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Mental Health & Behavior

The Silent Saboteur

Shame, Behavior & Therapy — how shame shapes our actions and what therapy can do about it.

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Mental Health & Self-Discovery

The Courage to See Yourself

Why vulnerability with yourself is the foundation of real therapeutic progress.

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Stress & Neuroscience

Rewire: Stress, the Brain & the Path to Calm

How chronic stress reshapes the brain — and what science says about finding your way back.

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Addiction & Recovery

The Real Roots of Addiction

Understanding what drives addiction — and how connection and compassion are key to healing.

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Depresión & Burnout

Burned Out or Depressed?

How to tell the difference between burnout and depression — and why it matters for your recovery.

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Depresión

You Don't Have to Look Depressed to Be Depressed

The secret many people carry — and why depression doesn't always look the way we expect.

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Connection & Loneliness

The Quiet Epidemic

How to cope with loneliness — and why it's more common than most people realize.

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Anxiety

You Already Have What It Takes

Managing anxiety by changing how you see yourself — and what you're truly capable of.

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Trauma & Culture

Wounds Without Memory

Understanding historical trauma — and how the past shapes our mental health today.

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Mind & Wellbeing

Make Stress Your Friend

What if everything you believed about stress was wrong — and that belief itself was the real danger?

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Faith & Familia

When Mom Prays One Way and Dad Prays Another

How interfaith families can navigate religious differences while raising children with love, respect, and clarity.

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What is Terapia Grupal?

Terapia grupal brings together a small number of individuals guided by a licensed therapist to work through shared experiences and challenges. Unlike individual therapy, groups offer the added benefit of peer connection — hearing others' stories, offering support, and realizing you are not alone.

Research consistently shows group therapy is as effective as individual therapy for many concerns, and uniquely powerful for issues rooted in relationships, isolation, and self-worth.

Couch Therapies LLC

14203 Penrod St Detroit, MI 48223
Phone: 313-205-2241  ·  Email: hello@couchtherapies.com

Effective Date: This notice went into effect on 1/1/2025

I. My Pledge Regarding Health Information

I understand that health information about you and your health care is personal. I am committed to protecting health information about you. I create a record of the care and services you receive from me. I need this record to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements. This notice applies to all of the records of your care generated by this mental health care practice.

I am required by law to:

• Make sure that protected health information ("PHI") that identifies you is kept private.
• Give you this notice of my legal duties and privacy practices with respect to health information.
• Follow the terms of the notice that is currently in effect.

I can change the terms of this Notice, and such changes will apply to all information I have about you. The new Notice will be available upon request, in my office, and on my website.

II. How I May Use and Disclose Health Information About You

The following categories describe different ways that I use and disclose health information. For each category of uses or disclosures I will explain what I mean and try to give some examples. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed. However, all of the ways I am permitted to use and disclose information will fall within one of the categories.

For Treatment, Payment, or Health Care Operations: Federal privacy rules allow health care providers who have a direct treatment relationship with the patient/client to use or disclose the patient/client's personal health information without the patient's written authorization, to carry out the health care provider's own treatment, payment or health care operations.

Disclosures for treatment purposes are not limited to the minimum necessary standard. Because therapists and other health care providers need access to the full record and/or full and complete information in order to provide quality care.

Lawsuits and Disputes: If you are involved in a lawsuit, I may disclose health information in response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process, but only if efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.

III. Certain Uses and Disclosures Require Your Authorization

Psychotherapy Notes. I do keep "psychotherapy notes" as that term is defined in 45 CFR § 164.501, and any use or disclosure of such notes requires your Authorization unless the use or disclosure is:

• For my use in treating you.
• For my use in training or supervising mental health practitioners to help them improve their skills.
• For my use in defending myself in legal proceedings instituted by you.
• For use by the Secretary of Health and Human Servicios to investigate my compliance with HIPAA.
• Required by law and the use or disclosure is limited to the requirements of such law.
• Required by law for certain health oversight activities pertaining to the originator of the psychotherapy notes.
• Required by a coroner who is performing duties authorized by law.
• Required to help avert a serious threat to the health and safety of others.

Marketing Purposes. As a psychotherapist, I will not use or disclose your PHI for marketing purposes.

Sale of PHI. As a psychotherapist, I will not sell your PHI in the regular course of my business.

IV. Certain Uses and Disclosures Do Not Require Your Authorization

Subject to certain limitations in the law, I can use and disclose your PHI without your Authorization for the following reasons:

• When disclosure is required by state or federal law, and the use or disclosure complies with and is limited to the relevant requirements of such law.
• For public health activities, including reporting suspected child, elder, or dependent adult abuse, or preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone's health or safety.
• For health oversight activities, including audits and investigations.
• For judicial and administrative proceedings, including responding to a court or administrative order.
• For law enforcement purposes, including reporting crimes occurring on my premises.
• To coroners or medical examiners, when such individuals are performing duties authorized by law.
• For research purposes, including studying and comparing the mental health of patients who received one form of therapy versus those who received another form of therapy for the same condition.
• Specialized government functions, including ensuring the proper execution of military missions, protecting the President, or conducting intelligence operations.
• For workers' compensation purposes, to comply with workers' compensation laws.
• Appointment reminders and health related benefits or services. I may use and disclose your PHI to contact you to remind you that you have an appointment with me.

V. Certain Uses and Disclosures Require You to Have the Opportunity to Object

Disclosures to family, friends, or others. I may provide your PHI to a family member, friend, or other person that you indicate is involved in your care or the payment for your health care, unless you object in whole or in part. The opportunity to consent may be obtained retroactively in emergency situations.

VI. Your Rights With Respect to Your PHI

More Information on Privacy, Terms and HIPAA

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), you have certain rights regarding the use and disclosure of your protected health information. If you would like more information or to receive a copy of HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, please contact our office at 313-205-2241.