How  Professionals Benefit as Members of AMHA 

Unity with a multidisciplinary community that helps counter the fragmentation sometimes promoted by managed care and the discipline-based professional organizations. 

Reduces isolation in a professional environment dominated by managed-care and the "values" of corporate commodification of care.

They're part of an organization focused on the independent practice of psychotherapy, in contrast to professional groups in which the private practice focus is a small subgroup.

They share marketing strategies based on principles of confidentiality and choice.  This gives therapists the confidence to work managed-care-free. 

Networking with other professionals to build and improve practices is encouraged and structured. 

They have a place to speak and learn about privacy concerns.

They have easy and convenient access to information regarding issues of independent professional practice

They have access to new marketing ideas and initiatives developed by other AMHA members and chapters including collaboration on specific areas of practice based on patient-protection values.

They have affiliation with a service-focused rather than a profit-focused organization. 

They can participate in forums to educate the public about psychotherapy and the risks to privacy posed by industrialized medicine and government.

They support an organization that joins with other organizations to protect individual choice and privacy.

AMHA members ensure the quality of  treatment by being actively engaged in a community of professionals committed to life-long learning.