TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact Xx. XxXxxxxxx between sessions, please leave a message on his confidential voice mail-box (000) 000-0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Xx. XxXxxxxxx checks his messages a few times a day, unless he is out of town. If an emergency situation arises, please indicate it clearly in your message. If you need to talk to someone right away, you can call Xx. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx at (000) 000-0000, the Orange County 24-hour crisis hot line (000) 000-0000, or the Police (911). PAYMENTS & INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT: Clients are expected to pay the standard fee of $ per 55 minute session at the end of each session or at the end of the month unless other arrangements have been made. Telephone conversations, site visits, report writing and reading, consultation with other professionals, release of information, reading records, longer sessions, travel time, etc... will be charged at the same rate, unless indicated and agreed otherwise. Please notify Xx. XxXxxxxxx if any problem arises during the course of therapy regarding your ability to make timely payments. Clients who carry insurance should remember that professional services are rendered and charged to the clients and not to the insurance company. Unless agreed upon differently, Xx. XxXxxxxxx will provide you with a copy of your receipt on a monthly basis, which you can then submit to your insurance company for reimbursement if you so choose. As was indicated in the section Health Insurance & confidentiality of records, you must be aware that submitting a mental health invoice for reimbursement carries a certain amount of risk. Not all issues/conditions/problems, which are the focus of psychotherapy, are reimbursed by insurance companies. It is your responsibility to verify the specifics of your coverage.
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact Xxxxx Xxxxxx between sessions, please leave a message on her confidential voice mail at (000) 000-0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Xxxxx Xxxxxx checks her messages a few times during the daytime only, unless she is out of town. If an emergency situation arises, indicate it clearly in your message and if you need to talk to someone right away, call the Police: 911. Please do not use email or faxes for emergencies. DELINQUENT ACCOUNT POLICY: If your account is overdue (unpaid) and there is no written agreement on a payment plan, Xxxxx Xxxxxx can use legal or other means (courts, collection agencies, etc.) to obtain payment. MEDIATION & ARBITRATION: All disputes arising out of, or in relation to, this agreement to provide psychotherapy services shall preferably first be referred to mediation before the initiation of arbitration or litigation. The mediator shall be a neutral third party chosen by agreement of Xxxxx Xxxxxx and the client(s). The cost of such mediation, if any, shall be split equally, unless otherwise agreed upon. In the event that mediation is unsuccessful or not an agreed-upon option, any unresolved controversy related to this agreement should preferably be submitted to and settled by binding arbitration, in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association which are in effect at the time the request for arbitration is filed. Please, note that neither mediation nor arbitration is mandatory. In the PATIENT LITIGATION: Xxxxx Xxxxxx will not voluntarily participate in any litigation, or custody dispute in which client and another individual, or entity, are parties. Xxxxx Xxxxxx has a policy of not communicating with client’s attorney and will not write or sign letters, reports, declarations, or affidavits be used in client’s legal matter. Xxxxx Xxxxxx will not provide records or testimony to be used in client’s legal matter. There are occasions where Xxxxx Xxxxxx will make an exception and charge the fee of THE PROCESS OF THERAPY/EVALUATION AND SCOPE OF PRACTICE: Participation in
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact me between sessions, please leave a message at my confidential voicemail box, (000) 000-0000, and your call will be returned as soon as possible. I check my messages a few times during the daytime only, unless I am out of town. If an emergency situation arises, indicate it clearly in your message and if you need to talk to someone right away call 911. Please do not use email or faxes for emergencies. I don’t always check my emails daily.
