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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.
Being the “Alternative” Therapist with Safrianna
Safrianna was trying to figure out how to sustain herself and be successful in her profession. Check out her story of being diagnosed with fibromyalgia and not having enough to pay for her bills to thriving in private practice and transforming her life!
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!
Slow and Steady: How to Grow Your Private Practice
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Tracie’s journey into private practice. After her undergraduate years, she started the process to become licensed by starting a master's program but had a few life setbacks.
In this episode, hear how Tracie started her solo practice and transformed it into a thriving company with 20 clinicians conducting 300 sessions a week.
From Successful Group Practice Owner to Mother and Author with Kelsey
Kelsey, MSW, LCSW, knew she wanted to be a counselor from the time she was small. She has a passion for helping people, especially kids, and a special gift for helping others with anxiety and anger management. She wrestled with her desire to go into private practice after growing up watching her mom enjoy the flexibility of private practice but fight with insurance to get paid.
In 2017, Kelsey started her practice while still employed in her nonprofit job where she had an unmanageable caseload and schedule. After joining Bootcamp and an accountability program, she was able to go to part-time in 3 months and gradually transitioned to a full private practice over that first year. A short year later, she opened her group practice: Compassionate Counseling in St. Louis.
Costs for Starting a Counseling Practice in 2024
Did you know that launching a successful counseling practice is easy and an incredibly low investment?
You’ve done most of the hard work already: you’ve gotten a master’s degree, hundreds of hours of supervision, and gone to weeks’ worth of advanced trainings. You’ve already made the most significant financial investment in gaining this clinical expertise that’s wanted and needed in the world.
Now you’re ready to start your own private practice AKA create a business out of your passion for helping humans heal.
When Life Happens - Fatherhood
This is the end of our When Life Happens series and we are closing out with a beautiful, vulnerable interview with Dr. Jared as we talk about fatherhood and private practice. We cover what it was like before pregnancy, during and after. Take a listen! Dr. Jared DeFife is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Atlanta, GA.
The #1 thing that grew my private practice
I have owned a private practice, a coaching practice, a life coaching practice, and a product based business. If I compare how each has performed over time, I see a common thread regarding what has contributed to my success.
I know success is truly a self-defined term. For me, it is a combination of financial, emotional, relational and spiritual outcomes. I do not feel successful if I shift in only one area of my life. I believe my action should leverage into other parts. For example, even if I make some sort of money, but it takes me away more from my family - that does not feel successful. But to generate income, feel closer to my loved ones, have time for my own health and spiritual life - that is of value to me.
How to Fall in Private Practice
Since starting derby, I get to hear often "if you aren't falling, you aren't learning."
I don't want to fall though. I hate it. It hurts. Not to mention the first bad fall I had where I jammed my finger and busted my tailbone or the other time I literally super manned it across the track on my chest. OUCH!
Guess what? No one wants to fall. I have yet to meet a person who's goal is to fall all the time.
AND we all love to talk about our successes so we often forget that those successful people around us - probably fell a lot. They just didn't turn it into their facebook post or instagram photo.
Therapists: Be a Visionary
You are a visionary. How do I know? Because you are a therapist. When I told people what I did for a living, I would often get responses like "I could never sit and listen to people's problems all day!" The truth is, we know that good therapy isn't about just listening to people's problems- it is about sitting in truth with another human and holding the vision of what can be.
You have a vision for every client who walks through your door. No- this doesn't mean you are trying to fit your client into your box of how they should be. But, you know what it looks like when someone is unfettered, when they make that shift to owning their life, being intentional, and enjoying it. When you see them shift from being a victim of experiences, circumstances, or limitations to an empowered person who is going to live their life in the best way they know how.