NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Effective date: June 6, 2025
This Notice applies to The Healing Effect, LLC, an Arizona limited liability company ("The Healing Effect," "we," "us," or "our"), and to all of our clinicians and staff at our Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Mesa offices and through telehealth across Arizona.
We are required by law to protect the privacy of your protected health information ("PHI"), to give you this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the terms of the Notice currently in effect. We understand that your mental health information is deeply personal, and we are committed to keeping it confidential.
Arizona and federal law require or permit us to disclose PHI in certain situations, even without your authorization:
Psychotherapy notes (the notes your therapist keeps separate from the rest of your record about what was discussed in a session) receive special protection. With limited exceptions permitted by law, we will not use or disclose them without your written authorization.
Where any Arizona or federal law provides stronger protection for certain information than HIPAA does, we follow the stricter law.
The following require your written authorization: most uses of psychotherapy notes, uses for marketing, any sale of PHI, and any other use not described in this Notice. You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, effective going forward.
To exercise a right, contact our Privacy Officer below (some requests must be in writing).
For clients who are minors, a parent or legal guardian is generally the minor's personal representative under HIPAA and may access the minor's PHI and exercise these rights on the minor's behalf. Before treatment begins, we obtain written consent from the parent or guardian and, as appropriate for the child's age, the minor's assent. Arizona and federal law limit this in certain situations. For example, where a minor may lawfully consent to their own care, where a court directs otherwise, or where we reasonably believe that treating a parent or guardian as the personal representative could endanger the minor. In those situations we follow the law and our clinical judgment to protect the minor.
We are required to maintain the privacy of your PHI, provide this Notice, follow its current terms, and notify you following a breach of your unsecured PHI. We reserve the right to change this Notice and make the new terms effective for all PHI we maintain; the current version will be posted at our offices and on our Website with its effective date.
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may complain to us, to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and to the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.
With us, Privacy Officer:
Privacy Officer
The Healing Effect, LLC
Email: information@thehealingeffect.co · Phone: 602-698-5777
Mailing address: 10211 N 32nd St, Suite E1, Phoenix, AZ 85028
With the federal government:
Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201 · 1-877-696-6775 · www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/
With the Arizona licensing board:
Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners
1740 W. Adams Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007 · (602) 542-1882 · bbhe.az.gov
We retain client records as required by Arizona law, generally at least six years after the last date of service for adults, and for minors until the later of six years after the last service or the client's 21st birthday (A.R.S. § 12-2297; A.A.C. R4-6-1103).
Contact our Privacy Officer at information@thehealingeffect.co or 602-698-5777.