Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals

Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals
Author: Lynn Grodzki
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393709493

A much-anticipated second edition to this classic practice-building text. Building Your Ideal Private Practice, a best-seller in its genre, is now fully revised after its original publication in 2000. Much has changed for therapists in private practice over the past fifteen years, including the widespread encroachment by insurance and managed care into the marketplace, the density of new therapists as over 600,000 therapists nation-wide try to stay viable, and the role of the Internet in marketing services. The revision of Building Your Ideal Private Practice is a comprehensive guide, updated with six new chapters and targeted for therapists at all stages of private practice development. It covers the essential how-to questions for those starting out in practice and explains the common pitfalls to avoid. For those already in practice, worried about profitability in an age of increasing competition, the author offers informed strategies such as the best way to create websites and other online marketing to find clients, and then goes further to explain how to retain the new breed of fickle clients who shop for therapists online, but are hard to satisfy. Other new chapters support veteran therapists edging towards retirement, including how to sell a therapy business for a profit or whether to stay working solo or expand into a more lucrative group business model. The revision comprises a complete, easy to use and fascinating business plan that shows therapists not just what to do, but also who to be in order to succeed. It adds depth, up-to-date information and a wealth of strategies to the original book, often referred to as the “bible” for therapists in private practice. Like the original, the revision conveys the author’s experience, optimism and warmth as she presents case examples, checklists and exercises to make the business advice come alive. Whether you have insurance-based or a fee-for-service practice, this book will help you thrive.

Twelve Months To Your Ideal Private Practice a Workbook

Twelve Months To Your Ideal Private Practice a Workbook
Author: Lynn Grodzki
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2003-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780393704174

This workbook offers a strategic programme that should help professionals expand their practice. Based on the author's book, "Building Your Ideal Practice", the text incorporates fresh ideas, new skill sets, favourite exercises and generous advice.

Getting Started in Private Practice

Getting Started in Private Practice
Author: Chris E. Stout
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2004-10-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0471426237

All the tips and tools you need to build a successful mental health practice from the ground up Many mental health professionals currently working for group practices, hospitals, and private or government agencies have both the skills and the drive to become solo practitioners. But how and where do you begin? Getting Started in Private Practice is a reliable reference that offers the comprehensive information and armchair motivation you need to establish and build your own practice from the ground up. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy book provides you with tools and techniques for starting and maintaining a thriving private practice, including information on: * Discovering your ideal practice * Creating a business plan * Financing your start-up * Setting fees * Setting up shop and measuring results * Minimizing risk * Managing managed care * Marketing your practice * Generating referrals * Utilizing additional print, Web, and organizational resources From major concerns such as ethics and liability to day-to-day matters like selecting stationery and business cards, Getting Started in Private Practice puts the best solutions at your fingertips. Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned pro, this invaluable resource will help you minimize the uncertainty of establishing a solo practice while maximizing the rewards.

Private Practice Made Simple

Private Practice Made Simple
Author: Randy Paterson
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1608820246

Running your own private practice takes more than an advanced degree, memberships in professional psychology organizations, and the ability to be a good therapist. And while your continuing education and training may be useful, setting up and managing a successful practice is a matter of business and organizational know-how as much as professional proficiency. If you're opening your own private practice or want to run your existing practice more efficiently, Private Practice Made Simple is your detailed guide. This book offers tips on everything from getting client referrals and creating a positive and comfortable office atmosphere to building a strong and thriving therapy practice that can serve both you and your clients. You'll learn how to attract clients as a new therapist and how to manage your practice as it grows. This complete tool kit will help you: Find an office and set up a treatment room Establish headache-free routines for organizing client information and forms Decide on a fee and manage your finances Prevent burnout by maintaining a healthy work-life balance

How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice

How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice
Author: Laurie Kolt
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999-09-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0080508243

Twenty years ago, a therapist could hang up a shingle, make some networking calls, and begin to create a steady stream of referrals. Since then, private practice has changed dramatically. Now therapists everywhere are struggling just to keep their practices going. The need has never been greater for sound business tools for building and marketing a therapy practice. How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice is essential reading for newly licensed therapists, seasoned professionals, and others wanting to prepare practitioners for success. How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice guides you from your ideal practice vision through the "how-to" steps to succeed. You will learn that a private practice is, in effect, a small business. Chapters contain solid training to help you not only to survive, but also to thrive in a highly competitive market place. Examples, worksheets, business forms, flow charts, paper and pen exercises, and even assignments in the "real world," expose you to essential materials and ideas. Coverage includes surveying the needs of one's community, capitalizing on unusual market niches, marketing ideas to build one's practice, creating brochures, widening one's scope and expertise through public speaking, seminars, workshops, and writing, analyzing financial data and projections, tracking client information, and more. Learn solid training to not only survive, but thrive, in private practice today Go from your ideal practice vision through the "how-to" steps to succeed. Mobilize yourself into action! Market your clinical specialty to attract more cash clients Learn how to set realistic practice goals, and track your progress Regain your autonomy, income and career satisfaction Lean how to communicate the value of your services to the public Learn how to give powerful workshops and speaking engagements and write effective community articles Turn your specialty into a market niche Use the media as a vehicle to give psychology away and gain visibility Learn the skills that have never been taught in graduate school--until now Lay the foundation for your practice that builds momentum Attract new clients through seminars, speaking engagements and published articles Build a dynamic referral base Re-ignite the passion for your career and love what you do for a living Make your practice adaptive, challenging and enjoyable for the rest of your career

