We have all seen the funny memes about 2020 with a happy couple strolling on a beautiful beach looking perfect with the caption “2020 planning”. The next photo has the same couple looking disheveled and dirty in their underwear and bathrobes, with their kids at the computers in the background lay across their chairs looking defeated, and the caption...
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I hope that you all are doing well, staying healthy, and keeping COVID-19 at bay. I have been neglectful in my blog posts because we have been so busy at my practice. When COVID hit in March we took an 11% dive in client loss. Some loss was due to the urgency of closing our offices down. Another loss was from...
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The Psychiatric Times reported working with fragile clients or clients in the time of Covid-19, is an occupational hazard, where we know there is a possibility of patient suicide. Knowing this, will help us to prepare and anticipate the types of support we may need to weather the “event”. Although, death by suicide and incidences of suicides are most common among active-duty and returning home...
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I am not trying to scare you but only remind you about a few things that could jeopardize your business.Let’s get right into it, here are my top 5: 1. Are you still legally licensed? A few days ago, I heard of a local therapist that was in trouble with the California Licensing Board (BBS) because they hadn’t kept records...
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Why would any licensed clinician take the time to mentor, provide supervision, or spend time with an associate? As a long term member of CAMFT, it’s a privilege that I provide Clinical Supervision to Associates. I learned from one of the best, Barbara Jones, LMFT, Colorado. As a supervisor, we are mentor’s, clinical experts, and hand-holders at times. To...
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As we enter into a new decade of 2020 there is a great deal of hyper-focus on organizing, planning, goal setting, and creating vision boards. We spend hours with our planners, create to-do lists and of course, we prioritize our goals. I think these are all wonderful tools to help us with our practice and with life. However, what...
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Welcome back, this is the 3rd of 3 guest blog post from Joanne B. Kim, a San Jose, California pre-licensed marriage, and family therapist. She has been highly successful in building a private practice within 10 months. Ms. Kim shares her keys to her success story with you below. One of the pillars of her fast success as you...
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A few weeks back I asked for a few brave therapists to guest blog for me. On such brave person Joanne B. Kim, AMFT wrote a fantastic blog post about being a pre-licensed therapist and trying to build an ideal practice. Ms. Kim’s insight comes directly from being in the Pre-licensed trenches and creating a business. She has written...
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There is a great deal of talk in therapist groups, social media or business building books that talk about finding a niche. However, in graduate school I was told that we should really be a generalist and take the clients that come to us, after all, they chose us, right? One of my graduate professors even told our class...
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Have you heard the hype about social media? It seems like everywhere we turn business coaches including me are touting benefits of social media. However, in private practice, there is a ton of tasks you must do to be a legal business entity. Then there are lists of lists of to-do items, not to mention finding a way to...
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