MHPEA
Mental Health Professionals
Equity Alliance
Fri, Oct 17
|Free Virtual Event
Naming the Structural Forces Dismantling the Behavioral Health Industry
Mental health providers aren’t burning out by accident; they’re being broken down by a system built to put profit over care. This free 3 CE course traces the corporate takeover of behavioral health and exposes the structural forces breaking providers and dismantling care.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Free Virtual Event
About the event
Course Fee:
Free
Number of CE Hours: 3.0
This course is hosted by the Mental Health Professionals Equity Alliance (MHPEA). CE credit is provided by TelebehavioralHealth.US, an approved provider through the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) ACE program. Course Description:
This course exposes how corporate consolidation, private equity, and regulatory neglect have systematically restructured behavioral health to prioritize profits over care. Participants will trace the deliberate timeline of policy shifts and market maneuvers that enabled insurers, investment firms, and digital platforms to capture the field, displacing clinical judgment with financial imperatives. The course unpacks the structural forces driving provider harms including suppressed reimbursement, contractual disempowerment, administrative overload, and escalating burnout. Through case studies, discussion, and collective reflection, clinicians will connect personal experience to broader systemic patterns and gain strategies for resistance, advocacy, and reclaiming professional integrity. The session positions providers not as passive subjects of these forces but as essential…