NYC’s first and only outdoor counseling practice. Therapy is conducted outdoors in local parks and quiet side streets of Manhattan, dynamic and unique.

Clay Cockrell, a New York City licensed social worker, has taken his therapy off the couch and into the great outdoors. There’s an added bonus in walk and talk therapy — the exercise.

Antidepressants are taking away business from talk therapy, according to some experts. A recent study found that less than 15 percent of patients had the suggested amount of follow–up care after starting medication. So therapists have to find new ways to keep people interested in talk therapy. Cockrell thinks combining talk therapy with physical exercise might increase the number of people considering talk therapy.

Health is something we seriously begin to think of only after experiencing a more or less severe disorder. In our natural, daily attitude we use health as a premise for making the best of our time, and most of our deeds focus on different issues. Nevertheless, health insurance programs have been designed as a manner to cover this particular aspect of our lives without being necessary to keep track of it constantly, and this proves to be a very suitable manner of dealing with health issues, because it is more or less probable that at a certain point we should experience one disorder or other. Medicare part B, as well as Medicare part D, stands for a health insurance program covering some specific medical services within the perimeter of a wider program, that is, Medicare.

Medicare part D assists beneficiaries in the purchasing of prescription drugs. Whoever is eligible for other parts of Medicare program and is actually enrolled in one of them may subscribe to part D as well. Irrespective of the specificity of the items covered by Medicare part D, this portion of the program works differently, that is, clients must choose one of the many plans within part D offered by Medicare. The main two programs are the so called stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan, or PDP, and Medicare Advantage Plan, or MA-PD. Due to the fact that part D is designed to work this way, enrollees have the possibility to choose the insurance of a certain class of drugs supposed to be necessary in the coming year. The plans are flexible as they can be changed each year according to the beneficiary’s needs.