This workbook is a toolkit that helps therapists protect their patients, practice, family, and community. Through a comprehensive collection of worksheets and forms, Dr. Steiner provides a step-by-step blueprint for creating a professional will and assembling a trusted backup team. This system ensures continuity of care during illness, emergencies, and unexpected absences from practice, or death. Suitable for therapists at every career stage.
Your practice.
Your patients.
Your Backup Plan.
The Psychotherapist’s Professional Will:
Workbook for Managing Planned and Unplanned Absences
How a Professional Will Works
The Psychotherapist’s Professional Will: Workbook for Managing Planned and Unplanned Absences walks therapists through the steps for creating a comprehensive professional will and backup plan.
The system uses an easy-to-access, user-friendly format. Therapists download a collection of worksheets that guide them through a step-by-step process to:
- Create a professional will and backup team of trusted colleagues; and
- Organize and document patient information for the backup team’s use in the event of the therapist’s planned and/or unplanned absences.
About Dr. Steiner
Ann Steiner, Ph.D. MFT, CGP, AGPA-F is a Certified Group Therapist and Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is a noted national and international speaker, workshop leader, author, consultant to therapists, and a highly respected psychotherapist. In her private practice, she consults to therapists about leading therapy groups, creating their backup plans, and leads a long-term therapy group for therapists.
Dr. Steiner is a pioneer in the creation of comprehensive, affordable, do-it-yourself professional will systems that include plans for continuity of care for therapists’ expected and unexpected absences. She has published over twenty articles on the topic and has been cited in numerous additional publications in the US and internationally. She has published over twenty articles on the topic and been cited in numerous additional publications. She is a popular Law and Ethics workshop presenter about the important yet taboo topic of preparing for psychotherapist’s temporary illness, relocation, retirement, and death.
