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.
Why You Need a Website YESTERDAY... even though it won't get you clients tomorrow.
A website is a VERY powerful marketing tool... one that once it has been written, honed, launched, and on the first page of Google can provide consistent referrals without requiring you to constantly on the phone, going to coffee, sending notes, dropping by businesses, etc. Today we are going to be talking about what can keep your website from triggering phone calls right now- as well as why starting a website NOW is integral key to long-term success!
Google has to learn to trust you:
Once a website is published- people have to be able to find it. Many therapists struggle with understanding what their potential clients are googling for, and so they don't know how to set up their website so that the search engines (like Google) know that their website can be helpful to the person who is in pain. Google is committed to giving great search results- that is why so many people use them. It can be tricky to figure out how to ensure your website is the kind of search result that is going to make clients smile and happy- so that Google moves you up to the first page. Until you are on Page 1 for the search terms- odds are low you will get consistent phone calls.
8 Week Mini Bootcamp: How do you start a revolution?
Join almost 15,000 therapists banding together to make change this summer!
This June & July we are going to ask you to set aside time every Friday to go through an organized, focused series of trainings that build off one another! The first seven video trainings will be released on Fridays this summer so that you can log-in and learn ANYTIME that works for you. That means that every one of the almost 15,000 people already in our community can make join in the awesomeness!
Let Success Surround You
Jim Rohn is a motivational speaker known for his talks on the law of average where he speaks about how we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. This also applies to our work and owning a business. Think about it for a moment.
Who are your five people?
Do they encourage you? Challenge you? Make you stronger? Make you more vulnerable? Open you up to possibilities?
I don't believe that building a business happens alone. It takes a village quite literally. Many people have supported us on our journey, and while I want to introduce you to some of them first, here are some things to think of when building your tribe.
The Process of Transformation in Your Business
You started your practice from scratch. You feel a passion about the work you do and how you help others. As your practice starts to grow, what worked when you started may not be what is working now. Join in with me as I talk with Howard Spector from SimplePractice as we discuss how to deal with changes in your business even positive changes that can be stressful.
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.
The Impact of Video in Practice
Want to know how to increase your ranking in google? Want to make an impact on your community? Think video is only for introverts?
Ernesto Segismundo, LMFT, Founder of Fylmit.com covers all of these topics and more in our interview. You can check out his work and join his online group of therapists for free at Fylmit.com
The Reality of Private Practice Building
I recently spent two days with a bunch of business owners and Rob Bell (Oh and I had Joe Sanok along side me for the ride too!). I found a lot of comfort in being in a room of other people who get it. They get what it is like to build a business, manage projects, speak and create. We are the ones that create our work. It is not handed to us by some higher up the ladder. Nope we are the ladder. Every single rung is just us.
The second day, sitting in the Viper Room having just talked about Spiral Dynamics, Rob asked what everyone wanted to be sure to cover before the days’ end.
Failure.
Mistakes.
Fears.
The guy next to me at our table looked a little shocked. “Wow! There are a lot of people who are hurting in this room.”
I wasn’t shocked at all.
My heart bubbled and shouted “Yes, Yes, Yes!”
Fee Setting Secrets for Therapists: Comparing Apples and Oranges
The truth is, whether your private practice develops into something sustainable that can help your community long-term is largely based on math. Every therapist's favorite topic right? If the math doesn't add up, your business can not sustain. Period. Or can it?
Following Other's Examples
A blogger I really like shared an article the other day and recommended looking at Psychology Today fees posted by other therapists to determine what appropriate high, and low fees are for your area. But there is one big problem... actually there are several big problems...
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
Multiple Streams of Income: What does it really take?
I remember the first time I heard the word passive income. It sounded so... passive. Like something I would create that would magically continue to make money through little to no effort made by me.
However, through the last 10 years of having businesses online, it is incredibly clear to me that no income is passive. In fact, even people who seem to "stumble upon" or "hit it big" often have years of struggle behind it.
Therapists & Taxes: Do This BEFORE December 31st!
We hear you. The last thing you want to think about while doing holiday shopping is paying taxes... especially since it might feel like taxes aren't something to think about until AFTER this year ends.
However, as a business owner, the rules have changed. Actually, the rules have become more important! As you begin to make more of a profit in your business, the self-employment taxes REALLY start to add up. However, there are LOTS of ways to legally and ethically reduce the amount of taxes you owe. However, you only have until December 31st of this year to do it!
The Art of Starting Over in your Private Practice
Not everything is going to go as planned. You can follow every worksheet and training and life just won’t always conform to those efforts. Progress will be made and surprises will happen. If there was only one way of doing things, we would all be doing it. If there was a guarantee, we would all be in our private practices without fear or worry.
“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.