Terms and conditions:

Welcome to Askafamilytherapist. Here, you can seek answers to any questions you may have about issues that may be affecting you and your family members. This is a free on-line community service, and you are more than welcome to ask as many questions as you would like. I look forward to helping you by offering the best answers I have available! Before you ask your self-help questions you will need to read and agree to the following terms and conditions:

1. The Askafamilytherapist service is not in any way psychotherapy.

2. The Askafamilytherapist service is not an offering of psychotherapeutic advice.

3. Though I, Sam Markewich, MFT, am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California, I do not perform any psychotherapy through email or other electronic means. This is because, with your interest and well-being at heart, I believe that therapy is best done in person, where a therapist can get to know a client best. Therefore, I will not engage in on-going email correspondence with a person asking a question through Askafamilytherapist. If a situation arises in which I feel additional support for you is needed I may recommend therapy to you and will be happy to offer you up to three referrals for a therapist in your area if I have access to that information. Through the Askafamilytherapist service, I will limit my response to a question to one answer only, and I will not offer follow up responses except to refer you to other resources if that appears needed.

4. Askafamilytherapist is a service that promotes and works within the parameters of self-help. As is true for any self-help book, the answers offered through Askafamilytherapist are by nature and definition generalities that have been effective for a large enough number of people to make them well worth offering to the public. However, without in-depth knowledge of an individual that can only be gained through repeated face-to-face meetings, it is impossible to predict the results of a given answer for a given questioner and his/her situation. By using the Askafamilytherapist service you agree that regardless of the results you obtain from using any suggestions offered through it, you accept all risk and will not take any legal recourse nor file any complaint against Sam Markewich, MFT or Askafamilytherapist with the courts, any licensing board or any other legal/ethical entity.

5. Though every effort will be made to answer your question in a timely fashion, due to a high volume of questions a specific duration of time for a response cannot be guaranteed.


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