{"id":16,"date":"2014-05-19T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-06-07T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:34:40","slug":"initial-consultation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Initial Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please contact me by email, voicemail, or mail to briefly explain your present concerns and needs.\u00a0 If I believe I might be of help to you, we will schedule a brief phone call to discuss your needs and treatment possibilities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\">If we agree to work together, you will be asked to setup an account with my online practice management system, <em>Simple Practice. <\/em>Future consultation and\/or treatment sessions will be scheduled using this portal and billing statements will also be available via this portal. You will be asked to complete some registration forms via your <em>Simple Practice<\/em> account.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\">If you are currently being treated by a psychiatrist and\/or psychotherapist, please complete a <em>Release of Information<\/em> consent form so that I can contact your treating clinician(s) in the future if appropriate. I will discuss this with you prior to making any contact and would do so only after our initial <\/span>consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please contact me by email, voicemail, or mail to briefly explain your present concerns and needs.\u00a0 If I believe I might be of help to you, we will schedule a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/?page_id=16\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmerlis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}