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HIPAA-Compliant Virtual Assistants for Play Therapists & Child Counseling Clinics

Focus on the Child in the Playroom.
Stop Drowning in Custody Consents & Intake Backlogs.

You hold sacred clinical space for anxious, neurodivergent, and traumatized children using sand trays, expressive art, and therapeutic toys—not spending your evenings auditing divorce custody decrees, chasing physician releases of information (ROIs), coordinating teacher Vanderbilt forms, or untangling parent-collateral CPT codes (90846/90847). Delegate your pediatric practice operations to vetted mental health specialists supervised by a free dedicated project manager.

Up to 70% lower overhead vs. on-site practice managers
Trained in SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, IntakeQ & Jane
Free dedicated project manager supervision
Full HIPAA BAA execution, custody isolation & cancel anytime
Full HIPAA BAA Execution Legal Custody Consent Rigor Cancel Anytime

Play Therapy Command Desk

Dedicated Project Manager + Clinical VA

Live Practice Flow
Custody Consent Audits

100% Verified

Zero legal board liability
Direct Labor Savings

Up to 70%

Free Project Manager
Active Intake & Clinical Support Queue
Legal Custody Decree Audited
Joint legal decision-making verified • Both parents signed
Cleared
CPT 90846 Parent Consult Booked
Caregiver-only session scheduled without child present
Synced
Teacher Vanderbilt Survey Logged
Signed school ROI uploaded • Score sheet filed in SimplePractice
Secured
Complimentary Project Manager Oversight
Dual-verification on intake paperwork, custody waivers & billing codes
Pediatric Behavioral Health Ecosystem

Pre-Trained in Mental Health EHRs, Intake Portals & Billing Engines

Zero training downtime. Our Play Therapy Virtual Assistants arrive proficient in market-leading behavioral health EHRs, secure client communication portals, assessment scoring hubs, and billing clearinghouses.

SimplePractice Pediatric EHR & Client Portal
TherapyNotes Clinical Scheduling & Claims
IntakeQ Custom Pediatric Consent Packets
TheraNest Child & Family Therapy Practice
Jane App Multi-Disciplinary Booking
Spruce Health HIPAA Secure Phone & 2-Way SMS
Availity / Clearinghouse Mental Health Eligibility & ERA
Pearson / Q-global BASC-3 & Vanderbilt Scoring
Ivy Pay Therapist Merchant Portals
Google BAA Secure Intake Drive & Calendar
Play Supply Portals Sand Tray, Miniatures & Expressive Art
Secure Vaults Role-Gated Clinical Logins
Executive Practice Operations

What Your Play Therapy Virtual Assistant Handles Daily

Protect your clinical presence with children and adolescents. Ensure Registered Play Therapists (RPT), LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCs remain 100% focused on therapeutic attunement while our managed support desk executes administrative safeguards.

Custody Decrees & Minor Consent Audits

Shield your license from board complaints and contentious divorce disputes. Meticulously verify legal rights to consent to mental health treatment before the first session.

  • Court Decree Verification: Auditing parenting plans and custody orders for sole vs. joint legal medical consent clauses.
  • Both-Parent Signature Chasing: Gathering signed informed consent and financial agreements from both legal guardians when mandated.
  • Subpoena & Court Policy Clarification: Informing parents upfront of clinic policies stating the therapist is not a custody evaluator.
  • State Minor Consent Age Compliance: Tracking state-specific adolescent consent thresholds (ages 12–16) for confidential counseling.

Pediatric CPT Coding & Insurance Superbills

Maintain pristine billing hygiene. Accurately differentiate individual child sessions from caregiver consultations and family sessions without claim rejections.

  • CPT 90846 vs. 90847 Tracking: Accurately billing family therapy without the child present (90846) vs. with the child present (90847).
  • Interactive Complexity (+90785): Adding required add-on codes when child emotional reactivity or play equipment warrants complexity.
  • Superbill Batch Generation: Generating itemized CMS-1500 superbills with diagnosis codes (F43.22, F41.1, F90.0) in SimplePractice.
  • Split-Tender Co-Parent Billing: Splitting payments 50/50 across separate credit cards in Ivy Pay or Stripe per court orders.

Parent Intake Triage & Developmental Screening

Warm, empathetic intake for vulnerable families. Screen incoming child referrals to ensure your clinical expertise matches the child's developmental presentation.

