Where the Client Is

  • Private Practice Insurance

    Pre-launch next step: malpractice insurance. For social workers, a liability deal through the NASW here. The AAMFT links to CPH and Associates. For psychologists, Google likes the American Psychological Association Insurance Trust. Doesn’t matter where you go for insurance, just go. Things happen.

  • The Private Practice of the Future

    Practice-growing guru, Lynn Grodzki, discusses the changing face of private practice in a Psychotherapy Networker article posted on her site, privatepracticesuccess.com: The private practice of the future—one that’s profitable, relational, consumer driven, free of managed care, and highly marketable—may look quite different from the ones that therapists occupy today. There are many possible business models…

  • Private Practice Web Listing

    Eventually, you’re going to have to figure out how to bring clients in. One way to start without getting up from the very machine you’re sitting in front of: Spread the word on various listing sites. Catch is, they cost. Rule of thumb is, more traffic = more money. Here are some starter basics–the ones…

  • Office People

    Another way to chase down office space in which to do therapy: Contact everyone you know who has an office. Former classmates, teachers, therapists. They’re working, but they’re not working all the time. Weekend office space? Lots of it.

  • Private Practice Office Space

    First things first–actually, there are a lot of first things: get a credential of some sort, get licensed (or find a supervisor), get insured. But eventually, if you’re going into private practice, you’re going to need an office–a therapy office. Ideally, that means some soundproofing, maybe a waiting room, a table for some magazines. Maybe…

  • Twelve Months to Your Ideal Private Practice

    What I’m reading right now: Twelve Months to Your Ideal Private Practice, by Lynn Grodzki. Just started. So far, so good. More where that came from at the blog’s bookstore.

  • Where the Client Is

    Welcome. Coming soon, a blog-slash-online magazine about launching and growing a private psychotherapy practice.  Promotion and marketing tips, interviews with established clinicians, links to practice-building resources, how to’s re office space, insurance, supervision, and more. And, of course, getting (maybe even keeping) clients. I’m a recently licensed LCSW–I blogged the ramp up to the exam…

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