Parent Consultation & Education Advocacy
Our Child and Adolescent Clinical Director, Jessica Pippin, LCPC often works alongside parents to navigate the complexities of parenting, diagnoses, school, therapy, and other potential needs. Starting with identifying concerns and struggles, Jessica helps parents to develop a plan to increase positive changes for their child and family. On a personal level, Jessica also brings with her the experience of living with and loving a quirky child of her own.
Parent consultation can be done as a stand-alone service or can be done in conjunction with individual therapy services with any of our providers. Including parents in the process increases child and adolescent success and can often impact all areas of their lives. The child, parents, school, primary care providers, and psychologists can all work together. Often this is an overwhelming process, but Jessica can help prioritize services based on the biggest challenges and prepare you for meetings and appointments.
Examples of consultation services available to you include:
Sort through your child or adolescent’s psychological evaluation with you to identify what you need to know, as well as what to look out for and be aware of moving forward. In addition, you may need to advise school officials about and prepare yourself for conversations with prescribers.
Having someone prepare you for 504 meetings so you walk into those empowered and educated for your child’s best interest.
Having a neutral person to review your child’s treatment plans, diagnoses, and medication regime and help you evaluate what has worked as well as what hasn’t.
Assist you in deciding what course of therapeutic action to take that will give you peace of mind.
Guide you in making educated decisions regarding medication that come from an advocacy standpoint.
Figuring out the appropriate diagnosis for their child or adolescent.
Sorting through which type of therapist or provider is the appropriate referral for their child or adolescent.
Teasing out appropriate interventions for their child or adolescent or even the family unit as a whole.
Navigating solid communication with school or other academic entities in your child or adolescent’s life.
Facilitating effective communication between medical providers and other providers.
Adjusting behavior modification systems and discipline for best results.
Because of the time commitment, parent consultation meetings are not billable to insurance. This service is available in person or via telehealth and can be done with anyone that is a primary caregiver to a child or adolescent.
Jessica offers an initial consultations that are not billable to insurance. The time that the consultation will take is dependent on how much information you will cover during this session, however it can last between 90 minutes and 2 hours. The cost for this service, is $325.
If you would like to book a parent consultation session, feel free to send Jessica an email at Jessica@TheMentalWellnessCenter.com. She will connect you with our billing department so you can pay for your session in advance. She will get you scheduled on her calendar and please bring all of your documentation with you. Examples of documentation include psychotherapy notes, psychological evaluations, school reports, physician evaluations, etc.
After you have done a parent consultation session with Jessica, you can schedule a time with her to do a records review. The purpose of a records review is to have another set of eyes to go over your child’s psychological evaluations, to put it in real-world terminology, or to help give you a plan of action to go into a school meeting on your child’s behalf. In her years of experience doing this, Jessica has found that it’s oftentimes easier to conduct these document reviews on her own time. If you would like to schedule a follow-up records review, the cost is $125. Please email all documents to Jessica@TheMentalWellnessCenter.com
Follow up sessions with Jessica Pippin, are available once you have completed the initial consultation only. Jessica offers a 90 minute follow up session, to allow you a safe place to process how you are doing implementing the information you have learned, what difficulties you are having getting the support with your child, and where you need addition guidance. The cost for this service is $275.