Private Practice Blog for Therapists
Hundreds of articles on building, growing, and sustaining your private practice — written by therapists, for therapists. Not recycled generic business advice.
Paying People to Talk About Your Practice
Starting a counseling practice is quite the journey. Along the way you will have a lot of opportunities and get a lot of suggestions about how to build your practice, not all of them will be effective or ethical.
Should you pay people to talk about your business?
If you go into Fiverr.com and some other places, you will see that there are offers to do five star reviews of your business or practice all over the place. People will create fake video testimonials for you, tweet fake love to you, and SO much more. Some business owners are tempted to take these short cuts- they assume this will be a quick way to connect with their community.
Post Your Question for Irvin D. Yalom- Yes- Really!
We get to video interview Irvin D. Yalom for PsychCentral. Let me repeat that. Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer get to sit down and have a conversation with Dr. Irvin D. Yalom- the father of group psychotherapy- the still practicing 84 year old psychotherapist.
Wow! So how did this happen? The really short story is we asked. The long story is that we have done a lot to build our business in the last few years that made it easy for Irvin D. Yalom to say yes! We will be sharing the Video Interview on PsychCentral in Spring of 2015, but we haven't interviewed him yet. And guess what that means?
Creating your Vision for 2015
Vision is the creative glue that makes our imagined life become our real life. It gives guidance and direction, especially for our private practices.
Every year, we sit down with clinicians and go over their vision. Why are they in private practice? What do they want to create? What is the purpose?
The Best Gift To Give Yourself
Our work by nature is one of giving. We give of our time, our listening, our efforts to process and contain and help people move forward into more healing. It a beautiful and rare kind of work that we do as helpers and healers.
But when was the last time you gave back to yourself?
Guest Blog: Private Practice Success Stories: Traci Lowenthal, Psy.D.
"A big thank you to Dr. Traci Lowenthal for sharing her private practice story. Too many therapists feel alone on the journey of starting a private practice. Share your favorite part of Traci's story in the comments section!." -Kelly and Miranda
I still remember sitting in one of my first graduate school classes. You know the one: “Let’s go around and introduce ourselves, tell each other how we came to enroll in the program, and a potential long-term goal we have.” I was the only one to say I wanted to work in private practice.
Passwords for Therapists: Security for You and Your Clients
Today we are going to show you a way to keep your information safe online. It is a simple change you can make today to make the online world safer for your clients. Why? Because the truth is, I can probably get into your metal filing cabinet with a hammer and about 4 minutes. Just because something feels safe, doesn't make it safe
Public Speaking 101 for Therapists: How to Find Gigs
Learn all about speaking gigs for therapists, including how to find one that best fits you and what you have to offer on our blog today.
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