Who we are
Our website address is: https://centerforcreativecounseling.com
The Center for Creative Counseling is a private therapy practice that provides therapy services to residents of Pennsylvania.
Hayley Wilds, MA, AT, LPC, CCTP, CTMH is the founder, owner, and practicing clinician at the Center for Creative Counseling.
Clinical Disclaimer
NOTE: The Center for Creative Counseling website is not a substitution for therapy or clinical supervision.
All articles, information, blog posts, and recommendations are intended for educational purposes only.
Articles are authored by experts in their field, but the content should not be considered professional or medical advice. Although the articles are based on current clinical research, readers should always rely on the support and clinical guidance of a contracted professional.
Affiliate Disclosure
An integral part of our high-quality content is the information we provide with regard to useful resources, tools, services, and products.
The Center for Creative Counseling may recommend helpful products, books, and other resources via the practice blog. Product recommendations on the site are intended for educational and self-development purposes only. Some of these product recommendations and resources suggestions may include affiliate links, including links to Amazon, and as an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. All blog posts that include affiliate links provide an affiliate disclosure at the start of each post informing visitors of the potential for affiliate links.
NOTE: In order to avoid a dual relationship, current clients are never given affiliate links and they are never directed to purchase anything through the website. Any product/resource suggestions provided to current clients are only intended as an additional resource to supplement their treatment and completely voluntary. When product/resource suggestions are shared with current clients, they never contain affiliate links in order to avoid an additional seller/customer relationship. Product/resources suggestions are not a substitution for therapy and do not imply prescribed clinical recommendations. No purchase of any kind is necessary to receive therapy services.
I only recommend resources, products, and services that I find to be useful. If you happen to make a purchase using an affiliate link, I will earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you.
My recommendations are based on my own experience with the product or service, as well as a TON of in-depth research. I only share resources, tools, products, and services that meet high standards of quality and value – I would never recommend something just to make money.
Affiliate commission helps support the practice blog and mitigates the costs of running it. A lot of time and effort goes into each article, ensuring superior content and dependable information. Any affiliate commission received helps maintain that level of quality.
For more information about affiliate marketing, check out http://paidforadvertising.com/.
Comments
Most pages and posts have comments disabled in order to protect confidentiality and ensure privacy. This also serves to clarify any potential confusion about a client-therapist relationship when using comments to seek professional advice. However, if comments are enabled on a post or page, this section explains how the information is used.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
General Email, Email Marketing and Email Newsletter Disclaimer
While clients of the Center for Creative Counseling have access to HIPAA-secure email, messaging, and phone to communicate about their treatment, the Center for Creative Counseling email newsletter and general email are not specifically for clients and therefore not HIPAA-secure.
When sending email to the Center for Creative Counseling email account, it’s important to note that your email communication may not be entirely protected. The Center for Creative Counseling uses Google Workspace secure email backed by a BAA. However, this does not extend to your email account or inbox. Please refrain from sending any Protected Health Information using conventional email systems.
When signing up to receive the email newsletter, you opt-in to receive marketing communication, updates about the practice, and useful tips and articles about mental wellness. It’s important to know that your email address and name are stored in MailChimp’s database, and whether or not you are a client of the Center for Creative Counseling, that information may be vulnerable to a data breach.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. We will not share your data with any third parties without your express written permission.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Other Policies
See below for links to other important policies and disclosures for the Center for Creative Counseling.
