with acquaintances and started to work out the details.
This guy, the one mentioned above who described himself as a terrorism expert, took it upon himself to send me a "security and threat analysis" for Thailand alerting me to "travel dangers" and "terrorism threats" for the area. I looked at and it carefully read it, and realized, with mild surprise, that it was completely missing important information. Mae Sot is considered by some a dangerous place. The Karen ethnic group had been fighting the Burmese army just across the border ever since the British left in 1948, if not earlier, and the war had never ended except for sporadic cease fires (fortunately one was taking place at that time). This sort of thing was a large part of the reason the area was full of refugees and refugee camps. There was guerilla warfare across the border and some of it occasionally spilled over the border, lots of violence and even human trafficking, and even a little bit of terrorism. (And lots of helpers. As Mister Rogers points out "Look for the helpers.") These were part of the reason the charity project I was going to visit existed, although it was Karen run and I'd be staying with a Karen family. (Far below, I put recommendations for a couple of books on the subject you can see if you'd like.) And none of it, none of this at all, was mentioned in his "risk assessment report." In short, he'd missed the biggest "threat risk," didn't know what he didn't know, and he didn't know enough to check.
And that's why you need to check the credentials of experts carefully. What they don't know they don't know, or what they are misinformed on can lead to tragedy.
Which brings us to . . . another person who advertises as an expert.
Over the past several months, I posted several times concerning a woman named "Tammy Yard-McCracken" who presented at an event I attended called the Violence Dynamics seminar.
Is she really an expert on these things? I can't say. During the day I spent at the Violence Dynamics Seminar, she ran just two sessions. The first was a presentation on self defense laws in Massachusetts. She presented well, and the source of the information was the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network, considered by many to be one of the best sources available on such information. ( see https://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org/en/ ) so the information was well selected. On the other hand, a lot of people could have presented the same information just as well. The other session she gave the instructions on how people were to perform in a drill designed by Rory Miller. Both of these were well done, but a lot of people could have done them. Comments were made that made me suspect her credentials (which turned out to be a valid concern obviously)
But McCracken clearly wishes to be seen as an expert, a public figure of note. So let's look at her background.
McCracken seems to seek publicity for herself and was recently quoted in the New York Times. ( see: New York Times, March 23, 2019: "Sexual Assault on Flights: Experts Recommend Ways to Stay Safe and Combat It" ). Please note that the writer of this piece, Chris Miele . did not describe Tammy Yard-McCracken using the same biographical details she provides for herself when asked to provide autobiographical details.
The doctorate is missing.
Now every single self produced Tammy Yard-McCracken biography I've seen says something like "Dr. Tammy Yard-McCracken" and "25 years as a practicing psychotherapist" or "25 years as a professional counselor." The doctorate and the 25 years are always in there.
I've looked at the doctorate pretty thoroughly elsewhere ( see Credited VS Unaccredited Degrees, licensing, educational standards and the Case of Tammy Yard McCracken, a doctor by some standard but not others for instance ) and the results made me wonder about the 25 years experience. Besides if one looks at the response I got a while back it seemed to imply that if one found the professional license it would all make sense. So . . .
Ask and ye shall receive. This is getting long so I had to organize it by section and include internal links.
A The Doctorate and Academic Credentials
B Virginia Licenses
C Description of the Texas License( s)
D Implications of the Texas License (s )
E The Actual Texas License (s)
F Further Reading to Develop More Background
I have not found out what she taught at the community college in Houston, Texas or when. I think it'd be interesting to find out.
Which brings us to the next part of the apparently self-written biography. "25 years as a professional counselor" or "25 years as a practicing psychotherapist." It took me a while to get this one straight because, first no one is paying me to do this and I've got other things to do (yes, this is a public safety and security issue as well as a consumer awareness issue, but not the most important one around, unless, of course, she's an expert witness at a trial that involves someone you care about, I suppose) and one could easily assume at first glance that Ms. McYard-McCracken is a licensed clinical psychologist. I think it's fair to say many people would assume that when the terms "Doctorate" and "25 years experience as a psychotherapist" are used in the same sentence it would imply to many people that the person is a licensed psychologist (I can't say this is her intent, of course) so let's look deeper.
Working backwards. Ms Tammy Yard-McCracken (I'm going to use the title used by The New York Times) has an unaccredited doctorate which would not lead to licensure as a psychotherapist.
She also claims to have a a Master’s of Science in Professional Counseling from University of Houston-Clear Lake. I have not confirmed this but it is consistent with what I have found and fits the picture that I have developed. This university is near where used to live and where she was in fact licensed as a psychotherapist.
Virginia has a few types of licenses for psychotherapists. Here's one for a licensed psychologist named JOY P KANNARKAT : https://dhp.virginiainteractive.org/Lookup/Detail/0810000814
(Who is "JOY P KANNARKAT"? No idea, actually. He is merely the first Virginia licensed psychologist I came across when seeking to find a sample of someone with a Virginia license as a psychologist. Just someone I'm using as an example to show the license. If he objects, I'll remove his name but it'd be really nice if he could provide the name of another Virginia state licensed psychologist when he does. )
Tammy Yard-McCracken has a license as a "Licenses Professional Counselor" in Virginia. You can find it here: https://dhp.virginiainteractive.org/Lookup/Detail/0701005037
But the details are below:
License Number 0701005037
Occupation Licensed Professional Counselor
Name Tammy E Yard-McCracken
Address Ashburn, VA 20147
Initial License Date 05/11/2011
Expire Date 06/30/2019
License Status Current Active
Additional Public Information* No
It's a similar license but for someone with a lower level of accredited professional training.
