Getting Started Now Master TeleWorkshop! 10 Top Strategies for Finding a Successful Niche in Telemental Health Practice

SAN DIEGO, CA, June 10, 2013

Consistent with any other areas of career development, becoming a telemental health provider is a process. In our experience, telemental health professionals report that it takes 3 to 9 months to establish an online practice after completing their training.

In the 6-hour course to be taught licensed psychologist, Dr. Shawna Wright, the many factors related to getting started will be examined including: business planning, marketing, professional relationships and affiliations, office set-up/staging, equipment, licensure, and credentialing with 3rd party payors. Venturing into telemental health practice is a process that can take months, Dr. Wright explains, and professionals can save substantial time by having a well-organized plan. Dr. Wright will help you find both state and federally based resources to help you launch your online office and career. If you are ready to move your practice online, this Master Teleworkshop is for you.

Attendees will find answers to these important questions:

What opportunities exist for providing telemental health services from a home or private office?

What are the basic steps in preparing for telepractice?

Why is it important to develop

a business plan/strategy?

Why must health professionals be aware of their state and regulatory board rules and regulations for telepractice?

What are the Medicare and third-party payor parameters for reimbursing telemental health services?

What are 3 risks associated with providing telemental health services outside of these parameters?

What equipment is essential for providing telemental health services?

What are the essential ingredients of a successful telemental health office?

How to Get More Information & Register

This Master Teleworkshop will be held by the TeleMental Health institute, starting June 17, 2013 and will meet for 6 weeks through July 22, 2013. Meetings will take place by webcast on Mondays, at 12 PM Pacific, 3 PM Eastern. Meetings will be held for 1-hour, and available to you by video on your computer or mobile device. Six (6) APA approved Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available with this Master TeleWorkshop. Click here for registration information.

Shawna Wright, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in Kansas and Nebraska who works in private practice as a telepsychologist. She obtained her graduate training in clinical psychology from Texas Tech University specializing in child and family treatment. She worked for nearly a decade in community mental health in southeastern Kansas as outpatient therapist. In 2011, Dr. Wright completed a comprehensive telemental health certificate training program through the TeleMental Health Institute and initiated a private practice providing telepsychology services to residents of rural nursing facilities.

The TeleMental Health Institute, Inc. is the leading online telemental health training institute, devoted exclusively to addressing the emerging opportunities and challenges of telepsychiatry, telepsychology, online counseling, online therapy and coaching. Whether your interest is in legal, ethical, practical or technical issues, psycho-educational material development and marketing, professional website development or smartphone "apps" for working with colleagues or patients, we offer convenient, 24/7 access to courses for continuing education (CE) and continuing medical education (CME) credit.