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact Xxxxxx Xxxxx, LCSW between sessions: please leave a message at 000-000-0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible - typically within 24 hours during the Mon-Friday business week Xxxxxx Xxxxx, LCSW checks her messages a few times during the daytime only: unless she is out of town. To talk to someone right away call Psychiatric or Behavioral/Mental Health Emergency Services. (Maricopa County): 000-000-0000 (24-hour crisis line) (Phoenix area) or the Police: 911. Please do not use email or faxes for emergencies. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, LCSW does not always check her email or faxes daily. If Xxxxxx Xxxxx, LCSW is incapacitated, please contact Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx, PhD at 000-000-0000. Participation in therapy is voluntary and can result m a number of benefits to you: including improving interpersonal relationships and resolution of the specific concerns that led you to seek therapy. Working toward these benefits: however: requires effort on your part. Psychotherapy requires your very active involvement: honesty: and openness in order to change your thoughts, feelings: and/or behavior. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, LCSW will ask for your feedback and views on your therapy and will expect you to respond openly and honestly Sometimes more than one approach is helpful in dealing with a certain situation. During evaluation or therapy: remembering or talking about unpleasant events: feelings: or thoughts can result in you experiencing considerable discomfort or strong feelings of anger: sadness: worry: fear, etc.: or experiencing anxiety: depression, insomnia: etc. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, LCSW may challenge some of your assumptions or perceptions or propose different ways of looking at: thinking about: or handling situations: which can cause you to feel very upset, angry: depressed: challenged: or disappointed. Attempting to resolve issues that brought you to therapy in the first place: such as personal or interpersonal relationships: may result in changes that were not originally intended. Psychotherapy may result in decisions about changing behaviors: employment: substance use: schooling: housing: or relationships. Sometimes a decision that IS positive for one family member is viewed quite negatively by another family member. Change will sometimes be easy and swift: but more often it will be slow and even frustrating. There is no guarantee that psychotherapy will yield positive or intended results. During the course of therapy, Xxxxxx Xxxxx, LCSW is likely to draw on...
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact Xx. Xxxxx between sessions, please leave a message at (000) 000-0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Xx. Xxxxx checks her messages during the daytime only, unless she is out of town. If she is unavailable for an extended period of time, such as away on vacation, she will provide you with the name of a colleague to contact, if necessary. There are many times when Xx. Xxxxx is not immediately available or is in session with another client. Other circumstances, such as poor cell reception, may cause Xx. Xxxxx to be unavailable by telephone. In these instances, it is best to leave a message on her voicemail with your phone number and some good times to reach you, and she will return the call as soon as she is able. If an emergency situation arises, please indicate the nature of emergency clearly in your message, and also call 911 or go to the nearest hospital. If you need to talk to someone right away, call Psychiatric Emergency Services in Santa Xxxx at (707) 576- 818, or 911. Please do not use email, texts, or faxes for emergencies. Xx. Xxxxx does not always check her email, texts, or faxes daily. $185 per hour, and the fee for services will be established at or prior to the first meeting. The fee is collected at the time of each session. Clients are encouraged (but not required) to pay at the beginning of the session so that they can increase their attention during the session and feel undisrupted at the end.
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx between sessions, please leave a message at the answering service (000-000-0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx checks her messages a few times during the daytime only, unless she is out of town and will return your call within 24 hours. If an emergency situation and you are in a crisis situation, and Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx cannot be reached, you may call 911, or 24-Hour Crisis Hotlines – National 1-800-273-TALK (8255) National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Suicide/Crisis Hotlines of Maricopa 0-000-000-0000 or 000-000-0000, or go immediately to your local hospital emergency room. Please do not use email or faxes for emergencies. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx may be with a client, out of the office or on vacation and may be unable to check her email or faxes daily. Clients are expected to pay the standard fee of $120.00 per 45 minutes (individual), 150 per 60 for (individual) or $150.00 per 45 minutes for (couple) and 175 per 60 minutes (couple and family) session; at the end of each session or at the end of the month unless other arrangements have been made. Telephone conversations, site visits, writing and reading of reports, consultation with other professionals, release of information, reading records, longer sessions, travel time, etc. will be charged at the same rate, unless indicated and agreed upon otherwise. Please notify Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx if any problems arise during the course of therapy regarding your ability to make timely payments. Clients who carry insurance should remember that professional services are rendered and charged to the clients and not to the insurance companies. Unless agreed upon differently, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx will provide you with a copy of your receipt on a monthly basis, which you can then submit to your insurance company for reimbursement, if you so choose. As was indicated in the section, Health Insurance & Confidentiality of Records, you must be aware that submitting a mental health invoice for reimbursement carries a certain amount of risk. Not all issues/conditions/problems, which are dealt with in psychotherapy, are reimbursed by insurance companies. It is your responsibility to verify the specifics of your coverage. If your account is overdue (unpaid) and there is no written agreement on a payment plan, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx can use legal or other means (courts, collection agencies, etc.) to obtain payment.