From 1993-2016 she claims to have been employed by an agency in Loudon County, Virginia called the Dominion Center for Behavioral Health and was advertised as an employee of that agency. This agency described itself as "the largest mental health practice in Loudoun County and we accept most major health insurance policies."
While there she described herself at least part of the time as a "doctor."
This is how the agency advertised her in 2012:
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So did the agency she worked for consider her a psychologist?
In 2012 the agency divided providers into the following categories on some of its literature. Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and "clinicians." It appears that "clinicians" was a catch-all category for those who were not psychiatrists or psychologists. "Dr. Tammy Yard-McCracken" appears under the category clinicians and her bio states she received the psychological doctorate from the Eisner Institute. Another person with the title "doctor" is listed there and it is stated that she received her "psychological doctorate" degree from the Argosy Institute, another institution which is mentioned multiple times in this blog as having been sued by its students amid allegations of misleading claims about the accreditation or licensure potential of its degrees. This person also is no longer employed by the Dominion Center. Why? Did the center drop its unlicensed "clinicians" with the unaccredited doctorates? No idea actually. Might be interesting to know. (By the way, that person now has a license as a "licensed professional counselor" in Virginia. I see no reason or advantage to naming them here.)
I do not know how the agency billed for her services and which were insurance reimbursable. The agency said that most of their services at the time were insurance reimbursable but not all.
Ms. Yard-McCracken has described her own title during this time as "Transformational Coach and Integrative Psychotherapist Specializing Trauma & Gender Psychology" (sic) Note that there's that word "coach" again. -as in "life coach." It would be interesting to know of the "life coaching" sessions were insurance reimbursable.
Yard-McCracken was or is a licensed psychotherapist in the state of Texas. This is easily confirmed and the full details of the licensure are shared below. (Before someone accuses me of "doxing" this information is quite old and she no longer lives in that state. For the record, sharing someone's publically available licensing information and place of business from decades ago is a way to allow others to verify and expand upon the information available when assessing her qualifications. This is public information and I am merely taking it from one public place and putting it in another. And if someone is giving interviews to The New York Times as "an expert" it's in the public's best interests to check their background and evaluate what they really know and who they are.)
The license information is shared below.
If you look carefully you will see "MS, LPC, CHT".
These are the professional therapists credentials I have been able to find for Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken in Texas. ("Ms," by the way, is the appropriate way to describe a woman with these credentials, not "doctor." )
These stand for:
1. MS= Master's of Science --this is an academic degree
2. LPC = Licensed Practical Counselor
3. CHT = Certified Hypnotherapist
The first is an academic degree (a recognized degree from an accredited institution). The last two fall under the category of professional licenses or certification. I will focus on them more later, particularly on the hypnotherapist credentials.You'll also note that this information was last updated in 2007.
You can verify this here: https://www.networktherapy.com/directory/credentials.asp but they are in other places on the web. (In fact, I found one silly website that listed her as still practicing in Texas and offered to refer people to her there. Again, do not believe everything you read, Learn to do your own research and verify.)
TAMMY YARD-MCCRACKEN MS, LPC, CHT
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Title or Position Name Credential Telephone Number Provider Enumeration Date04/18/2007Last Updated07/08/2007
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NPI Number 1881811453 has the "Individual" type of ownership and has been registered to the following primary business legal name (which is a provider name or healthcare organization name) — TAMMY YARD-MCCRACKEN MS, LPC, CHT. Records indicate that the provider gender is "Female". The enumeration date of this NPI Number is 04/18/2007. NPI Number information was last updated on 07/08/2007.
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"For Us There is no Surrender" is popular but strikes me in places as "parachute journalism" written by a woman who was only there for six weeks.
In the summer of 2011, I found myself stuck in China with no way to get home that did not involve borrowing money. This happens to people some times. No big thing, I had a job, in China, awaiting me in the fall and was in no danger. (I was teaching English at the third highest ranked university in China, believe it or not.) The issue was what do I do for the summer? I had no real desire to spend it in Shanghai with nothing to do and the city gets hot and dirty in the summer.
One of my refugee friends in New York state suggested I might visit his old high school, perhaps even volunteer and help out, and I would get a chance to see where all these refugees I'd known for years came from. This was in Thailand near the Burmese border in a place called Mae Sot. And I did have the money to do that. I made my plans, and shared them with acquaintances and started to work out the details.
This guy, the one mentioned above who described himself as a terrorism expert, took it upon himself to send me a "security and threat analysis" for Thailand alerting me to "travel dangers" and "terrorism threats" for the area. I looked at and it carefully read it, and realized, with mild surprise, that it was completely missing important information. Mae Sot is considered by some a dangerous place. The Karen ethnic group had been fighting the Burmese army just across the border ever since the British left in 1948, if not earlier, and the war had never ended except for sporadic cease fires (fortunately one was taking place at that time). This sort of thing was a large part of the reason the area was full of refugees and refugee camps. There was guerilla warfare across the border and some of it occasionally spilled over the border, lots of violence and even human trafficking, and even a little bit of terrorism. (And lots of helpers. As Mister Rogers points out "Look for the helpers.") These were part of the reason the charity project I was going to visit existed, although it was Karen run and I'd be staying with a Karen family. (Far below, I put recommendations for a couple of books on the subject you can see if you'd like.) And none of it, none of this at all, was mentioned in his "risk assessment report." In short, he'd missed the biggest "threat risk," didn't know what he didn't know, and he didn't know enough to check.
And that's why you need to check the credentials of experts carefully. What they don't know they don't know, or what they are misinformed on can lead to tragedy.
Which brings us to . . . another person who advertises as an expert.
