John Paul Mulhern, LCSW-C, MBA
Virtual Counseling Services in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
Clinical Social Worker licensed in MD, VA & WV
Tele-Behavioral Health Services
About the Practice
John Paul Mulhern, LCSW-C is a solely owned and operated fully virtual behavioral health specialty practice. John (who also goes by Paul) has 33 years of total healthcare experience, including 28 years as a licensed social worker. John provides services for individual, couple and family clients of all ages, race/ethnic, sexual and gender identification, providing treatment for mental and addiction illnesses as well as recovery from grief and trauma. John also proudly provides services to current and retired civilian first responders and military veterans. Many clients that seek treatment here have multiple health conditions and multiple significant life stressors. John is in network for most national health insurers and personally handles benefit confirmation, insurance, and co-pay/co-insurance billing on behalf of his clients. John takes a "whole health" approach to treatment, making sure that each client's treatment plan and goal(s) reflect not only a client's behavioral health concerns but also any physiological-based health problems and/or life stress, past traumatic experiences, recent or past significant losses that may be affecting their whole health and quality of life. It is the philosophy of this practice that the ultimate goal is to help clients improve their overall health, experience a higher quality of life and promote wellness and resilience to navigate any challenges they may face.
Services
- Assessments (60 mins)
- Counseling Sessions (60 mins)
- Care Coordination with Schools
- Care Coordination with Primary Care
- Individual
- Couples
- Families
- Adolescents (ages 13-19)
- Adults (any ages)
Fees
Assessment (Initial) Session: $175*
Counseling Session: $145*
Missed Appointment (without 24 hour notice): $80
Care Coordination Correspondence: $0 (for clients in current treatment)
*For clients with insurance, out-of-pocket costs will vary according a client's insurance health plan. These costs will be contingent on the health plan-set costs such as co-pays, co-insurances and deductibles. Clients are required to keep an active credit, debit or HSA card on file for payment of cost share as indicated by their health plan.
Insurances Accepted
Paul is often in the process of credentialing and re-credentialing with health insurers. Paul can verifiy the most current status with regard to each insurer via phone or email. Please contact Paul to check current list of accepted insurances.
This practice is currently accepting health insurance only, no EAP services are available at this time.
New Referrals and Previous Clients
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Aetna
- Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Cigna
- United Healthcare (Optum)
Current and Previous Clients Only
- Kaiser
- Medicare (Maryland Only)
Make an Appointment
Contact John by email or phone to schedule an initial appointment.
Telehealth appointments and patient portal: https://www.therapyportal.com/p/johnpaul/
Email: johnpaulmulhernlcswc@gmail.com Phone: 240-344-0116 (secure voicemail available)
Please note that all appointments are by secure video or telephone. The practice is 100% telehealth.
*Please call or email to inquire about current availability.
About John Paul Mulhern
John Paul Mulhern is social worker, educator and project/program manager with thirty-three years of total healthcare experience, including over twenty eight years as a licensed social worker. John has provided direct patient care in a wide range of healthcare settings. This includes general medical and behavior health hospitals, emergency departments, outpatient hospital programs, elementary and middle schools and in private practice. John has provided care to children and adolescents as well as couples, families and adults of all ages and diversity of identities. John has extensive experience in providing treatment to those with addiction illness as well as mental illness, and practices with an understanding of the interconnectedness of physiological health, social determinates of health and mental health.
John also has experience in healthcare operations, program and project management. This experience has been in the private section and public sector. John has a true 360-degree view of the healthcare system through management and service delivery support for health plans, both commercial and public, including Tricare, Medicare and Maryland Medicaid as well as program/project management support of Federal healthcare programs within agencies including National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Defense, and Department of Defense.
John began teaching almost ten years ago and currently teaches graduate health and social policy as well as behavioral health clinical courses at UMBC’s Masters of Health Information Technology and University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. John has lead course development and course redesign projects for both programs. John has previously taught and develop courses for George Washington University's Master of Science (M.S.) and Certificate in Biomedical Informatics program.
John has owned and operated his own sole provider private practice for past ten years. John provides tele-behavioral health services to wide range of clients with a wide range of health and life challenges, working with many public and private health plans to make care as widely available as possible. John is licensed as a clinical social worker in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
John has earned his Master of Social Work at University of Maryland and his Master of Business Administration at Mount Saint Mary's University.
