You’ve dedicated your career to taking care of others - you are a helper and a healer…Now, with this one last act, you can continue to feel confident that you are doing your best to take care of your clients, colleagues, and family.

• Julie A. Jacobs, Psy.D., J.D.

One Last Act is a workshop in a book. It includes information from the author’s workshops on this topic. You’ll benefit from the author’s and others’ experiences. The book doubles as a workbook, too, and is organized just like the workshops so you can easily step through creating your own professional will.

Have you been procrastinating getting your professional will completed? Is this the first time you are hearing of it? You aren’t alone. This may be one of the most avoided ethical tasks in the mental health profession. This book not only makes this task easier, it gives you a wealth of information about things to consider as you prepare your professional will and serves as a workbook.

What is a professional will?

A professional will is a plan for what happens if we die suddenly or become incapacitated without warning. It helps those whom we designate to respond to our clients’ needs and to the unfinished business of our practice.

• Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide, by Kenneth Pope and Melba Vasquez

For mental health professionals who provide clinical services to clients, One Last Act makes getting your professional will completed a much easier task. It provides instructions, prompts, ideas and a template that can be as simple or as complex as you need it to be.

A must-have resource for everyone from counselors-in-training to seasoned mental health practitioners, you’ll have more peace of mind and feel confident that you are meeting your ethical responsibilities by using this book to create your own professional will.