Essentials Of Private Practice

Essentials Of Private Practice
Author: Holly A Hunt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780393704488

Hunt, a psychologist in private practice, outlines strategies that will help mental health professionals establish and maintain their private practices. She guides readers through fundamental issues, from choosing an office to dealing with insurance carriers. The strategies presented involve reducing overhead, streamlining routine procedures, and implementing efficient client policies. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Starting Your Private Practice

Starting Your Private Practice
Author: Maryanne L. Duan
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-01-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781793206152

This is a practical must-have A to Z guide for anyone who desires to start and develop a thriving private practice as a metal /behavioral health provider. The author wrote this book with three years of personal experience and trial and error as a licensed marriage family therapist in private practice. This book presents the essence for starting and building a successful practice and covers everything you need to know: business planning, financial budgeting and management, registration for your business, banking matter, marketing and clientele development, insurance credentialing and contracting, service documentation, claim submission, receiving payments from clients, bookkeeping, and business expansion. The author even provide basic template forms you might need such as Informed Consent, Client Information Form, Consent to Treat a Minor, HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, Acknowledgement of HIPAA Privacy Notice, Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning, etc... This book will save you hours, days, or even months of your time and spare you the frustration and anxiety along your journey to a successful practice.

Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session

Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session
Author: Lynn Grodzki
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393712486

Bringing “coaching skills” to a therapy practice and clients. In Therapy with a Coaching Edge, professional practice guru Lynn Grodzki offers a new, paradigm-changing therapy model—adding the leverage and action of a coaching approach to the wisdom and goals of psychotherapy. This book presents a set of powerful coaching strategies that have been adapted and designed specifically for therapy—to provide more reach and range for therapists and counselors while not requiring a wholesale abandonment of therapeutic principles. Using this model, therapists at all levels of experience can promote behavioral change without insisting on homework or rigid protocols. Clients can spot results in each and every therapy session. Resistance to treatment often softens and client retention improves. Grodzki gives new and veteran clinicians the skills to not only improve client outcomes, but also energize themselves as practitioners. Therapists feel empowered as they learn to ask compelling questions that generate "ah-ha" moments. They help clients go beyond a discussion of symptoms to explore topics of core values. They show clients how to make decisions based on both necessity and a vision of a better future. The model provides readers with just-in-time learning, to identify a skill when it is needed an then immediately apply the steps in a session. Grodzki, an expert psychotherapist and master certified coach, has proven herself to be a trusted voice for therapists through her writing and workshops; she makes the steps to using a coaching approach understandable by offering lively case examples, "your turn" exercises, and sample scripts to give her readers the confidence and context to move forward.

Handbook of Private Practice

Handbook of Private Practice
Author: Steven Walfish
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2017
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190272163

Handbook of Private Practice is the premier resource for mental health clinicians, covering all aspects of developing and maintaining a successful private practice. Written for graduate students considering the career path of private practice, professionals wanting to transition into private practice, and current private practitioners who want to improve their practice, this book combines the overarching concepts needed to take a mental health practice (whether solo or in a group) from inception, through its lifespan. From envisioning your practice, to accounting and bookkeeping, hiring staff, managing the practice, and running the business of the practice, a diverse group of expert authors describe the practical considerations and steps to take to enhance your success. Chapters cover marketing, dealing with insurance and managed care, and how to choose your advisors. Ethics and risk management are integrated throughout the text with a special section also devoted to these issues and strategies. The last section features 26 niche practices in which expert practitioners describe their special area of practice and discuss important issues and aspects of their specialty practice. These areas include assessment and evaluation, specialized psychotherapy services, working with unique populations of clients, and more. Whether read cover-to-cover or used as a reference to repeatedly come back to when a question or challenge arises, this book is full of practical guidance directly geared to psychologists, counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists in independent practice.

Earning a Living Outside of Managed Mental Health Care

Earning a Living Outside of Managed Mental Health Care
Author: Steven Walfish
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Successful practices outside of managed care result from developing personal passions, creating opportunities. . . and reading this book! Walfish connects the reader not only to real psychologists who have found a variety of niches but also to ready-touse strategies and practical references. You're sure to find several ideas to expand your practice.ùJana N. Martin, PhD, independent practice and Chief Operating Officer of the American Psychological insurance Trust --