Therapist churn cripples veteran care

Rapid turnover among VA mental‑health therapists is breaking therapeutic continuity for veterans, causing canceled appointments, repeated re‑intakes, and patient disengagement. The departures are linked to an administration‑driven VA overhaul and manager hiring/firing patterns that make retention harder. — If true at scale, therapist churn at the VA undermines national obligations to veterans, raises public‑health risks (relapse, homelessness, suicide risk) and reframes debates about health‑system reform as staffing and governance problems, not just funding or access.