Medscape January 25, 2022
Lorraine Pereira’s mental health treatment has been in a state of limbo since August 2021.
That’s when the 23-year-old moved from Iowa to California for a research assistant position at the University of California, San Francisco. That’s also when she began seeing her longtime Iowa-based therapist via online video.
Now, every month, she wonders if expiring pandemic declarations and state laws will force her to end this long-term, and beneficial, relationship with the only therapist she’s ever had.
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