When Are You Required to Break Client Confidentiality?

When Are You Required to Break Client Confidentiality?

We recently received a question wanting know about any legal requirements for massage therapists to break confidentiality with clients when they reveal things like abuse (e.g., child, elder, partner, etc.), suicide threats or attempts, mental health issues, or crimes...
Practice-Building Tip: Embrace Intimacy

Practice-Building Tip: Embrace Intimacy

Well, Valentine’s Day is over, but I’m still thinking about it. Why do we make such a big deal over having our very own Valentine? I’m wondering, do we crave a Valentine so much because we lack very many other avenues of intimacy in our lives? It seems that we have...
Is Your Practice Trans-Friendly?

Is Your Practice Trans-Friendly?

There is a lot of furor surrounding the new visibility of transgender folk these days. The latest statistics show that approximately 0.3% of the US population identify themselves as transgender, or approximately 1.4 million human beings in this country alone. I...