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I am a PsyD student at the University of La Verne completing my dissertation on therapists who have a personal history of mental health concerns. The purpose of this study is to better understand therapists’ lived experiences in order to inform workplace coping strategies, challenge mental health stigma, and to identify provider strengths that can be leveraged from their personal mental health experiences.

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Participation involves a 1-hour Zoom interview and a brief (approximately 10-minute) demographic questionnaire. All information will be kept strictly confidential.

Feedback from participants so far suggests that the interview has been experienced as engaging and reflective.

If you are interested or would like more information, please email kristen.rimular@laverne.edu

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P.s. I want to create sort of a great thread for anyone who thinks of going solo and searches for this question (which I hope /assume they do).

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Hi all. So I’m an LMFT in California and I want to go back to solo private practice. I’ve tried Grow Therapy and I like it, but I want to focus on getting more out of pocket clients. What directories do you recommend?

Currently, I'm a fairly new therapist at an agency in Maryland where we have to obtain our own clients, which is fine, because I was informed ahead of time. Recently, I got an opportunity to work at a private practice in Pennsylvania as well. They have their own referral sources. I'm wondering if this is something others do, which is, work at multiple private practice agencies. Or is this even ethical? I would like to stay at the Maryland agency just because of the guidance and relationships that have been formed

My post was deleted because it was about AI, and I was told to post on the megathread:

"General Al discussions, personal experiences with Al tools, client use of Al, and news articles should be posted in the Al Megathread instead."

How do I find this so I can post my question? TIA

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I’ve been noticing some variability in early engagement patterns when working with couples in telehealth outpatient settings in New York and wanted to get a sense of how others are conceptualizing this.

In early sessions, even when both partners are willing participants, the interaction can sometimes remain fragmented, with difficulty maintaining sustained affective focus or coherent narrative flow across speakers.

This appears even in the absence of overt conflict or alliance rupture, which makes it more challenging to determine how much is process-related versus modality-related.

Within a New York-based telehealth outpatient context (Manhattan Mental Health Counseling operating as a remote service model), I’ve also observed that logistical ease of access does not necessarily translate into immediate relational coherence in-session.

The online format seems to influence turn-taking dynamics and pacing, though I’m unsure whether this is primarily a telehealth effect or something typical of early-stage couples work more broadly.

Early sessions can sometimes resemble parallel individual accounts rather than a shared relational formulation, at least initially.

I’m interested in how others are approaching this phase in terms of structuring versus allowing interactional patterns to emerge organically.

Do you find yourself intervening more actively in early telehealth couples sessions to shape process, or waiting longer for stable interactional patterns to consolidate before introducing structure?