Teaching Experience
University of Maryland School of Social Work
SWCL 744 – Psychopathology
This course is designed to provide the student with extensive knowledge of the major forms of emotional illness and their treatment. Students will develop competence in diagnosis by mastering the currently accepted diagnostic code (DSM-V-TR). They will develop competence in treatment planning through awareness and understanding of the most modern and accepted treatments for each major category of mental illness.
SOWK 708 - Integrated Behavioral Health Policy
This course is an introduction to U.S. health and behavioral health care policies and programs. The course is designed to prepare students to analyze, develop, and implement health and behavioral health policies across a range of settings, including prevention/promotion services, primary care, acute care, chronic care, and long-term care. It examines the financing and organization of health and behavioral health systems, including the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped their development. Particular attention will be paid to evidence-based models that aim to integrate physical and behavioral health services.
SOWK 706- Mental Health and Social Policy
This course examines the growth of community mental health in the United States and its relationship to sociological and psychological approaches to various communities and cultural groups. Approaches to mental health, mental illness, problems of service delivery, professional roles, and the possibilities and problems of community mental health are discussed.
SWCL 700 – Advanced Clinical Interventions
This required clinical methods course advances students’ ability to work directly with adult individuals from diverse populations using evidence and theoretical models to inform clinical practice. Major skills to be acquired include how to make comprehensive psychosocial assessments, treatment plans, and facilitate interventions for clients based on evidence and theoretical models.
SOWK 663 – Foundation Field Practicum and Seminar
Field seminar is an opportunity for MSW students to meet in small groups to discuss their field experiences. During the course of the foundation field placement at UMSSW, foundation students will participate in monthly, facilitated, small group seminars intentionally designed to include conversations about difference, anti-oppression, privilege and cultural humility.
SOWK 600 - Social Welfare and Social Policy
This course provides students with a foundation understanding and appraisal of social welfare policies and programs in the United States, and the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped their development. It introduces core concepts to provide both an understanding of the political process and the analytic skills.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
HIT 690 – Social Determinants of Health Informatics
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of considering “non-medical” aspects of life that can have a direct impact on individual and public health, most commonly referred to as the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH); and how health informatics and other health related technologies intersect and influence these SDoH conditions. Students will develop an understanding of how SDoH is defined in the context of clinical care, clinical research and public health and social policy. The course content is organized around categories of SDoH conditions which include access to basic needs, social inclusion and discrimination, experiences of personal and structural trauma, the protective and risk factors of high-speed internet and digital media as well as physical environment and climate. Students will have the opportunity to contemplate cross-cutting SDoH concepts including the interconnectedness of the SDoH conditions examined in the course, the influence of historical and present-day discrimination of health risk and outcomes and the impact of compound social problems on health outcomes and compound health problems of social outcomes. Students will be able to appraise currently undertaken and contemplate unmined opportunities to apply technology to help recognize and address Social Determinants of Health towards better individual, community, public and global health outcomes. The course will be scoped to focus on the United States health system and its people but will include recognition of SDoH as a global and universal human phenomenon.
HIT 663 – Health IT Policy and Administration
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the policy and administration of health information technology. Students will develop an understanding of the management principles in the American health care delivery system, including the roles of patients, third party insurance payers, health care professionals, and governmental entities. Central to this course will be an examination of key health care policy in the US, specifically those related to health IT, which have impacted and shaped health care management and health informatics. The course will focus on the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and associate initiatives and regulations, HIPAA, the Affordable Care Act and the House-passed version of the American Health Care Act.
HIT 760 – Health Informatics Capstone
The Capstone project provides an opportunity for students to conduct an individual piece of supervised research or a project activity on a specified topic in the Health Informatics domain. The final project should make an original contribution to the body of knowledge in the profession or otherwise demonstrate core competencies in Health IT and Informatics.
George Washington University
INFR 6105 - Healthcare Quality for Informatics
The course provides an examination of healthcare quality theory, principles and practice for medical informatic professionals. Students will analyze opportunities for designing informatic tools to enhance patient care outcomes and evaluate the role of technology in data driven decision making in health care.
INFR 4105 - Consumer Health Informatics
The course examines consumer health informatics as a field of research and development in the context of medical informatics, including patient and provider perspectives and technology innovations utilized by patients and healthcare systems.