Dr. Keely Kolmes

I have been working on my Social Media Policy  for my private practice. This will eventually be available as a download on my Forms page and I will also distribute it to current clients. Please note that this is currently a work in progress. There may be important things to add to this policy, but [...]

“But what should I do?” It doesn’t happen often, but once in awhile, I will meet with a client who asks me some variation of the above. The thing that is most challenging (to me) about clients who directly ask what they should do is that they are usually those who are experiencing the most [...]

This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits The past two days, a subsection of the Internet was ablaze with commentary related to the Facebook privacy changes that I blogged about yesterday. Some users didn’t mind the changes. Some didn’t realize they had lost [...]

I was quoted this week in Violet Blue’s  SF Chronicle column, “The Sex Doctor is Out,” about how to find physicians and therapists who are knowledgable about sexual information. Violet talked about her own horror stories hearing of people who receive inaccurate or judgmental sex information from their providers. In this article, Violet also interviewed [...]

The SXSW 2010 PanelPicker is live today and I’m very excited about the panel that I have submitted for SXSW Interactive with John Grohol, Psy.D., CEO and co-founder of the mental health network, PsychCentral. You can vote for our panel (and others you’re excited about seeing at SXSW 2010, including music and film panels) by [...]