Dedicated to Your Healing and Growth
Our commitment to your well-being goes beyond words. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality care, tailored to your unique needs. Your journey towards healing and growth is our top priority.
Work-Life Balance
Achieving equilibrium between professional responsibilities and personal life can be challenging. Our work-life balance service provides strategies and support to help you manage your time effectively, set boundaries, and prioritize self-care, fostering harmony and fulfillment in both areas of your life.
Coping Skills
Building resilience and adaptive coping mechanisms is crucial for navigating life's challenges. Through our coping skills service, you'll learn practical techniques to manage stress, regulate emotions, and cope effectively with difficult situations, empowering you to face adversity with confidence and strength.
Women’s Issues
We provide a safe and supportive space for women to explore and address a wide range of issues unique to their experiences, including reproductive health, gender roles, relationships, and societal pressures. Our women's issues service is tailored to meet your specific needs, empowering you to reclaim your voice and navigate life with authenticity and empowerment.
Trauma
Healing from trauma requires compassionate support and specialized interventions. Our trauma-focused therapy utilizes evidence-based approaches to help you process traumatic experiences, reduce symptoms of PTSD, and reclaim a sense of safety and control in your life, guiding you towards healing and resilience.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety can feel overwhelming and debilitating, but it is treatable with the right support. Our anxiety disorders service offers personalized treatment plans tailored to your unique symptoms and triggers, incorporating cognitive-behavioral techniques and relaxation strategies to help you manage anxiety effectively and regain a sense of peace and well-being.
Stress
Chronic stress can take a toll on both your physical and mental health. Our stress management service provides practical tools and strategies to identify and reduce stressors, cultivate mindfulness, and build resilience, empowering you to navigate life's challenges with greater ease and serenity.
Personal Growth
Embark on a journey of self-discovery and personal transformation with our personal growth service. Through introspection, goal-setting, and skill-building exercises, you'll uncover your strengths, overcome obstacles, and cultivate a deeper sense of self-awareness and fulfillment, empowering you to live authentically and pursue your aspirations with confidence.
Race & Inequality
Addressing systemic racism and promoting social justice is integral to our mission. Our race and inequality service provides a space for dialogue, education, and advocacy, exploring the impact of race, privilege, and oppression on mental health and empowering individuals to become agents of change in their communities.
Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma can have lasting effects on mental and emotional well-being. Our childhood trauma service offers compassionate support and evidence-based interventions to help you heal from past wounds, build resilience, and create a brighter future, fostering healing and restoration at every stage of life.
Goal Setting
Whether you're striving for personal or professional growth, our goal-setting service can help you clarify your aspirations, create actionable plans, and overcome obstacles standing in your way. With personalized guidance and accountability, you'll gain the clarity and motivation needed to turn your dreams into reality.
Youth & Adolescence
Adolescence can be a challenging and tumultuous time. Our youth and adolescence service provides a safe and supportive environment for young people to explore their identities, navigate peer relationships, and cope with academic and social pressures, empowering them to thrive during this critical stage of development.
Depression
Depression can feel isolating and overwhelming, but you don't have to face it alone. Our depression treatment service offers compassionate support and evidence-based interventions to help you manage symptoms, challenge negative thought patterns, and rediscover joy and purpose in life, guiding you towards healing and recovery.
Happiness
Cultivating happiness is a journey that requires self-awareness and intentional practice. Our happiness service combines positive psychology principles, mindfulness techniques, and personalized strategies to help you cultivate gratitude, foster meaningful connections, and experience greater fulfillment and joy in your daily life.
Healing
Healing is a holistic process that encompasses mind, body, and spirit. Our healing service integrates therapeutic interventions, self-care practices, and holistic modalities to support your journey towards wholeness and restoration, empowering you to embrace your inherent resilience and thrive in all aspects of life.
Life Transitions
Whether you're navigating a career change, relationship transition, or major life milestone, our life transitions service provides guidance and support to help you navigate change with grace and resilience. Through personalized coaching and coping strategies, you'll gain the tools and confidence needed to embrace new beginnings and navigate transitions with confidence and clarity.
Wills or Next of Kin
Records Custodian
In the unfortunate event of my demise, client records will be securely transferred to the designated representative, Katrina Leggins, LCSW http://www.elevatementalwellnessllc.com/, ensuring a seamless transition of services and safeguarding the continuity of your support. Your trust is of utmost importance, and every measure has been taken to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your information during this process
Notice of Privacy Practices
HIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Effective Date: June 7th, 2026
Uganda Richarson LCSW LLC (“Uganda Richardson,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of your protected health information (“PHI”). PHI is information that identifies you or could be used to identify you and relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental health, the health care you receive, or payment for your health care.
Federal law requires us to maintain the privacy of your PHI, provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices, and follow the terms of the notice currently in effect. This Notice explains how we may use and disclose your PHI, your rights regarding your PHI, and our legal duties with respect to your PHI.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights regarding your PHI. To exercise any of these rights, please submit a written request to:
Privacy Officer
Uganda Richardson LCSW LLC
518 N. Shipp St STE B
Hobbs, NM 88240
575-408-8434
Right to Inspect and Copy
You may ask to inspect or obtain a paper or electronic copy of your PHI. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee as permitted by law. In limited circumstances, we may deny your request. If we do, we will explain the reason and, when applicable, your right to have that decision reviewed.
