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Telehealth therapy in Los Angeles, judged on what you can verify yourself.
Searching for telehealth therapy in Los Angeles returns page after page describing itself in identical language, and almost none of them state the one rule that decides whether a session is even lawful. This is not a ranking of providers. It is the set of criteria a professional can check personally, in about ten minutes, before deciding where to spend the first hour.
THE QUICK TAKEAWAY
Telehealth therapy should be judged on four things a Los Angeles professional can verify without asking anyone's permission: licensure in the state where the client is physically sitting during the session, a platform and record system built to the HIPAA Security Rule, a written plan for what happens if a clinical emergency occurs on video, and an honest account of where confidentiality stops. Federal telehealth guidance is explicit that a clinician must be licensed or legally permitted to work in the state where the patient is located, not where the clinician sits. CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians, matched so that the licence follows the client.
§01 / 09 / Definition
What telehealth therapy actually is.
Telehealth therapy is ordinary psychotherapy delivered over secure video, carrying the same licensure, record-keeping and confidentiality obligations that apply in a consulting room. For Los Angeles professionals the meaningful differences sit in jurisdiction, platform security and emergency planning rather than in the clinical work itself.
Almost every page that ranks for this search is written to be chosen rather than to be useful. The wording repeats across sites that have no connection to each other: trusted, compassionate, evidence-based, convenient. None of those words can be checked. A person sitting in Los Angeles at ten at night, deciding whether to give a stranger an hour and a credit card number, is not short of adjectives. What that person is short of is a small number of verifiable facts, and those facts exist. A telehealth clinician either holds a licence that covers the place the client is sitting or does not. A platform either meets a published federal security standard or does not. A clinician either has your address and the number for the nearest emergency department or is improvising. Every one of those is a yes or no answer, and every one of them is answerable before money changes hands. The rest of this article is those questions, in the order a professional should ask them, and the reasoning behind each one. It names no competitor and ranks no provider, because a ranking would be an opinion and the criteria are not.
Five things to verify before a first telehealth session
Which state the licence covers
Licensure attaches to the client's physical location during the session, not to the clinician's office address or the company's headquarters. A clinician working from Santa Monica cannot lawfully treat someone sitting in Denver unless that clinician also holds Colorado authority. Ask the question in exactly that form: what are you licensed to do while I am sitting in California.
The licence number, and where it can be looked up
A licence number is not a courtesy detail. California runs two public lookups covering the professions most people are choosing between: the Board of Psychology for psychologists and the Board of Behavioral Sciences for marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers and professional clinical counselors. A provider unwilling to give you a number to type into a state search has answered the question.
What the video platform is, and what protects the notes
The platform is only half of it. The HIPAA Security Rule governs the whole system that holds electronic health information, including the note-taking software, the scheduling tool and the billing record. Consumer video apps are not the standard; a clinical platform under a written agreement with the provider is.
The emergency plan, in writing
Federal telehealth guidance advises every provider to establish and maintain an emergency plan, and calls it especially essential when the clinician is out of state. California's Board of Behavioral Sciences goes further and requires licensees to hold contact information for emergency resources in the client's own geographic area. If nobody asked for your address, no plan exists.
Where confidentiality actually ends
Every licensed clinician in the United States carries the same short list of exceptions: suspected abuse of a child, an elder or a dependent adult, a serious threat of violence toward an identifiable person, and lawful court process. A provider who says sessions are completely private is either simplifying or has not read their own consent form.
▶ Research
The single most useful sentence in this entire subject is published by the federal telehealth service run by the Health Resources and Services Administration, in its licensure guidance for behavioral health: health professionals must meet the licensure requirements of the state where they are located and be licensed or legally permitted to practice in the state where the patient is located. Almost no consumer-facing page in this market states it. It answers, in one line, why a directory listing a clinician two miles from your house may be irrelevant and why a clinician you have never met in another time zone may be entirely appropriate. It also explains why the honest question to ask a telehealth provider is not where are you, but where am I allowed to be.1
What the licence rule changes in practice
Geography stops selecting the clinician
Once the rule is understood, the search radius is no longer a drive time. A Los Angeles professional is choosing from every clinician authorized to work with someone sitting in California, which is a far larger field than the one within thirty minutes of the office. The constraint that replaces distance is fit, and fit is the constraint that was always doing the work anyway.
