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The Doctor-Patient Relationship

The information on www.livemoresimply.com is for general information or educational purposes only and can in no way substitute for clinical and/or healthcare services. Visiting this website or contacting me by email, text or telephone does not constitute or establish a professional or therapeutic relationship. This can only be completed in my office and after you have completed all the necessary documents and met with me in person. Neither are Meet & Greets clinical sessions. I can not provide any clinical advise or consul during a Meet & Greet. 

If You Are Experiencing An Emergency

I am not medically trained and the limitations of my licensing require me to inform you that in an emergency -- medical, psychiatric, psychological, safety, health, welfare and/or others -- you must contact your medical doctors and/or 911 and/or the proper government authority. You should also always consider going directly to a hospital emergency room or psychiatric hospital, or calling a suicide help line like Contact Dallas at 972-233-2233. There is a list of alternatives emergency contact numbers and locations on this website at http://www.livemoresimply.com/Who_to_call_for_emergency.htm

If You Need Medication, You Must Contact A Medical Doctor

I am not licensed or qualified to prescribe medication. I feel comfortable making suggestions to a patient’s psychiatrist or family doctor with the patient’s permission, and I will always take an active interest is what medications you take and at what dose. My treatment will not be complete without doing this. You need to clear any changes in your meds, however, with your medical doctors in advance. 

This is especially true in considering whether to stop medication abruptly, or whether to decrease or increase a dosage, as opposed to phasing out a medication, or to changing a dosage slowly over time. Abrupt changes to meds can be very dangerous and I strongly advise patients to never stop taking their medication as directed until discussing the implications with their physician in person, and until then, it is very important that patients remain on whatever medications currently prescribed.

*Email Policy  

Confidentiality

I cannot offer the same degree of confidentiality for email as I for other forms of communication. When you email from a given account, I will assume that it is acceptable to return mail to you at that same email address.  While I will do my best to honor requests to return mail to a different email address than the address from which your mail was sent, I do not have a system in place that can guarantee an error will not be made. Consequently, it's best to refrain from emailing me from accounts you do no wish me to return mail to. Alternatively, you can avoid embarrassing situations by setting your email program to list the address you want your mail returned to as the address that will be accessed when I press the reply button. Because email accounts require a third party to maintain, I cannot guarantee the confidentiality and privacy protection provided by the vendors involved. While I endeavor to protect my computers from hackers, viruses, worms and other threats to the security of your correspondence, I regret that I cannot fully assure their protection. 

Please do not send me emails as a substitute for therapy sessions.  If you are emailing me about a therapy issue, I will almost always postpone responding until your next appointment.      

Informed Consent

I understand that by initiating email correspondence and/or providing you with my email address, I am agreeing to use email as an acceptable form of communication for confidential information.

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