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.
Innovation in Private Practice
Your Private Practice is an Opportunity
Our hope for you is to create a private practice that provides stellar outcomes for clients, increases accessibility to good mental health care. It takes innovation and creativity as well as attunement to provide services that are uniquely your own. It is NECESSARY if we want to reduce stigma, help people heal and shift their family trees and change the story for not only themselves but for their generation and communities
Success Story: Erica
Erica supports individuals in San Diego who struggle with trauma, attachment, and substance misuse, using EMDR & IFS.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: It builds confidence and connects you to a community of support.
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: Anxious and excited
What did your private practice look like before bootcamp started?: I signed up for BSB right when I started my practice. I started my practice Jan 2018 and bootcamp started in the spring. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I have always been the type that likes to jump right in the deep end of a pool. I feel like in a way BSB was lifeguard / swim instructor there cheering me on and teaching new skills. I could look to the community if when I needed support. I'm glad I picked a pool with a lifeguard rather than completely going it alone. :-)
Success Story: Amy
Amy works with men and women in Parker County, TX who are Highly Sensitive Persons or are struggling with trauma. She often uses EMDR in conjunction with talk therapy to help people heal past wounds and move forward in a healthy way.
Your Experience with Business School in one sentence: I was a new Business Schooler as of 2018, having my first experience during the working session in May.
How were you feeling before you signed up for Business School: I was feeling overwhelmed, under-prepared, and generally like so much potential was just leaking out the door every day.
Success Story: Desiree
Desiree Woehrle helps anxious adults find authenticity and empower themselves personally, professionally and creatively in NYC and around the world.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: My concept of life itself expanded by realizing the limiting thinking I was projecting onto my business.
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: I was worried I'd have to return to one of the toxic agencies I had been working for previously in order to support my family. I was hesitant to invest money into the program because I didn't realize how much more there was to learn specifically about running a therapy private practice that ensures and emphasizes the work-life balance we all deserve.
Success Story: Julie
Julie Kull provides counseling in Madison, WI for young adults and adults with anxiety.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Bootcamp helped me to be the best therapist that I can be.
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: I was not feeling like I had the skills to run a business. I just wanted to do the clinical work and was in denial that I would have to learn how to run a business as well.
Success Story: Diana
Diana is passionate about helping men and women in northern San Diego county overcome negative life experiences and to love and accept who they are. She is a certified EMDR therapist and provides Mindfulness, Somatic, and IFS interventions.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Absolutely worth it!
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: Before signing up for bootcamp I felt overwhelmed and lost around the business side as well as private practice side. All my experience was non-profit agency work. I felt a lot of insecurity as to what I was doing.
Success Story: Jenessa
Jenessa guides women in San Diego, CA in transitioning towards more calm, clarity and confidence using body-oriented relational psychotherapy. She specializes in anxiety, relationship concerns, and trauma.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Bootcamp has become the stable scaffolding of information and community that has supported me to start to build my practice with intention and integrity from the ground up.
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp?: I was overwhelmed with trying to build a practice based on the various pieces of information I had gathered from many sources, trying to integrate them in to a cohesive effective plan, while being a mom of two young girls. I know I'm smart and can figure things out, but it often felt like it was just too hard, with too many moving parts. I couldn't carve out the time I needed to really work on my business, and I was sure I was missing things I didn't even know I needed to know.
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.
Why Your Therapy Practice Needs a Business Plan
Your Private Practice Business Plan
You’ve either been contemplating starting a private practice or you’ve built one and are continuing to watch it grow. You’ve got ideas, you have stuff you do every day to make your business run, but you’ve never really put a plan together. In fact, a private practice business plan is one of the last things you want to deal with.
You envision a stack of papers and reports, full of business-y, legal information that doesn’t seem to do anything but collect dust on top of a file cabinet. Is this really what a business plan is?
From Pharmaceutical Rep to Passionate Practice Owner with Kim
Kim, MBA, MS, LMHC shares her journey from pharmaceutical rep, to life coach, through the licensing process and dual internships, and finally into the private practice she knew was right for her.
Success Story: Nicole
Nicole specializes in trauma, anxiety, depression, and EMDR therapy in North Austin.
Your Experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: I learned so much, it's truly immeasureable... best decision ever!
How were you feeling before you signed up for bootcamp? : I was feeling very nervous to spend so much on a program, but there really isn't anything else out there that provides the level of support and information that is found in this program. I was so lost and confused... I literally hadn't started anything, didn't have an office, a website... nuthin! I was scared and lacked confidence... I wasn't sure this is what I wanted to do.
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.
“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.