Travel becomes a clinical logistics question
Executives who spend a third of the year elsewhere need this settled in advance. The workable version is a network holding authority in the states you actually go to, so a Tuesday session does not quietly become a problem because you took a meeting in New York. CEREVITY clinicians are licensed across all 50 states, which turns a recurring obstacle into a scheduling note.
A licence is a floor, not a recommendation
Verification tells you a clinician is permitted to work, that a board holds their record, and that a complaint route exists. It says nothing about whether they are any good with senior professionals, or with the specific problem you are bringing. Treating the licence as the whole answer is the mirror image of ignoring it, and both mistakes are common.
The three things a telehealth provider genuinely controls
Marketing copy tends to promise outcomes, which no honest clinician can guarantee. What a provider does control is narrower and far easier to inspect. These three are the whole of it, and a provider that is clear on all three is usually clear about everything else as well.
Jurisdiction
Which states the clinician may lawfully work in, and therefore where the client may sit. This determines whether the session is regulated care with a complaint route attached or an unlicensed conversation with no recourse. Los Angeles professionals who travel for work should treat this as a scheduling constraint, not a formality.
Custody of information
Who holds the record, what software it sits in, who else has administrative access to it, and what leaves the system. Private-pay care removes an entire category of disclosure, because no claim is filed and no diagnosis is transmitted to a payer for authorization. The clinical record still exists, and that is not a defect.
Continuity and coverage
Whether the same clinician holds the case week to week, what happens when they are away, and who answers when something happens between sessions. Continuity is the variable most likely to decide whether care survives a difficult quarter, and it is almost never advertised because it is expensive to provide.
§02 / 09 / Telehealth
The licence question, settled.
Licensure follows the client. Federal telehealth guidance states that a health professional must be licensed or legally permitted to practice in the state where the patient is located, which means a session with a Los Angeles professional sitting in California is governed by California licensure regardless of where the clinician happens to be.
The rule is about your chair, not theirs
Federal telehealth guidance for behavioral health providers states the requirement in one sentence: professionals must meet the licensure requirements of the state where they are located and be licensed or legally permitted to practice in the state where the patient is located. Both halves matter, and the second half is the one that catches people out. A clinician who was superb when you lived in Los Angeles does not automatically remain lawful when you take a job in Austin. The obligation sits with the clinician, but the disruption lands on the client, which is why it is worth raising before the first session rather than after a relocation.
California states it plainly to consumers
The California Board of Psychology publishes a consumer notice on the electronic delivery of psychological services that reduces the point to a single line: individuals who provide psychotherapy or counseling to persons in California are required to be licensed in California. The same notice tells consumers to verify that the practitioner holds a current and valid California licence, and explains why it matters in practical terms, because licensure is what gives a consumer recourse if they believe a licensee engaged in unprofessional conduct. That last clause is the part worth reading twice.
Verification takes about two minutes
California's Board of Behavioral Sciences tells consumers directly that a therapist's status can be checked through its online licence lookup, and lists the licence and registration categories permitted to deliver mental health services by telehealth in California. Psychologists are verified through the Board of Psychology's own search. Type the name, read the status, note the expiry date, and check whether any enforcement action is attached. A professional who runs diligence on vendors for a living already knows how to do this and simply has not thought to point it at a clinician.
§03 / 09 / Mechanism
Security, privacy and the real limits.
Platform security has a published federal standard behind it, and Los Angeles professionals should ask what it covers rather than whether an app is described as secure. The HIPAA Security Rule is deliberately technology-neutral, so the meaningful question is which safeguards are in place across video, notes, scheduling and billing.
The word secure does almost no work on its own. What exists underneath it is the HIPAA Security Rule, summarized by the Department of Health and Human Services in a document last updated in December 2024, and the first thing to understand about that rule is what it deliberately does not do. It does not dictate the specific security measures a regulated entity must use. It was designed, in its own words, to be scalable and technology neutral, so that a solo clinician and a hospital system can both comply without one of them being forced onto the other's infrastructure. That flexibility is sensible regulation and it is also why the phrase HIPAA compliant platform, printed on a website, is not by itself an answer. The rule requires technical policies restricting access to electronic protected health information to authorized persons, mechanisms to record and examine system activity, procedures to verify that someone seeking access is who they claim to be, and technical measures guarding information transmitted over a network. Those are four separate things, and a video tool addresses roughly one of them.
