Aftercare Planning

Aftercare Planning

May 8, 2026 · 26 min

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of aftercare planning in therapy and how to approach it as a clinical process.

Send us Fan Mail Discharge is where a lot of plans quietly fail, not because clients “don’t care,” but because we underestimate how fast structure disappears and triggers return. We walk through aftercare planning the way we want you to think on a licensing exam and the way we want you to practice as a therapist: as a clinical process that starts early, stays collaborative, and keeps working after the final session. We unpack a simple four-phase framework (assessment, goal setting, resource ...

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