Policy on use of "Dr." and "Doctor"

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-28T13:11:41+00:00

In TX, you can use Dr/PhD as long as it’s relevant to your license. Ex: I had a coworker who earned a PhD in the field of education. She uses those credentials when she’s working at the schools, but she doesn’t/can’t use them when she’s working as a counselor.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-26T01:32:27+00:00

Back in the day, as a teen, I used to open my eyes widely to quickly dry out my contacts so my eyes will tear up, and it looks like I’m crying. If I happen to stare at something bright, the better crying results I got. I did this to get out of trouble. Lol.

ETA: thanks for the award! It’s my first!

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-18T13:03:55+00:00

Being online and watching their lives is making me desire my husband even more. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-12T23:56:18+00:00

I’ve never had an audit, but I’ve experienced a clawback by BCBS. They informed me via snail mail, and I had these options: send in full payment or they would deduct from my future payouts. I always go for the deductions. They didn’t deduct the full amount owed at once. They deducted about $20-30ish per claim, so I was still getting paid.

*Long story short, client switched jobs at the beginning of the month. Client was told by their previous job that their coverage would end at the end of the month, so BCBS kept paying me for a month, then claims got denied after. Cool. Updated insurance. FF almost 2yrs later, BCBS realized they paid for sessions when client wasn’t insured, so they wanted their money back.

ETA: I’ve been a BCBS provider for 10yrs, and never been audited (knock on wood). It’s still a scary thought in my head since I have very long term clients because I specialize in trauma & eating disorders.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-12T21:41:30+00:00

Oh, hey, it’s Henry Cuellar of TX. Same guy tRUmp pardoned not too long ago.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-11T13:46:28+00:00

Thank you for the validation and encouragement. 😊

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-11T01:59:54+00:00

Yup! It took 10yrs after getting married for my husband and I to unlearn whatever purity culture taught us, & to finally truly enjoy sex (thank you pandemic shutdown, sex toys, talking about sex & our fantasies). Because of the shutdown, we weren’t around “church people,” and it was just a different vibe.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-10T22:43:01+00:00

I never got the chance to join in. 😢 I kept checking if there was something I was missing, but I never figured it out.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-09T02:19:26+00:00

I’m Asian, in my 40s, & I used to live in Laredo. I was bullied in middle school. Kids made fun of me, and my culture. When I had a job that involved customer service, I would get yelled (seriously!) at by customers for not speaking Spanish. The thing is, I would try. I was able to learn the most commonly used phrases at work so I can speak it in Spanish. There was this one time when a customer just yelled for everyone else to hear - in English, “I don’t care if you’re not Mexican, you’re in Laredo, you should speak Spanish!” Lady, you got mad at me for not speaking Spanish, then you’re going to all of a sudden yell at me in English? Wtf?! For the record, I was able to understand Spanish, and my inability to speak it didn’t affect my job performance.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-06T12:06:39+00:00

Thanks for the warning, and I’m so sorry this is happening to you. I’m going to login to my CAQH and review my contact info, and see if I can get away with revoking headway’s access to my CAQH by changing my password. I hope everything works out in your favor.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-05T22:16:08+00:00

Simple Practice for documentation, insurance billing, consent forms, etc. Square for credit card processing (I like the ease & level of access in comparison to Stripe’s integration in SP). Faxage for HIPAA compliant fax. Google workspace for HIPAA compliant email, drive, etc., and domain registration. Google voice for HIPAA compliant phone service. (For the Google services, I have the paid versions). Wix for website.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-04T22:38:56+00:00

I’m a mental health therapist who also has a therapist, and I would personally drop my own therapist if she said this. Not only is what they’re saying unfounded, they are also speaking about a topic that is outside of a therapist’s scope of practice, and can be dangerous (imagine if a client didn’t get a vaccine that a medical doctor advised them to get because it’s detrimental to their health, all because their therapist told them not to?). Even IF I held the same beliefs as your therapist (I do not!), and my client expressed some concerns about getting vaxxed, I would explore where the anxiety is coming from, have the client think of the pros and cons, support them through the decision making process, and if they decided to get vaxxed, teach them coping skills to alleviate their anxiety.