The second point is that the video call is the least interesting part of the system. Far more information accumulates in the notes, the calendar and the payment record than in any single session's audio. The Security Rule anticipates exactly this: before a regulated entity permits an outside vendor to create, receive, maintain or transmit protected health information, it must have a written arrangement in place, and that vendor must report any security incident it becomes aware of. So the useful question to a telehealth provider is not which app do you use. It is which systems hold my information, and who has agreements covering them. Professionals who sit through vendor security reviews at work already have the instincts for this. What they usually lack is permission to apply the same standard to their own care, which is a habit worth breaking. Doctors raise it earliest of any group, which is why clinical support for physicians starts with custody of the record rather than with method: that reader already knows what a records request looks like from the other side of the desk.
The third point is the one most pages avoid. Confidentiality in psychotherapy is strong and it is not absolute, and the exceptions are the same on video as in a room. A clinician who forms a reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect of a child, an elder or a dependent adult is a mandated reporter. A clinician facing a serious and credible threat of violence toward an identifiable person carries a duty to protect that can require warning someone. Records can be reached by lawful court process, and a client who puts their own mental state at issue in litigation can waive protections they did not intend to waive. Private-pay care narrows the field considerably, because no insurance claim is submitted and no diagnosis travels to a payer that will decide whether treatment continues. What private pay does not do is repeal the exceptions above, and any provider suggesting otherwise is selling something. Naming the limits accurately is not a disclaimer. It is the only way a client can make an informed decision about what to bring into the room.
► Standard advice vs. CEREVITY's approach
Standard therapy
"Ask whether the platform is secure"
CEREVITY
"Ask which systems hold the notes, the calendar and the billing record"
Standard therapy
"Assume the clinician's location is the one that counts"
CEREVITY
"Confirm the licence covers the state you will be sitting in"
Standard therapy
"Accept that sessions are completely confidential"
CEREVITY
"Ask for the four exceptions in writing before the first session"
| Standard insurance-based therapy | CEREVITY's specialized approach |
|---|---|
| "Ask whether the platform is secure" | "Ask which systems hold the notes, the calendar and the billing record" |
| "Assume the clinician's location is the one that counts" | "Confirm the licence covers the state you will be sitting in" |
| "Accept that sessions are completely confidential" | "Ask for the four exceptions in writing before the first session" |
A break from the page
Criteria first. The provider follows.
A first message is confidential and commits you to nothing. CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians working private-pay across all 50 states by secure telehealth, with no insurance claim submitted and no diagnosis on a payer record. If the criteria above are the ones you were already trying to write down, start with a private inquiry.
§04 / 09 / Cases
Common challenges we address.
The professional who has already been burned by a platform
The patternSomeone who tried an app-based service, was assigned a clinician by an algorithm, got a different one six weeks later, and concluded that therapy does not work. The conclusion is understandable and the evidence for it is weak, because what failed was the matching and the continuity rather than the treatment.
What we addressThe repair starts by separating the two. A single clinician who holds the case, in one-to-one clinical work, is a structurally different arrangement from a rotating pool, and it is the arrangement almost all of the outcome research was conducted on. Where the earlier experience left a private conviction of being fundamentally unqualified for the role, that belief is itself treatable, and it is the substance of therapy for imposter syndrome rather than a personality trait to be managed.
The senior professional who cannot risk the record
The patternA partner, an executive or a licensed professional whose first question is not about method at all. It is about who could ever see this. The fear is usually specific: a credentialing file, a board application, a security clearance, a custody matter, a co-founder who talks.
What we addressThe answer is administrative before it is clinical. Private pay removes the claim and the payer authorization loop entirely; secure telehealth removes the waiting room; a small number of people with access to a system means a small number of people who could ever be asked. The limits are stated up front and in writing, which is what allows someone in a legal career to make a genuine decision about disclosure rather than a hopeful one.
§05 / 09 / Methods
Evidence-based treatment approaches.
Five components separate clinically run telehealth care from a scheduled video call, and Los Angeles professionals can ask about each one directly: a real assessment before treatment starts, a clinician who holds the case, a written emergency protocol tied to your address, disciplined record-keeping, and explicit criteria for when video is the wrong setting.
An assessment before an approach is named
Good care starts with a clinical assessment rather than a menu. What is the presenting problem, how long has it been running, what has already been tried, what else is happening medically, and is anything present that changes the treatment plan. A provider that names a method before it has heard the history is selling a product. The approach should be selected from the assessment, and it should be explainable in plain language once it is chosen.