Right to Request an Amendment
If you believe information in your record is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend it. Your request must be in writing and explain why the amendment is requested. We may deny the request in certain circumstances, but we will provide a written explanation and tell you how to submit a statement of disagreement.
Right to Request Confidential Communications
You may ask us to contact you in a specific way, such as only at a certain phone number, email address, mailing address, or through a patient portal. We will accommodate reasonable requests.
Right to Request Restrictions
You may ask us not to use or disclose certain PHI for treatment, payment, or health care operations. We are not required to agree to every request if doing so would affect your care or our operations.
If you pay for a service or health care item out of pocket in full, you may ask us not to disclose information about that service to your health plan for payment or health care operations, and we will honor that request unless disclosure is otherwise required by law.
Right to an Accounting of Disclosures
You may request a list of certain disclosures we have made of your PHI. You are entitled to one accounting in any 12-month period at no charge. We may charge a reasonable fee for additional requests within the same 12-month period.
Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice
You may request a paper copy of this Notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.
Right to Choose Someone to Act for You
If you have given someone medical power of attorney or if someone is your legal guardian or other legally authorized representative, that person may exercise your rights and make choices about your PHI to the extent permitted by law.
Right to File a Complaint
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with Uganda Richardson LCSW LLC by contacting our Privacy Officer at the address or phone number listed above. You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, by writing to:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
1-877-696-6775
We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
HOW WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR PHI
- Uses and Disclosures for Treatment, Payment, and Health Care Operations
Treatment
We may use and disclose your PHI to provide, coordinate, or manage your care. For example, we may share information with another treating provider when clinically appropriate or when you authorize us to do so.
Payment
We may use and disclose your PHI to bill and collect payment for services we provide to you. For example, we may send information to your health insurer to obtain payment for your treatment.
Health Care Operations
We may use and disclose your PHI for our health care operations, including quality assessment, supervision, training, credentialing, business management, auditing, customer service, and appointment reminders.
- Uses and Disclosures Without Your Written Authorization in Certain Situations
We may use or disclose your PHI without your written authorization when permitted or required by law, including the following situations:
Required by law: When federal, state, or local law requires us to make a disclosure.
Public health activities: To help prevent or control disease, injury, or disability, report adverse reactions to medications, or assist with recalls.
Health oversight activities: For audits, investigations, inspections, licensure, and other activities by agencies that oversee the health care system, government benefit programs, or civil rights compliance.
Abuse, neglect, or domestic violence: When reporting is permitted or required by law.
Judicial and administrative proceedings: To respond to court orders, subpoenas, discovery requests, or other lawful process, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Law enforcement: For certain law enforcement purposes permitted or required by law.
Serious threat to health or safety: To prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public.
Coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors: As necessary for them to carry out their duties.
Organ and tissue donation: If applicable and permitted by law.
Research: In limited circumstances when approved and permitted by law.
Workers’ compensation: As necessary to comply with workers’ compensation or similar laws.
Specialized government functions: For certain military, national security, or protective services activities permitted by law.
Correctional institutions or law enforcement custody: If you are an inmate or in lawful custody, when permitted or required by law.
Business associates: To vendors and service providers who perform functions on our behalf and are required to protect your information.
- Uses and Disclosures Involving Family, Friends, or Others Involved in Your Care
Unless you object, we may share relevant PHI with a family member, close friend, or other person you identify if that information directly relates to that person’s involvement in your care or payment for your care. We may also disclose relevant information when you are unable to state a preference, and we determine it is in your best interest.
- Uses and Disclosures That Require Your Written Authorization
We must obtain your written authorization for most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes, for most marketing purposes, and for any sale of PHI. If we use or disclose your PHI based on your written authorization, you may revoke that authorization at any time in writing, except to the extent we have already relied on it.
- Substance Use Disorder Records Subject to 42 CFR Part 2
If applicable, some substance use disorder (“SUD”) records are protected by federal law under 42 C.F.R. Part 2. These records may receive additional confidentiality protections. When Part 2 applies, we generally must obtain your written consent for uses and disclosures unless a specific exception applies, such as certain medical emergencies, child abuse reporting, reporting crimes on program premises, or as otherwise permitted by law.
If we receive Part 2-protected records or create records that are subject to Part 2, those records may not be used or disclosed in civil, criminal, administrative, or legislative proceedings against you unless you provide written consent or a court order and other legal requirements are satisfied. Where Part 2 applies, you may revoke your consent in writing, subject to applicable legal limits.
OUR RESPONSIBILITIES
We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your PHI.
We are required to provide you with this Notice and to follow the terms of the Notice currently in effect.
We will notify you if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your PHI, as required by law.
We reserve the right to revise this Notice and to make the revised Notice effective for all PHI we maintain.
If we revise this Notice, the updated version will be available at our office and at ugandatherapy.com
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions about this Notice, want to exercise your rights, or wish to file a complaint with Uganda Richardson LCSW LLC, contact:
Privacy Officer
Uganda Richardson LCSW LLC
518 N. Shipp St STE B
Hobbs, NM 88240
575-408-8434