You don’t often hear about outlaw mental health providers in the news. After all, aren’t we all amateur counselors when it comes to listening to and supporting our friends and family? We’ve all given and received some rogue guidance about our jobs, goals, behaviors, and relationships. How much damage can…
If you’re like most, when you start a private counseling practice, you’re a bit nervous about whether you’ll get enough clients in the door. Whether you’ll be able to stay in business—perhaps whether you’ll be able to buy groceries—depends on whether or not there are clients sitting on your couch….
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 local counseling center. I feel I should…
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 Percent” Fallacy Whether it’s online or…
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 turn to search…
Selling a practice. It might be the largest single financial transaction of your life. And it could go very well, or it might not happen at all. Depending on the choices you make, your practice could fund your retirement…or it might be worth close to nothing. While it’s a much…
Today I am sitting at a coffee kiosk at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, PA. I’m here because this week Thriveworks is opening its third (our second clinical) company-owned location, right here in Philly. As a small company, any endeavor that includes the words “new location” is a serious…
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 privately…
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…
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, this…
From seasoned veterans to recent graduates, today it seems that many in private practice are asking the same question, “Should I start accepting health insurance?” On the surface, it seems to be a simple question, but there’s much to consider in producing an informed answer. For any counselor, the decision…
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, they’d need to send…