One clinician who holds the case
Continuity is the quiet variable. A clinician who has held the case for eight months does not need the history retold, notices the shift in the third minute, and can name a pattern that a new clinician would take a quarter to see. Rotating assignment is cheaper to operate and it costs the client the compounding that makes therapy work. Ask directly whether you will see the same person every session, and what happens when that person is on leave.
An emergency protocol tied to your actual address
Federal telehealth guidance advises providers to establish and maintain an emergency plan, and California requires licensees to hold contact information for emergency resources in the client's own area. In workable form that means the clinician knows where you physically are at the start of a session, has a named emergency contact you have agreed to, and has a route to local services if a session goes somewhere neither of you expected. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is a national resource and it is not a substitute for a plan your own clinician has written down.
Record-keeping you have been told about
A clinical record exists. Anyone claiming otherwise is describing something other than licensed care. What varies is how much is written, who can see it, how long it is kept and what the client has been told about all three. A provider should be able to answer those four questions without hesitation, and should have already answered them in the consent documents rather than waiting to be asked.
Explicit criteria for when video is the wrong setting
Telehealth is a delivery method, not a level of care. Active suicidal crisis, acute psychosis, withdrawal requiring medical supervision and eating disorders needing physical monitoring belong with in-person services or a higher level of care, and a responsible network says so before it takes the case rather than after. Ask what would cause the clinician to recommend a referral out. A provider with no answer has not thought about the hardest hour of the work.
§06 / 09 / Investment
Understanding the investment in private-pay care.
Private-pay, nationwide, and matched on assessment
At CEREVITY, our online individual therapy sessions are structured as a direct investment in your mental agility and overall well-being. The investment includes:
- Licensed mental health professional specializing in confidential telehealth therapy for high performers
- Evidence-based, one-on-one approaches proven effective for anxiety, depression, burnout and the strain of a high-visibility role
- Flexible online scheduling including evenings and weekends
- Complete privacy with no insurance involvement or red tape
- Los Angeles professionals expertise and understanding
- Outcome tracking and progress measurement
The cost of telehealth therapy going unaddressed
Consider what is at stake when telehealth therapy goes unaddressed:
What private pay changes about access
Working outside insurance changes three concrete things. No claim is submitted, so no diagnosis is transmitted to a payer and stored in a claims history. No utilization reviewer decides whether a course of treatment continues or how many sessions are enough. And the clinical plan is set by assessment rather than by what a benefit design will authorize, which matters most for the presentations that do not fit neatly on a claim form. The trade is that the cost is met directly, and the honest way to present that is with the figure in front of you rather than after an inquiry. View our current rates here: cerevity.com/our-pricing-for-therapy/.
Session formats that fit the work and the calendar
Care is delivered by secure telehealth nationwide across all 50 states, and depth is a clinical decision rather than an administrative one. Most sustained work sits in the 50-minute format, which is the container almost all of the outcome research was built on. Processing-heavy material that keeps getting interrupted by the clock is better served by 90-minute extended work. For professionals whose quarters make a reliable weekly slot unrealistic, 3-hour therapy intensives concentrate the work into sittings that survive a travel calendar. Where the difficulty is shared rather than individual, work with a partner is the appropriate format, and it is a different piece of work, not a longer version of the same one.
§07 / 09 / Evidence
What the research shows.
The evidence for delivering psychotherapy by video is real, it is more than a decade old, and it is worth stating accurately rather than enthusiastically. A systematic review and meta-analysis published in Psychological Medicine in 2022 pooled nine trials covering 1,268 patients and found no differences between telehealth and face-to-face care for depression severity at post-treatment, with comparable results on quality of life, therapeutic alliance and treatment satisfaction. A non-inferiority trial published in Frontiers in Psychology in 2020, following 71 adults treated for panic disorder and agoraphobia, reported that videoconferencing psychotherapy was no less effective than face-to-face therapy on the primary outcome and on two of the three secondary outcomes, with gains sustained at twelve-month follow-up. That study also addressed the objection people raise most often, that the relationship cannot form through a screen: working alliance was very strong in the video condition and did not statistically differ from the in-person one, and it held even during exposure exercises.
► What the research actually reports
patients across 9 trials, with no difference between telehealth and face-to-face care for depression severity at post-treatment.