  • Developmental History Gathering: Collecting birth milestones, speech/OT history, sensory sensitivities, and family transitions.
  • Acuity & Crisis Red-Flagging: Flagging acute self-harm, eating disorders, or active abuse disclosures for immediate clinician review.
  • Initial Parent Consult Scheduling: Booking the mandatory 90791 or 90846 caregiver-only consult prior to the child's first playroom visit.
  • Pre-Session Child Prep Guides: Sending child-friendly visual social stories ("What is Play Therapy?") to alleviate child anxiety.

School IEP/504 Collaboration & Teacher Scales

Unburden your multidisciplinary communications. Bridge the gap between the playroom, school counselors, pediatricians, and occupational therapists.

  • Release of Information (ROI) Management: Auditing signed HIPAA/FERPA releases before exchanging records with school districts.
  • Teacher Rating Scale Follow-Up: Dispatched and tracking completed Vanderbilt, Conners-4, and BASC-3 teacher questionnaires.
  • IEP & 504 Accommodation Archiving: Collecting psychoeducational testing and BIP plans from school psychologists.
  • Pediatrician Coordination Notes: Transmitting brief medical treatment summaries to referring pediatricians with parent consent.

Playroom Material Sourcing & Sanity Audits

Keep your clinical playroom fully stocked with diverse, culturally responsive, and durable toys without spending weekends browsing suppliers.

  • Sand Tray Miniature Procurement: Sourcing realistic, fantasy, and trauma-specific figurines (heroes, barriers, monsters, families).
  • Diverse Demographic Representation: Ensuring dolls, puppets, and family figures reflect multiracial and varied family structures.
  • Expressive Arts & Sensory Stock: Reordering non-toxic kinetic sand, clay, watercolor palettes, and weighted emotional aids.
  • Safety & Toy Hygiene Logging: Maintaining sanitation protocol sheets and replacing broken or splintered materials promptly.

Session Retention & Caregiver Coordination

Protect your practice revenue from school schedule conflicts and childhood illnesses. Manage late cancellations and maintain consistent treatment pacing.

  • Spruce Health 2-Way Texting: Answering caregiver logistical questions, parking queries, and scheduling updates securely.
  • After-School Slot Optimization: Managing the high-demand 3:00 PM–6:00 PM after-school appointment waitlists.
  • Sick Child Reschedule Backfill: Backfilling last-minute illness openings with waitlisted parent consultation appointments.
  • Caregiver Progress Review Reminders: Prompting therapists to schedule routine 6-week or 90-day collateral treatment plan updates.
How It Works

The 4-Phase SageDoer Managed Model

A dedicated remote pediatric practice wing with zero management overhead. We supervise custody consent compliance, audit superbill coding accuracy, enforce strict HIPAA protocols, and log productive hours so you can stay fully attuned in the playroom.

01 Phase 1

Submit Requirements

Share your practice specialties (CCPT, CPRT, Adlerian, Filial, trauma), primary EHR (SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, IntakeQ), client caseload, and intake bottlenecks. Choose your channel:

Email Contact Form WhatsApp
02 Phase 2

Finalise The Deal

Our dedicated project manager reviews your practice intake protocols, executes strict HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), sets up role-gated credentials, aligns on custody audit SLAs, and finalises details.

Response in under 4 hours
03 Phase 3

Expert Execution

Your project manager takes full operational charge, getting child intakes triaged, custody orders verified, school records gathered, and superbills generated via vetted pediatric mental health specialists.

Continuous QA & Consent Audits
04 Phase 4

Pay Only For Output

We log and charge exclusively for the virtual assistant's actual working hours. Your dedicated project manager's supervision is completely free.

Zero hidden platform markups
The Comparison

Traditional Freelancing vs. The Smart Choice

Why Registered Play Therapists (RPT), Child Counselors, and Pediatric Clinic Owners choose SageDoer over generic freelance portals.

