A Practical Guide to Professional Wills: Understanding and Meeting Your Ethical Obligations to Plan for Emergencies

A Practical Guide to Professional Wills: Understanding and Meeting Your Ethical Obligations to Plan for Emergencies

Friday, March 13, 2026

Registration 8:30am Program 9am to 12pm

Presented By: Evan Forman, Ph.D. and Robyn Miller, Ph.D.

Location: Online Workshop

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***Deadline to register is March 11, 2026 at 9am***

3 CE Credits

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to meet your ethical responsibility to prepare for sudden disruptions to your practice. The training explores the clinical, administrative, and emotional impacts of abrupt practice suspension—on patients, colleagues, and family—and provides actionable, accessible solutions to support responsible planning. We’ll walk through the essential components of a comprehensive Professional Will and key considerations in selecting a capable Practice Executor to ensure ethical and recordkeeping compliance, prevent traumatic terminations, and ease the burden on loved ones and peers.

Objectives:

1. Explain the psychotherapist’s ethical duty to plan for sudden terminations
2. List the important components to include in a plan / Professional Will
3. List the clinical, business, and practical duties of a Practice Executor, and guidelines for best practice.

Evan M. Forman received his B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rochester, and has completed clinical internships and fellowships at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Pennsylvania under Aaron T. Beck. He is currently a Professor of Psychological and Brian Sciences at Drexel University. He was the founding Director of the Center for Weight Eating and Lifestyle Science (the WELL Center) which he grew into an internationally-recognized research and training center with 55 faculty, postdoc fellows, staff and students, and that has garnered $47 million in funding across almost 50 projects. He is the winner of two mentorship awards, and his many trainees have gone on to occupy prominent positions throughout the country. Dr. Forman is considered a national leader in the development and evaluation of innovative technological and behavioral approaches to health behavior change, such as the use of third-wave behavioral approaches, the use of gamification to motivate behavior change and facilitate neurocognitive training, and the use of AI to optimize the continuous selection of treatment based on real-time digital outcome data. He has received $18M in external funding, most from the National Institutes of Health, and has served as PI of 6 large NIH-funded clinical trials. He has also served as Mentor on 9 NIH training grants. He has authored over 220 scientific papers, which have over 22,000 indexed citations. He has edited several important texts, and is also the author of a clinician guide and workbook called Effective Weight Loss: An Acceptance-based Behavior Approach for Oxford Press’s Treatments that Work series. He has served on numerous NIH review panels, as chair of the Committee of Science and Practice for APA Division 12 (Society for Clinical Psychology), editor of the APA Division 12 Evidence-Based Treatments website, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, and Director of all Graduate Studies in Psychology. Dr. Forman maintains a private practice in Narberth, PA and sees patients throughout the country remotely via PsyPACT, with specialties in insomnia, weight control, binge eating, depression, and anxiety. He is also the co-founder of TheraClosure, a Professional Executor service for mental health clinicians.

Robyn Miller, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist practicing in Maryland since 2002, and she is the founder of TheraClosure, LLC, the first psychotherapist professional executor service.  Dr. Miller trained at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center/Harvard Medical School and at Harvard University Counseling Center.  She earned a Ph.D. from University of Rochester, and a B.A. from Tufts University.  Psychotherapy interests include menopause transitions, eating and mood disorders, and trauma.  Dr. Miller writes and trains clinicians on professional wills and the role of practice executor, and has founded TheraClosure which is a service that provides those services to mental health clinicians.  In her free time, Dr. Miller enjoys nature, reading, cooking, and time with family.

PSCP: The Psychology Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PSCP: The Psychology network maintains responsibility for this program and its content