Over the past several months, I posted several times concerning a woman named "Tammy Yard-McCracken" who presented at an event I attended called the Violence Dynamics seminar.
Is she really an expert on these things? I can't say. During the day I spent at the Violence Dynamics Seminar, she ran just two sessions. The first was a presentation on self defense laws in Massachusetts. She presented well, and the source of the information was the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network, considered by many to be one of the best sources available on such information. ( see https://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org/en/ ) so the information was well selected. On the other hand, a lot of people could have presented the same information just as well. The other session she gave the instructions on how people were to perform in a drill designed by Rory Miller. Both of these were well done, but a lot of people could have done them. Comments were made that made me suspect her credentials (which turned out to be a valid concern obviously)
But McCracken clearly wishes to be seen as an expert, a public figure of note. So let's look at her background.
McCracken seems to seek publicity for herself and was recently quoted in the New York Times. ( see: New York Times, March 23, 2019: "Sexual Assault on Flights: Experts Recommend Ways to Stay Safe and Combat It" ). Please note that the writer of this piece, Chris Miele . did not describe Tammy Yard-McCracken using the same biographical details she provides for herself when asked to provide autobiographical details.
The doctorate is missing.
Now every single self produced Tammy Yard-McCracken biography I've seen says something like "Dr. Tammy Yard-McCracken" and "25 years as a practicing psychotherapist" or "25 years as a professional counselor." The doctorate and the 25 years are always in there.
I've looked at the doctorate pretty thoroughly elsewhere ( see Credited VS Unaccredited Degrees, licensing, educational standards and the Case of Tammy Yard McCracken, a doctor by some standard but not others for instance ) and the results made me wonder about the 25 years experience. Besides if one looks at the response I got a while back it seemed to imply that if one found the professional license it would all make sense. So . . .
Ask and ye shall receive. This is getting long so I had to organize it by section and include internal links.
A The Doctorate and Academic Credentials
B Virginia Licenses
C Description of the Texas License( s)
D Implications of the Texas License (s )
E The Actual Texas License (s)
F Further Reading to Develop More Background
A. The Doctorate and Academic Credentials
Ok, we have the same claim for a doctorate. I've looked into this extensively and written on it more than once, undoubtedly beaten it to death. I concluded that it was not accredited and would not lead to licensure as a psychotherapist nor, based on my experience, would it be respected as a valid degree worth obtaining by most Ph.D. licensed professionals. As stated, I've spent a considerable amount of time around people with Ph.D.s and was able to spot by her behavior that she made statements and at times did not act like someone who had one. You can click on the labels for "Tammy Yard-McCracken" and read all about it. As stated, it's interesting that the New York Times writer in the above article, consistently referred to her as "Ms. Yard-McCracken" and not "Doctor."
I also described the "adjunct faculty" statement and noted that students at Argosy University had sued the institution because they claimed to have been misled over its accreditation status. This complaint is consistent with their use of a faculty member with an unaccredited degree. What I don't understand is why is Tammy Yard-McCracken advertising her connection with this mess? Generally speaking when people receive unaccredited degrees it is either because they wish to impress (deceive?) others with a degree that doesn't necessarily mean what it seems to (deceive others) or they did not do their homework before choosing schools (they got deceived.) Not sure what happened here, but she does advertise it a lot, yet the New York Times didn't accept it. Whatever, there are a lot of things out there in the world I don't understand. Perhaps someone can look into it further and explain it to me further,
I also described the "adjunct faculty" statement and noted that students at Argosy University had sued the institution because they claimed to have been misled over its accreditation status. This complaint is consistent with their use of a faculty member with an unaccredited degree. What I don't understand is why is Tammy Yard-McCracken advertising her connection with this mess? Generally speaking when people receive unaccredited degrees it is either because they wish to impress (deceive?) others with a degree that doesn't necessarily mean what it seems to (deceive others) or they did not do their homework before choosing schools (they got deceived.) Not sure what happened here, but she does advertise it a lot, yet the New York Times didn't accept it. Whatever, there are a lot of things out there in the world I don't understand. Perhaps someone can look into it further and explain it to me further,
I have not found out what she taught at the community college in Houston, Texas or when. I think it'd be interesting to find out.
B. Virginia Licenses
Which brings us to the next part of the apparently self-written biography. "25 years as a professional counselor" or "25 years as a practicing psychotherapist." It took me a while to get this one straight because, first no one is paying me to do this and I've got other things to do (yes, this is a public safety and security issue as well as a consumer awareness issue, but not the most important one around, unless, of course, she's an expert witness at a trial that involves someone you care about, I suppose) and one could easily assume at first glance that Ms. McYard-McCracken is a licensed clinical psychologist. I think it's fair to say many people would assume that when the terms "Doctorate" and "25 years experience as a psychotherapist" are used in the same sentence it would imply to many people that the person is a licensed psychologist (I can't say this is her intent, of course) so let's look deeper.
Working backwards. Ms Tammy Yard-McCracken (I'm going to use the title used by The New York Times) has an unaccredited doctorate which would not lead to licensure as a psychotherapist.
She also claims to have a a Master’s of Science in Professional Counseling from University of Houston-Clear Lake. I have not confirmed this but it is consistent with what I have found and fits the picture that I have developed. This university is near where used to live and where she was in fact licensed as a psychotherapist.
