Privacy and Confidentiality

Your Privacy Matters

At 4th Street Christian Therapists, we prioritize your mental and emotional well-being, and we want you to feel confident in our commitment to your privacy. Our adherence to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is our pledge to protect your personal health information. Below, we've outlined how we ensure transparency and maintain the confidentiality of your health details.

Your health information is deeply personal, and we respect its confidentiality. At 4th Street Christian Therapists, we create records of the care and services you receive to ensure the highest quality of care and compliance with legal requirements.

Here's what you need to know:

  • We keep your protected health information private.

  • This notice outlines our legal duties and privacy practices.

  • We update you on any changes to this notice and make updates available here on our website.

How We Use and Safeguard Your Health Information
We use and disclose your health information responsibly to ensure your well-being:

  • Treatment, Payment, or Health Care Operations: Your information may be used for treatment, payment, or health care operations without requiring your written authorization. This includes consultations with other healthcare providers to enhance the quality of care.

  • Lawsuits and Disputes: In legal situations, we may disclose health information in response to court orders or lawful processes.

Certain Uses and Disclosures Requiring Your Authorization

Specific uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes require your authorization, except in defined circumstances. These include situations like treatment, training, legal defense, compliance investigations, and threats to health and safety.

Certain Uses and Disclosures Without Your Authorization

We may use and disclose your health information without your authorization for reasons such as complying with state or federal law, public health activities, health oversight activities, judicial and administrative proceedings, law enforcement purposes, and more.

Your Rights Regarding Your Health Information

  • Requesting Limits on Uses and Disclosures: You can ask us not to use or disclose specific information, though we may decline if it affects your health care.

  • Requesting Restrictions for Out-of-Pocket Expenses: Request restrictions on disclosures related to out-of-pocket expenses paid in full.

  • Choosing How We Send Information: Specify how we contact you, and we will accommodate reasonable requests.

  • Accessing and Correcting Your Information: You have the right to access and get copies of your information. If you believe there is an error, you can request corrections.

  • Getting a List of Disclosures: Request a list of instances where we disclosed your information, and we will provide this information within 60 days.

  • Getting a Copy of This Notice: Download Here

Thank you for entrusting us with your well-being. If you have any questions or concerns about our HIPAA compliance, please contact us. Your journey to healing is important to us.

Schedule Your Appointment

 

  • Monday – Friday: 8 AM – 9 PM
    Saturday appointments may be available through some clinicians.

  • Pricing: 50-minute sessions range from $110 to $200 depending on the training, experience, and availability of the clinician.

    We also offer opportunities for FREE Couples or Family THERAPY in the community through our trainee program in which we provide supervision for graduate students in counseling psychology as they complete the requirements for clinical hours in their degree programs. These student clinicians are serving as volunteers in local 501 C3 settings for which we at Fourth Street Christian Therapists provide supervision. If you are interested in these services contact Mike Wilcox or Joy Kendall, supervisors, for more information.