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Explore our range of services designed to help you move forward with confidence, wherever you're headed next.

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Whether your client forms need to be updated or you're subleasing your office space, you need legal support.

You know how to handle a patient in crisis, but what happens when
your business is in crisis? 

❋ Intake Documents

You know the words people use matter. We can help you align your contracts with your values using understandable language that protects your interests.

You need client consent forms, telehealth agreements, and other practice-related documentation that are not only current with all of the applicable laws, but also inclusive and free from discriminatory language.

❋ Risk Management

You reduce your liability risks following our guidance for improving your documentation practices.

You focus on your work while we resolve issues before board complaints or lawsuits are filed by addressing conflicts early.

We keep you informed on the most up-to-date best practices for maintaining professional boundaries and avoiding dual relationships.

You are not alone navigating ethical dilemmas effectively with our guidance through the current mandatory reporting requirements.

❋ Small Business Needs

We can help you choose and implement the right business structure.

We collaborate with group practices to craft partnership agreements.

Wouldn’t it be nice to reply to your landlord when they email you a commercial lease, “Let me run this past my attorney”?

Ready to expand? We create equitable hiring and retention policies to build a diverse team that reflects the clients you serve.

We collaborate with you and your team on employee and independent contractor agreements for staff such as therapists, administrative personnel, and interns.

You focus on mental health. We’ll make sure your business complies with labor laws, including wage and hour rules, workplace anti-discrimination policies, and employee rights.

❋ Insurance & Reimbursement Issues

Understand and protect your practice’s position with insurance companies and managed care organizations with our contract review and negotiation.

Outsource escalating reimbursement disputes to us, including denied claims or underpayments.

You focus on mental health. We’ll make sure your business complies with Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance billing regulations.

You are not alone navigating audits or investigations related to billing practices. We’re right there with you.

We keep you informed on the most up-to-date best practices for avoiding unintentional insurance fraud or overbilling.

How Sarah Kelman Law
Serves Mental Health Providers
Over the Course of Their Career

New Solo Practitioners

  • AI and Google can steer mental health professionals wrong because the requirements for business structures are different for licensed professionals in California.

  • We will work together to craft client consent forms, telehealth agreements, and other practice-related documentation that comply with the law, while reflecting your values.

  • Adopting proactive documentation practices reduces liability risks.

Growing Practices

  • Creating equitable hiring and retention policies to build a diverse team that reflects the clients you serve.

    Collaborating on employee and independent contractor agreements for staff such as therapists, administrative personnel, or interns.

    Complying with labor laws, including wage and hour rules, workplace anti-discrimination policies, and employee rights.

  • Crafting partnership agreements for your group practice that comply with the law, while reflecting your values.

  • Helping you understand and comply with HIPAA, FERPA, and other privacy laws as they take effect, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, protecting both your clients and your business.

Transitions

  • Helping you expand access by offering sliding scale, reduced-cost, or free mental health services by developing legally sound policies that align with your mission while managing liability risks.

    Structuring partnerships with local organizations to expand access to care for underserved populations.

    Exploring participation in interstate compacts, such as the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), which allows psychologists to practice telehealth across participating states.

  • Trademarking the names of your products, such as workbooks, therapy tools, or apps (e.g., a mindfulness app or a therapy journal), ensures no one else can sell similar products under the same name.

    Copyrighting your original written content, such as therapy workbooks, educational articles, workshop slides, or blog posts, ensures that these materials cannot be copied, distributed, or used without permission.

    Licensing your copyrighted materials to other mental health professionals creates an additional revenue stream while retaining ownership of the content.

  • You have worked hard to build a reputation and a client base. Pass it on to the next generation of mental healthcare providers while building your retirement nest egg.

Our Process

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Step 1. Book a consultation.

Schedule a free 30-minute phone call or video chat with me. You’ll ask me all the questions you have about working with an attorney. I’ll ask you about your business and your legal needs. We’ll see if Sarah Kelman Law is the right fit for you.

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Step 2. Sign an engagement letter.

Let’s get ready to legal! We’ll create an engagement letter for you, which is just a fancy way of saying we’ll put into writing the scope of the work Sarah Kelman Law is doing for you, our fees and billing process, and the ground rules for how we want to engage with one another. For Sarah Kelman Law to represent you and start work, we require a signed engagement letter. Like Willow said to Riley in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend.”

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Step 3. We do the work.

Once we receive the signed engagement letter, we get to work. We work with you to develop a project timeline. We ask you even more questions about your legal concerns. We send regular updates. If we create a document for you, we schedule an appointment to walk through it step by step, so you fully understand all its legal goodness. One of Sarah Kelman Law's core values is accessibility. If you and your clients cannot understand what you are signing, that document is not accessible.