Virginia has a few types of licenses for psychotherapists. Here's one for a licensed psychologist named JOY P KANNARKAT : https://dhp.virginiainteractive.org/Lookup/Detail/0810000814
(Who is "JOY P KANNARKAT"? No idea, actually. He is merely the first Virginia licensed psychologist I came across when seeking to find a sample of someone with a Virginia license as a psychologist. Just someone I'm using as an example to show the license. If he objects, I'll remove his name but it'd be really nice if he could provide the name of another Virginia state licensed psychologist when he does. )
Tammy Yard-McCracken has a license as a "Licenses Professional Counselor" in Virginia. You can find it here: https://dhp.virginiainteractive.org/Lookup/Detail/0701005037
But the details are below:
License Number 0701005037
Occupation Licensed Professional Counselor
Name Tammy E Yard-McCracken
Address Ashburn, VA 20147
Initial License Date 05/11/2011
Expire Date 06/30/2019
License Status Current Active
Additional Public Information* No
It's a similar license but for someone with a lower level of accredited professional training.
From 1993-2016 she claims to have been employed by an agency in Loudon County, Virginia called the Dominion Center for Behavioral Health and was advertised as an employee of that agency. This agency described itself as "the largest mental health practice in Loudoun County and we accept most major health insurance policies."
While there she described herself at least part of the time as a "doctor."
This is how the agency advertised her in 2012:
Dr. Tammy McCracken, Psy.D
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Dr. McCracken has more than 20 years experience in the mental health field with specialties in Women’s Psychology and Mind-Body Medicine. She holds advanced certification in clinical hypnotherapy and is a Master Life Coach. She has extensive experience working with concerns such as trauma, depression, domestic violence, survivors of sexual assault and violent crime. She has also successfully treated issues of depression, divorce recovery, and anxiety disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, integrative psychological theory, and effective coaching tools, Dr. McCracken’s approach is open, honest and solution-oriented. She believes all individuals have the innate ability to discover their personal strengths and the influences of culture, society, and gender are critical in understanding behavior and belief systems.
Dr. McCracken received her Doctorate in Psychology with a specialization in Holistic studies from Eisner Institute for Professional Studies in Encino, California. She earned a Masters in Professional Counseling from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and her Bachelor’s of Science in Education from Illinois State University. Dr. McCracken’s training in holistic psychology included research in areas of neuroplasticity: working with the brain’s unique capacity to rewire itself into healthier patterns. She recently relocated to Northern Virginia with her husband and family after over two decades practicing in Houston, Texas.
So did the agency she worked for consider her a psychologist?
In 2012 the agency divided providers into the following categories on some of its literature. Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and "clinicians." It appears that "clinicians" was a catch-all category for those who were not psychiatrists or psychologists. "Dr. Tammy Yard-McCracken" appears under the category clinicians and her bio states she received the psychological doctorate from the Eisner Institute. Another person with the title "doctor" is listed there and it is stated that she received her "psychological doctorate" degree from the Argosy Institute, another institution which is mentioned multiple times in this blog as having been sued by its students amid allegations of misleading claims about the accreditation or licensure potential of its degrees. This person also is no longer employed by the Dominion Center. Why? Did the center drop its unlicensed "clinicians" with the unaccredited doctorates? No idea actually. Might be interesting to know. (By the way, that person now has a license as a "licensed professional counselor" in Virginia. I see no reason or advantage to naming them here.)
I do not know how the agency billed for her services and which were insurance reimbursable. The agency said that most of their services at the time were insurance reimbursable but not all.
Ms. Yard-McCracken has described her own title during this time as "Transformational Coach and Integrative Psychotherapist Specializing Trauma & Gender Psychology" (sic) Note that there's that word "coach" again. -as in "life coach." It would be interesting to know of the "life coaching" sessions were insurance reimbursable.
C Description of the Texas License( s)
Before this she was in Texas. Again this was not as a psychologist and it was before she received the unaccredited doctorate.
Yard-McCracken was or is a licensed psychotherapist in the state of Texas. This is easily confirmed and the full details of the licensure are shared below. (Before someone accuses me of "doxing" this information is quite old and she no longer lives in that state. For the record, sharing someone's publically available licensing information and place of business from decades ago is a way to allow others to verify and expand upon the information available when assessing her qualifications. This is public information and I am merely taking it from one public place and putting it in another. And if someone is giving interviews to The New York Times as "an expert" it's in the public's best interests to check their background and evaluate what they really know and who they are.)
The license information is shared below.
If you look carefully you will see "MS, LPC, CHT".
These are the professional therapists credentials I have been able to find for Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken in Texas. ("Ms," by the way, is the appropriate way to describe a woman with these credentials, not "doctor." )
These stand for:
1. MS= Master's of Science --this is an academic degree
2. LPC = Licensed Practical Counselor
3. CHT = Certified Hypnotherapist
The first is an academic degree (a recognized degree from an accredited institution). The last two fall under the category of professional licenses or certification. I will focus on them more later, particularly on the hypnotherapist credentials.You'll also note that this information was last updated in 2007.
You can verify this here: https://www.networktherapy.com/directory/credentials.asp but they are in other places on the web. (In fact, I found one silly website that listed her as still practicing in Texas and offered to refer people to her there. Again, do not believe everything you read, Learn to do your own research and verify.)
Which brings us to the hypnotherapist credentials from her Texas license, the one as a master's degree level psychotherapist that was last renewed in 2007.
This is troubling if you know anything about therapists in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly therapists dealing with trauma and women's issues, and their relationship with hypnosis.
At this time, in many circles, there was a now discredited belief that it was possible for a person to suffer great trauma, often over an extended period of time, and then block the memory and forget that it ever happened. This theory was called "the repressed memory" theory and it further stated that while a person was able to not remember the event, it would manifest itself in other troubling behaviors and issues, such as anxiety and eating disorders among others.
