Every mental health attorney I have spoken to in the last two decades has expressed concerns about therapists sharing inappropriately or sharing too much on Facebook.
I've spoken to over 300 therapists about this on an individual level.
Some have initiated those conversations with me after {...}
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Risk Management
Tech Countertransference And The One Question You Need To Be Asking Yourself
Licensed Professional Counselor Roy Huggins was the first person that ever talked to me about that gray-green feeling I get whenever someone talks to me about HIPAA and IT stuff and, frankly anything that remotely addresses digital security for mental health professionals.
I'm embarrassed to {...}
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A Psychotherapist’s Out-of-Office Email Response
Summer is waning and many of us have been out of the office for some long overdue respite and self-care.
Last year, I sent one of my colleagues, Christine Garcia, MA, LPC, an email while she was out of the office and, in response, received an email from her autoresponder.
In consideration of {...}
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Guidelines For Psychotherapists Who Have Had Their Intellectual Property Stolen
You Own What You Create
Your website including the images, text, audio and video recordings that were created by you belong to you from the moment that they were created / written until the moment you sign away those rights. When someone chooses to use any of that intellectual property without {...}
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