Blog for Therapists in Private Practice and Telehealth
Private Practice Tips and Resources, Therapy Resources, News in Teletherapy, Marketing for Therapists, Latest Updates from Thera Platform, and more!
- 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, September 3, 2019
Text appointment reminders
Text appointment reminders and a few new improvements are now available in TheraPlatform!! Text appointment reminders are a great way of reducing missed appointments in your private practice and keeping a steady flow of income....
- 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....
- Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Video Recording of Live Telehealth Sessions
Video recording of telehealth sessions is live in TheraPlatfom. Our video recording of telehealth is great for training, supervising and progress monitoring....
- Monday, July 22, 2019
Telehealth Occupational Therapy
Telehealth Occupational Therapy is growing! Learn what you need to get started with telehealth occupational therapy (teletherapy): technology, license, documents, HIPAA compliant video platform, client’s candidacy and more....
- 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....
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Online Speech Therapy Games
Wednesday, July 15, 2020Online speech therapy games are great for home practice and teletherapy (aka telehealth) and add another mode of learning. This blog will review 12 fun online speech therapy games and resources that therapists can utilize with children either during office or telehealth visits.
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Preparing Parents for Teletherapy (Telehealth)
Monday, July 13, 2020Teletherapy (telehealth therapy) may be a completely new experience for many of your clients and parents and this blog will review how to prepare parents for teletherapy. Technology, environment, parent involvement and child’s behavior will be addressed to help you prepare your new clients and families for their first teletherapy session.
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Your Private Therapy Practice during COVID 19: What You Need To Know Going Forward
Tuesday, June 23, 2020Your private therapy practice during COVID 19 is not the same and the therapy world was quite different just a few short months ago. What do you need to know going forward? This blog will review safety of your practice and patients; new policies and procedure that practice owners may consider and alternative approaches to in- person therapy.