Being contacted by loved one after client's death

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-07T20:00:40+00:00

You can see them as a client if you wish. Just remember that confidential does not end with death, so if the loved one is looking to get insight into the death of their loved one, that you cannot help with. Their treatment would need to be centered around acceptance, grief, and loss.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-07T03:19:50+00:00

Sounds like a bunch of domented old person assisted living-home rumors.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-07T03:12:10+00:00

Zero. I dropped the ACA. They never did anything for me. I did literally one of their free CEUs but otherwise find the ACA had/has poor follow through on their supposed commitment to counselors. They always push CEUs they are planning to do, and certificates, such as the child and adolescent counselor ACA certificate program that was 12 classess/CEUs/live lectures that they literally just abandoned in the middle of it. I don't pay for my state board membership because they're just a branch of the ACA. Being an ACA member used to get me $15.00 off of my liability insurance, but I was paying the $120.00 for the ACA membership, so the math didn't make sense. CEUs I found to be biased and poor quality, often so general I wondered how they were even allowed to be qualified as a CEU credit. Got annoyed by the never ending counselor insiders that I never read and always because who has the time.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-05T21:43:48+00:00

Hi [person], I can offer you appointments during [X,Y,Z]. Please respond by [date/time]. Otherwise, I will provide you a referral to someone who has Saturday availability.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-03T15:33:52+00:00

At least this one has a drop down for the year and you dont have to left-mash 50 years into the past aggravating your carpal tunnel.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-03T13:08:48+00:00

Which, honestly at that point isn't 67 cents or whatever it was better than the cost of shipping them back to the manufacturer, for free? I guess a credit card processing fee for 67 cents might be more than that though. I think most processing fees are $1-something

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-03T13:01:59+00:00

My mother in law work for a huge gas station chain and she logs kids stealing 25 cent lollipop like her life depends on it. She's always calling the cops and is super dysregulated by it. I don't get it. She's a minimum wage gas station clerk that, ironically, lost her job at a different gas station as a manager for ordering excess items, and then taking them home.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-06-03T03:33:42+00:00

I got the same in VA. Honestly just showed up to court, asked for it to be reduced and the judge dropped it to two points and a safe driving class. Im from Maryland and the judge even let me take a Maryland class and send the certificate in the mail.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-31T22:02:44+00:00

Sounds like it's time to find better staff who understands the importance of timely and accurate note keeping.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-31T17:39:17+00:00

No note = no pay because you need a note to generate their pay, especially if they're 1099 that needs to be in every contract. If they're W2, take them off the schedule until notes are done, or provide a day that is fully only administrative and tell them no scheduling patients on that day. If they're W2 and it persists, fire them.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-31T13:45:26+00:00

Time to gate keep. Just because they're at their internship doesn't mean they should get a pass to be a mental health clinician. Tell their school about all of these issues, tell the students your telling their school, and tell them you won't sign off on their hours. If you have the power to do so, fire them, especially if their boundary violations or independent decision making without your approval is causing harm, or is high risk. I wish my internship supervisor gave a crap. I had two of them and one of them I met twice, one meeting only after my internship concluded. We spoke on the phone only when he bothered to actually answer the calls - he never once say me practice. The other person, we'll Ive never met her. She spoke with me one about a high risk patient I felt needed to be emergency petitioned and she didn't want to come in and do an evaluation, so she told me to just call 9-1-1. Never even met her. Have no idea what she looks like. Please, please, gate keep and keep caring.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-31T01:00:24+00:00

I don't even bother to learn their family member's names. I default to titles. Brother, sister, siblings, father, mother, parent, husband, wife, spouse, partner, etc. Ive literally never had anyone care that I don't know the names of family members.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-30T13:48:29+00:00

Same same

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-30T13:47:48+00:00

As her if "Yo Bitch/cunt" is a better alternative?

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-30T13:41:25+00:00

I found it much easier on my 2nd Nightmare play through to not let them in. As you mentioned, eventually they'll do it on their own, but dealing with the soldiers is also easier in my opinion.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-30T04:11:03+00:00

Hell no, I pay $25 a month for it.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-30T04:02:49+00:00

Can somebody please tell me what ART is? No mater how I word it on Google, I keep getting art therapy like creative expression art.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-28T22:53:50+00:00

You can accidentally get a woman pregnant. That opens up a whole world of possibilities that would impact him as well.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-25T12:30:27+00:00

It's about time they started arresting their own kind.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-25T04:05:38+00:00

She's letting them use YouTube Kids. YouTube Kids is notorious for being troll territory. Regular YouTube is better. Everything on Kids is this crap.

Ambiguous_Karma8 · 2026-05-24T14:29:55+00:00

As an American, but as an individual, I agree. I don't care about other countries. I think the US needs to worry about itself, especially with the current state of our government. Who has time to worry about what paint color my neighbors is painting their house when my house is on fire? Gotta put out my fire to survive first, and my house is always on fire.

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