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Kelly Higdon 6/20/24 Kelly Higdon 6/20/24

Therapist Marketing: Starting a Private Practice

Starting a private practice is exciting, but marketing can feel overwhelming. This article offers essential tips to help you identify your ideal client, create a simple website, leverage existing relationships, and use online directories while maintaining authenticity and integrity.

Kelly Higdon 4/18/24 Kelly Higdon 4/18/24

The Outcome-Driven Practice: Enhancing Income, Growth and Client Satisfaction

In this episode, Kelly Higdon discusses the transformative power of outcome-driven practices in private practice with valuable insights for enhancing client satisfaction, referrals, and therapist well-being.

Miranda Palmer 11/29/23 Miranda Palmer 11/29/23

Private Practice Success Story Panel 2023

What is really working in private practice right now? Tune in to our recent Private Practice Success Story Panel to get answers to your burning questions!

zynnyme 3/14/22 zynnyme 3/14/22

Successful Practice Discussion Panel

This episode features successful Business School for Therapists members sharing their personal stories of expanding their practices after joining. Guests share why they joined, what they implemented, and what they refined after reaching success in practice.

zynnyme 2/7/22 zynnyme 2/7/22

Giving Yourself Permission: Should You Close Your Private Practice?

We’ve highlighted multiple success stories in our Starting A Podcast Series but, what if you aren’t satisfied with the work after all? Should you add new services to it and see if you feel content? Should you try starting a new company? Or should you close down your practice?

Miranda Palmer 1/27/22 Miranda Palmer 1/27/22

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!

zynnyme 1/10/22 zynnyme 1/10/22

Navigating and Transitioning Into your Practice With Dr. Shemena

Dr. Shemena compares her transition into her private practice to a traffic jam. She felt she knew where she wanted to go but had difficulties getting there. As she started making progress, she wasn't getting the immediate results. By trial and error, and transitioning out of a firm position, she began improving her business. Shemena created workshops and podcast episodes to help others who find themselves suck in traffic trying to navigate their own practice.

zynnyme 12/20/21 zynnyme 12/20/21

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.

zynnyme 11/17/21 zynnyme 11/17/21

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.

Kelly Higdon 10/14/21 Kelly Higdon 10/14/21

A Guide to Healthcare Coverage in Private Practice (for Business Owners in the U.S.)

Where do you get healthcare coverage when you’re in private practice? When do you enroll? How do you pick a plan? How do you pay for it? Should you just stay at your job? Check out this FREE guide to learn more!

zynnyme 10/6/21 zynnyme 10/6/21

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.

zynnyme 8/20/21 zynnyme 8/20/21

Websites for Therapists: Aligning Your Private Practice with Your Value as a Clinician

Here are three ways you can start aligning your private practice with your value as a mental health clinician!

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