Mental Health Professionals Responding To Court Orders
Subpoena Received Last month, I was hanging out on one of the online discussion lists that I participate in when Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Iain Halstead of Bogart, Georgia posted the following...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance Myth Busting – Emails, Texts, & Smart Phones (series) – Part 1
I told you guys that in March, I attended the American Counseling Association’s annual conference in Hawaii. That’s where I had an opportunity to meet face-to-face (for the first time) my colleague...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance Myth Busting – Emails, Texts, & Smart Phones (series) – Part 2
Guest blogger and My HIPAA and Security Guru, Roy Huggins, LPC kicked off this series on Thursday by pointing out some of the mixed messages we get when discussing our need for HIPAA compliance....
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance Myth Busting – Emails, Texts, & Smart Phones (series) – Part 3
OK, gang, so we’ve been talking about HIPAA and disaster-thinking and what the truth is about using email and text in our practices. Roy Huggins, LPC is back with us today to continue the conversation...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance Myth Busting – Emails, Texts, & Smart Phones (series) – Part 4
The Client Centered Tech and my HIPAA guru, Roy Huggins, LPC is back with us again today continuing to chip away at some of our commonly held myths around HIPAA and tech security. Today, he’s talking...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance Myth Busting – Emails, Texts, & Smart Phones (series) – Part 5
We’re winding up the HIPAA Compliance Myth Busting – Emails, Texts, & Smart Phones (series) today with a generous offer from Roy Huggins, LPC. Check this out . . . ! (If you are interested in...
View ArticleAn Interview Over At The Counselor Entrepreneur
We’re Colleagues and E-Friends I’ve followed the work of Licensed Professional Counselor Camille McDaniel for over a year. We’ve chatted on her blog and mine. We’ve shared our opinions in email...
View ArticleAPA Formatting For Your Citations: Blog Posts, Facebook Updates, YouTube, and...
Several of you have asked where you can go to get the correct APA formatting for your blog posts, Facebook updates, etc. Here’s 4 online resources to help you get it right every time. How to Cite...
View ArticleShattering The Silence Around Suicide Is Part Of Your Job
Robin Williams died this week and it reminded me yet again of how easy it is to make a life and death difference in someone’s life and yet how difficult it can be for us to consciously choose to...
View ArticleWhat To Do When Others Want To Cash In On Your Reputation
A Bad Choice A guy in marketing made an unfortunate series of choices in the last few months. He sent out a blast of emails to therapists stating that he and I had “collaborated” when we had not. He...
View ArticleHow I Learned To Ride The Waves In Private Practice
Last night I was chatting on Facebook with marriage and family therapist Uriah Guilford about getting caught up in “the numbers” while trying to build a private practice. Then I realized that I wanted...
View Article10 Steps to Writing Letters That Get Results When Therapists Get Cheated
I talk to therapists every week who are stunned that business owners in our own and allied professions, can and will pass out shoddy advice and poor or deceptive services simply to make a dollar at a...
View ArticleSimple & Sane – How Not To Over-Think HIPAA In Private Practice
[DEADLINE for DISCOUNT EXTENDED through JUNE 7, 2015] Yesterday I got to hang out with my friend and favorite security-geek-turned-counselor, Roy Huggins, LPC, NCC! Many of you were able to join us for...
View ArticleGuidelines 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleProviding Therapy Is Hard! – Now What You Can Do About It
My apologies, gang – to you and to Amy Flaherty! It seems we had an email glitch that resulted in her beautiful infographic getting posted without the actual blog post! Let’s try this again! On...
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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...
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Running Off At The Mouth On Facebook
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...
View ArticleCounselors 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...
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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...
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