The big advertising spenders are promoting what they have to sell, which is not necessarily what’s best for you. Decades of research show that therapies of depth, insight and relationship are highly effective, evidence-based treatments.

Intensive, longer-term treatment is needed by many, and not only is it highly effective—it's cost-effective.

Many rely on Medicare, but we increasingly see the government turning Medicare over to private insurance companies. Here's our paper outlining the privatization of Medicare - its historical roots and potential implications.

Together with the Austen Riggs Center, PsiAN has created this toolkit to educate and assist therapists and patients in protecting the provision of and insurance payment for mental health services.

Article by Linda Michaels our Chair and Co-Founder, What People Need and Want from Therapy: Advancing Access to Quality Care, is about PsiAN's market research to a general audience, highlighting key results that support therapies of depth, insight and relationship.

Resources Regarding Parity Issues in Mental Health.

Our profession must take a firm stand against interference with therapy wherever possible. Therapy-interfering behavior, which amounts to practicing without a license in many cases can exist for reasons having to do with improper motivations to frame therapy for the benefit of others and not the client, thereby harming the latter.

PsiAN pushes back on No Surprises Act, and stands up for therapy and therapists.

Keith R Wilson, a counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY, talks about why people ask their therapists why, when they could be asking how, and if insurance companies, researchers, and employers of therapists could be more accepting of why, then clients would get the kind of care they want and need.

In a nationwide class action suit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has found that United Behavioral Health (“UBH/Optum”), the country’s largest managed behavioral healthcare organization, illegally denied mental health and substance use coverage based on flawed medical necessity criteria.

Mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente have gone on strike, because they, as trained and licensed mental health professionals, “want more authority to apply their professional judgment to how often they see their patients and whether individual or group therapy is indicated.” See PsiAN’s letter in support of high-quality mental health care.