Individual Sessions with Kathy Broady
I am absolutely thrilled with how busy and interactive this blog has become in such a short amount of time!!! That is excellent.!! Thank you all for coming here so frequently, and for participating in the comments, etc. I am really impressed with how much good “stuff” we are talking about here at Discussing Dissociation.
And while I’ll write as many responses to comments as I can, I also want to remind everyone that I offer individual sessions as well.
Maybe you don’t want to write about your system or your questions on a public blog that everyone in the world can see? I don’t blame you! It is very very important to keep yourself safe, so if you want to ask me questions that are private between you and me, please go to www.AbuseConsultants.com and order a personal consultation.
- I will do phone sessions with you.
- I will provide answers in an email consultation.
- I do IM sessions as well.
- If you live anywhere near the Dallas Texas area, we can have an office session.
For that matter if you are quickly passing through the Dallas Texas area, and would like to meet once or twice, I am open to that as well. My office is not that far from the airport, lol.
You may officially request phone sessions, email consultations, IM sessions, and office sessions from www.AbuseConsultants.com at any point in time.
After the official request comes through, you and I will select a meeting time that works for the both of us. Please put your preference for meeting times on the consultation form. (This from will be provided automatically for you as you click through the ordering process. It comes after the online banking pages, so please don’t “X” out of the browser until after you reach the green consultation form.)
You can also contact me through Psychology Today’s “find a therapist” option.
So if you would like a second opinion, or if you would like me to work as an adjunct trauma specialist for you, or if you need a therapist of your very own, please know that I can be a resource for you on those levels.
Thanks again for coming to the Discussing Dissociation blog. Each of you are contributing to make this an exciting place!
Please let me know if you wanna talk privately – I’m looking forward to it. 
Warmly,
Kathy
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Kathy Broady LCSW
Clinical Director
http://discussingdissociation.wordpress.com
http://protectiveparenting.wordpress.com
dollswise said,
January 22, 2009 at 1:55 am
Actually, I did try to sign up to the forums via the abuseconsultants.com, but I havent gotten any response. I also sent a follow up wishing to keep this user name but didnt get a response to that either.
Hope theres some way to get thru.
Many Thanks, Dollswise
dollswise said,
January 22, 2009 at 1:58 am
Sorry – meant that I scoped both, but tried to sign up to the forums first to just get a feel before committing further – Thanks, Dollswise
Kathy Broady said,
January 22, 2009 at 3:06 am
Dollswise….
hmmmmmmm. All emails related to SurvivorForum are supposed to come directly to me, but I haven’t received anything in an email regarding you and the forum. Would you please re-send your emails? Please use this email addy: Info @ AbuseConsultants.com (removing the spaces of course), and then that should come directly to me.
I’ve checked now at SurvivorForum, and I can see which user name you signed up with there. Let’s communicate more thru’ the actual forum about how you want things to be over there. I’ll contact you that way. Check your PM box (private messages).
I apologize for the confusion here — and thanks so very much for letting me know! I’ll talk more about this privately with you, to see if we can figure out what happened to the emails that you sent. Technology is sooo frustrating for me sometimes, lol.
Thanks again,
Kathy
Kathy Broady said,
January 22, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Hi Everyone,
If anyone has tried to contact me via SurvivorForum’s service email address, would you please re-send your email to this address: Info @ AbuseConsultants.com (please remove the spaces).
Thank you!!
Kathy
Rose said,
January 24, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I’m curious how this offer of individual sessions jibes with the extensive legal disclaimer you’ve posted on another page.
Kathy Broady, LCSW and AbuseConsultants.com ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS SITE.
Does that include individual sessions by IM with you?
Kathy Broady said,
January 24, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Hi Rose —
That’s a good question.
The disclaimer on this site, the Discussing Dissociation blog, applies to just this blog. This blog is very very public. I don’t know who anyone is, and I get tiny blips of info as a comment for me to talk about. It’s different than actually offering clinical services. I’m offering an opinion, but that’s about it.
I have different legality issues described on the AbuseConsultants site (Click on the first puzzle piece and look in the Business Office area under legalities). On the AbuseConsultants site, people officially ask me to provide clinical services for them as an individual therapist for them as an individual client. I get a clear understanding of who the client is — no one gets to be “anonymous” over there — I want to know your name and contact information, etc. the same as any therapist in an office will want to know your name and contact information, and the same as any client would want to know my name and contact information. It’s legitimate clinical work, and I am a licensed mental health professional. I request payment for my clinical services, the same as what happens in real life therapy sessions. The roles in that situation are much more defined.
The blog is MUCH more casual. I’m just talking here, and blabbing on and on with my opinion about things. But the clinical services through AbuseConsultants.com are as serious as any other appointment you would have with a therapist. That’s the difference.
Thanks for the question – hope that helps.
Kathy
Rose said,
January 24, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I would understand if it did apply to just this blog, as obviously reading or commenting on a blog isn’t therapy. However it states pretty clearly, as I quoted, ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS SITE. (all caps yours)
Hence my confusion, since you are offering services through the site. On this very page, which is part of the blog.
What other services or products could be obtained through this site? You’re the only one offering.
