Mental health for personal injury

Psychologists, counselors and psychiatrists treat what an accident does beyond the physical injury: anxiety behind the wheel, disrupted sleep, depression during a long recovery, and post-traumatic stress after a violent crash or an assault.

Those injuries are real and compensable, and often go undocumented because no one sent the patient to be evaluated. An evaluation puts them on the record and treatment notes track them over time. Attorneys look for clinicians who see injury patients and document in terms a claim can use. What the therapeutic record contains and what gets disclosed is a conversation worth having at the first visit.