Hi Anthony, I have a few questions but just want to give you some context first. A few months ago my agency closed. I was overseeing registered interns through grant funding and a county contract in 3 different cities, primarily providing counseling at schools. Instead of starting my own practice,…
Starting a new practice is exciting. It’s a creative process. You’re inventing something new! You determine what it’s going to look like and feel like. How it’s going to be different from other practices. You choose what services your practice will and won’t offer. You write down a core mission…
Therapy is an incredibly rewarding process—but it doesn’t come without its challenges. Especially for a certain group of individuals: Black men and women. Keisha Wells, licensed professional counselor, explains that in a traditional sense, counseling is a “foreign” concept and viewed as a “last resort” in the Black community; however,…
Hi Dr. Centore, I’ve found your blog incredibly helpful in getting my practice off the ground. I’m looking at getting out off of an insurance panel and taking out of network reimbursement. I keep hearing different things and not sure what’s legal or potentially puts me at liability. I know…
Protecting the Public Dear Anthony, I wanted to thank you for writing such an interesting article in the November issue of Counseling Today regarding Life Coaches. I am a recent graduate in Community Counseling and just passed the LPC exam. Here in Dallas, a lot of so-called “hypnotist/hypnotherapists” pass themselves…
I am currently volunteering in private practice because insurance companies will not allow sub-contracting of my supervisor (psychologist) to me, an APCC. So my question is, can we sub-contract via a group NPI? I hear other places are doing this? If you do not have the answer for this, please…
Yelp, Facebook, Google, and Angie’s List are just a few places where customers and clients speak their minds; leaving reviews—both positive and negative—that can raise or crush the reputation of a business. For some, this is a great opportunity. Counseling practices with little money for advertising, but great reviews, might…
When I considered devoting this month’s column to the topic of marketing a counseling practice, my first thought was that I’ve covered this topic before (last time in 2016) and what could really have changed between now and then? As I reviewed some of my old writings, I realized much…
Greetings readers, it’s been 7 years since I first wrote on this issue, and to date it remains still one of the most asked about topics. This month I present to you a re-visitation, and update! According to Salary.com, a Licensed Professional Counselor (or ‘Family Counselor’) working in Cambridge, MA…
Maybe it’s New Year’s Resolutions. Maybe it’s “Blue Monday” (January 23rd) the day by which we’ve all broken our resolutions. Maybe it’s a post-holiday emotional hangover. Maybe it’s just that the days are depressingly short, and dark, and very cold. Maybe it’s a combination of all these things that makes…
When starting a private practice, common advice you might hear to help you prepare for the roller coaster ahead might sound like “There will be up years, and down years,” “There will be seasons of feast, and famine,” “There will be good days, and bad days.” However, the reality is…
