Nurture Your Fees – Fee Forecaster Wizard

How the Fee Forecaster Wizard Works Open Fee Forecaster Wizard If you want help navigating conversations on fees with clients, or generating enough demand for your sessions that you’re able to feel confident in the idea of a fee increase, www.ProfitablePractices.net is here to help!

Nurture Your Fees For Long-Term Success

As a mental health professional, you will need to determine what fees are most appropriate for the services you provide. As your experience and your client base grows, you may be faced with the decision to raise your fees for your own financial benefit; and to improve your space or the amenities you provide to …

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Money, Honey: How to Get a Good Biller for Your Private Pay Therapy Practice

Therapists are known for our incredible “people skills”. Our number skills? Maybe not so much. Even if you are fortunate enough to be great with numbers, you still might prefer to free yourself from the day-to-day responsibility of staying on top of patient billing so that you can focus on the actual therapy aspect of …

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9 Proven Tips To Attract Clients Using Your Blogs

If you’re like most therapists, you weren’t taught much about marketing in graduate school, especially about online marketing.  Online marketing for therapists is an incredibly easy (yes, easy!) and inexpensive way fo let your ideal clients know who you are and how you can help them.  A super easy and inexpensive form of online marketing …

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How to Get an Affordable Receptionist, Assistant, Bookkeeper, and other Support Staff!

Are you just looking for a reliable receptionist to answer your phone on a “pay by the number of calls answered” basis?  Someone who will take messages, answer basic questions from callers about your practice fees, location, insurance, and other simple questions, and then coordinate a callback time so that you don’t waste time with …

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How to start a private practice (or prepare for one!) while at a day job or graduate school

Many psychologists, social workers, LMFTs, LMHCs, or other therapists find that creating a successful private practice while still working at a clinic, hospital, agency, or some other day job can be a “chicken and egg” problem: How are you supposed to create your private practice while you’re still occupied with your other work?  I know …

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Attention,Therapists: August is Your Month for Private Practice Success!

Many private practice therapists take some time off in August.  In fact, a lot of therapists take the entire month off.  This has a WONDERFUL effect on “supply and demand” for therapists who are hoping to pick up more private pay clients.  During August, a therapist who is actually available to receive new client inquiries …

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Seven Things You Need To Know To Overcome Networking Nerves

This is my networking blog that was published by Forbes.  I’m re-posting it here because many therapists have expressed that while they know they should network, they get nervous at events.  Hopefully these tips will help you to overcome your networking nerves… happy networking! As a clinical psychologist in New York City who works with …

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What Does Your Tax Style Say About You?

When April comes around, doing our taxes inevitably follows. As someone that works with many individuals planning for their financial future and security, I often find that during times of stress we can forget the purpose behind our actions. Although we all celebrate a salary raise or a successful new business venture, we don’t always …

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Mindfulness: Your Secret Business Weapon

As a clinical psychologist and former yoga teacher who works with driven business people, I want to clarify a common myth that mindfulness is mainly about relaxation and “being present”.  Relaxation and feeling fully present are certainly positive components of mindfulness practice, but mindfulness can also be used to increase your insight and awareness around …

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Part 1: Top 10 Tips for Psychology or Counseling Grad Students Targeting Private Practice

Many graduate students in fields like clinical or counseling psychology plan to have a private practice one day, but have been discouraged from thinking too much about that exciting part of their professional life till much further down the road.  As a clinical psychologist who was able to start a thriving practice within weeks (yes, …

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Part 2: Top 10 Tips for Graduate Students Targeting Private Practice!

Welcome back to my Top 10 Tips! I started this as a single-part blogpost but realized that I simply had too many tips for graduate students in psychology to squeeze into one post.  So if you’re wondering why the tips start at #6 below, it’s because the first five tips are in Part 1 of …

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Tips for Therapists on Managing Late Cancellation Fees

One of the biggest questions that I get from other therapists is how to navigate late cancellation fees. As therapists, we don’t want to alienate a potentially good client, and we certainly don’t want to seem unsympathetic or as if we don’t understand that something came up in the person’s life. At the same time, …

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How to Choose an Online Therapist

This article, which I wrote to help consumers choose a therapist, originally appeared in US News and World Report. This article is also helpful for therapists seeking to attract online clients since it would help them understand what sorts of factors clients might be considering in choosing a therapist. You may also check out the …

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6 Ways You Can Expand Your Practice during COVID: Part 1

We are all being thrown for a loop right now: therapists everywhere are being challenged in more ways than ever before. COVID has caused much harm, but, as with any negative, we have to be able to look for the positives. And as therapists, there are many positives if we look for them! I have …

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6 Ways You Can Expand Your Practice during COVID: Part 2

Now that you’ve decided to expand your practice virtually, let’s go into more detail about how to have a comfortable, successful, and positive experience with teletherapy!    Here are three ways you can optimize your online services for success:   1. Get the Word Out There   The first step is letting everyone know you …

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Promoting yourself: Confidently Build a Lucrative Practice

Promoting yourself: it’s an essential part of running a successful practice, but it’s something some therapists have trouble allowing themselves to do. You might find that you feel uncomfortable creating goals that include making more money, or hesitant to position yourself to get more high functioning, private pay clients.   I want to help alleviate …

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3 Reasons Why You Should Host a Livestream

There are SO many ways you can utilize social media to grow your business and connect with others.The possibilities are endless, but one tool that I love is to do livestreams! I do livestreams that are relevant to my audience, like my recent one on managing the holidays during COVID, and these help me to …

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