These ready-to-use forms are a MUST for psychotherapists in private practice. Simply download them and insert your name and create your own letterhead and you are ready to go. These forms include detailed Office Policies, Biographical Questionnaires, Treatment Plans, Consents, Releases, Sample bills, reports and letters, Marketing Plan and many other needed forms. These Clinical Forms are available online in PDF and Word Document formats. You can access them instantaneously online, copy them to your word processing program, insert your letterhead and name and you're all set.

HEADS UP: Most Important Forms - These Are A Must Have - Don't Practice Without These Forms

Form #1:  Office Policies & Informed Consent:   This form must be read and signed before or at the beginning of the very first session.   Practicing without this form may be an ethical violation and may put you below the standard of care. Form #2: Biographical Questionnaire:   Have your client fill out this three-page questionnaire before the first session.  You need this information in your clients' clinical files. Form #5: Initial Assessment - After the first session:   This simple two page form includes a mental status exam, DX or focus of treatment, and basic treatment plan.  It is proof that you know what and how you treat your clients. Form #15: Authorization to Release Information:  You should never release info before your clients sign this form (unless it is required by the law). Form #20 and 21: Treatment Plan:   A simple to fill out, two page form, articulating your DX impressions or focus of treatment, identifying short and long term goals, and outlining the type of intervention you intend to use. Form #25: Termination Summary: This basic form must be filled out and placed in the clinical file for each client that you have terminated with.

Private Practice Forms Included (Updated 2008):

Most essential-initial forms: 1. Office Policies & Informed Consent 2. Biographical Questionnaire, Standard version (3 p.) 3. Biographical Questionnaire, Electronic version 4. Biographical Questionnaire (short version,1 p.) 5. Initial Assessment after the First Session Addendum to Office Policies #1: 6. Dual (or multiple) relationships 7. Phone or E-Mail therapy 8. Minors 9. Group therapy 10. Touch in Therapy 11. Home Office 12. Bartering Consents and Authorizations: 13. Consent for Treatment (especially for minors) 14. Consent to use Touch in Psychotherapy 15. Consent to Release Information - Pre-HIPAA 16. HIPAA version of Authorization to Release Information 17. Responsibility to pay for sessions 18. Consent for a visitor to a session 19. Permission to record or photograph psychotherapy session 20. Consent to record or videotape training session Treatment Plans: 21. Treatment Plan-Initial copy 22. Treatment Plans-Update Billing: 23. Sample Bill/Invoice 24. Super bill 25. Patient’s ledger Termination Forms and Letters: 26. Termination Summary 27. Discontinuation of Therapy Letter (Premature Termination letter) 28. Therapy is terminated by therapist due to lack of progress - Letter 29. Therapy is terminated due to adverse UR decision - Letter 30. Overdue payment letter

Clinical related forms: 31. Obsessive/Compulsive/Drug Abuse Log 32. Suicide Check List 33. Suicide Contract 34. PTSD Check List 35. Depression-DSM IV Private practice management forms: 36. Intern Evaluation 37. Progress Notes 38. Phone Consultation Form 39. Tax Deductible Expenses 40. Confidentiality Statement, Employees 41. No Subpoena Agreement 42. Tracking referral source 43. Marketing Plan, Outline 44. W.C. Medical/Legal Report 45. Request for confidential records 46. FAX Cover Sheet 47. E-Mail signature, Re: Confidentiality 48. Outline for a letter Resigning from Managed Care Panels 49. Professional will 50. Personal injury doctor’s lien 51. Number of Sessions-Update 52. Telehealth Disclosure 53. Forensic Agreement – Expert Witness – Sample form Therapists' self-assessment & professional development: 54. Explore your Vocation 55. Therapists: Explore your relationships to money and marketing 56. Therapists’ self assessment for treating different aspects of life 57. Therapists’ self Assessment for clinical skills Directive – Medical Will 58. Mental Health Directive - NEW