Privacy and Disclaimers

It is understood that engaging with CrestView Counseling Center via the website or social media accounts does not indicate the established therapeutic relationship with CrestView Counseling Center, or any of its independent contractors. This includes, but is not limited to the sharing of posts, commenting on social media posts, and direct messaging via social media accounts. Contacting CrestView Counseling Center and/or it's therapists or staff via social media or email does not indicate that a therapeutic relationship has been established. A therapeutic relationship is only established by seeing CrestView Counseling Center the main office, via a scheduled therapy session. Prior to your initial session with a therapist, appropriate consent forms and client information will need to be completed and signed. CrestView Counseling Center staff will provide the necessary forms.

The content on CrestView Counseling Center website, blog, and social media are for marketing, advocating, and educational purposes only. CrestView Counseling Center or any of its associated counselors' social media pages, blogs, or websites are not psychotherapy, a replacement for psychotherapy services. Reading, viewing, or otherwise engaging with the online presence of ClearView Counseling Center does not constitute having a therapeutic relationship or serve as a replacement for therapy services, medical care, or mental health care.

Our practice shares this location with other providers/therapists. We wish to inform and ensure you that our practice has taken reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is maintained and safeguarded. Your privacy and the privacy of all of our patients is of the utmost importance to us. While our office is located within a multiple-use area and there is another provider entity in our location, we have separate locks and security safeguards to maintain our business/privacy within our office location.

Further, our practice has worked with the landlord to ensure quality and privacy concerning voices and conversations which may arise within our space. We are confident that the walls provide the sound security that you would expect and desire. We ask you to be mindful that as in any multiple-use location that you also do your part to ensure your privacy and also to ensure the privacy of other patients. If you are in a public space within this multiple-use location, we ask you to please make sure that you keep all of your private and personal information and conversations private. We cannot ensure privacy outside of our particular office location.

Although there may be other businesses and/or other therapy practices located in the same location as our office, our practice is kept separate and the files and patient information of this practice are in no way co-mingled with other therapy practices or therapists, but are kept completely separate and confidential.

HIPAA Notice

This notice describes how behavioral health information about you may be used and disclosed and how

you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

All information revealed by you in a psychotherapy session and most information placed in your

psychotherapy file (all medical records or other individually identifiable health information held or

disclosed in any form [electronic, paper, or oral]) is considered “protected health information” by HIPAA.

As such, your protected health information cannot be distributed to anyone else without your express

informed and voluntary written consent or authorization.

However, use or disclosure of the following protected health information does not require your

consent or authorization:

1. Uses and disclosures required by law such as files court-ordered by a Judge.

2. Uses and disclosures about victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence such as the Duties to Warn

explained in my Professional Disclosure Statement.

3. Uses and disclosures for health and oversight activities such as correcting records or correcting records

already disclosed.

4. Uses and disclosures for judicial and administrative proceedings such as a case where you are claiming

malpractice or breech of ethics.

5. Uses and disclosures for law enforcement purpose such as if you intend to harm someone else (see

Duties to Warn in my Professional Disclosure Statement).

7 Uses and disclosures for research purposes such as using client information in research (always

maintaining client confidentiality).

8. Uses and disclosures to avert a serious threat to health or safety such as calling Probate Court for a

commitment hearing.

9. Uses and disclosures for Workers’ Compensation such as the basic information obtained in

psychotherapy as a result of a Worker’s Compensation claim.