The National Union of Healthcare Workers announced Saturday that its 2,600 Kaiser mental health care clinicians in California would begin a weeklong strike today. The strike is being described as the largest of its kind in the nation.
Ben Caldwell
Kill the teaching evaluation
It’s time to put an end to them.
Therapy by text? Yes, and that’s good
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Earlier this year, Talkspace raised eyebrows when it raised $2.5 million in venture-capital funding for its platform linking therapists with clients by video or simple text messaging. The site offers video therapy for $29 for 30 minutes, or unlimited text-messaging contact with a therapist (that is, therapy by text) for $25 a week.
This is good. Here’s why.
Want to set up a private practice in California? Here’s where you should do it
Some bar-napkin math on income and therapist density by county.
Finding MFT jobs
Originally posted June 2009; updated August 2014.
The most common question I hear these days from marriage and family therapists (MFTs) is simple: “Where can I find a job as an MFT?”
The more pessimistic ones ask the same question, they just leave out the word “Where.”