Welcome to Choices in Counseling

"Helping to bring the pieces of your life together in harmony."

Do you or a family member struggle with stress and uncertainty in your life? Do you feel overwhelmed? Have you tried to improve your situation over and over only to find that you still have not found the solution to your problems? Do you want to have some help but just don’t know where to turn?

Maybe it’s time you chose to work with a licensed professional counselor…

If you have personal, family, or work concerns and choose therapy services with Dorian Angebrandt LCSW, you will discover professional, comprehensive, accessible tele-health counseling and mentoring services that are designed to help you and your family bring all the pieces of your life together in harmony. Dorian Angebrandt, LCSW can provide the support, guidance and education to help improve your situation through education, support and a variety of different therapy options including: individual, couples and family therapy for children, adolescents, and adults.

Do you or a family member struggle with stress and uncertainty in your life? Do you feel overwhelmed? Have you tried to improve your situation over and over only to find that you still have not found the solution to your problems? Do you want to have some help but just don’t know where to turn?

Maybe it’s time you chose to work with a licensed professional counselor…

If you have personal, family, or work concerns and choose therapy services with Dorian Angebrandt LCSW, you will discover professional, comprehensive, accessible counseling and mentoring services that are designed to help you and your family bring all the pieces of your life together in harmony. Dorian Angebrandt, LCSW can provide the support, guidance and education to help improve your situation through education, support and a variety of different tele-health therapy options including: individual, couples and family therapy for children, adolescents, and adults.

Adjustment Disorders

Anger Management

Anxiety

Attention Deficit Disorders

Autism Spectrum

Behavioral Issues

Blended Families

Bipolar Disorder

Conduct Disorders

Crisis Intervention

Daily Living Skills

Divorce

Depression

Family Discord

Grief and Loss

OCD

Parenting Skills

Peer and Social Issues

Postpartum Depression

Post Traumatic Stress

Relationship Issues

ReMarriage

School Related Issues

Self Esteem

Self Harm

Choices in Counseling, LLC is the private practice of Dorian Angebrandt, LCSW which was founded in Franklin Indiana in 2008. Originally offering face-to-face therapy services to the residents of Johnson and surrounding counties, Choices in Counseling, LLC worked hard to provide the professional, comprehensive, and accessible counseling and mentoring services it is now known for today. Starting in March of 2020 Dorian Angebrandt, LCSW has increased and improved access to the practice now exclusively offering secure tele-health therapy services.

What is Tele-Health?

Tele-health — sometimes called tele-medicine — lets your health care provider provide care for you without an in-person office visit. Telehealth is done primarily online with internet access on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. There are several options for tele-health care including talking to your health care provider live over the phone or video chat, sending and receiving messages from your health care provider using secure messaging, email, secure messaging, and secure file exchange. There are even options to access tele-health if you don’t have a stable internet connection or device connected to the internet.

Ref: https://telehealth.hhs.gov/patients/understanding-telehealth/

How does it work?

Depending on what your provider offers, you can receive tele-health services in different ways. Two of the most common are through a patient portal and with virtual appointments. With the security of a username and password, a patient portal lets you send and get messages from your provider, address issues and concerns re: symptoms, set up appointments, etc. This is often faster than waiting to talk to them on the phone. The second most often means of tele-health is through virtual appointments. Providers will connect with you and facilitate the appointment through a phone call or video conference. You can often have these virtual meetings with mental and behavioral health professionals as well as urgent care clinics, etc.

Ref: https://www.webmd.com/lung/how-does-telemedicine-work#1

Why Tele-Health?

There are many reasons to choose tele-health over traditional in-office meetings. Tele-health is more accessible, it’s affordable, it’s often more comfortable and convenient, and tele-health is very professional.

Getting Started

If you are ready to begin receiving the professional, comprehensive and accessible tele-health counseling & mentoring services that you have been looking for, please review the steps below and then complete an Appointment Request Form to get started:

Step 1:

Submit an Appointment Request Form

This brief secure form provides Dorian with a client’s name, address and general contact information along with a brief explanation of the current needs/goals for treatment. Insurance coverage(s) will also be provided for review through completion of this form.

After receiving and reviewing a completed Appointment Request Form, client’s will receive a password protected secure link to complete enrollment paperwork and schedule an initial appointment.

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Step 2:

Complete Enrollment Paperwork

After submitting an Appointment Request Form client’s will receive an Access Code to open and securely complete the three part enrollment paperwork which includes:

1. Client Demographics
2. Client History
3. Consent For Treatment

After completing each section of the enrollment paperwork the documents will be securely transmitted to Dorian to review prior to your initial appointment.

*NOTE: You must first submit an Appointment Request Form to receive the Access Code needed to open and complete Enrollment Paperwork

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Step 4:

Schedule Initial Appointment w/Dorian

After completing an Appointment Request Form, the Enrollment Paperwork and downloading the GoToMeeting App the final step in the enrollment process is to review and reserve an initial appointment w/Dorian through the online calendar which will be made available to clients through a separate secure link and access code.

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*IMPORTANT: You must first submit an Appointment Request Form and complete Enrollment Paperwork to receive the separate Access Code needed to schedule an initial appointment

Step 3:

Download and Install the Free GoToMeeting App

Following submission of the completed Enrollment Paperwork clients will be given directions and links to download and install GoToMeeting which is the secure platform used for tele-health counseling sessions.

Detailed, step-by-step directions on how to prepare, sign-on and use GoToMeeting for secure tele-health therapy sessions w/Dorian are available for review as needed.

*NOTE: Link(s) to Download the GoToMeeting App for Sessions and detailed directions will be provided later on during the enrollment process.

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If you are experiencing a mental health emergency please contact the 24/7 Mental Health Hotline thru Valle Vista at (800) 447-1348 or contact your local emergency room department.

Last Updated:7/12/2022