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Your Vision for Life and Private Practice
Learn how to create your vision for your life and private practice with three easy exercises from Private Practice Experts Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer!
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.
Making Businesses More Human with John
Most of the time, we think of businesses only motivated by money. John, LPCC and business coach in San Francisco, wants to change that. As he had therapy at a young age, he wanted to pursue it as a career. He continued his education up to a doctoral program where he wanted to teach therapists the business side of the work.
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!
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.
First Step to Planning In Your Private Practice
Maybe you started out the year with a ton of great intentions and expectations. All of those hopes turned into a to-do list, projects and goals. As you face another year of running your private practice, you start to list your intentions for what’s to come.
Private Practice Therapist Salary: What a six-figure practice really looks like
How much can you really make in private practice? What’s a therapist’s salary like when they own their own business? Making 6 figures sounds appealing, but what does that really look like?
When Life Happens - Burn Out
Lanie is a registered art therapist and vitality coach who knows what it means to burn out when you are in private practice. She also knows what it takes to turn it around. We encourage you to listen with an open heart and look inward, to find your own needs for space and rest. Check out Lanie here.
Erin, LCSW, RPT Private Practice Success Story
You better take what you can get… something is better than nothing… somebody is better than nobody…
Have you heard that, thought that, or told someone else that when talking about private practice? Do you know what that leads to?
Erin, LCSW, RPT play therapist in Littleton, CO shares her journey of private practice. Before bootcamp she was 60% full, seeing 10-12 clients a week mostly reduced fee clients, barely paying the bills, and accruing debt.
The Confident Private Practice Series Part #3: Be Present
You know why confidence is important, who you are, and you are leaning in to be more YOU in your private practice… what is next? This is one of the hardest steps in the process long-term. In order to build confidence, you have to practice being more present in three main areas. You need to be present when you DO feel confident, you need to be present when you feel anything but confident, and finally you need to be present when you feel checked out.
How to Take Time Off in Your Private Practice
We are just coming back from having the month of December off and as we ease back into the saddle of running a business, I find it so relevant to talk about time off instead of the typical New Year's resolution fan fare.
Before the year ended I set aside some time to plan my 2016. The first thing I did was get out my calendar and block off my time off. I blocked off
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.
“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.