Notice of Privacy Practices

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED

Effective date: October 23, 2026

This notice applies to Tanya Neiman, LCSW, dba Resilient Pathways. We are required by law to protect the privacy of your health information and follow its terms.

How we may use and share your information without your written permission once you are an established therapy client:

  • Payment: to bill and collect payment, including sending claims to your insurance plan through our billing platform and confirming your coverage.

  • Health care operations: to run the practice, such as quality review, record keeping, and supervision or consultation.

  • Required by law: when a law requires disclosure, including a valid court order.

  • Abuse and neglect: to report suspected abuse or neglect of a child or vulnerable adult to the authorities, as the law requires.

  • Serious threat: to prevent a serious and imminent threat to your health or safety or that of others.

  • Other legal situations: to health oversight agencies, in certain legal proceedings, to law enforcement as the law permits, and to coroners or medical examiners.

Uses that need your written authorization
We will ask for your signed authorization before we:

  • coordinate your care, including consulting with another provider involved in your care with your written consent, excluding the scenarios stated above and when the law requires disclosure;

  • release psychotherapy notes, except in the limited situations the law allows and requires;

  • use or share your information for marketing;

  • share it for any purpose not described in this notice.

You can revoke an authorization at any time in writing, except for actions we already took based on it.

Your rights

  • See and get a copy of your records. We respond within 30 days and may charge a reasonable fee for copies.

  • Ask us to correct information you believe is wrong or incomplete.

  • Get a list of disclosures we made of your information, with some exceptions.

  • Ask for restrictions on what we share. We do not have to agree, except when you pay for a service out of pocket in full and ask us not to share it with your insurer.

  • Choose how we contact you, such as a different phone number or email.

  • Get a paper copy of this notice at any time.

  • Be told of a breach of your unsecured health information.

  • Choose someone to act for you, such as a person with legal authority.

Email, text, and telehealth
We use Hushmail for Healthcare email and iPlum for phone and text, both under business associate agreements. Email and text are still not fully private, so please keep messages short and avoid sensitive details.

Our duties
We will tell you promptly if a breach affects your information. We may change this notice and apply the change to information we already hold. The current version is on our website and available on request.