A-Counselive was created to offer an alternative to traditional counseling. Online therapy is convenient, affordable and effective.

A-Counselive strives to provide you with the highest quality of services possible. Our therapist at counselive.com is Fully Licensed within the states that she practices in. Having your therapist be Fully Licensed in your state provides you with protection by the boards and state regulatory agencies that license the therapist. The boards and state regulatory agencies enforce the statutes and rules governing the practice of licensed therapists to ensure a standard of competent and ethical practice.

A-You can use Counselive from any device that has a web browser. It can be a computer, tablet, or smart phone. There is no special hardware required and you don’t have to install any software.

A-Counselive offers 50 minute sessions billed at $85. Longer sessions are prorated. Other online therapy sites require subscriptions, monthly charges and requirements to schedule weekly. Counselive™ is Your therapy on your time™. No subscription, no monthly fees and no requirements to schedule. You pay per session and schedule when you want. Some insurances accepted. Counselive offers a free, no obligation 20 minute consultation.

A-In other popular online therapy sites, the primary means of therapy is through the ongoing exchange of email messages. Counselive uses a revolutionary live online counseling solution custom designed to allow us to provide you with secure, confidential, and reliable online real time video sessions. You can feel confident that our sessions are HIPPA compliant.

A- The privacy of your health information is important to us. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA), you have the right to privacy regarding your Protected Health Information (PHI). These laws protect your right to privacy regarding your PHI, however these laws also allow us to share information with others when permitted or required by law. Under HIPPA, we must keep your PHI private and give you a notice of our legal duties and privacy practices to protect your health information. We will make reasonable efforts to limit the use and disclosure of PHI to the minimum necessary. Protected Health Information is health information about you, which can be used to identify you, and relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health condition(s), related health care services, and payment. Counselive, LLC is required to obey the notice currently in effect. Please see Counselive’s complete privacy policy located in your Client Portal. Learn more about HIPPA: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/srsummary.html

A-Yes! Counselive’s therapist is Fully Licensed and as such what you discuss in therapy is protected by strict federal and state laws. There are some exceptions that you can find in

Counselive’s Privacy Notice in your client portal. Additionally, Counselive uses all reasonable and appropriate efforts and technology to store and help prevent against the unauthorized disclosure of your Personal Information. As required by HIPAA, Counselive implements administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the electronic PHI that Counselive receives, maintains, stores, and transmits. These safeguards include measures required by HIPAA, such as: regular risk assessments of systems to ensure that safeguards remain relevant and effective, assigned security team which is responsible for maintaining compliance with HIPAA’s security requirements, screening, authorization, and training of Counselive staff who come into contact with PHI, data backup plans, disaster recovery plans, systems regularly monitored, updated, and patched, incident response plan that includes reporting of security incidents to affected covered entities, and all communications with Counselive servers being encrypted with SSL protocols. Though Counselive undertakes all reasonable and appropriate efforts to protect your Personal Information, and Protected Health Information, no Website is completely safe. Accordingly, you provide all such Personal Information and Protected Health Information at your own risk. Please see our complete Terms of Use and Privacy Policy on our website www.counselive.com.

A-One of the reasons that Internet Therapy is becoming more popular because it has been shown to be effective.

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