Alison Nightingale LPC
Experiential Depth Psychotherapy
Laws and Ethics Time
Your safety is everything. The very first step in creating a safe environment in which to do important work is our boundary agreements. We need agreed upon expectations of each other so you don't have to waste time wondering and not being sure where we stand. This will also allow you to let the parts of you that monitor your safety spend some time doing slightly more fulfilling things!
Before your first session please print out, read, fill out and sign the documents I have created links to below. If you do not have access to a printer you can use one at the pubic library.
Coquille River Lighthouse
Please call me with any questions you might have about these forms and I will be happy to go over them with you.
2 – Insurance Intake Form (this needs to be arranged before the first session)
3 – Professional Disclosure Statement
4 – Client’s Rights
5 – Consent to Treat
8 – Electronic Communication Agreement
9 - Telemental Health Informed Consent Addendum​
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The above 9 forms are all that is necessary for me to receive before our first session.
*10 – Release of Information
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* If you need me to have access to information from a former therapist, former or current doctors, or to co-ordinate care with anyone who is not your insurance provider, you will need to fill this out and give a copy to each person or organization I will need to receive or exchange information with. Please let me know when you have given this release to these providers so that I can follow up. Thank You! ​​
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Dream Time
During the next few days that pass before you have your next session, please do your best to pay attention to your dreams. Often the parts of us that we are less aware of have thoughts and feelings about starting therapy. These feelings are often expressed in the dream world right before therapy starts and this dream is called The Presenting Dream. They are a kind of message in a bottle to me that let me know where you are at and what your system wants to work on. We may or may not talk about it much the first session and bringing a presenting dream is completely up to you. If you are not interested in working in this way I am totally fine with that as well.
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You may not often dream and are worried that you won’t have a presenting dream. You will have whatever your system wants you to have so don’t feel that you have to show up with something. Even the tiniest dream
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fragment can be a huge message and a big help. If you dream a lot and have many dreams between setting up our session time and coming in, just pick the dream that seems to want to be picked. You can even ask your dream world to try to make itself obvious to you.
Before our session, if would be very helpful if you made a document of your presenting dream and emailed it to me. Please write the dream in the present tense, “I am walking down a sidewalk at night” vs. “I was walking down a sidewalk at night”. Also, giving the dream a title is helpful too. If you are able, double spaced documents leave me some extra room for taking notes and is also appreciated. If you cannot make this document before the session, I still invite you to share the dream in session and I will do my best to record it faithfully.
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If nine forms and a written dream is feeling overwhelming, don’t worry about the dream. Do what feels good to you.
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I am so looking forward to meeting you and starting our work together! See you soon!
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