Kathy Broady said,
January 25, 2009 at 1:49 am
Hi Rose,
I’m quoting myself from the page where I speak about offering individual services:
With each of these comments, I’ve indicated that if someone wants to engage in my official clinical services, they have to go to a different website separate from this blog site. I’ve made direct links to the AbuseConsultants site. If you click that link, you will be able to tell immediately that you are at a totally and completely new site. The AbuseConsultants.com site is quite big, and designed totally differently than a wordpress blog, has its own custom color scheme, browser address, etc. It’s very clearly a different place than the blog.
The disclaimer page made on “this site” — meaning specifically THIS site, http://discussingdissociation.wordpress.com — applies here, and only here.
The legalities for AbuseConsultants.com are discussed on THAT site.
Yes, I am informing people that read at my blog (this site) that they can go to my other site (AbuseConsultants) and on THAT site, they can consider individual clinical work.
I’m not actually offering services here at this blog, from this blog. To say it this way, I am advertising here at the blog, that I offer clinical services at AbuseConsultants.com, and then I provide the link that shows someone how to get there.
Here at the blog, there are no consultation request forms, there is no personal identification information, there are no payment options, there are no ways to actually arrange for a session. There are only blogs, and comments. If someone wants something more than that, they have to leave this site, and go to a different site, and request more from there.
This blog has not offered any products to anyone. However, I do have products offered through AbuseConsultants. At some unknown point in the future, I may discuss these books, workbooks, etc. on this blog, especially my own books (aka “products”). The legalese was included to cover situations such as that. All products of mine will be available through AbuseConsultants, and the legal disclaimers pertaining to those products will be found on the AbuseConsultants site, and not on this blog.
I hope that helps clarifies the difference between the two sites.
Kathy
Rose said,
January 25, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I was not confused about the difference between the two sites. It certainly clarifies your position. Thank you.
Kathy Broady said,
January 25, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Thanks, Rose
— “Help, I’m yapping and I can’t shut up.” 
Or maybe, it’s “I’m yapping and I won’t shut up”… maybe it’s something like that?!! 
I tease myself about how I blab, blab, blab at the blog
I do have plenty to say to the world about Dissociative Disorders – but from here, while blogging, I am just presenting my opinion. One of these days, I’ll put all this in a book.
However, I do take my actual clinical work seriously and because I’m a licensed mental health professional, I have all the same legal responsibilities as any other therapist when I am engaged in providing an actual clinical consultation, including during IM sessions (as you asked in your first question.)
For that matter, I really like to do IM sessions. The written clinical record is there, even if someone experiences amnesia (or partial amnesia) for a session, it’s all written out, and available to be read over and over and over. I can often recognize dissociative switches over the IM, and for that matter, the various insiders can change their font / color of font, and make their own presentation more individualized as well. There are a lot of creative ways to do DID therapy! IM sessions can be a really useful option to keep in mind.
Thanks for bringing up the topic, and I hope you’re having a great day!
Kathy
Kathy Broady said,
January 28, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Hello to Everyone from the blog that has signed up as a Registered User on SurvivorForum –
First of all — thank you for registering at SurvivorForum – I appreciate your interest in going there.
Just as an FYI — after anyone registers there at SF, it takes a little bit of time before you can be an active poster. This process, while cumbersome, is to make sure that the new registration is not a spammer registration. Because we are checking for spammers, an actual person will have to manually activate your membership. This could take an hour or two, or a day or two, depending on how busy things are in the rest of the world. Unfortunately, spam patrol has elimated the “automated sign up” process. I think spammers are trying to take over the world!
So once you’ve registered at SF, please be patient and give it a little time, but please remember to come back and check to see if your registration has been activated. Once I know you are a real person and not an obnoxious spammer, I’ll be glad to have you join in as part of our group.
And if anyone is interested in having a Therapeutic Membership to SurvivorForum, please let me know.
Thank you -
Kathy
blackbearfamily said,
June 28, 2012 at 9:32 am
What does one do if he cannot find a therapist?
Initially, I paid $6,000 out-of-pocket for ten months of quality DID therapy. My money now gone, I am disabled and receive Social Security Disability.
While Medicare pays for therapy, I only know of one Medicare-accepting DID therapist in California and she is always booked solid. Every other therapist I have sought out claims that he or she does not have the requite skill-set to work with a multiple.
Now I have Kaiser Permanente insurance (through Medicare). Kaiser claims I don’t need therapy at all! They will not provide me with any therapy or support. And, their only PTSD group is a women-only group.
I am so close to being able to work, as I am stable. How can I find a therapist to help me finish the work I’ve already started?
qnesed said,
January 28, 2013 at 1:27 am
I have a question about a consultation that I requested.
Is there an email address that I can contact you at?
Thank you.
valkerri said,
March 14, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Hi! I would like information on individual sessions via email. However I am on a tablet and can’t download the program to view the website where the information is for individual sessions is. Is there another way i can sighn up? I only have access through my tablet – a kindle fire. I found this blog through pych central specifaclly the DD forum and thread on resources for those with DID. I have at least 3 alters 2 who have come out and talked to my therapist who isn’t a specialist in DID.s is all sorta new to me as they haven’t been active since i was young and now i am 35 and they are active! Thanks – kerri