7 Management Principles That Excellent, But Untrained, Managers Know
Most business owners learn essential management principles on the job. Often, after making many mistakes, each with a degree of pain. That is how I did it over my 35 […]
How To Run A Practice: 40 Years Of Emerging Roles
I did not have a master plan for learning to run a practice. Certainly, nothing in my training gave me a clue about how the mental health system worked. And […]
How to keep clinician waitlists fresh and alive
No practice owner is a fan of waitlists. Putting a client on a waitlist means that we are not immediately helping the client or referrer. Everyone prefers more responsive methods. […]
Survey results: Therapist wages and benefits from 30 practices
Here are the results of a Therapist Wage Survey with data from 30 different practices. I collected data through the e-newsletter list for this website and via LinkedIn. Data collection for this report […]
How to gain momentum by capitalizing on business tipping points
As a business grows, it passes specific business tipping points. If we can capitalize on these thresholds, we can gain momentum and push on to the next level. Let’s begin […]
How to create an organization with excited committed employees
Everyone wants to work in an organization with excited and committed employees. Yet how do we create a workplace culture that generates that sort of energy during social distancing? Fortunately, […]
Update: The future of teletherapy
What a time strange time it is. Earlier I wrote some of my predictions about what psychotherapy will look like during and after the pandemic. (See Post-pandemic psychotherapy.) Many of those […]
Essential qualities for excellent managers
Excellent managers are not born. Instead, developing first-rate management skills, attitudes, and abilities requires an intentional self-improvement project. Here is a start. 1. Prompt responsiveness The first attribute every manager should […]
Post-pandemic psychotherapy
May 26, 2020 The outlines of post-pandemic psychotherapy are taking shape. Fortunately, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer, and it doesn’t look like a train. […]
The ultimate guide to managing growth
This guide provides an outline for managing growth. If we are fortunate enough to experience growth, we face many new issues. I am going to discuss six major areas. 1. […]
Why effective leadership is lonely and exhausting
When I started my practice, I did not comprehend much about how isolating, lonely, and exhausting leading a group would be. I probably should have noticed during my early leadership […]
Considerations when rebuilding your infrastructure
As an organization grows, the infrastructure is often in need of rebuilding. The tools for getting business done are continually changing. We should always be investing in the rebuilding of […]
How to redesign your leadership structure as you grow
Once your organization reaches certain milestones, redesigning leadership structure is a must. In this post, I talk about those milestones and how to go about making the needed changes in […]
Most hazardous practice size? Ten people
From my observations, the most hazardous practice size has about ten people. Let’s examine why this is true and how to work through these perils. Characteristics of a ten-person practice […]
How increased size adds resiliency, stability, and makes you stronger
One often hears people say that increasing the size of one’s organization increases resiliency. But is this true? If so, why is this true? Exactly how does largeness add resiliency? […]
Overcoming bottlenecks in mental health practice
For a practice to operate efficiently, managers and owners must get good at overcoming bottlenecks. These bottlenecks can come from multiple sources. Let’s look at a few and see how […]
Make new plans guaranteed to overcome stalled marketing
If stalled marketing is holding back the growth of your practice, you have come to the right place. From 2004 through 2006, my organization had flattened out. We did not […]
Why massive unemployment will not kill psychotherapy
The Coronavirus has spun us into unprecedented times. Every business is scrambling to stay alive. And in the psychotherapy world, that means practices have rapidly converted most clients to telemedicine […]
The Coronavirus and Practice Update
April 1, 2020 We are knee-deep into the new normal of dealing with the Coronavirus and practice now. The grim trends on the Coronavirus are not good, and we will […]
Psychotherapy practice finances in a crisis
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) changed the practice of psychotherapy, at least in the short run. In response to the virus, practices have added teletherapy to their service options and, as I […]
Leading during crises: Passing the Coronavirus test
Leading during crises is difficult. And for most of us, our natural reactions can get us in trouble fast. We want to reassure, get the answers figured out quickly, and […]
How to use everything to reinforce your branding messages
There are aspects of your practice that offer prospective clients the branding message of your mental health practice. It may be a positive or a negative message, but it is there […]
How mental health businesses weathered the health care storms
Mental health practices have weathered many storms through the last decade. Here is an analysis of how we have done.
How to calculate a psychotherapist’s private practice pay
I have seen many wild estimates regarding how much a therapist makes in private practice. But here I am going to be realistic. Fooling ourselves only hurts us. Calculating psychotherapist […]
Psychotherapy office space: Rent, lease, or purchase?
There are many factors to consider when looking at office space for psychotherapy practice. Is it best to think in terms of renting, leasing, or purchasing psychotherapy office space? The […]
