We accept Aetna, Beacon, BCBS, Cigna,/Evernorth, United/Optum, and TriWest. Professional Counselor Associates offer a reduced private-pay rate for counseling services or have billing under their supervisor for specific plans.
We accept MC/VISA/Discover/AmEx, including Health Savings Account cards, and cash.
Potential Insurance Discrepancies
As a courtesy to all patients, we will attempt to obtain an estimate of your coverage information by calling your insurance provider prior to scheduling your first appointment. Please be aware that in some rare cases, incorrect information is provided to us by insurance representatives due to ambiguity or misinterpretation of your coverage.
This becomes apparent only after we submit your claims to the insurance and receive the processed claims in return. Unfortunately, it is impossible to be 100% certain of your insurance coverage until after the claim is submitted and returned from your insurance company.
Upon receiving the processed claims, if there is any discrepancy in the coverage details we initially communicated to you, we will investigate it further. After investigating the discrepancy, if the outcome from the insurance is that the processed claim is accurate, you are financially responsible for whatever the processed claim indicates. We legally have to abide by the outcome of the claim. It is not our choice. We hope to never have discrepancies, but we want you to be aware of the possibility.
Therefore, you need to verify your coverage and ensure you fully understand your coverage details prior to beginning services. Calling your insurance company directly to verify your coverage details yourself prior to treatment is required in order to minimize potential discrepancies. Again, this is your personal responsibility. Davis Art Therapy and Counseling only serves as the middle person between you and your insurance company.
What If My Insurance Fails to Pay?
You are financially responsible for the cost of your therapy services in the event that your insurance company fails to provide payment for services. This means if your insurance company unexpectedly fails to provide payment, you are responsible for paying out-of-pocket for the services you received.
This also applies retroactively. For example, if your insurance company issues payment, and then later requires us to return the payment to them because your coverage was terminated prior to the date of payment stopping, you are responsible for paying out-of-pocket for the services you received. It is uncommon for insurance companies to require us to retroactively return payments, but this can and does happen in some cases when payments were issued to us by mistake. To prevent this from happening, please communicate with your insurance company about your coverage details. It is extremely important for you to call your insurance directly to verify your coverage details.
In order for us to see your child, a copy of your divorce decree is required. We do not need the entire decree, but we do need the portion that details both parents' rights and duties. The Texas State Board of Professional Counselors ethical requirement determines that a copy of this portion of the decree be kept in the child's file. Depending on the actual wording of your rights in the document, both parents may be required to consent (in writing) before counseling can begin. In some cases, the written consent of only one parent is required.
No. It isn't necessary to attend the session together. However, if your divorce decree states that both parents must consent to counseling for your child and you choose not to attend the session together, each of you will need to schedule individual appointments to come in, discuss the issues of concern, and sign the consent forms. If you are using your child's insurance, it may or may not cover the second initial session.
Art therapy uses art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork as a therapeutic and healing process.
Clients – young, old, and in-between – are able to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety and increase self-esteem.
Art therapy is practiced in mental health, rehabilitation, medical, educational, and forensic settings – as well as in private practice, in workshops and small-group settings. Clients come from all walks of life, facing a full array of challenges. Individuals, couples, families, and groups can benefit from various art therapy formats.
Art therapy is an effective treatment for persons experiencing developmental, medical, educational, social or psychological impairment. A key goal in art therapy is to improve or restore the client’s functioning and his/her sense of personal well being.
Art therapists are trained in both art and therapy. The process isn’t an art lesson – it is grounded in the knowledge of human development, psychological theories, and counseling techniques.
A master’s degree is required for entry-level practice in art therapy. Minimum educational and professional standards are established by the American Art Therapy Association, Inc. (AATA), a membership and advocacy organization.
Art therapy is growing and the professional, academic, and research foundation is expanding. The Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) continues to invest in art therapy’s professional standards and ethics and is the only nationally recognized credentialing organization for art therapists in the United States.
