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10 Strategies for Success in Private Practice
Learn our 10 strategies for succeeding in private practice, including how to run a counseling business that’s sustainable and impact-driven.
Overcoming Limiting Beliefs in Private Practice with Desiree
Desiree shares how she moved from part-time agency worker and part-time practice owner to full-time business owner with no more limiting beliefs around insurance, slowing down, and prioritizing life over business.
Private Practice Business Advice
zynnyme goes over private practice business advice for therapists, including how to create a private practice business plan.
Writing Your Private Practice Business Plan in 1 Hour
Private practice business plans serve as a roadmap to success. Learn why you need one and how to create the best one for your therapy business in 1 hour online today.
Starting a Private Practice in Counseling Checklist
Get a FREE step-by-step checklist and trainings to help you start a counseling practice that gets seen by the right people!
Online Therapy & Telehealth Skills: Time to Raise the Bar
Whether you have been doing online therapy, telehealth, or telemental health for years, or you were thrown into telehealth because of the COVID crisis, you are likely doing more online therapy than ever before. While the research has shown online therapy to be as effective as in-person therapy, there is research, and there is reality.
The good news is, the process for getting better at online therapy mirrors the same process that allows us to improve in any area of our clinical practice, or truly, in any area of our lives.
Business Planning for Therapists: Steps 1-44
Our free Private Practice Vision training dug into Step 1 of your business plan. But what comes next? We wanted to share the steps for the rest of your business plan as a therapist. Your business plan will look a little different based on your particular needs and vision, but you can tweak the process as you go. Check them out below!
Innovation in Private Practice
Your Private Practice is an Opportunity
Our hope for you is to create a private practice that provides stellar outcomes for clients, increases accessibility to good mental health care. It takes innovation and creativity as well as attunement to provide services that are uniquely your own. It is NECESSARY if we want to reduce stigma, help people heal and shift their family trees and change the story for not only themselves but for their generation and communities
Why Your Therapy Practice Needs a Business Plan
Your Private Practice Business Plan
You’ve either been contemplating starting a private practice or you’ve built one and are continuing to watch it grow. You’ve got ideas, you have stuff you do every day to make your business run, but you’ve never really put a plan together. In fact, a private practice business plan is one of the last things you want to deal with.
You envision a stack of papers and reports, full of business-y, legal information that doesn’t seem to do anything but collect dust on top of a file cabinet. Is this really what a business plan is?
No-Show Policy: The Dos and Don’ts of Client No-Shows in Your Private Practice
The clock ticks past the hour and your client isn’t there. You wait. You stare at the couch (maybe contemplate taking a nap) and your anticipation builds. Are they not showing up for their appointment?
It happens. People miss appointments. Heck, I’ve missed appointments. For some practices it happens often, and for others it’s something they worry will happen. More often than not, the worry is because every late cancellation or no-show has been handled on a case by case basis and there are no processes in place.
How to Increase Income in Private Practice
Ok... let's start by saying this: Private practice is not a get rich quick scheme. This article isn't about making 40k in 2 days, or being salesy, sketchy, or unethical in the name of building your private practice.
But, some of you are struggling financially. And that struggle is making it difficult or impossible to maintain being in private practice and working with the clients who desperately need you. Or, at the very least... not making a decent income is making you seriously question your life's work, or making you feel burnt out and exhausted and sucking the joy out of the work that you love. You might need to make some changes and some decisions to get money flowing in your practice in a more meaningful way. And let's be honest- you might need to happen relatively quickly.
Doubled My Caseload, Tripled Income, and Clients are Ideal
Stories are powerful. A lot of pre-licensed therapists hear, and perpetuate the belief that "I'm just an intern" "I'm just pre-licensed." "When I'm licensed, I will..." "When I'm licensed I can...."
While it is true that there are paramaters as a pre-licensed therapists most of the parameters I come in contact with from pre-licensed therapists have nothing to do with law, ethics, or what is best for the client. JoAnne is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in San Jose, Ca who is an excellent example of someone who is doing the work.
Listen to her share her journey from working in an agency sitting a windowless cubicle having a powerful ahah moment after watching this private practice vision training to creating a private practice that creates a win/win/win for her, her clients, and the therapists in her community.