Licensed mental health professionals have a legal and ethical responsibility to provide their services only under safe conditions (determined by the agency and/or clinician) and to people whose symptoms, diagnoses, and needs fall within their scope of competence.
The criteria below exist to help determine that your therapy intensive can take place safely. It may seem daunting to consider the detailed information below, but keep in mind that the purpose of a document like this is to ensure good care.
As with all licensed clinicians, the clinicians at Gentle Intensives, LLC, have a specialized scope of competence that makes them unable to provide services to all people who seek an intensive, as you’ll see below. There are other places to receive an intensive where they may have such specialties, so if we’re not a fit, please keep looking for one.
The criteria below also include circumstances (such as being in a private and quiet location and having a regular therapist) that set the parameters our clinicians determine as their boundaries for offering services. Good boundaries make for safe intensives.
It’s important that you only proceed with the therapy intensive process at Gentle Intensives, LLC, if you meet all of the criteria below.
Contraindicated Conditions and Circumstances
The following conditions and circumstances (within provided timelines) fall outside the parameters of people who can safely be provided with services offered by Gentle Intensives, LLC, whether or not the conditions and circumstances are related to the focus of the intensive goals.
Never had: Bipolar I or II Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, psychosis, a dissociative disorder, schizophrenia and related disorders, Tourette syndrome, paraphiliac disorders, hallucinations, delusions, narcolepsy, sleep paralysis, and/or a traumatic-brain injury.
No recent (within the past 3 years): suicidal or homicidal thoughts, intent, or attempts; self-harm; disordered eating; or active addiction.
Not currently (within the past 6 months): in crisis; managing a chronic physical illness; struggling with emotion dysregulation to the extent that it interferes with your ongoing therapy and/or your ability to get through your day.
Conditions During the Intensive (including the Orientation Meeting):
Being in a PsyPact state during the intensive and related meetings. (PsyPact is an interstate compact under which qualifying psychologists are allowed to provide telehealth services in 40+ United States. These states are NOT PsyPact states: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, and Oregon)
Attending your intensive and related meetings in a private and quiet room (door and windows closed, no one else present in the room or coming through the room, no one overhearing, etc).
Not attending outside (e.g., in a yard, on a porch, in a car), in a public indoor place (e.g., your office building, a library), or in a public outdoor place (e.g., a park, in a parking lot, at a cafe), etc.
Not record the intensive or related meetings.
The Importance of Meeting Intensive Criteria
Because your Gentle Intensives, LLC, clinician invests their time and resources from the initial screening call through the rest of the process, please don’t go further in the process if you don’t meet the criteria.
Otherwise, in order to fairly compensate our clinician, you will be charged as follows (according to how far into the process you proceeded):
• Consult between your therapist and the Gentle Intensives, LLC, clinician: $100
• Orientation meeting: the cost of the Orientation meeting, and we’ll have to bring a close to the meeting.
• Any day of the intensive: the cost of the intensive, and we’ll have to bring a close to the intensive.
These costs and early termination can easily be avoided by engaging in this process only if you meet the criteria, conditions, and circumstances above.