In other words, while a person would lose the ability to remember something that had caused them long lasting suffering and trauma, not exactly an aid to learning to avoid its causes, the trauma would still affect them but they would not know the cause. This response to trauma was believed to be particularly common among survivors of long term sexual abuse. In fact, many advocates of the idea were of the belief that sexual abuse survivors were endemic and that many or perhaps even most survivors of this abuse had no idea that they had suffered it because they had forgotten ("repressed") all memory of the abuse and did not even know that it had occurred.
This belief has not only been discredited and disproven, but I, for one, find it impossible to see what possible evolutionary advantage the development of such a psychological response could possibly be or have been. I mean, if something is damaging to an organism, the first thing an organism should learn is how to avoid it and reduce or prevent further damage from that source. Repressed memory theory generally seems to hinge on the idea that this often doesn't happen. Nevertheless it was wide spread in certain circles and networks, particularly those that involved feminist psychotherapists with an interest in trauma and who lacked a high level understanding of how memory really worked (and where self proclaimed "experts" claimed an understanding of things they did not truly understand). I stated before that the belief as described showed little advantage to the patient or alleged victim of such forgotten trauma, but the existence of the belief did help to promote the idea that sexual abuse and trauma were much more widespread than anyone could possible have imagined or been able to measure and that among those responsible for this recurring unseen problem were the nuclear family structure and men in particular, both of whom were often seen as ignoring the issue simply because they were either culprits or they just didn't care. There was an entire " repressed memory / sex abuse " industry during this time, and a lot of dangerous, false ideas were spread and a lot of innocent people were hurt by therapists who did not understand memory and were unable to properly judge what they knew or did not know.
If you look below, in the section, under where I placed the information on Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken's Texas license information (public information that I am only reposting, you can find it online in multiple places ) you can find several books on the issue and the problems caused by this belief, a belief spread by poorly trained, misguided therapists. I hope you will consider taking the time to understand the issue and consider reading some of these books. (Yes, you can buy them here. You can also go to your public library and if need be use inter-library loan.)
Now, at the time, it was believed by many therapists that if one should find a patient, particularly a woman patient (why do so many feminists seem to routinely engage in behavior that damages other women? Someone please tell me that as well ) who had problems such as anxiety and eating disorders and other issues that did not stem from a definite cause that could be easily pinpointed, then these so-called "repressed memories" could be a source of the problem. It was believed, and there is zero definitive evidence that this was the case, that if one could "recover" the "repressed memories" and dredge them up from where they were deeply buried (note that clinical evidence and study shows that memory does not work this way), the results would ultimately help the patient.
One way to do this, it was believed, was through using hypnosis. However, this belief was based on a misunderstanding of both how memory works but also how hypnosis worked.
First, memory is highly malleable. The human organism evolved to adapt to conditions and learn how to respond to them. It did not evolve to record events or situations with photographic accuracy, as the survival benefits from remembering things with exact accuracy are much lower than simply remembering if something is bad or good and how to respond to it. Therefore humans do not remember things with perfect accuracy,
Second, when hypnosis is used, and the hypnotized person is asked to comply with the desire of the hypnotist, they will do their best to comply, but will often do so by creating new "memories" to fill in the gaps in what they remember and they will do so without realizing it. This is called "confabulation," confabulation being the technical term for the creation of false memories of details of events or even entire events that never happened.
Again, there are several good books on this below, right under the section where I have reshared the public information on Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken's Texas, master's degree level licensure. I urge you to look into them or otherwise familiarize yourself with this issue.
The result of this systemic, non-evidence based abuse of memory, an abuse that was most common among master's degree level therapists with an interest in women's issues and trauma and a hypnotherapist degree who often practiced and lived in isolated areas without too much supervision (which sounds like the case here) from higher trained psychologists (with accredited degrees) and psychiatrists (who only rarely believed such things but when they did were often obsessed with these beliefs), were a lot of people, usually women, who had their self-image and their beliefs about who they were and who their family was and what their life was like, completely turned topsy-turvy with tragic results. (for a particularly weird example, go look into the life of the actress-comedian Rosanne Barr during this period.) Many such people would declare themselves to be so traumatized that they could barely function, Many became dependent on their therapists, cut off contact with people in their families who wished to help them, in some cases actually bring criminal or civil charges against their own family members or plot in otherwise to take revenge on them for events that never happened, and the results were horrible. (You could read about this sort of thing a bit in the misguided book, Courage to Heal, by Ellen Bass. It was a classic in its sad and misguided field.) Often the therapists helped them attack their family members and aided in the legal actions for non-existent crimes. (Hmmm? If you read Ms. Yard-McCracken's bio, it states she was accepted as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases in Texas and Virginia. I bet the details of this are interesting and might be of interesting to people involved in any current legal cases where she might be called upon to testify. It might produce fascinating results if someone were to look into this.)
Many parents of such therapists suffered greatly from this systematic abuse. And, of course, one could ask how one knows they were all innocent (you don't, of course) but many of the accusations were so grandiose and so just plain bizarre and easily disproven that one has to wonder how they were ever taken seriously at all. (And if you ever met these parents, and I have met many of them, it is difficult to believe they were guilty of the charges made against them. Most were just sad and confused and concerned for the well being of their accusing children, although I confess more than one of them just wanted to find their child and scream "How can you even say these crazy things?" and then find their therapist and spend some time along in a locked room with them. It was a sad, sad, completely unnecessary international tragedy caused by poorly educated therapists who were exaggerating their expertise. Hmmm, again sound familiar?)
