FREE MASTERCLASS
Stress less about treatment plans with the Golden Thread Masterclass – tune in as licensed pro Hayley Wilds shows you exactly how to get your plans audit-ready AND use them to guide your sessions.
This companion workbook and goals cheat sheet is your golden ticket to using the golden thread framework!
It’s the difference between kind of getting the framework and actually being able to use it!
By the end of this free masterclass, you’ll walk away with tools and clarity you can use in your very next session!
💻 Stop dreading treatment plans — find out what makes a plan clinically solid, audit-ready, and actually useful in the work
💻 Write Presenting Concerns that actually reflect your client — using their words, their story, and their strengths instead of generic clinical language
💻 Connect every element of your plan into one clear thread — so your goals, objectives, and interventions all make sense together (and hold up under review)
💻 Get a 2-minute audit you can run on any plan — before you hit save, feel confident relief instead of crossing your fingers
🎁 Get DONE-FOR-YOU GOALS to paste into your plan — use the companion cheat sheet of goals & objectives for a quick win!

Whether you work for a group practice, an agency, or you own your own private practice, payers can conduct an audit at any time, and without warning. When your treatment plan doesn’t clearly connect the dots between your client’s presenting concerns, their diagnosis, and the work you’re doing in session, it creates gaps that auditors notice. And those gaps can cost you — through clawbacks, deficient marks, or corrective action plans from insurance companies, state boards, or state regulators.
The golden thread framework is what closes those gaps.
When every element of your plan connects and tells a clear, defensible clinical story, you can feel confident that your documentation will hold up — and protect your income and your license when it matters most.
Hayley is a licensed counselor, art therapist, practice owner, and trainer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hayley has worked in the mental health field for 20+ years, helping both clients and clinicians. She is the founder of Creative Therapy Ideas, a community where she helps newly-licensed therapists hone their skills, build their toolkits, and cultivate a creative practice they love!
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