Private Practice
Should Counselors Sign Non-compete Agreements?
Being in my position, I regularly get practice and employment questions from mental health professionals. Questions related to the issue of non-compete agreements are some of the most common. Here’s one:Hi Anthony,I’m newly licensed and was offered a position at a...
Online Counseling Advantages and Disadvantages
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Counselors’ Top 18 Marketing & Advertising Mistakes in Private Practice
We all make mistakes, but when it comes to mistakes in marketing and advertising, they can literally cost you. In this two-part column, we’ll review 18 of the most common marketing and advertising mistakes made by mental health professionals. 18) The “If Just One...
Private Practice Pointers: How SEO Can Help Patients Find Therapists Online
We are living in an Internet-driven age. Most people read the news, do their shopping, and even watch movies and TV online. As a result of this thriving trend, no one searches in newspapers or phone books when they’re looking for a product or service; instead, they...
5 Tips for Building a Sellable Practice
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Should You Grow Your Counseling Private Practice?
Our culture has a strong bias toward growth; “go big or go home” has been the proverb of choice since the phrase first caught on sometime in the early 90s. Case and point, the popular business magazine “Inc.” every year releases the Inc. 500 and 5000 lists, which rank...
Should I Sign a Private Practice Non-compete Agreement? (Q&A)
Hi Anthony,I loved your video setting up a practice in 7 days!! thank you. My question is, I am newly licensed and was offered a position at the site that i completed my intern hours at. As an intern, the owner paid $15/client while he was making $72, but I was an...
How to Sell Your Counseling Private Practice (Expanded)
Some people will read this title and immediately decide that this column doesn’t apply to them. They’ll think, “I’m just getting started, I’m not in a place where I can consider selling.” If this is you, and you’ve made it this far—hang on. This is for you. In fact,...
Creating Policies and Procedures in your Counseling Practice without “Going Corporate”
As Thriveworks practices have grown–now to about 70 locations–we’ve had to overhaul the way we do some things. For example, ten years ago if a counselor wanted to talk with me he/she could holler my name from their office, and I’d pop my head in. Today,...
If I’m credentialed at a group practice do I need to be re-credentialed?
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