Frome the American Art Therapy Association Website:
A master’s degree is necessary for entry-level practice in Art Therapy. The educational standards require graduate level coursework that includes training in:
Students must also complete, at minimum, 100 hours of supervised practicum, and 600 hours of supervised art therapy clinical internship. In addition, preparatory training at a prerequisite level in studio art methods in a variety of two- and three-dimensional art media and processes are required. (For example, drawing, painting, digital art, clay or sculpture; although not all of these examples are included for program applications so check with any program to which you may apply.)
In addition, foundational areas of study in psychology are also required in advance of graduate studies. Most graduate programs require at least a prerequisite course in some sort of developmental psychology and also abnormal psychology. The art therapy graduate curriculum is uniquely guided by the premise that focused art-making constitutes reflective practice and facilitates learning.
There are master’s level art therapy programs located across the United States and Canada. Please review the Selecting a Master’s Program link from our website to find program options. Program designs include fully in-person, hybrid/low residency, or fully online. .
High quality art therapy programs prepare their students for entry level skills and post-graduate board certification as an art therapist. Quality programs also undergo a rigorous annual review process which ensures their resources, curriculum, faculty and policies are prepared to meet your learning needs. A period of transition in regards to these review processes is currently under way for Art Therapy programs. Educational standards which had been established by the American Art Therapy Associationare transitioning to being managed by the Accreditation Council for Art Therapy Education, which is overseen by the Commission on the Accreditation of Allied Health Education programs (CAAHEP).
The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) encourages you to consider either an AATA-approved or CAAHEP-accredited program. Both types of quality art therapy masters programs undergo a rigorous review process, which ensures their resources, curriculum, faculty, and policies will meet your learning needs and prepare you for future board certification. Graduates from either approved or accredited programs use the same process when seeking to become registered art therapists.
Art Therapy has historically been referred to as an integrative profession with coursework from what is known as related mental health professions being combined with coursework taught by board-certified art therapists and which focuses on art therapy theories and methods. This distinction is a somewhat false dichotomy as art therapy work is not “separate” or distinct from the skills needed by other mental health practitioners, although that is a common perception. CAAHEP’s education standards, updated in 2016, details resources, processes, and curriculum requirements for accredited programs and provides an outline of content for courses. Learn more.
In addition, graduate programs pay attention to curriculum content requirements delineated by the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) and also from state licensing boards. While each art therapy program has its own unique coursework that highlights the expertise of its faculty or needs of the region it is located in, these content areas reflect the types of coursework typically in a graduate degree in art therapy:
Programs may also have coursework that highlights family therapy studies; trauma studies; studies in addiction; studies in related creative arts therapies such as drama therapy or dance-movement therapy; vocational and career development; additional studio electives, or medical art therapy.
Note these are content areas, not course titles. Please see this FAQ to learn more.
Art therapy is a field grounded in research-based science that combines active art-making, the creative process, applied psychological theory, and the human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship. To that end, graduate students of art therapy are scholar-practitioners that read scholarly material, write in both academic and journalling styles, and also explore art-making to foster reflective practice and to facilitate learning. Learn more in the scholarly journal, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association..In
A variety of colleges across the country do offer undergraduate coursework or majors in art therapy, as pre-professional information. It is important to know that undergraduate coursework or a major in art therapy is not required to apply to graduate art therapy programs, though such coursework at this pre-professional level can increase your confidence and provide a strong foundation for future studies. In addition, the courses offer an opportunity to further explore the career and whether it is a fit for you! A list of a few resources for undergraduate pre-professional studies is available here, though please note this is not an exhaustive list. (Inclusion of a college on this list is not indicative of an endorsement by AATA, but is offered for information purposes.)
Yes, and a list of available doctoral programs may be viewed here. (Inclusion of a doctoral program on this list is not indicative of an endorsement by AATA, but is offered for information purposes.)
Individuals who graduate with their master’s degree in art therapy can pursue further national credentialing and licensure (depending on the state of practice). Visit our Credentialing and Licensure page to review the requirements for each, and the differences between the two.
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