Homepage of Isabella Mori’s

blog; Isabella is a Vancouver-based counselor.

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Excellent, simple and intuitive software, and great people to work with.

Therasoft Online was developed based on extensive research. With a user base specializing in every type of therapy from pediatric to geriatric, we have the best resource pool of therapists, counselors, social workers and psychologists nationwide. Our goal was to help them build a successful practice by helping them solve real world challenges in social media marketing, practice management and electronic billing. The result is a user friendly, efficient and secure therapy practice management system.

Talk to any middle school or high school girls and they will tell you about the power of inclusion and exclusion. Today, girls are guided by their ability to connect to a group, and they have an intense need to feel that they belong.

Many classic clinical research projects have focused on the issues of inclusion and exclusion.

Before the digital age, therapists didn't need to market their practice. They used to rely on word-of-mouth and proximity to find new customers. But times have changed. Today people are one click away from any piece of information they need. They can find a complete lists of all the therapists available in their area within minutes. They use social media to ask friends and family for recommendations. And they can find reviews about a specific practitioner on Facebook, Yelp or Google in no time.

Smiles—do they have meaning?

Are you one of those people who puts a smile on your face when you know it’s not genuine?  Does your face tell people that your smile is something that is forced and stiff? Or does your smile shine from within and tend to bring people closer to you?

You might be surprised that recent studies have shown that a “genuine” smile can enhance and benefit your life in ways that you might not realize. In fact, a genuine smile just might help you live a longer and happier life.

While success has different meanings for different people, for the purpose of this series we will use it as a way to measure how well you build, run and grow a profitable private practice specializing in Mental Health. It means not only being successful at what you do, which is providing mental health services, but also being successful at running the business itself. Below is a list of courses taught to MBA students preparing themselves to be successful business professionals at the Harvard Business School:

Therasoft is excited to introduce you to the Therapist Practice Series, a blog series dedicated to helping therapists like you manage their practice successfully.

As you may know, on October 1^st, all HIPAA-covered practices must switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 when coding diagnoses. ICD-10, released under the supervision of the World Health Organization in 1994, provided a number of changes to the previous system, perhaps most notably the increase from 14,000 to 69,000 for increased specificity. While many countries have already completed the conversion in recent years, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) set the final compliance date to October of 2015 to ease the transition process, and the day is fast approaching!

For psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, the conversion coincides with the utilization of DSM-5 for psychiatrists and clinicians. DSM-5, published in 2013, provided comprehensive updates to many conditions outlined in the previous edition, including increased focus on cultural perspectives, developmental trajectory, and neuroscience. For example, DSM-IV included only one code for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa (ICD-9 code 307.1). With increased understanding of the symptoms of the condition, DSM-5 divided its diagnosis into two types, restricting (ICD-10 code F50.1) and binge-eating/purging (ICD-10 code F50.02).