What We Do

The mission of the American Mental Health Alliance–USA is to support and market competent and ethical mental health services.

AMHA-USA supports these Irreducible Principles:

  • That an individual has the right to choose their own therapist;

  • That the client and therapist shall determine the course of therapy;

  • That therapists shall preserve client confidentiality;

  • That reimbursement methods should support ethical practice;

  • That mental health professionals should practice in interdisciplinary communities which promote and support competent and ethical practice.

AMHA-USA supports the best aspects of professional care and cooperation.

AMHA-USA intends to promote  the establishment of active chapters in every state, engaging and supporting professionals who share AMHA's values.

AMHA-USA’s national focus is on the growth of vital state chapters and the elements that lead to their success:

  • Clear and unwavering adherence to primary values of AMHA: protecting privacy and choice in psychotherapy because that is the foundation of the therapeutic process.

  • Development of small professional groups within each chapter organization for peer support in professional and marketing initiatives.

  • Leadership and administration that transcends the group that founds a chapter.

  • Familiarity with and use of multiple interconnected web sites as educational, communication and marketing tools.

  • Finally, and most important, dedication to AMHA's irreducible principles and public, professional and personal identification with them.

Our Vision

Psychotherapists of all disciplines collaborating to create healthy alternatives to invasive, profit-driven, mental-health care. These alternatives include direct marketing to the public, fee-for-service arrangements, and contract marketing to groups.

Strategies

AMHA-USA members and chapters share development and marketing expenses so that our values and our professional skills become widely known.

AMHA-USA and its chapters hire and direct administrative, marketing and technology staff.

AMHA-USA Chapters use multi-function Therapist Locator sites and free to members’ web sites to market the services, specialties, groups, projects and intellectual products of individual members, and to develop, market, and ethically serve Healthplan contracts.

Quality Assurance

     AMHA USA supports quality of treatment through

  • Enrollment of licensed professionals of all mental health disciplines

  • Enrollment of pre-licensed professionals of all mental health disciplines under approved supervision

  • Technology that supports client engagement, assessment & satisfaction measures, plus rapid charting,

  • Technology that supports dis-identified demonstration of therapy outcomes

  • Involvement of member-professionals in peer consultation

  • Ongoing professional development and education.