Operational Metric Traditional Platforms Upwork / Fiverr / Freelancers
THE SMART CHOICE
SageDoer Managed
Platform & Management Fees Up to 40% hidden
Heavy bidding fees, markups & memberships
0% Hidden Fees
Pay strictly for hours worked. Zero extra markups.
Daily Team Management Heavy Clinical Burden
Therapists must babysit and instruct offshore freelancers between intense sessions
Dedicated Project Manager
Your single point of contact oversees intake accuracy, custody checks & billing QA
Mental Health Privacy & HIPAA Compliance Massive Board Liability
Unenforceable overseas accounts with access to sensitive minor health disclosures
Full BAA Execution
Legally binding Business Associate Agreements, role-based EHR gates & encrypted vaults
Hiring & Deployment Speed 3-6 Weeks Wasted
Interviewing temps while families needing child therapy sit on waitlists indefinitely
Instant Delegation
Deploy ready-to-work pediatric intake and practice assistants within 24-48 hours
Pediatric Literacy & CPT Billing Accuracy Dangerous Billing Errors
Misunderstanding 90846 vs. 90847, missing parent consents, or unverified custody
Dual-Layer Verification
Trained in pediatric therapy terms, custody paperwork, SimplePractice & Spruce
Staff Turnover & Redundancy Practice Pipeline Freezes
Freelancer ghosts? Vulnerable families and anxious parents are left completely unanswered
Zero-Downtime Backup
Immediate replacement trained on your clinic's SOPs by our PM
Predictable Child Therapy Practice Investment

Predictable Pricing. 0% Hidden Fees.

Slash counseling practice administrative overhead by up to 70% compared to local clinic coordinators ($50k+ base plus benefits, payroll taxes, and PTO). Pay strictly for productive work hours with guaranteed complimentary project management.

PART-TIME 20 Hours / Week

Targeted Practice Support

Ideal for solo play therapists and growing child counseling suites needing intake triage, custody decree audits, superbills, and parent appointment coordination.

$7 / hour
Est. $560 USD / Month (4 Weeks / 80 Total Hours)

  • Pay only for hours of pure work
  • Dedicated Project Manager included
  • Free management supervision & QA audits
  • Zero setup or onboarding fees
  • No monthly membership charges
  • Centralised weekly time tracking
Start Part-Time Practice Trial
MAXIMUM VALUE
FULL-TIME DEDICATED 40 Hours / Week

Complete Pediatric Clinic Command

An embedded operational wing managing high-volume family intake, multi-therapist scheduling, custody order reviews, school IEP coordination, and billing reconciliation daily.

$6 / hour
Est. $960 USD / Month (4 Weeks / 160 Total Hours)

  • Pay only for hours of pure work
  • Dedicated Project Manager included
  • Free management supervision & QA audits
  • Zero setup or onboarding fees
  • No monthly membership charges
  • Instant, seamless backup staff replacement
Hire Full-Time Play Therapy VA
No long-term lock-ins. Scale up before back-to-school or spring caseload rushes, or adjust anytime with transparent centralized billing.
Proven Pediatric Mental Health Results

Trusted by Registered Play Therapists, Child Psychologists & Group Clinics

Real feedback from play therapy clinicians and pediatric mental health practice directors who reclaimed their clinical energy with SageDoer.

"Auditing divorce custody paperwork used to terrify me. If you see a child without the legally required joint custody consent, you risk an ethics board sanction. Our SageDoer assistant reviews court decrees, collects both parent signatures, and files them in SimplePractice before I ever see the child."

DR
Dr. Rebecca Vance, PsyD, RPT-S
Director, Whole Child Play Therapy Center (Denver, CO)

"Coordinating school observations and chasing teacher Vanderbilt rating scales took 3 hours out of my clinical day. Our VA coordinates with school counselors, sends HIPAA/FERPA releases, and ensures IEP records are uploaded. My billable clinical hours increased by 30%."

EH
Elena Holloway, LMFT, RPT
Founder, Bright Path Family & Child Counseling (Austin, TX)

"Having a free dedicated Project Manager who reviews HIPAA compliance and audits our BAA security protocols is invaluable. She caught an unsynchronized Spruce phone channel before our audit. It feels like having a senior compliance director at zero added overhead."

MN
Marcus Navarro, LCSW
Clinical Administrator, Cascade Child & Adolescent Therapy (Seattle, WA)

"We were paying $26/hour locally for front-desk staff who constantly made CPT billing errors between 90837 and 90846 parent sessions. At $6/hour on full-time, our SageDoer assistant coordinates TherapyNotes intake, manages parent payments in Ivy Pay, and saved our practice $34,000 this year."

