{"id":114,"date":"2017-06-23T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cp2.therasoftclients.com\/TSBLOGTT\/?p=114"},"modified":"2021-11-25T06:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T06:51:46","slug":"how-to-make-your-private-practice-office-space-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/how-to-make-your-private-practice-office-space-confidential\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Your Private Practice Office Space Confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Make Your Private Practice Office Space Confidential<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Once you start seeing clients at your private practice<\/a>, you need to make sure that all your conversations and information are confidential. That means your office needs to provide a safe environment for your sessions. And let\u2019s just say thin walls aren\u2019t conducive to confidentiality.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Therapy, no matter what niche<\/a>, is usually an emotional subject. People are likely to raise their voices when they speak about topics that make then angry or sad. You don\u2019t want your neighbors to know all that well what is going on in your clients\u2019 lives.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Your First Office Space<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n

When you get started as a private practitioner, you are probably choosing an inexpensive option for your office. That either means public spaces – such as churches or community centres – or offices that aren\u2019t designed with therapy in mind.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\"How<\/span><\/p>\n

How To Make Your Private Practice Office Space Confidential<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Testing Confidentiality<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n

To first test how confidential your office is, get a friend or relative to talk at different sound levels in your office, and make note on how the sound carries. Try different locations in your office, and detect the most confidential one.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Soundproofing on a Budget<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n

If you find that neighbors are still likely to hear your conversations, there are a few steps you can take to make sessions more confidential – without distracting from the actual therapy. You can try:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Installing a Fan<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Playing background sound: white noise, soft music, soothing sounds<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Add corkroll to doors or walls<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Install a small water fountain<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Once you realised one or two items from the list above, check your office for confidentiality again. You don\u2019t need to completely cancel out all noise, but you want to make sure that unintended listeners don\u2019t understand specific words.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    How To Make Your Private Practice Office Space Confidential Once you start seeing clients at your private practice, you need to make sure that all your conversations and information are confidential. That means your office needs to provide a safe environment for your sessions. And let\u2019s just say thin walls aren\u2019t conducive to confidentiality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscp10.therasoft.com\/TSBLOGTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}