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Direct primary care limitations for complex patients

Zoe M. Crawford, LCSW
Conditions
December 21, 2025

All of the arguments for direct primary care (DPC) from a provider perspective are valid. As a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, I have essentially run a direct care practice for the last 15 years. I don’t accept insurance and see patients as often and for as long as therapeutically necessary. So when DPC practices started rising in popularity, I was excited to try it. Unfortunately, as a patient who is medically …

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Direct primary care limitations for complex patients

Why is there a shortage of mental health professionals?

Zoe M. Crawford, LCSW
Conditions
June 26, 2022

There are many topics on which I cannot claim to be an expert. I cannot solve the issue of gun violence, I don’t know what will “fix” the current societal crises, and I have no idea what will happen in the future regarding climate change.

There is one topic that seems to be coming up with more frequency and regularity, and I am qualified to speak on that. The shortage of …

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Why is there a shortage of mental health professionals?

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