TH
Tanya Henderson, LPC-S
Owner, Oakridge Play & Family Therapy Group (Chicago, IL)

"Auditing divorce custody paperwork used to terrify me. If you see a child without the legally required joint custody consent, you risk an ethics board sanction. Our SageDoer assistant reviews court decrees, collects both parent signatures, and files them in SimplePractice before I ever see the child."

DR
Dr. Rebecca Vance, PsyD, RPT-S
Director, Whole Child Play Therapy Center (Denver, CO)

"Coordinating school observations and chasing teacher Vanderbilt rating scales took 3 hours out of my clinical day. Our VA coordinates with school counselors, sends HIPAA/FERPA releases, and ensures IEP records are uploaded. My billable clinical hours increased by 30%."

EH
Elena Holloway, LMFT, RPT
Founder, Bright Path Family & Child Counseling (Austin, TX)

"Having a free dedicated Project Manager who reviews HIPAA compliance and audits our BAA security protocols is invaluable. She caught an unsynchronized Spruce phone channel before our audit. It feels like having a senior compliance director at zero added overhead."

MN
Marcus Navarro, LCSW
Clinical Administrator, Cascade Child & Adolescent Therapy (Seattle, WA)

"We were paying $26/hour locally for front-desk staff who constantly made CPT billing errors between 90837 and 90846 parent sessions. At $6/hour on full-time, our SageDoer assistant coordinates TherapyNotes intake, manages parent payments in Ivy Pay, and saved our practice $34,000 this year."

TH
Tanya Henderson, LPC-S
Owner, Oakridge Play & Family Therapy Group (Chicago, IL)
Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions from Play Therapists

Everything you need to know about custody order verification, HIPAA BAA execution, pediatric CPT billing, and dedicated project manager supervision.

In pediatric therapy, custody consent compliance is your primary malpractice safeguard. If parents are divorced or separated, our assistants require and review the stamped legal divorce decree or custody agreement during intake. They check whether legal custody is joint or sole, verify whether medical decision-making requires both parental signatures, and obtain executed consent packets from both legal guardians before the child is scheduled for an intake session. If a parent refuses to provide the custody decree or legal consent is contested, the case is immediately flagged for therapist review.
All clinical psychotherapy, diagnosis, treatment planning, and session delivery remain 100% with you, the licensed clinician (RPT, LMFT, LCSW, LPC, PsyD). Our Virtual Assistants handle strictly non-clinical administrative logistics: sending intake questionnaires, chasing signed legal waivers, verifying insurance copays, preparing superbills with provided ICD-10 codes, booking parent collateral sessions, coordinating school teacher questionnaires, and ordering sandbox miniatures. Whenever an intake form or parent inquiry discloses suicidal ideation, child protective issues, or acute behavioral crises, the notification is immediately escalated directly to the therapist.
Yes, with seasoned procedural literacy. Pediatric and play therapy billing requires careful distinction between individual psychotherapy (90832, 90834, 90837), parent-only collateral sessions without the child present (90846), family therapy with the patient present (90847), and interactive complexity add-ons (+90785). Your assistant ensures sessions are coded according to clinical notes in SimplePractice or TherapyNotes, generates clean superbills, and tracks insurance reimbursement clearinghouses like Availity or Office Ally.
Play therapists spend their daylight hours on the floor in intense relational engagement with children and families. You do not have time to train, micromanage, or monitor an offshore assistant. Your dedicated Project Manager (provided at $0 extra charge) acts as your practice operations lead: they conduct dual-layer quality audits on intake consents, verify that legal custody decrees are checked before calendar booking, audit HIPAA communication rules on Spruce, and deliver consolidated weekly operational digests.
Zero hidden fees. We operate on flat, transparent hourly rates ($7/hr Part-Time or $6/hr Full-Time) with no onboarding costs, no agency membership charges, and no long-term contracts. You can easily ramp up support during heavy back-to-school fall intake surges or scale back during quiet summer cycles. You pay strictly for productive hours worked.
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Tell us about your child therapy practice, current EHR software (SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, IntakeQ, Jane), active client caseload, and intake bottlenecks. Our dedicated project manager will review your setup and outline a custom staffing plan within 4 hours.

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