These days, recovered memory therapy and hypnotherapy is almost never used to recover memories of "repressed sexual abuse." The practice has been disproven and its tragic effects now widely understood. Curiously, one of the few places it is still used (at least last time I checked) is among UFO abductees where if one is suspected of having been abducted by space aliens, well intentioned, enthusiastic, poorly trained yet extremely dangerous hypnotherapists will eagerly use hypnosis to facilitate the recovery or creation of your space alien abduction experience. Just like the feminist sex abuse hypnotherapists, even if you don't remember what their trying to find, they will tell you this is the first step in getting better. Just let them play with your memory and it will all make sense. (For explains see the writings of John Mack and Budd Hopkins. I've also included such a book on the phenomenon below, and you can also find my "Scams from the Great Beyond" books where I discuss it too.)
So, what exactly did Tammy Yard-McCracken do with her hypnotherapist credential back at the time this was all going on? Can someone find documentation about it?
I for one would really like to know. Her bio says she has been admitted as an expert witness in Texas in court? For what issues? Did they involve misuse of hypnosis, misunderstanding of memory, and strange, unlikely claims involving sex abuse? It should also be mentioned that such people -sex abuse therapists with an interest in trauma who exaggerated their credentials and did not know the limits of their expertise, were particularly dangerous when they were in cahoots with law enforcement people who did not question their statements or credentials. (It's worth mention that at one point during the Dynamic Violence Seminar Kasey Keckelson did refer to her as "being a doctor." Oh well, no one ever said he's a detective, at least as far as I know, and he did show up half asleep and looking hung over to teach that day.)
It'd be great if someone were to look into this. You might also try checking such groups as support groups for divorced men, places where local psychotherapy in the 1980s is discussed, parents of such children, lawyers who were involved in such cases (I was going to say for the defense, but as time goes on a lot of prosecution lawyers have learned to avoid certain people who proved problematic in the past and made strange allegations against innocent people or gave disproven testimony in court), and people who were victimized by such therapists. (as time goes not not just the parents but often the patients themselves have turned against them).
This connection between law enforcement and misguided yet sincere therapists needs to be looked at more fully. Many people assume that law enforcement investigate reports of crimes, look at all the evidence, and then develop an informed, fact based assessment of the situation before choosing a suspect. Not always. Often law enforcement instead are told who did it (sometimes by the victim or alleged victim directly) or otherwise come to a conclusion of guilt and without checking further set out to "build a case." The goal here is not to collect facts but instead to simply build a case for the prosecution. This was particularly common in such cases and you can read about it in the books below. Debbie Nathan's is particularly good for this.
At this time it was not uncommon for someone to announce themselves as a "sex abuse expert" in an area, make contact with law enforcement, and soon after several innocent people got arrested and charged with horrible, unspeakable acts that they never did. This was particularly common in rural areas. Very problematic. This was often said to be "helping children" but the truth is it doesn't help children if you rip apart a healthy family for no reason, throw their parents in jail or prison, and put them in foster care with strangers. (see the "Wounded Innocents" book below for more details.)
This is especially important as Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken has many contacts in law enforcement. (Her husband and many family friends in Texas might have worked in law enforcement.)
In fact, law enforcement has a history of being duped by unqualified experts. I've seen it personally with tragic results. This is also in Debbie Nathan's books but you can read about it as well in ""In Search of Satan" also linked to below. These days, for what it's worth, the place you will often find police using unqualified experts is terrorism. Below you can find a book by Jeffrey Victor. Jeffrey Victor told me once personally that often when one holds a law enforcement training seminar they will use teaching sessions on "juicy subjects" such as Satanism, Occult Crime or Terrorism to bring in the officers so that they can teach them the things they really need and use regularly, like how to do better traffic stops and respond better to domestic problems. Again you can read about it below.
The book House of Cards has a very good assessment and discussion of the way in which people make mistakes in finding and choosing experts in a subject -often by assuming that such experts exist in the first place. It's, like so much here, well worth reading.
By the way, if you wish, you can find a record of Ms Tammy Yard-McCracken presenting a the Women in Federal Law Enforcement National Conference. She was advertised as having a doctorate and only did this one year.
E The Actual Texas License (s)
This is troubling if you know anything about therapists in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly therapists dealing with trauma and women's issues, and their relationship with hypnosis.
At this time, in many circles, there was a now discredited belief that it was possible for a person to suffer great trauma, often over an extended period of time, and then block the memory and forget that it ever happened. This theory was called "the repressed memory" theory and it further stated that while a person was able to not remember the event, it would manifest itself in other troubling behaviors and issues, such as anxiety and eating disorders among others.
In other words, while a person would lose the ability to remember something that had caused them long lasting suffering and trauma, not exactly an aid to learning to avoid its causes, the trauma would still affect them but they would not know the cause. This response to trauma was believed to be particularly common among survivors of long term sexual abuse. In fact, many advocates of the idea were of the belief that sexual abuse survivors were endemic and that many or perhaps even most survivors of this abuse had no idea that they had suffered it because they had forgotten ("repressed") all memory of the abuse and did not even know that it had occurred.
This belief has not only been discredited and disproven, but I, for one, find it impossible to see what possible evolutionary advantage the development of such a psychological response could possibly be or have been. I mean, if something is damaging to an organism, the first thing an organism should learn is how to avoid it and reduce or prevent further damage from that source. Repressed memory theory generally seems to hinge on the idea that this often doesn't happen. Nevertheless it was wide spread in certain circles and networks, particularly those that involved feminist psychotherapists with an interest in trauma and who lacked a high level understanding of how memory really worked (and where self proclaimed "experts" claimed an understanding of things they did not truly understand). I stated before that the belief as described showed little advantage to the patient or alleged victim of such forgotten trauma, but the existence of the belief did help to promote the idea that sexual abuse and trauma were much more widespread than anyone could possible have imagined or been able to measure and that among those responsible for this recurring unseen problem were the nuclear family structure and men in particular, both of whom were often seen as ignoring the issue simply because they were either culprits or they just didn't care. There was an entire " repressed memory / sex abuse " industry during this time, and a lot of dangerous, false ideas were spread and a lot of innocent people were hurt by therapists who did not understand memory and were unable to properly judge what they knew or did not know.
