The following professionals have been kind enough to offer advance praise for One Last Act:
“Licensed Professional Counselor Cathy Wilson’s book, One Last Act: A Mental Health Clinician’s Guide to Professional Wills, fills a significant gap in the professional literature and ethical mandates by providing clinical guidance and ethical planning for therapists in completing that one last act that permits continuity of care for mental health clients.
In One Last Act, mental health professionals finally have a practical, values-based, culturally sensitive guide and simple-to-use guide for taking care of clients’ needs when faced with unexpected interruptions and terminations due to a clinician’s incapacities and physical death.
By providing exercises and examples throughout the book, Wilson walks us through the surprisingly simple steps and reflection necessary to ultimately complete a therapist’s professional will.
This easy-to-follow guide covers why we need such a document, how to choose a professional executor (and why you might choose to be one), why a one-size-fits-all document will not suffice, who needs to be contacted (when and how), the additional information that may be needed to carry out a clinician’s wishes, and how / where to store the completed professional will.“
Tamara G. Suttle, MEd, LPC, ACS, founder of Private Practice from the Inside Out
“Cathy Wilson has created a down-to-earth must read handbook for creating a professional will. This book is filled with important information for counselors-in-training, practitioners thinking about starting a private practice, and experienced clinicians who are dragging their feet.”
Jude T. Austin II, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT-Associate, NCC, CCMHC, Assistant Professor at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Julius A. Austin, Ph.D., PLPC, Clinical Therapist and Coordinator of the Office of Substance Abuse and Recovery at Tulane University
Authors of Surviving and Thriving in Your Counseling Program
“A much needed resource to help mental health professionals, leaders, and supervisors feel prepared for the unexpected! This book and it’s tools are a great way to reduce anxiety and embrace planning that supports both our clients and the businesses we’ve worked so hard to create!”
Khara Croswaite Brindle, LPC, Founder of Croswaite Counseling and co-author of The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision: A roadmap through the complexities of community mental health
“This breakthrough book, “One Last Act: A Mental Health Clinician’s Guide to Professional Wills” is well researched, written in a clear and understandable fashion, and replete with valuable information for any mental health practitioner looking create a Professional Will.
The author has included a Professional Will template for mental health providers to follow in order to effectively create their own Professional Will. Creation of a Professional Will is not only a legal obligation but an ethical one as well for the protection of clients and their loved ones.
This book should be on every mental health provider’s bookshelf and it should be closely followed to create a working Professional Will in an attempt to Do No Harm to our clients.
I highly recommend this book and the Professional Will template for all Mental Health Providers. Ms. Wilson has created an extremely valuable resource and in doing so has helped the mental health profession address a difficult but invaluable topic.”
John Arman, Ph.D., LPC, Professor and Clinical Supervisor in the Regis University Counseling Graduate Program, Denver, Colorado
“A great resource for mental health and other health care professionals.”
John R. Edwards, LCSW, West Coast Psychotherapy, Oakland, CA