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.
Success Story: Amy
Amy helps high-achieving young women who are struggling with anxiety and relationships. She is an attachment-focused therapist in the Los Angeles area with specialized training in CBT, Anxiety therapy, Couples Therapy, and EMDR.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Expert guidance just how and when I needed it, appropriate over years of evolving my practice
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: Scared! I had no idea what I was doing. I was afraid I would never find clients, and the idea of building a website totally freaked me out.
Success Story: Emily
Emily specializes in grief, divorce, and anxiety therapy in Oakland, CA.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Going through third bootcamp this fall and learn something new every time!
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp? : I felt like the classic therapist who learned a lot of great counseling skills but almost no business skills in the years of school, practicum, and internships (2006-2015). I knew I needed a comprehensive system, not just a blog post on tips for marketing your private practice.
From Overwhelmed by Private Practice to Clear and Confident with Donna
Donna specializes in Christian counseling, childhood sexual abuse, and pre-marital and marriage counseling in the San Diego area.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: I went from overwhelmed to confident, clear and excited about a road map for my practice.
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: Inadequate as a business owner. Struggling about fee setting. Keeping a small mindset for my business. Overwhelmed and ill-equipped.
Success Story: Elizabeth
Elizabeth specializes in complex trauma, PTSD, EMDR, adult survivors of narcissistic parents, adult survivors of parents with addiction, childhood emotional neglect, and mindfulness meditation and counseling in the Metro Detroit area.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Bootcamp helped me develop confidence, clarity, and courage.
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp? : When I signed up for bootcamp, I was in solo practice and was worried I wasn't doing everything I needed to become successful. I was feeling alone in my business and wasn't sure who to reach out to or where to find information. When I decided to do Bootcamp, I was excited about the possibilities.
8 Mistakes I Made Building a Private Practice
The path to building a private practice is rarely perfect. While most of you know I was able to build a successful private-pay private practice during the recession, many of you don't know all the ways I messed up. The truth is, I tend to look back on things in a glass half-full. Every mistake I made led me to a million great decisions and experiences. But it still doesn't mean I didn't mess up along the way.
Success Story: Kate
Kate provides counseling in Tacoma, WA for 20- and 30-something women who are ready to get unstuck from old patterns and start loving their life. She helps them get clear on who they want to be and what they want in their relationships and work and overcome obstacles to start living that out. She also does faith-based counseling for those who are interested in integrating their spirituality into the clinical work.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Bootcamp has helped better understand my identity not just as a therapist but also a human being, and learn to start valuing who I am and the value I bring clinically and in all areas of my life.
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: Excited about wanting to create a private practice, but Overwhelmed and scared when it came to actually turning that into action.
Success Story: Peg
Peg provides trauma and rape counseling in Boulder, CO. She helps girls and women, whose lives have been turned upside down, move from feeling broken or invisible to feeling powerful, in control and fully alive.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Bootcamp is how I starting with only clinical training and passion and built around it a full vision for my business, and a workable plan to implement that which turned into more than I could even dream when I started!
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp? : Determined, but clueless. Capable but lost.
Top Advice for 2019 From Therapists in Private Practice
Get the top advice for building a private practice in 2019 from therapists across the country!
A Dad's Perfect Practice with Adam
“I thought I already knew everything and realized I don’t know anything.”
You know how to do therapy, but do you know how to create a practice that is right for you and your family? Adam, a clinical psychologist in Arizona shares how he built a part time practice with insurance and cash pay clients that allowed him to be present for his two small children and teach at the university. He created a great fit for himself and his clients.
Embraced My Niche and Full in Less Than 6 Months!
Starting a new private practice and being full in less than 6 months sounds exciting, but there can be some major fear and doubts along the way. Listen to Mollie's story today and get inspired!
Diversity in Parenting
Every time a training opportunity comes up, as a private practice owner, you have to decide if it is worth the time and energy. Let’s be honest, we are always growing and changing as clinicians, improving our skills. We could be learning all the time. We don’t know about you, but many conferences are boring. They are either too broad, or so niched they don’t apply.
Mercedes Samudio, LCSW is a bootcamper who is a thought leader in parenting. She saw a gap in education for therapists and decided to fill it with her Diversity in Parenting Conference. This is a conference that is reflective of the diversity in presenters and topics. But why a parenting conference? Because all of our clients have parents and to understand the diverse ways that families are formed and that children are raised helps us become better therapists to our clients.
It’s all the things: A zig-zag story to multiple streams of income and a group practice - Kimberly’s Story
Kimberly shares her experience as a clinician who has expanded into a group practice, moved to and from another state, is introverted, launched retreats and workshop and is passionate and fascinated by business and is using the lifetime access of Business School Bootcamp for Therapists.
“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.