5 Ways to Save When Starting a New Private Practice
Starting a private practice DOES take a financial investment, so it’s important to plan carefully. The good news is that you can start a private practice for much less than it would take other businesses to launch.
Starting a Private Practice: 3 Lessons Learned My First Year
Starting a private practice is the realization of a dream, but there’s also a lot to learn. With everything you have to learn, the first year in practice can be rough. Starting a private practice is much harder than most therapists expect it will be. The good news is that when you get yourself off…
Podcast #34: Using Workshops to Build Your Practice
Workshops are a fantastic way to build your practice. First, you generate revenue from the workshop itself, and serve clients that might not connect with you otherwise. Second, after the workshop, some of the attendees will want to continue working with you. Pretty nice, right? Jessica Marchena, LMHC has been using workshops in her practice…
Podcast #33: Break Through Burnout
Break Through Burnout. Shhh. Can you keep a secret? 62% of therapists are suffering from burnout. Break Through Burnout. That’s right. People are counting on us to serve them, but many of us don’t have much to give. There’s this secret that we all have to look perfect on the outside for our clients when…
Podcast #32: Authenticity in Private Practice
Authenticity in Private Practice. You know I love to talk about marketing. I’m a shameless marketing geek. (Big shocker, right?) Authenticity in Private Practice. But…. I know that business success, including private practice success, is so much more than the latest SEO update or changes to Instagram. Much of what drives (or hinders) your success…
Podcast #26: How to Charge What You’re Worth in Private Practice
“There’s NO WAY I could charge $150 per hour and find clients willing to pay those fees each week.” This is a comment I got on a training I did recently, and it really stayed with me. This is a topic that comes up frequently, especially for those that are new in practice. It can…
Podcast #22: Integrating Online Therapy into Your Practice
Online therapy. We’re all intrigued by it, right? But is it really effective? How does it work exactly? How do you handle the legal & ethical issues? Well, we’ve got the answers right here. In this podcast, I interview Steve Bisson, LMHC, who has been doing online counseling for 2 years. In this interview, Steve shares:…
Podcast #20: 5 Lessons Learned the First Two Years of Private Practice
When Sofia Robirosa started her practice in 2014, she had to learn to walk through her fear and anxiety to build her practice. She started small her first year, getting herself “ready”. But by the second year, she was off to the races. Now, she has a thriving, private-pay practice, and helps clients “enjoy the…
How to Choose a Profitable Psychotherapy Niche When You’re Just Starting Out
If you’ve recently started a private practice, you’ve probably already heard, “you’ve got to choose a niche”. You get it, right? But how do you narrow it down when you’re still figuring out what you love to do? This is the Catch-22 that snags many therapists launching a practice.
Podcast #17: Creating Your Dream Practice
Transformation. That’s the word that best describes this podcast interview I did with Dr. Elizabeth Magro. Her journey of transformation is so inspirational, because, like most of us, private practice success didn’t happen automatically for Beth. She had to figure it out as she went, and what she created is amazing. Beth has built what she…