Though the relationship is 1.) Professional 2.) One-sided, and 3.) Transactional; it is a relationship that requires cultivation. How compassionately challenged, how respectfully approached, and how gently supported you anticipate being in this relationship are great places to start assessing fit during consultation. During the course of your therapy, feedback from you is an immense aid to both your experience and the precision of interventions, ideas, and style from your counselor. Feedback on the therapeutic relationship helps your money (even when it pays for coverage plus copay) go the distance.
A traditional belief underscoring many styles of counseling today is brevity and precision. So the experience can be likened to phases of Early, Middle, and End. Early on in therapy you’ll learn your therapists help style through sharing your experiences, and by giving feedback on their approaches you help them with their precision. Middle stage is where goals and/or objectives are the focus and this stage lasts as long as it must/can due to various circumstances. Once you can see yourself maintaining and/or managing with less therapeutic intervention (presuming that’s the goal), you’re in the end stage. So what about the brevity? Short-term therapy is an uncommon constraint in private practice, it’s more common in funded establishments such as community mental health and insurance where the limit is often the number of sessions and/or length of appointments.
Building on the previously answered question about the Therapy Process the most solid answer we can offer is this: Contract Funding Constraints. Much of the process in gaining, maintaining, and comprehensively covering mental health treatments affects those directly covered in ways that mirror folks within the profession who can contract with an insurance network. Systems built for high exploitation as a means of profit usually do not exploit just the bottom tier of humans in it’s system, the exploitation is woven throughout. At A Therapist C’s we have chosen not to engage in that type of risk of exploitation and seek other ways to increase mental health equity, affordability, and access because all are deserving and there is not one sole solution to this systemic problem.
Brilliant Question and we would say “Yes”. Training in specified methods (e.g. EMDR, FFT, CPT, etc.) are typically structured and often evidence-based methods that require significant investment of time, funds, and flexibility from the counselor on an ongoing basis to ensure specialized competence is kept. Alternatively, our current staff have concentrated specialties honed by years in practice across settings and populations. The treatment you receive as a client is custom made for specifically those receiving services through us with our staff thus the interventions aren’t flattened with generalizations, put to rigorous testing standards, and ultimately pay-walled for hierarchical accessibility impacting both practitioners and consumers in various ways (e.g. having to adapt generalized content, service pricing, etc.)
Our founder leveraged the obligatory resilience developed while navigating this industry to open a business and intentionally did this without limiting the company to solely being a therapy practice. A Therapist C’s was founded from a personally-based commitment to being the very type of practice and business she wished she had worked for. The socio-political responsibility they developed while serving, before establishing A Therapist C’s, now informs our Corporate Social Responsibility.
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We do! However please note our counselors do not offer forensic expert testimony nor will they provide clinical evaluations. We have therapists on staff that are within their Scope of Practice to provide court-ordered Individual Therapy for those required to obtain therapeutic support as they work through a legal concern impacting areas of daily life functioning.
