Sherry and Jill were featured on Practice of The Practice Podcast #92! Listen in on their tips to growing a large and successful group practice that serves the needs of its community. Listen Here! For more tips on growing your practice, check out our blogs....
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...
Continue readingIn this Therapist Practice in Box tip, we start with the basics of 10 forms needed to start your practice. The forms that are discussed include a welcome letter, intake information, informed consent, HIPAA, media policies, court, credit card authorization and more. These forms are needed to cover the legal requirements that therapists must work under. One of the...
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Before you can see your first client you will need paperwork. If you are using an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) i.e. TheraNest, SimplePractice or TheraNotes, you may not need all the forms because these systems have the essential paperwork all ready for you to use. However, I would recommend if possible, to customize the forms to fit your particular...
Continue readingOnce you have your office location pin down it’s time to start telling everyone about your business. Business card are the next item to cross off your to do list. There are many different types of cards some with rounded corners, glossy finish, thick paper or square cards. Pick one and brand it with your information. Make it feel...
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