what that means is for example NY has a law against using conversion therapy (using brainwashing and other harmful therapies to make a non heterosexual person not be a lesbian) so a mental health agency cant use the governments money to try and make me not be a lesbian.

Mental health agencies in the USA get their money for their business from community donations, federal and state grants/ state and federal funds, scholarships, fundraising and also from their clients.

an easy way to understand this is percentages like when you went to school the school got federal and state money so much per child enrolled.

its sort of like that. some mental health agencies have a name for this state and federal money that comes into their agency like "flex funds"

a metal health agency can not ask the state or federal government for fex funds to start a program with their agency that is called conversion therapy here in NY because NY has a law that says its illegal for a treatment provider in NY to use conversion therapy (this is a mental health treatment where gays and lesbians used to be put through a brainwashing program to make them become "normal" "straight"

in other words it has nothing to do with keeping a patient or client from getting therapy. its that the government can not give the mental health agency money for illegal practices.

if a mental health agency applies for flex funds and they treat using medication, CBT, DBT and so on ... the therapy techniques and medications must be legal in that state. thats all it means. those therapy techniques with a bad reputation/ illegal, has caused deaths or harm are usually the ones that have laws against practicing them in the states