Creating a professional will has been hanging over my head for more than 10 years. Thankfully, a colleague recently recommended TheraClosure and I could not be more grateful. TheraClosure’s process was straightforward, simple, and holistic. I feel immense relief now knowing that my patients, and my legal and ethical responsibilities, are taken care of. I’m so pleased with TheraClosure that I now recommend it to users of my course the Complete Private Practice Toolkit which helps mental health clinicians start or improve a private practice. TheraClosure has thought of everything related to professional wills and practice executor services—there’s truly nothing else like it out there.

In a recent therapy session, one of my patients brought up the NYT article, "The Ghost in the Therapy Room" about a man who struggled to process the sudden and unexpected death of his therapist. After she missed their scheduled session, he learned of her death through a colleague of his. (He too is a mental health professional.) My patient expressed her concerns after reading the article: What if something happened to me? How would she know? What would she do if I was gone? This is something I thought of when I started my private practice and asked my attorney about, but the process he described was complex. I couldn't think of who I could ask to take over the burden of notifying all of my patients and taking responsibility for their records. So I did nothing. In reading the NYT article, I learned that there is now a solution. With TheraClosure's help, I now have a comprehensive emergency plan in place which includes a Professional Will and names the specific tasks of a Practice Executor. It is a huge relief to know my patients will be notified and cared for if something happens to me.

I had watched panic rise in my spouse's face when I started to discuss the clinical and ethical steps to care for my clients if I were incapacitated. From recent experience we know how overwhelmed grieving families already feel and I wanted to remove as much of the burden from my friends and family as I could. I thought about the fees for consulting someone about a professional will and more importantly, what the emotional and fiscal cost would be to my family to hire professional assistance to get things sorted if I were incapacitated, and it was worth it to me. At $38 per month once established, I see it as a kind of professional "life" insurance-- the goal being to take care of my family (and my clients).

"The burden of being a professional executor is very high. I assumed the role of professional executor after the loss of my sister and close colleague. I soon had no choice but to take a leave of absence from my private practice because I was beyond my ability to cope. While being a professional executor for a family member may be uncommon, we do tend to ask our closest colleagues to be our executors. This can put them in a real bind because they must process their own grief while assuming the professional executor role."

I cannot speak more highly of my consultation with Dr. Robyn Miller. I contacted Robyn after putting off drafting and even thinking about my professional will for the umpteenth time. Robyn was extremely knowledgeable about the process and gave me a fantastic framework and advice to think through how to approach the whole process. I appreciated her thoughtfulness around all the clinical nuances of this process. Most of all, she was extremely compassionate and supportive in helping me think through my emotional barriers to identifying executors and moving forward with drafting the contract. Meeting with Robyn eliminated so much stress and uncertainty for me and would highly recommend her services.

This was a profound experience and I want to thank you for all the care you gave to me. It means a lot to me.

When my wife faced a sudden stage IV cancer diagnosis, Robyn was the only person she trusted to serve as her practice executor. During a horrific time, it brought Kim comfort knowing her clients were in good hands—and that the kids and I were protected as well.