Immigration evaluation coaching
Starting to perform immigration evaluations? One-on-one coaching helps you understand the work, set up your practice, and begin with confidence.
Book a coaching sessionWelcome to the world of immigration evaluations
No matter how many years you’ve been in clinical practice, immigration evaluation work raises new questions. It differs from the clinical interventions you may already have mastered. A single coaching session, or a series, can help you feel knowledgeable and confident about how to approach it.
What coaching covers
Pick the topics you need most, or work through all of them.
Understanding the work
- Your responsibilities as an immigration clinical evaluator
- The most relevant immigration terminology
- The main types of immigration cases you’ll work with
- The immigration system’s procedures and expectations
Conducting evaluations
- How to organize an evaluation session
- Informed consent templates
- Evaluation templates
- The most commonly used screening tools to support your evaluations
Ethics and boundaries
- How this evaluator relationship differs from a therapeutic one, including boundaries and ethical practice
- Working with a new and unique population, and adapting clinical expectations that don’t apply to this work
Building your practice
- Marketing approaches
- Setting your fee schedule with confidence
- Balancing pro bono and fee-for-service work
The goal: feeling equipped to hit the GO button.
What coaching is not
So you know exactly what to expect, here’s what falls outside the scope of these sessions.
- A subscription to a referral source
- Legal advice
- Clinical supervision
- A guarantee that USCIS will approve your evaluations
- Your coach building your templates for you during a session
- A promise to cover every topic in one session
Book a coaching session
Fill out the form below and we’ll be in touch within 24 to 48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays).
How many sessions?
Covering every topic usually takes 8 to 12 one-hour sessions, depending on your questions. If you already know what you want to focus on, book one session and go from there.