Most of us know we need a Professional Will. Far fewer of us have one. The reasons we put it off are rarely administrative. They are human. This free guide begins there, and helps you start.
A Professional Will is a plan of care for our clients, for the day we cannot be there. This guide walks through it in four parts.
Your emergency response team, the business, and the logistics, and the question each one answers if you suddenly could not work.
The four reasons therapists most often avoid writing one, from facing our own mortality to feeling how much the therapeutic relationship means.
A gentle dialogue between your Wise Self and the parts of you that resist or hesitate, with space to write your answers.
A printable checklist under the three aspects, so you can begin your own plan today.
A Professional Will protects the relationship, not only the records.
Printable, in large type, and in Roberta's voice. Join the list and it is yours free, with occasional notes as the book launches.
Roberta Rachel Omin, LCSW, brings more than 40 years of relational practice to this work. Her book, When the Therapist Is Ill (Routledge, December 2026), includes what therapists need to know about professional wills and continuity plans. She also offers The Relational Professional Will as a workshop for institutes, associations, and training programs.