Here at Little Dove Consulting PLLC, we strive to serve our patients with the highest level of care and personalized service. This includes providing details of our Little Dove membership compared to traditional mental health services.
Typically, you schedule a session with one clinician and then schedule follow up sessions based upon the clinician’s availability and what insurance allows. There is traditionally limited contact between clinician and patient between sessions. Clinicians typically have a large caseload due to low reimbursement from insurance companies for provided services. Family therapy is often not utilized due to greater difficulty with insurance reimbursement.
Little’s Dove’s membership model was developed to provide more comprehensive care by keeping the numbers of patients low for each clinician. This allows clinicians to have the time to “do the job right” by spending time collaborating with schools, doctors, and other key contacts, providing support to patients in between sessions as they work on strategies learned in session, and allowing for the treatment plan to truly be individualized for each individual patient and/or family’s needs. In the traditional model of outpatient mental heath care, a high volume of patients is needed to sustain the practice, which then forces clinicians to focus upon “billable hours” rather than on having the time to provide the most effective and comprehensive care.
Remember when you walked out of the doctor’s office and realized you forgot to ask a question? And then it took three days and a call to a nurse’s line to receive a response? Not with Little Dove. Membership provides enhanced access to your clinician given the practice’s lower patient volume and emphasis upon care that occurs between sessions. At Little Dove, treatment does not end when the therapy session ends.
Enjoy unhurried sessions with your clinician knowing that time has been allotted to beyond the insurance-dictated 60-minute therapy session, when this is indicated during session.
Additionally, a person’s environment plays a pivotal role in people’s mental health. For many patients, working within the context of the family system is partcularly important yet family therapy sessions may or may be reimbursable through insurance. By not using insurance, your clinician is able to involve other family members as needed throughout the course of treatment and ensure the focus is upon providing you with the best treatment, not the treatment that is best for the insurance company.
In addition to your clinician providing evidence-based assessment and interventions based upon your individual care plan, your clinician also helps as your holistic mental health navigator by enhancing coordination between other healthcare providers and academic personnel.
Typical coordination with your healthcare team can include but is not limited to: working with your healthcare team to help identify a treatment plan that works for your family via treatment adherence strategies, pill swallowing technique for children, incorporating physical health goals/recommendations into simple and practical steps for goals such as increasing physical activity, assisting with weight loss, as well as enhancing sleep quality and duration.
Typical coordination with you or your child’s academic team may include but is not limited to: providing consultation and recommendations for an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), collaborating on the implementation of psychological interventions to help your child work on treatment goals as needed within the school setting.
Prioritized access to your clinician between sessions. Clinicians will respond to all messages received via the patient portal within 24 hours via patient portal and/or phone calls, except for nationally recognized holidays or clinician illness
Unlock exclusive member only resources, including educational webinars, recorded relaxation exercises, and other helpful resources
Evidence-based virtual sessions with an experienced clinician: