A course map for building a mental health practice

This page organizes content into course units on building a mental health practice. Each unit has several topics.

I begin with the planning stage and then focus on implementing that plan.

The graphic to the left focuses on key daily/weekly tasks that must be incorporated into a plan for practice success. All practices must create systems for scheduling, providing service, billing for those services, collecting for those services, and implementing our marketing plans every week. These tasks are foundational to sustaining a practice.

And finally we must manage all these processes and the employees who will help us with them every day. These are actually some of the most challenging areas so I have many posts in this area.

Each section will guide you through the steps of building a mental health practice.

• Making a Startup Plan
  • Purpose
  • Structure
  • Branding During Start-up
  • Space
  • Services
  • Marketing
  • Systems
  • Finances
• Implementing Plan
  • Timing & Cost
• Daily Living
  • Scheduling
  • Providing Services
  • Billing
  • Collecting
  • Ongoing Marketing
• Managing
  • Managing Self
  • Managing the Daily Tasks
  • Managing Growth
  • Managing Crises
  • Managing Culture and Community
  • Managing Staff
  • Managing Leadership
  • Managing your Brand
  • Managing Marketing
  • Managing Numbers & Finance

And Beyond Building a Mental Health Practice

This site also contains a couple of additional content areas. See these links for additional content areas:

For Newbie Therapists
The Life of a Therapist