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact the therapist between sessions, please leave a voicemail message and your call will be returned as soon as possible. The therapist checks his/her messages a few times during the daytime only, unless s/he is out of town. If an emergency situation arises, indicate it clearly in your message and if you need to talk to someone right away call Psychiatric Emergency Services, 24-‐hour crisis line or the Police: 911. Please do not use email, text messages or faxes for emergencies. The therapist does not always check his/her email or faxes daily. PAYMENTS & INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT: Clients are expected to pay the agreed upon fee per session at the beginning of each session. Telephone conversations, consultation with other professionals, release of information, reading records, longer sessions, travel time, etc. will be charged at the same rate, unless indicated and agreed upon otherwise. Please notify the therapist if any problems arise during the course of therapy regarding your ability to make timely payments. Clients who carry insurance should remember that professional services are rendered and charged to the clients and not to the insurance companies. Unless agreed upon differently, the therapist will provide you with a copy of your receipt on a monthly basis, which you can then submit to your insurance company for reimbursement, if you so choose. As was indicated in the section, Health Insurance & Confidentiality of Records, you must be aware that submitting a mental health invoice for reimbursement carries a certain amount of risk. Not all issues/conditions/problems, which are dealt with in psychotherapy, are reimbursed by insurance companies. It is your responsibility to verify the specifics of your coverage. If your account is overdue (unpaid) and there is no written agreement on a payment plan, the therapist can use legal or other means (courts, collection agencies, etc.) to obtain payment.
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx between sessions, please leave a message at the answering service (000) 000-0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx checks her messages a few times during the daytime only, unless she is out of town. If an emergency situation arises, indicate it clearly in your message and if you need to talk to someone right away call Psychiatric Emergency Services: (000) 000-0000, 24-hour crisis line: (000) 000-0000 or the Police: 911. Please do not use email or faxes for emergencies. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx does not always check her email or faxes daily.
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact Xx. Xxxx between sessions, please leave a message at the answering service (000) 000-0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Xx. Xxxx checks his messages a few times during the daytime only, unless he is out of town. If an emergency situation arises, indicate it clearly in your message and if you need to talk to someone right away call Psychiatric Emergency Services. (Macomb County): (000) 000-0000 , 24-hour crisis line (Macomb County): (000) 000-0000 or the Police: 911. Please do not use email or faxes for emergencies. Xx. Xxxx does not always check his email or faxes daily. PAYMENTS & INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT: Clients are expected to pay the standard fee of $140.00 per 45 minute or $185.00 per hour session at the end of each session or at the end of the month unless other arrangements have been made. Telephone conversations, site visits, writing and reading of reports, consultation with other professionals, release of information, reading records, longer sessions, travel time, etc. will be charged at the same rate, unless indicated and agreed upon otherwise. Please notify Xx. Xxxx if any problems arise during the course of therapy regarding your ability to make timely payments. For those with insurance coverage, a claim describing these services will be submitted to your insurance carrier for possible reimbursement. Not all issues/conditions/problems, which are dealt with in psychotherapy, are reimbursed by insurance companies. It is your responsibility to verify the specifics of your coverage. If your account is overdue (unpaid) and there is no written agreement on a payment plan, Xx. Xxxx can use legal or other means (courts, collection agencies, etc.) to obtain payment. THE PROCESS OF THERAPY/EVALUATION AND SCOPE OF PRACTICE: Participation in therapy can result in a number of benefits to you, including improving interpersonal relationships and resolution of the specific concerns that led you to seek therapy. Working toward these benefits, however, requires effort on your part. Psychotherapy requires your very active involvement, honesty, and openness in order to change your thoughts, feelings, and/or behavior. Xx. Xxxx will ask for your feedback and views on your therapy, its progress, and other aspects of the therapy and will expect you to respond openly and honestly. Sometimes more than one approach can be helpful in dealing with a certain situation. During evaluation or therapy, remembering or talking about un...
TELEPHONE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. If you need to contact me between sessions, please leave a message on my office voicemail (000) 000-0000 or (202) 000- 0000 and your call will be returned as soon as possible. THE PROCESS OF THERAPY/EVALUATION AND SCOPE OF PRACTICE:
