Episode 621: Beyond CBT, Documenting the Therapy You Actually Practice with Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey
Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Evan Dumas, your co-hosts of Group Practice Tech.
In our latest episode, we chat with Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey about how to properly document your therapy sessions.
We discuss:
Normalizing why documentation is such a struggle for clinicians
Dispelling the myth that it is necessary to translate what you're doing into CBT language for insurance reimbursement and why
The danger of only considering insurance when documenting
Documenting what actually happened in session
Acknowledging that progress notes are never going to fully capture…
The skinny
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