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What to Expect

Please arrive a few minutes early to your first appointment in order to complete paperwork. Your initial session will begin with a review of paperwork. Please bring your insurance card and information; a copy will be made of these materials. Once forms have been completed and copied, Dr. Rogers will engage you in a conversation about what brings you into therapy, what your goals are, and what you would like to focus on in treatment. The initial session typically lasts around 50 minutes. During the initial assessment, you and Dr. Rogers will determine whether or not there is a good fit between you both. As therapy is a journey between two people, it is important that both feel comfortable, safe, and productive from a change point of view.

Your Rights

As a client receiving services from a licensed psychologist, you have a number of rights. You have the right to full information about your psychologist's training, qualifications, and treatment philosophy, as well as an explanation of the fees for services that you are receiving. You have the right to ask questions about your therapy, to refuse any course of treatment suggested by your psychologist, and to terminate therapy at any time without repercussion. You have the right to request access to your treatment records, to have a copy of them. You also have the right to request in writing that no treatment records be maintained (certain basic information is required; WAC 246-924-354). You have the right to have your psychologist release information about your treatment to other entities, provided that you sign a release of information. You have the right to discuss treatment with anyone you choose. You have the right to choose a therapist that is a good fit with you. You have the right to change psychologists; if you choose to terminate therapy, Dr. Rogers can provide you with resources.

W Michael Rogers, PsyD Clinical Psychologist

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What to Expect

Your Rights

Therapies

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Narrative Therapy

Somatic Therapies