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Psychotherapy Tips + Insurance Verification
Psychotherapy Tips
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Before your scheduled appointment, consider writing down questions, topics, or issues you would like to focus on your session.
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Communicate your expectations to your therapist so that you are working together toward your goals.
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Provide ongoing feedback to your therapist so that they know how you are doing (i.e.., “I want to focus on my anger more,” or “I like doing relaxation exercises”). Therapy is a collaborative approach.
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If you feel a need to increase or decrease the frequency of your sessions, or to end counseling, feel free to communicate that to your therapist or the office staff.
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If you feel a need to bring a spouse/partner, relative, or friend in with you for your session to work on interpersonal issues, feel free to do so. Please discuss it with your therapist prior to their arrival.
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If you have another professional involved in your care (e.g., family physician, psychiatrist, chiropractor, etc.), iPSYCHS would be happy to coordinate with him/her. It is generally not advisable to have more than one mental health counselor involved in your treatment, at one time. Also, if you need a referral for psychiatry please ask and your therapist can coordinate care.
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Try to make a commitment to yourself to remain in therapy and attend regular sessions, for as long as you feel necessary. We would advise at minimum once a week, some patients need more intensive sessions, which would be more than once per week. If you wait until you have a crisis, it will be more difficult to build long-lasting coping skills.
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If for any reason you would like to see a different therapist, please feel free to tell your therapist or the office staff. They can provide you with names of other therapists that would recommend that can meet your individual needs.
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If you experience thoughts of harming yourself or someone else, please tell your therapist. It is their ethical responsibility to work with you to assess these thoughts and to develop a plan with you to maintain safety. Please also tell them if anyone is harming you so they can also work together on a plan to keep you safe.
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Psychotherapeutic sessions will be tailored to your individual needs such as utilizing various psychodynamic approaches, evidence-based theories, assessments and/or therapeutic assignments.
We look forward to working with you!
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