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Ethical Marketing for Therapists: Navigating Boundaries While Growing Your Practice
Learn how to market ethically as a therapist to grow your private practice, attract ideal clients, and build trust online without compromising your professional values.
Audits and Records Requests with Barbara
Learn about the inevitability of getting audited, whether you should fear therapist audits, why it’s so important to have clear notes and take control of your billing, and a few reasons why therapists are so afraid of audits.
Top 7 Private Practice Salary Mistakes (Based on Survey Results for Therapist Business Owners)
Check out the top 7 private practice salary mistakes (based on our survey of therapists) and what YOU can learn from them!
Paying Attention to What’s Missing with Uriah
Uriah, MFT, found counseling by accident, but it was no accident when he developed his niche and marketing. So even though it took him 14 years to get his schooling and license complete, it was only a short 2 years until he was in private practice and on his way to success.
The now “mostly retired” owner of Guilford Family Counseling, The Focus Club, and the Productive Therapist Directory, shares his hard work and tips to help you achieve your dream practice.
Joe Sanok and the Four-Day Workweek
In this episode, Kelly and Joe talk about how you need to slow down to speed up and that the old “work 5 days and try to recover in 2” is just leading to burnout. Joe believes a 4-day work-week is the next natural step in the evolution of business because not only can you reduce burnout, but you can make more money working less time, and that extra time could be the missing piece in your work-life balance.
Starting a Private Practice: The Complete Guide for Aspiring Business Owners
You deserve a private practice that’s aligned with your values and provides you with the financial means to live the life of your dreams. But what if you don’t know how to get started?
Being a business owner has the potential to be extremely fulfilling and impactful — both for you and the people you serve — and at the same time, reaching that potential requires a complete understanding of how to start a private practice.
3 Ways to Eliminate Burnout NOW
Around one year ago, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, our lives drastically changed. Despite the difficult transition, we’ve been able to support our clients and help them navigate the new normal for the foreseeable future. But what about when we need support? We’ve all been affected by the pandemic in different ways, and the risk of burnout remains higher than normal.
At the same time, we want to remind you that it’s still possible to create the life and business of your dreams. But in order to do that, it’s essential to address your own negative feelings. Here are three ways to eliminate burnout NOW, so you can start regaining control of your life today!
Therapists: Are You Burnt Out? Let's Talk.
If you find yourself in what seems to be a never-ending cycle of burnout, you are not alone. We're here to tell you that you CAN create a business that supports a great life, as well as great outcomes for your clients without this burnout.
What to Do When the Phone Won’t Stop Ringing
For many therapists, the phones won't stop ringing. With the cascade of impact on mental health from this past year, many therapists are finding themselves tapped out and under resourced. So what do you do when the calls just keep coming in?
What I Wish I’d Known Before Investing in a Group Practice
Today we have a special submission from a member of our community. We have been delighted to help this person, and numerous others unravel from an unhealthy group practice dynamic. We are putting together a blog answering your questions about joining a group practice. Read this story, and then share your questions in the comments section so we can answer them in the blog series!
Tidying Up My Private Practice Step 3: Business Boundaries
I know you talk about boundaries in your clinical practice regularly. From the outside looking in, it is always so clear. We can see the places that people aren’t speaking their truth. We can see the impact of putting other people’s needs before own’s in a way that is unhealthy and detrimental (as opposed to in a giving back, act of service sort of way). As we reflect, explore, and delve deeper we can often help our clients create that beautiful connection that lets them see the why and how of this pattern and develop new ways of being.
“BST was the best investment I have made in myself. I went from working 45-50 hours per week to working 25 hrs, doubling my income,” Cyndi
What if this really could change everything?
You don’t have to decide today.
Just get on the interest list and we’ll walk you through what Business School for Therapists is, what it includes, and how it’s helped thousands of therapists get their life (and income) back.