Q: I have had difficulty collecting third-party payments from a certain insurance company. My claims either get denied or I have to bill multiple times for the same sessions. I have tried dealing directly with the insurance company with little or no success. Do I have to hire an attorney?
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Having finally finished the rigorous training it takes to become a counselor, the last thing you may want to think about is attaining even more education or the possible benefits of tacking on another set of letters after your last name. But after taking some time to recharge, you might
Counseling Today asked several American Counseling Association leaders what advice they would share with new professionals and graduate students. Here’s what they had to say. Jane Goodman ACA Foundation chair; professor emerita of counseling at Oakland University As a new counselor starting out, what was the hardest lesson you
Veteran journalist, children’s advocate, breast cancer survivor and award-winning television producer Linda Ellerbee has been named as one of two keynote speakers for the American Counseling Association Convention in Detroit, March 21-25, 2007. “She has a powerful message to convey about courage, hope and honesty,” says ACA Marketing Coordinator Debra
Looking for a position in the counseling profession just got a lot easier. The American Counseling Association Career Center recently launched a revamped website and a partnership with CareerBuilder.com. The ACA Job Center webpage, a supplement to the online Career Center, will help counselors find nationally advertised positions with the
Selma Yznaga was born and raised in Brownsville, a city situated on the southernmost tip of Texas and separated from Matamoros, Mexico, only by the Rio Grande. She left Brownsville to get a college education and “stayed away, like many of us did when we found out there was another
How is a professional counselor like an entrepreneur? This may sound like the first line of a bad joke, but in actuality, it is a question that I have thought about for quite some time. When you think about it, there are a number of similarities between the two professions.
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series. Part two will appear in the May 2006 issue of Counseling Today. You, my friend, are a true musician. Without an instrument in hand, you make music without even realizing it. For we are all, by our very nature, drummers.
What if you had to work eight hours without a break? No mid-morning second cup of coffee. No idle chitchat around the water cooler about what happened on Lost last night. No five-minute mental vacation in the afternoon. Just work. Call the union! Hit the picket line! Take this job
This article is the second in a four-part series that explores Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT) and its relevance for the work which counselors do in the field. In this month’s column, we build on the issues addressed in the first part of the series by exploring several concepts central to RCT.