Richard Shulman on Volunteers in Psychotherapy

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. "Richard Shulman, Ph.D. on Volunteers In Psychotherapy". Dr. Van Nuys talks with Dr. Richard Shulman about his non-profit organization Volunteers in Psychotherapy. Volunteers in Psychotherapy provides clients access to truly private psychotherapy free from the influence of managed care or insurance, in exchange for their agreeing to volunteer their time with organizations such as non-profits, and charitable and governmental agencies (including homeless, hospice, hospital, ambulance, and fire services) that benefit the community. Clients must volunteer four hours of their time for every hour of psychotherapy they are eligible to receive. They get a record of their participation and then give a copy of that record to VIP which awards them therapy credits. Patients may then redeem these therapy credits for free or low cost psychotherapy with a network therapist secure that their private business will remain their private business, and free from inappropriate coercion to medicate their problems, or see them as signs of an illness rather than simply a difficult life problem.