A Detailed Overview of the Therapy Process for Individuals
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TREATMENT PLAN DISCLAIMER | INSURANCE POLICIES | TREATMENT PLANNING | ELEMENTS OF A TREATMENT PLAN | HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
TREATMENT PLAN PROGRESSION | TREATMENT PLAN OUTLINE | ISSUES ADDRESSED IN THERAPY | TREATMENT PLAN LONG TERM GOALS
TREATMENT PLAN OBJECTIVES | TREATMENT PLAN INTERVENTIONS | INTERVENTIONS LIST | PSYCHOEDUCATION | TYPES OF THERAPY
Orientation to Treatment Plans
- Before we begin reviewing the standard therapy plan (treatment plan) please read the treatment plan disclaimer.
- Review the insurance company policies regarding reimbursement for medically necessary services and out of network service providers.
- Review the reasons why counselors and therapists create treatment plans collaboratively with their clients.
- Review the primary elements of a clear, concise, and complete treatment plan.
- Review why counselors assign “homework” for their clients to practice or complete between sessions.
- Review why tracking your progress benefits you more than it benefits the counselor.
- Review the summary outline of treatment planning.
- Review the outline of the process of therapy.
- Explore the other treatment planning links in the menu above.
- Review the treatment plans on specific issues.
Tracking Your Progress
Audits from insurance companies are becoming increasingly common. This seems to coincide with the record numbers of people seeking therapy, counseling, and any other help with their mental health care. In many instances, insurance companies require treatment plans and documentation of a person’s progress in treatment – and that the services are medically necessary. Asking my client’s to be involved with planning their treatment, and tracking their own progress just makes sense. The benefit to you is that you become accountable for your own mental health, and empowered with autonomy, agency, and assertive confidence. If you are paying for my services, this gives you a way to hold me accountable to the work we do together. The progress tracker tool has been designed to be as convenient as possible, and is mostly a thorough checklist of interventions, lessons, and activities.
Summary Outline of Treatment Planning
Outline of the Process of Therapy
Treatment Plans for Specific Issues (PDF versions)
The following treatment plans are also available in the client Therapy Portal on James Fitzgerald’s Therapy Notes electronic health records software website. Please ask your therapist for instructions on how to access them through that other portal.
ANXIETY | DEPRESSION | ADULT ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER | POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER | CHILDHOOD TRAUMA | AUTISM SPECTRUM
ANGER MANAGEMENT | ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY | BORDERLINE PERSONALITY | DEPENDENT PERSONALITY | NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY
ADJUSTMENT TO CHANGE | PHASE OF LIFE | VOCATIONAL STRESS | FINANCIAL STRESS | CHRONIC PAIN | LEGAL PROBLEMS | MEDICAL ISSUES
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS | FAMILY CONFLICT | PARENTING | MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION | FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
BIPOLAR DEPRESSION | BIPOLAR MANIA | DISSOCIATION | IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER | PARANOID IDEATION | PSYCHOSIS | SOCIAL ANXIETY
SOMATIC COMPLAINTS | SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER | SUICIDAL IDEATION | UNRESOLVED GRIEF AND LOSS | TYPE A BEHAVIOR | SLEEP DISTURBANCE
SPIRITUAL CONFUSION | SELF ESTEEM | GENDER DYSPHORIA | SEXUAL IDENTITY CONFLICT | SEXUAL ABUSE | PHOBIAS | AGORAPHOBIA & PANIC
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER | NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDER | EDUCATIONAL DEFICITS | EATING DISORDER | SENSORY PROCESSING