{"id":3670,"date":"2023-05-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sprucehealth.com\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2023-10-26T05:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:05:01","slug":"virtual-counseling-practice-uses-a-spruce-business-phone-line-and-fax-to-securely-communicate-with-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/virtual-counseling-practice-uses-a-spruce-business-phone-line-and-fax-to-securely-communicate-with-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Counseling Practice Uses a Spruce Business Phone Line and Fax to Securely Communicate With Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Melissa Comeau, Ed.S., LMHC, LMFT, NCC, has 15 years of experience and training working with individuals, couples, and groups from diverse backgrounds to help improve their relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>She&#8217;s worked in college counseling centers where one of the top concerns is relationship issues. She started her career working in community mental health and non-profit agencies where she received training and experience identifying unhealthy and toxic relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>She has also received advanced training, additional certifications, and additional licenses to expand her knowledge as a marriage and family therapist and relationship expert to be of service to individuals and couples struggling in their relationships.<\/p>\r\n<h3><span class=\"s1\"><b>What kind of work do you do?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"m-text-align-center text-align-left m-size-16 size-20\">Heartfelt Counseling Center offers couples therapy and individual counseling for those struggling with relationship issues. Our practice serves clients across the state of Florida as a fully virtual practice. The team focuses on relationships; romantic relationships, family relationships, and friendships. Relationship counseling is not just what we do; it&#8217;s all we do.<\/p>\r\n<h3><span class=\"s1\"><b>How long have you been doing it?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in the mental health field for 15 years.<\/p>\r\n<h3><span class=\"s1\"><b>What first brought you to Spruce?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>I was starting my private practice and a colleague recommended Spruce as a service I can use for my business telephone line. But I quickly learned that there were other features that I could use to support my growing practice.<\/p>\r\n<h3><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>How do you use Spruce at work?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>I use it for my business telephone line, to securely communicate with my clients, and for the e-fax service. I mostly use Spruce to communicate with my clients via the secure text feature in the app. This is where I share their therapy homework, I conduct check-ins with them in-between sessions, and I coordinate scheduling.<\/p>\r\n<h3><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>What is your favorite Spruce feature?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>My favorite feature about Spruce is that it is a HIPAA- compliant communication service that has an app to use on mobile devices and that I can securely message my clients through.<\/p>\r\n<h3><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>What do you like to do most when you&#8217;re not working?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">When I\u2019m not working, I like to spend time with my family.<\/p>\r\n<p>You can follow me across social media:<br \/>IG: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heartfeltcounselingcenter\/\">@heartfeltcounselingcenter<\/a><br \/>TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@heartfeltcounseling\">@heartfeltcounseling<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heartfeltcounselingcenter\">Heartfelt Counseling Center <\/a><br \/>Linkedin: <a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/melissa-comeau-9b9a52229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/melissa-comeau-9b9a52229&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1682802333875000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2s9dfcYnZB5leBxLfUp2ti\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/<wbr \/><span class=\"il\">melissa<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"il\">comeau<\/span>-9b9a52229<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>New to Spruce? Try us out FREE for 14 days: https:\/\/l.sprucehealth.com\/startspruce<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Virtual Counseling Practice Uses a Spruce Business Phone Line and Fax to Securely Communicate With Clients - Spruce Blog","description":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,24],"tags":[],"different-template":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-profiles","category-telehealth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"different-template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/different-template?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}