As COVID-19 is ramping up here in Colorado, therapists' phones are ringing off the hook with old clients wanting to re-connect and new clients wanting their first appointments. It happened this way during the AIDS epidemic. It happened this way during the aftermath of 9-11 and the Katrina {...}
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Ethics
How to Help When Your Colleague Dies
Over the last few years, I've heard of several of our colleagues dying.
Each time, I know, there is a back story related to how those individual therapists planned . . . or didn't plan for their wishes concerning the continuity of client care.
Every professional code of ethics for mental health {...}
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The Therapist’s Ultimate Guide to Bundling & Packaging Therapeutic Services (Part 2 of 3)
Before You Package Your Work
This is the second of the 3-part series, The Ultimate Guide to Bundling & Packaging Your Therapeutic Services.
In the first part, I discussed 12 Benefits of Packaging Your Clinical Work and already therapists are recognizing that there's more to bundling and {...}
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Counselors Talking Out Of School Or . . . What Not To Say Online
Long gone are the days when professional counselors could ethically speak publically about their clients simply by stripping away all of the identifying information.
These days, discussing a client at all - with or without identifying information - is not only unethical, it is also considered to {...}
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