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- Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Private Practice Marketing
Private practice marketing is something that psychotherapists, counselors and therapists did not study at school as they go to school to learn to help people. Although the idea of marketing is distasteful to some, the fact is that you can’t perform counseling if you don’t get people in the door. Luckily, getting clients for your private practice is not as difficult as it may seem. Here are some marketing strategies tips and ideas for therapists to help you with your private practice marketing....
- Monday, December 9, 2019
Family Therapy Techniques
Family therapy techniques are ways to address family conflict by improving the communication and interaction of family members. There are numerous family therapy techniques, but four main models dominate the spectrum. This blog reviews the main therapy family techniques: structural, Bowenian, strategic and systematic....
- Monday, October 14, 2019
Motivational Interviewing for Substance Abuse
Motivational Interviewing (MI) for substance abuse, is primarily used to help overcome ambivalence or resistance in hard-to-change behaviors. With its roots in client-centered therapy, motivational interviewing for substance abuse, does not teach specific techniques to overcome problems. As a result, it is often used in conjunction with other therapies as opposed to being the sole intervention. ...
- Monday, October 7, 2019
Person Centered Therapy Techniques
Person centered therapy techniques aka client centered techniques, originally founded by Carl Rogers, put an emphasis on the client as an expert. It posits that people strive toward a state of self-actualization and therapy can help a client reach self-awareness. It is a therapist’s job to create the proper surroundings for a client to become a “fully functioning person”.Let’s look at some techniques a therapist uses in person-centered therapy. ...
- Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Starting a Private Practice in Counseling
Starting a private practice in counseling requires not only clinical experience but essential tools that will help counselor or therapists to start a private practice and run it smoothly as well. Business plan, space, communication, record keeping, billing, forms, procedures and more are all necessary when starting a private practice in counseling. ...
- Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Art Therapy Activities
Art therapy activities offer many outstanding benefits with helping clients obtain their treatment goals. For children it can be difficult for them to verbalize their feelings; however, they can illustrate them clearly through their art therapy activities. This assists their therapists to identify deeper issues and help the children work through them. Here a few ideas of art therapy activities that can be utilized when working with both adults and children....
- Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Four common misconceptions about encryption and encrypted email
Encryption is a very demonstrable safeguard you can use to protect your clients’ ePHI. No doubt you’ve heard about encrypted email, but do you understand enough about encryption to knowledgeably choose an encrypted email and web form service that will give your practice the level of protection it needs? ...
- Monday, July 29, 2019
Teletherapy Checklist for Therapists
Teletherapy is growing! Here is the checklist of equipment, technology, documents and marketing for your teletherapy service....
- Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Resistance in Therapy
Resistance in therapy can be complicated. Learn what are signs of resistance in therapy and how therapists can address resistance....
- Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Psychotherapy Notes
Psychotherapy notes are therapy notes that hold legal protections behind what was written. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about psychotherapy notes: definition, difference between SOAP notes, purpose and legal protection. ...
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Private Practice Marketing
Wednesday, February 12, 2020Private practice marketing is something that psychotherapists, counselors and therapists did not study at school as they go to school to learn to help people. Although the idea of marketing is distasteful to some, the fact is that you can’t perform counseling if you don’t get people in the door. Luckily, getting clients for your private practice is not as difficult as it may seem. Here are some marketing strategies tips and ideas for therapists to help you with your private practice marketing.
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DAP notes
Wednesday, February 5, 2020DAP Notes aka Data, Assessment and Plan Notes are progress notes that follow a very specific format to help clinicians to organize their notes. Let’s explore a few DAP note examples and tips. These examples will help you quickly review each part of DAP.
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HIPAA Compliant Video Conferencing
Wednesday, January 8, 2020HIPAA compliant video conferencing is a must when providing teletherapy (aka telehealth) services. Once you decide that telehealth is right for your practice, the next step is choosing your video- conferencing platform. Not just any platform but a platform that provides HIPAA-compliant video-conferencing. You might be tempted to assume that any password-protected video-conferencing platform is secure but that is not the case. If you are going to be providing telehealth services, your platform and other tools need to meet HIPAA-compliance standards.