Psychological Medicine, 2022
adults treated for panic disorder and agoraphobia, where video therapy was no less effective than in-person work and alliance did not differ.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
of office-based physicians used telemedicine in 2021, up from 15.4 percent in 2019.
National Center for Health Statistics, 2024
What that literature does not say is that video is right for everything or everyone. The trials were conducted on structured treatments for defined conditions, delivered by licensed clinicians who had assessed the client first, which is the same set of conditions that makes any therapy work. Presentations requiring physical monitoring, acute crisis and situations where a person cannot secure a private hour at home are all real limits, and the responsible response to them is a referral rather than a discount. The scale of the shift is not in dispute: the National Center for Health Statistics reported that telemedicine use among office-based physicians rose from 15.4 percent in 2019 to 86.5 percent in 2021. Something that widespread stopped being a compromise some years ago, and the compromise language has outlived the evidence behind it. The reasonable position for a Los Angeles professional is that the delivery method is settled and the provider still has to be checked.
§§ / 09 / Recap
Key takeaways.
Six things to remember
- The licence follows your chair A clinician must be licensed or legally permitted to work in the state where the client is physically located during the session. Ask which states are covered, and raise it before a relocation or a long stretch of travel rather than after.
- Two California lookups answer the credential question The Board of Psychology covers psychologists and the Board of Behavioral Sciences covers marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers and professional clinical counselors. Both maintain public searches. A provider who will not give you a number to type in has told you something.
- Secure is a system, not an app The HIPAA Security Rule is technology neutral by design, so the meaningful questions are which systems hold the notes, the calendar and the billing record, and who has written agreements covering them. The video call is the least of it.
- An emergency plan means the clinician knows where you are Federal guidance advises every provider to maintain an emergency plan, and California requires licensees to hold local emergency contacts for the client's area. If nobody asked for your address, there is no plan.
- Confidentiality is strong, bounded and worth stating Mandatory reporting of abuse, the duty to protect an identifiable person from a serious threat, and lawful court process bind every licensed clinician. Private pay removes the claim and the payer review; it does not remove those.
- CEREVITY provides this through online individual therapy nationwide, with full privacy through its private-pay concierge network and no insurance involvement.
§08 / 09 / FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
How do I check whether a therapist is licensed?
Licence verification in California runs through two public boards, and either search takes about two minutes. Psychologists are listed with the California Board of Psychology; marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers and professional clinical counselors are listed with the Board of Behavioral Sciences, which tells consumers directly that a therapist's status can be checked through its online licence lookup. Type the clinician's name, confirm the licence is current rather than expired or inactive, note the licence type, and look for any enforcement action attached to the record. If a Los Angeles professional cannot find a provider's licence number on the provider's own materials, that is a reasonable question to ask before the first appointment rather than a reason to give up on the search. CEREVITY clinicians are independently licensed and their credentials are available on request.
Is telehealth secure enough for real clinical work?
Telehealth security has a published federal standard behind it, and the standard is more specific than the marketing language usually is. The HIPAA Security Rule requires technical policies limiting access to electronic health information to authorized people, mechanisms that record and examine system activity, procedures verifying that someone requesting access is who they claim to be, and protection for information moving across a network. It is also deliberately technology neutral, which means no single app can satisfy it on its own. A provider serving Los Angeles professionals should be able to say which systems hold the notes, the scheduling and the billing, and confirm that written agreements cover any outside vendor touching that information. Ask that question rather than whether the platform is secure.
Can you do therapy while traveling?
Travel is workable when the licensure is planned for in advance. Because a clinician must be licensed or legally permitted to practice in the state where the client is physically located, a session taken from a hotel in another state is governed by that state's rules, not California's. Los Angeles professionals who travel heavily should raise this in the first conversation and ask which states the clinician holds authority in, then treat any gaps as a scheduling constraint rather than discovering them mid-quarter. CEREVITY operates as a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians across all 50 states, which is what makes a standing weekly appointment survive a travel-heavy role. International travel is a separate question and depends on the destination.
What happens if there is a clinical emergency during a video session?
