For clinical clients, one-hour appointments work well.  For clients involved in a family law matter, the first appointment with Dr. Alvarez is two hours to allow sufficient time to understand the relevant historical information.  The majority of all additional appointments are one hour for family law clients. 

For most clinical clients, the frequency of appointments at the beginning of treatment is weekly.  However, there is always individuation depending on your needs.  For forensic clients, most parenting work is done in a weekly or every other week format.  For any client, as progress is achieved, appointment frequency lessens, but the client’s needs are always considered and adjustments can always be made at any point in the process. 

All information is confidential for clinical clients and only your authorization allows Dr. Alvarez to release your information or speak to another person about you.  For family law matters, the majority of information created during your work with Dr. Alvarez is not confidential and would be open to discovery by the court process.  Your current court order would define confidentiality and Dr. Alvarez follows the current order related to confidentiality. 

No, Dr. Alvarez does not accept nor process insurance benefits.