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The episode discusses the intricacies of therapy collaboration with licensed psychologists Essence and Emily Deming-Rivers.

Send us Fan Mail Therapy collaboration gets praised constantly, yet most people never hear what it actually costs, what it risks, and what it can unlock for clients when it’s done with care. I sit down with Essence and Emily Deming-Rivers, two married licensed psychologists who collaborate inside the same practice, to talk through the real mechanics of integrated care: trust, confidentiality, informed consent, and the daily choices that keep therapy ethical and human. We dig into why collabo...

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Host: Beth Trammell

Guests: Essence Deming-Rivers, Emily Deming-Rivers

Topics covered

• therapy
• collaboration
• integrated care
• trust
• confidentiality
• informed consent

Keywords

• therapy
• collaboration
• psychologists
• integrated care
• ethical therapy

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