Emergency planning is a documented requirement rather than an improvisation, and Los Angeles professionals are entitled to know the plan before it is needed. Federal telehealth guidance advises all providers to establish and maintain an emergency plan, and describes it as especially essential for out-of-state clinicians. California's Board of Behavioral Sciences requires licensees to hold contact information for emergency resources in the client's own geographic area. In practice that means your clinician confirms where you are physically located at the start of a session, holds an emergency contact you have agreed to in advance, and can reach local services if the hour goes somewhere neither of you anticipated. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available nationally at any hour, and it complements rather than replaces a plan your own clinician has written down.
Is telehealth therapy effective?
Effectiveness for video-delivered psychotherapy is supported by controlled research rather than by assertion. A 2022 systematic review and meta-analysis in Psychological Medicine pooled nine trials covering 1,268 patients and found no differences between telehealth and face-to-face care for depression severity at post-treatment, with comparable quality of life, therapeutic alliance and treatment satisfaction. A 2020 non-inferiority trial in Frontiers in Psychology treating 71 adults for panic disorder and agoraphobia found videoconferencing therapy no less effective than in-person work on the primary outcome, with gains held at twelve months and working alliance statistically indistinguishable between the two. Los Angeles professionals weighing convenience against quality can treat the delivery method as settled and spend their diligence on the clinician instead.
When is in-person care or a higher level of care more appropriate?
Telehealth is a delivery method rather than a level of care, and some presentations need more than a delivery method. Active suicidal crisis, acute psychosis, withdrawal that requires medical supervision, and eating disorders needing physical monitoring belong with in-person services, an intensive program or inpatient care. A practical constraint counts too: a Los Angeles professional who cannot secure a private hour without being overheard is not in a position to do the work well, and that is worth solving before treatment starts rather than three sessions in. A responsible provider names these limits during assessment and refers out when they apply. CEREVITY clinicians screen for them at the start rather than discovering them later.
What should I ask a telehealth provider before the first session?
Six questions cover almost everything that matters, and none of them require clinical training to evaluate. Which states are you licensed in, and what is your licence number. Will I see the same clinician every week, and what happens when they are away. Which systems hold my notes, my calendar and my payment record. What is your emergency plan, and do you have my address. What are the exceptions to confidentiality, in writing. And what would make you tell me that telehealth is the wrong setting for my situation. Los Angeles professionals who evaluate vendors for a living already run this kind of diligence; the only unusual step is pointing it at their own care.
How does your private-pay pricing structure work?
As a private-pay concierge network, we offer structured investments in your mental health without the restrictions or privacy risks of insurance. You can review our full fee schedule and specific session lengths directly on our website. While this costs more than insurance copays, it provides the flexibility, total privacy, and highly specialized care that standard options cannot offer. View our current rates here.
How do you protect my privacy?
Privacy is foundational to our network. As a private-pay network, your sessions never appear on insurance records or EOBs that could be seen by employers, boards, or family members. We use HIPAA-compliant nationwide telehealth platforms, and you can attend sessions from anywhere with a private internet connection.
§09 / 09 / Begin
Check the criteria. Then choose.
If you have been comparing telehealth pages that all sound identical, the way out is to stop reading adjectives and start checking facts. CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians providing confidential, private-pay care by secure telehealth across all 50 states. Call (562) 295-6650 or send a private inquiry.
Available by appointment 7 days a week, 8 AM to 8 PM (PST)§§ / Author
About Christa Smith, PhD.
Christa Smith, PhD
Dr. Smith is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in psychological and neuropsychological assessment and evidence-based therapy for adults. Her clinical work integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and trauma-informed approaches with formal assessment when clarity on diagnosis or cognition is needed. She sees clients through CEREVITY's nationwide private-pay telehealth network. View full bio →
§§ / Sources
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- Health Resources and Services Administration. Licensure for behavioral health, Telehealth.HHS.gov. 2025. telehealth.hhs.gov
- Frontiers in Psychology. Videoconferencing Psychotherapy for Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia: Outcome and Treatment Processes From a Non-randomized Non-inferiority Trial. 2020. frontiersin.org
- California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Considering Receiving Services via Telehealth?. 2023. bbs.ca.gov
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Summary of the HIPAA Security Rule. 2024. hhs.gov
- Psychological Medicine. Telehealth v. face-to-face provision of care to patients with depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2022. cambridge.org
- CEREVITY. Therapy for physicians. cerevity.com/therapy-for-physicians
- CEREVITY. Imposter syndrome therapy. cerevity.com/imposter-syndrome-therapy
- CEREVITY. Individual therapy. cerevity.com/individual-therapy
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