1. practice with cultural humility and social justice values. I agree to discuss informed consent with my patient at the beginning of the first session and understand that I’m responsible for my own items to discuss with patients. 2. I have / will have professional liability insurance that covers my scope of services when my profile (and website) are published. 3. I understand that to participate on FoC’s directory, I am claiming that I have had professional development (training, webinars, etc.) in the past 24 months inclusively. 4. I understand that it is my responsibility to keep my schedule updated to accurately reflect my availability for patients. To that end, I agree to respond to every patient request and respectfully communicate my availability.
1. Bring together mental health practitioners with a foundational dedication to social justice. We believe that these values are imperative to providing fair, culturally competent care to patients of all backgrounds. 2. Help distribute reduced-cost / sliding scale options for patients in need. We believe that mental healthcare, like medical health, is a right for all, but remains financially inaccessible for many. 3. Simplify and modernize the therapy-seeking journey for patients. We believe that the existing modes of therapy-seeking require too much effort and emotional energy from the patient, who may already be in a vulnerable state. 4. Help mental health practitioners make their practices digitally accessible through intuitive design, with less effort. We believe that therapists should be spared the effort and anxiety of self-promotion, web design, and admin efforts.
Foundations of Care’s directory is a community of mental health practitioners who commit to continuous professional development and shared values in cultural humility and social justice. Subscription to our platform effectively replaces a plethora of tools. Therapists will be able to showcase their value effectively with a visually unified front, thereby reducing the emotional burden for therapy-seekers, while reducing administrative effort for therapists.