If you look below, in the section, under where I placed the information on Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken's Texas license information (public information that I am only reposting, you can find it online in multiple places ) you can find several books on the issue and the problems caused by this belief, a belief spread by poorly trained, misguided therapists. I hope you will consider taking the time to understand the issue and consider reading some of these books. (Yes, you can buy them here. You can also go to your public library and if need be use inter-library loan.)
Now, at the time, it was believed by many therapists that if one should find a patient, particularly a woman patient (why do so many feminists seem to routinely engage in behavior that damages other women? Someone please tell me that as well ) who had problems such as anxiety and eating disorders and other issues that did not stem from a definite cause that could be easily pinpointed, then these so-called "repressed memories" could be a source of the problem. It was believed, and there is zero definitive evidence that this was the case, that if one could "recover" the "repressed memories" and dredge them up from where they were deeply buried (note that clinical evidence and study shows that memory does not work this way), the results would ultimately help the patient.
One way to do this, it was believed, was through using hypnosis. However, this belief was based on a misunderstanding of both how memory works but also how hypnosis worked.
First, memory is highly malleable. The human organism evolved to adapt to conditions and learn how to respond to them. It did not evolve to record events or situations with photographic accuracy, as the survival benefits from remembering things with exact accuracy are much lower than simply remembering if something is bad or good and how to respond to it. Therefore humans do not remember things with perfect accuracy,
Second, when hypnosis is used, and the hypnotized person is asked to comply with the desire of the hypnotist, they will do their best to comply, but will often do so by creating new "memories" to fill in the gaps in what they remember and they will do so without realizing it. This is called "confabulation," confabulation being the technical term for the creation of false memories of details of events or even entire events that never happened.
Again, there are several good books on this below, right under the section where I have reshared the public information on Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken's Texas, master's degree level licensure. I urge you to look into them or otherwise familiarize yourself with this issue.
The result of this systemic, non-evidence based abuse of memory, an abuse that was most common among master's degree level therapists with an interest in women's issues and trauma and a hypnotherapist degree who often practiced and lived in isolated areas without too much supervision (which sounds like the case here) from higher trained psychologists (with accredited degrees) and psychiatrists (who only rarely believed such things but when they did were often obsessed with these beliefs), were a lot of people, usually women, who had their self-image and their beliefs about who they were and who their family was and what their life was like, completely turned topsy-turvy with tragic results. (for a particularly weird example, go look into the life of the actress-comedian Rosanne Barr during this period.) Many such people would declare themselves to be so traumatized that they could barely function, Many became dependent on their therapists, cut off contact with people in their families who wished to help them, in some cases actually bring criminal or civil charges against their own family members or plot in otherwise to take revenge on them for events that never happened, and the results were horrible. (You could read about this sort of thing a bit in the misguided book, Courage to Heal, by Ellen Bass. It was a classic in its sad and misguided field.) Often the therapists helped them attack their family members and aided in the legal actions for non-existent crimes. (Hmmm? If you read Ms. Yard-McCracken's bio, it states she was accepted as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases in Texas and Virginia. I bet the details of this are interesting and might be of interesting to people involved in any current legal cases where she might be called upon to testify. It might produce fascinating results if someone were to look into this.)
Many parents of such therapists suffered greatly from this systematic abuse. And, of course, one could ask how one knows they were all innocent (you don't, of course) but many of the accusations were so grandiose and so just plain bizarre and easily disproven that one has to wonder how they were ever taken seriously at all. (And if you ever met these parents, and I have met many of them, it is difficult to believe they were guilty of the charges made against them. Most were just sad and confused and concerned for the well being of their accusing children, although I confess more than one of them just wanted to find their child and scream "How can you even say these crazy things?" and then find their therapist and spend some time along in a locked room with them. It was a sad, sad, completely unnecessary international tragedy caused by poorly educated therapists who were exaggerating their expertise. Hmmm, again sound familiar?)
These days, recovered memory therapy and hypnotherapy is almost never used to recover memories of "repressed sexual abuse." The practice has been disproven and its tragic effects now widely understood. Curiously, one of the few places it is still used (at least last time I checked) is among UFO abductees where if one is suspected of having been abducted by space aliens, well intentioned, enthusiastic, poorly trained yet extremely dangerous hypnotherapists will eagerly use hypnosis to facilitate the recovery or creation of your space alien abduction experience. Just like the feminist sex abuse hypnotherapists, even if you don't remember what their trying to find, they will tell you this is the first step in getting better. Just let them play with your memory and it will all make sense. (For explains see the writings of John Mack and Budd Hopkins. I've also included such a book on the phenomenon below, and you can also find my "Scams from the Great Beyond" books where I discuss it too.)
So, what exactly did Tammy Yard-McCracken do with her hypnotherapist credential back at the time this was all going on? Can someone find documentation about it?
I for one would really like to know. Her bio says she has been admitted as an expert witness in Texas in court? For what issues? Did they involve misuse of hypnosis, misunderstanding of memory, and strange, unlikely claims involving sex abuse? It should also be mentioned that such people -sex abuse therapists with an interest in trauma who exaggerated their credentials and did not know the limits of their expertise, were particularly dangerous when they were in cahoots with law enforcement people who did not question their statements or credentials. (It's worth mention that at one point during the Dynamic Violence Seminar Kasey Keckelson did refer to her as "being a doctor." Oh well, no one ever said he's a detective, at least as far as I know, and he did show up half asleep and looking hung over to teach that day.)
