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Social Media Ethics (part 1): Digital Dual Relationship Dilemmas
photo credit: Eric Schwartzman I’ve spent months writing about how to effectively use technology, and social media in particular, to build your private mental health practice. While the Internet has...
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Social Media Ethics (part 2): Developing Your Social Media Policy
Social media ethics are starting to be addressed by mental health professional organizations or licensing boards but those guidelines, if they exist, are generally vague. It’s important for clinicians...
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Social Media Ethics (part 3): Top 3 Ethics Gurus You Should Be Following
photo credit: Carol VanHook Where do I go for trusted information on ethical use of social media for therapists? Here are the top 3 resources on the cutting edge of online ethics for mental health...
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Would Your Practice Survive An Employment Tax Audit? (1099 vs. W-2 part 2)
Does the state tax commission really take the time to audit small private practices? I didn’t think so, until my practice was selected for an audit. A few years ago my clinic was selected for an...
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Social Media Ethics: What Private Practice Therapists Need to Know
Familiarize yourself with social media ethics and use technology intentionally to educate your community and to build your private practice. The Internet and social media offer social workers and...
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3 Ethical Fears of Being a Therapist Online and How to Resolve Them
Every therapist knows that ethics is a critical component of working with clients. Once you add social media into the mix, things can get even more complicated. I’ve noticed that unfortunately, some...
View Article5 Common Barriers to Building a Fee-For-Service Practice
Building a fee-for-service practice can be scary, especially if it means resigning from insurance panels and finding other ways to attract clients. Others may have already made the switch, but don’t...
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4 Ways a Private Pay Practice Model Benefits Clients
The value of using a private pay model (instead of a managed care system) for your therapy practice is clear: less stress about additional paperwork requirements, greater autonomy to provide the...
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The Power of Online Presence: Blogger Dawn Friedman uses her Advanced SEO...
Discover how some very successful mental health professionals use blogging, social media, and other technologies as powerful tools for their therapy practices. Dawn Friedman, MSEd LPC, is a clinical...
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3 Ways Managed Care is Hurting Your Practice
This is not the first time you’ve heard me share my perspective on the problems of building private practice based on managed care. The original intent of these third-party companies was to ensure...
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How to Make Sure Your Online Photos are Copyright-Friendly
Graphics and pictures are a great way to enhance your social media engagement for your private mental health practice. They add something that words cannot, they show personality, they can break up...
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Tough Love: How to Be Firm About Finances
When you decided to go into the field of professional psychotherapy, it’s likely that your reasons had little to do with money. Even as you first started, you probably didn’t have dollars on the brain...
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Top 10 Best Books for Building Your Practice
I asked members of my Private Practice Toolbox Facebook Group what books have helped them succeed in Private Practice and added them to the list of my favorites. Some of the following are specific to...
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4 Steps to Breaking Up with Managed Care
Breaking Up is Hard to Do We’ve talked a lot recently about the benefits of switching from using a managed care system to a private pay model. It benefits your clients, it benefits you, and overall it...
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Therapist Turned Entrepreneur: Howard Spector, Founder and CEO of SimplePractice
I’m excited to introduce you to the kick off of a new series: Therapist Turned Entrepreneur and introduce to you a mental health professional who transformed his training into creating mental health...
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3 Things Potential Clients Really Want to Know
We’ve spent thousands and thousands of dollars on graduate education, continuing education, advanced clinical trainings and years in practicum and under supervision. We have invested a lot in our...
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HIPAA Security Rule Compliance for Private Practitioners
Guest Post by Rob Reinhardt, LPCS, Technology Consultant for Mental Health Professionals, CEO of Tame Your Practice Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would provide us with a brief checklist of things we...
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4 Questions To Ask Yourself When Hiring a New Therapist
One of the wonderful challenges that comes from having an abundance of business is the need to add new additional clinicians to your practice. But how exactly do you know who will be a good fit? How...
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Tough Love: How to Be Firm About Finances
When you decided to go into the field of professional psychotherapy, it’s likely that your reasons had little to do with money. Even as you first started, you probably didn’t have dollars on the brain...
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Top 10 Best Books for Building Your Practice
I asked members of my Private Practice Toolbox Facebook Group what books have helped them succeed in Private Practice and added them to the list of my favorites. Some of the following are specific to...
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