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

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

I’m quoting myself from the page where I speak about offering individual services:

… if you want to ask me questions that are private between you and me, please go to http://www.AbuseConsultants.com and order a personal consultation…

You may officially request phone sessions, email consultations, IM sessions, and office sessions from http://www.AbuseConsultants.com at any point in time…

You can also contact me through Psychology Today’s “find a therapist” option…

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

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.

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

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?

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

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