Aftercare Planning
From Passing your National Licensing Exam by Linton Hutchinson, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC
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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Host: Linton Hutchinson, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC
Topics covered
- aftercare planning
- clinical process
- collaboration
- mental health
- licensing exam
Keywords
- aftercare planning
- therapy
- mental health
- clinical process
- goal setting
- resource management
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