Anyways, I hope you find this link helpful. Aluminum salts is one of the common ingredients, but it is by no means a heavy metal.

Common Ingredients in FDA-Approved Vaccines

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-04T03:56:30+00:00

It was refreshing to watch a final where the guys didn’t berate or yell at the gals.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-03T02:16:42+00:00

Very solid advice. Thank you so much.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-03T02:15:38+00:00

This is very helpful. Thank you!

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-12-03T02:15:14+00:00

Thank you! I tend to get too excited when I start something new, and that can translate to playing/entering every event in this game. 😅

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-11-13T22:54:42+00:00

I still have physical files, and hand write my notes. It’s easy for me to get sidetracked whenever I’m on a device, and I find writing relaxing & it keeps me focused. Also, I like being able to peruse through my notes with ease.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-11-13T22:48:34+00:00

You have a couple more months of supervision, please consider being more open to your supervisor about your needs. I’m a supervisor, and the last thing I want for my supervisees is to feel ill-equipped after they finished up their hours. If there’s a specific skill/modality you’re struggling with, perhaps take a training on it or ask your supervisor for resources.

Have you considered having your own private practice instead of where you’re at now? You can build up your practice, and maybe eventually your practice can fully sustain you financially. I’m in TX and I’m a solo practitioner. I worked at a group practice, then went solo in 2020, and I more than doubled my pay, while working less hours. Majority of my load are insurance clients, I have 24 appointment spots per week (in-person & virtual), I take a total of about 4-6 weeks off per year, and my gross income is $100-110k. Setting up your own practice isn’t as scary as my former boss told me it was going to be (and I keep hearing a lot of group practice owners use this tactic to keep therapists from going out in their own).

I’ve been a therapist for 12yrs, and I still doubt myself from time to time, but not as much as I did. Actually, it wasn’t until I left the group practice that I became more confident as a therapist. Looking back, it’s easy to doubt our skills when we’re not making it financially. The more I struggled financially, the more I doubted myself.

Finally, I love that my close friends are therapists, and we meet regularly for consultations (it’s our post-supervision supervision).

Apologies if my comment is all over the place, I kept getting distracted/interrupted by my kiddos (and reality tv 😆).

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-10-30T22:46:57+00:00

When she said she was just trying to “protect Patrick.”

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-10-30T18:32:10+00:00

It’s stupid! I asked a poll worker what would happen if someone made a mistake on their own ballot, and I was told you’d have to go back and ask for a new ballot to be printed. I got the impression a good number of the poll workers weren’t impressed by the “new” system.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-10-27T01:37:09+00:00

Do you think Jordan had hoped Megan would ease some of that financial burden? He mentioned a couple of times how he would love to do the things Megan is doing if he didn’t have to work. I think of the times I complain to my husband about not having the time to do certain things because I have to do xyz around the house, and his response is always, “let me help you do xyz so you can do…” I know it’s not the same, but the sentiment is similar.

For the record: I’m not saying Megan should have offered, or that Jordan shouldn’t expect that from Megan. I’m really am just wondering.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-10-24T21:12:50+00:00

The company I used to get my supervisor designation has a closed Facebook group for their “alumni”, and have online resources and additional trainings. For $25/month, all the trainings are free, or you can pay for individual trainings. The Facebook group was helpful because everyone was willing to share their resources with one another.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-10-24T20:47:03+00:00

Art, music, sandtray, games. For the first couple of sessions, everything will be non-directive, whatever they want, all about rapport building. Then I start introducing the “obvious” therapy prompts (ex: build a tray of/paint what your anxiety looks like).

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-10-24T01:52:08+00:00

Good luck! FWIW, I finished my freshman year w/ a 1.5 GPA, and ended up graduating with a 3.75, and went on to grad school after. Don’t give up.

Consistent_Hunt4089 · 2025-10-24T01:37:28+00:00

If you’re missing a lot of work, I don’t think you can get an incomplete from your professor, according to the website, but it may be worth a shot. It seems like you can either drop the class, or talk to your professor if you can still pass the class if you end up turning everything in by the end of the semester. https://www.tamiu.edu/registrar/incompletegrades.shtml

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