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How to market a private practice, ditch insurance, schedule private pay clients, and be happy in a counseling practice.

I realize that this is a super lame blog post title, but the truth is there are a lot of therapists out there wondering how they should be answering the phone. After all the hits my post on voicemail messages got, I figured I should do one on just answering the phone as well.

Therapist blog challenge #19 focuses on the experience of parenting a child with special needs. (Note: This is, of course an incredibly broad topic. Subtopics include welcoming a child with special needs into the family, helping siblings of kids with...

The search engines, like Google, pride themselves in giving accurate results to searches. A bounce rate can inform Google that what they gave as results to a search may be inaccurate. For example, I am searching for an oil change and a car dealer shows up.

This exercise is pretty basic- it breaks out starting a practice into five broad areas; What, When, Where, Who, and How Much? There are obviously a thousand little details beyond these broad categories when it comes to starting a practice, but this exercise is intended to help give you a "big picture" view of getting your practice off the ground.

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I recently read an article on Forbes entitled, "Starting a Business with $15K? You Can Do It, But You Need to Stay Focused," http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2015/04/17/starting-a-business-with-15k-you-can-do-it-but-you-need-to-stay-focused/2. I immediately laughed when I saw that. I didn't have anywhere near $15,000 to start either my private practice, or my current business.

I started thinking about this a few years ago when it occurred to me that the standard 24-hour cancellation policy most therapists have has no connection to anything therapeutic OR business-focused. I mean, really, that amount of time is not only arbitrary, but it is not conducive to continuity of sessions, maintaining consistency or momentum [...]

This is the second article in Rob Reinhardt's special traveling blog series on crowdfunding. At the end of this article, you'll find a link to the next article in this series. From there, you can continue to follow the links, and read all four articles.

So your business is struggling or stagnant and you don't know what to do next to make enough of an impression on your target market (those potential clients and referrers you are meant to serve) to fill your book.Time and time again I see good clinicians (who do great work) fall by the wayside; wave the white flag; and [...]

Giving therapists tools to make documentation easier one blog at a time.

Lynn is a Master Certified Coach specializing in practice building with health professionals including therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, healers, and coaches in private practice. She also works as an executive coach with non-profits, executive directors, consultants, and trusted advisers who need business advice.

I recommend telling the client the policies up front (in person.) Then if they are broken, it becomes a matter for clinical discussion - what it means to both of you - and then a recommitment to the policy.