It'd be great if someone were to look into this. You might also try checking such groups as support groups for divorced men, places where local psychotherapy in the 1980s is discussed, parents of such children, lawyers who were involved in such cases (I was going to say for the defense, but as time goes on a lot of prosecution lawyers have learned to avoid certain people who proved problematic in the past and made strange allegations against innocent people or gave disproven testimony in court), and people who were victimized by such therapists. (as time goes not not just the parents but often the patients themselves have turned against them).
This connection between law enforcement and misguided yet sincere therapists needs to be looked at more fully. Many people assume that law enforcement investigate reports of crimes, look at all the evidence, and then develop an informed, fact based assessment of the situation before choosing a suspect. Not always. Often law enforcement instead are told who did it (sometimes by the victim or alleged victim directly) or otherwise come to a conclusion of guilt and without checking further set out to "build a case." The goal here is not to collect facts but instead to simply build a case for the prosecution. This was particularly common in such cases and you can read about it in the books below. Debbie Nathan's is particularly good for this.
At this time it was not uncommon for someone to announce themselves as a "sex abuse expert" in an area, make contact with law enforcement, and soon after several innocent people got arrested and charged with horrible, unspeakable acts that they never did. This was particularly common in rural areas. Very problematic. This was often said to be "helping children" but the truth is it doesn't help children if you rip apart a healthy family for no reason, throw their parents in jail or prison, and put them in foster care with strangers. (see the "Wounded Innocents" book below for more details.)
This is especially important as Ms. Tammy Yard-McCracken has many contacts in law enforcement. (Her husband and many family friends in Texas might have worked in law enforcement.)
In fact, law enforcement has a history of being duped by unqualified experts. I've seen it personally with tragic results. This is also in Debbie Nathan's books but you can read about it as well in ""In Search of Satan" also linked to below. These days, for what it's worth, the place you will often find police using unqualified experts is terrorism. Below you can find a book by Jeffrey Victor. Jeffrey Victor told me once personally that often when one holds a law enforcement training seminar they will use teaching sessions on "juicy subjects" such as Satanism, Occult Crime or Terrorism to bring in the officers so that they can teach them the things they really need and use regularly, like how to do better traffic stops and respond better to domestic problems. Again you can read about it below.
The book House of Cards has a very good assessment and discussion of the way in which people make mistakes in finding and choosing experts in a subject -often by assuming that such experts exist in the first place. It's, like so much here, well worth reading.
By the way, if you wish, you can find a record of Ms Tammy Yard-McCracken presenting a the Women in Federal Law Enforcement National Conference. She was advertised as having a doctorate and only did this one year.
E The Actual Texas License (s)
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The telephone number associated with mailing address of the provider being identified. This data element may contain the same information as ''Provider location address telephone number''.
Provider First Line Business Practice Location Address 20923 KINGSLAND BLVD
The first line location address of the provider being identified. For providers with more than one physical location, this is the primary location. This address cannot include a Post Office box.
Provider Business Practice Location Address City Name KATY
The city name in the location address of the provider being identified.
Provider Business Practice Location Address State Name TX
The State or Province name in the location address of the provider being identified.
Provider Business Practice Location Address Postal Code 77450-5548
The postal ZIP or zone code in the location address of the provider being identified. NOTE: ZIP code plus 4-digit extension, if available.
Provider Business Practice Location Address Country Code US
The country code in the location address of the provider being identified.
Provider Business Practice Location Address Telephone Number 281-914-0951
The telephone number associated with the location address of the provider being identified.
Provider Enumeration Date 04/18/2007
The date the provider was assigned a unique identifier (assigned an NPI).
Last Update Date 07/08/2007
The date that a record was last updated or changed.
Provider Gender Code F
The code designating the provider's gender if the provider is a person.
Provider Gender Female
The provider's gender if the provider is a person.
Healthcare Provider Taxonomy Code #1 101YP2500X
The Health Care Provider Taxonomy code is a unique alphanumeric code, ten characters in length. The code set is structured into three distinct "Levels" including Provider Type, Classification, and Area of Specialization.
Healthcare Provider Taxonomy 1 Professional
Healthcare Provider Taxonomy #1
Provider License Number 1 11921
Certain taxonomy selections will require you to enter your license number and the state where the license was issued. Select Foreign Country in the state drop down box if the license was issued outside of United States. The License Number field allows the following special characters: ampersand, apostrophe, colon, comma, forward slash, hyphen, left and right parentheses, period, pound sign, quotation mark, and semi-colon. A field cannot contain all special characters. DO NOT report the Social Security Number (SSN), IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) in this section.
Provider License Number State Code 1 TX
Provider License Number State Code #1
Healthcare Provider Primary Taxonomy Switch 1 Y
Primary Taxonomy:
X - The primary taxonomy switch is Not Answered;
Y - The taxonomy is the primary taxonomy (there can be only one per NPI record);
N - The taxonomy is not the primary taxonomy.
F. Further Reading
Books on False Allegations, Misuse of Hypnotherapy, and Problems in the Chinese Abuse System
Books on the Issue of Problems with Experts and Police Experts
Thailand and Gold Triangle Books
"Restless Souls" is the better of the two books and was written by a journalist based in Mae Sot."For Us There is no Surrender" is popular but strikes me in places as "parachute journalism" written by a woman who was only there for six weeks.
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