Teletherapy & Covid-19

As a consequence of the emergence of Covid-19 in March 2020 , I transitioned my office-based psychotherapy practice in West Hartford to a Telehealth/Teletherapy practice. After treating many patients via Teletherapy, I have discovered how effective this mode of treatment provision can be. I was initially rather skeptical however, I along with the great majority of patients have been very pleased with treatment experienced through the use of Teletherapy.

I am very pleased with an internet-based practice management platform that I started using during this period of time. Simple Practice is a highly respected practice management software company based in Canada. Simple Practice provides a proprietary audio-visual program (similar to Zoom) to use during Teletherapy sessions. Each patient has a confidential Portal to access scheduled appointments, review documents, and review billing and payments. Simple Practice satisfies both HITRUST and HIPAA security requirements. It has received the gold standard to confirm compliance, the HITRUST Certification Report.