Post Title	Category	Tags
Principles driving the growth of my mental health practice	Updating the way everything is done	Tags: Growth, Growing
Private practice therapist salary: What can you reasonably expect?	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Wealth, Wages, Private practice, Finances
With demand so high, why don’t clinicians see more money?	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Wealth, Money, Career
How to bring the joy back: Mission-driven vs. fear-driven leadership	Leading an Organization	Tags: Burnout, Leading, Mission, Leadership, Fear
How to sell your practice: Finding the next owner of your practice	How to sell	Tags: Ownership, Selling
How to sell a mental health practice: What is the process?	How to sell	Tags: Finances, Selling
7 Management Principles That Excellent, But Untrained, Managers Know	Managing staff & processes	Tags: Managing, Self-management
How to retain clinicians if teletherapy continues its dominance	Hiring & Firing Staff Overcoming hardships	Tags: Retention, Teletherapy
Build a More Valuable Practice by Diversifying Referral Streams	Building value	Tags: Marketing, Referrers
Build a More Valuable Practice by Shrinking the Owner’s Role	Building value	Tags: Leadership, Value
Standardizing Everything and Cross-training Everyone Adds Practice Value	Building value	Tags: Value, Process
Build a More Valuable Practice by Nurturing Next-Gen Leaders	Building value	Tags: Leading, Leadership, Profit, Value
Build a More Valuable Practice by Focusing on Profit	Building value	Tags: Growth, Growing, Profit, Ebitda
Practice owners ask: Is this all worth it?	Leading an Organization	Tags: Meaning, Managing, Leadership, Worth
How to sell: Getting you and your practice ready	How to sell	Tags: Self-care, Self-management, Selling
How to estimate the value of a mental health business	How to sell	Tags: Selling, Valuation
How to finance the sale of a mental health practice	How to sell	Tags: Finances, Selling
Survey results: Therapist wages and benefits from 40 practices	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Wages, Benefits
How to construct the best possible psychotherapist employment contract	Practice Infrastructure–Tech, Website, etc.	Tags: Contracts, Employment
The ultimate guide to developing managers	Manager Development Overview
How to create an organization with excited committed employees	Supervising Staff Leading an Organization	Tags: Culture, Staff development
How to make sense of soured workplace relationships: Attachment injuries	Employee issues	Tags: Community, Hiring, Firing
How to overcome employee betrayal: 5 steps to love resiliently	Employee issues	Tags: Managing, Crises, Human resources
How to improve workplace culture: Love our people	Managing staff & processes	Tags: Community, Culture, Leadership
Eight excellent reasons NOT to start a new practice	Before Starting	Tags: Startup, Mistakes
Reducing In-the-trench Psychotherapy To Focus On Practice Management	Managing staff & processes	Tags: Managing, Growing, Transitions
Take the quiz: Are you ready to start a new mental health practice?	Before Starting	Tags: Startup, Private practice, Solo practice
Take the Survey on Therapists’ Current Worries	What a Therapist's Life is like	Tags: Worries, Anxiety
How To Run A Practice: 40 Years Of Emerging Roles	Redefining roles	Tags: Managing, Supervision, Leadership
How to keep clinician waitlists fresh and alive	Expansion Issues	Tags: Demand, Waitlists, Busyness
How to gain momentum by capitalizing on business tipping points	Good managerial habits	Tags: Leading, Leadership
Four hallmarks of a wonderful, nearly-perfect practice	Before Starting	Tags: Private practice, Excellence
Essential qualities for excellent managers	Managing staff & processes	Tags: Leading, Managing
Growing pains: Hiring and training new clinicians	Hiring & Firing Staff	Tags: Growing
The ultimate guide to starting your own practice	Starting up a new practice
How to master the unrelenting business demands of practice	Daily Core Activities	Tags: Startup, Managing
The ultimate guide to building your staff and culture	Building your Staff and Culture Building a Team	Tags: Hiring, Firing, Culture, Staff, Staff development
The ultimate guide to stimulate growth	Overview	Tags: Growth, Managing
Why effective leadership is lonely and exhausting	Leading an Organization	Tags: Leading, Leadership
Conducting excellent job interviews for clinical staff	Recruiting & Interviewing Candidates for Employment	Tags: Startup, Hiring, interviews
The five ideal employee types in mental health	Recruiting & Interviewing Candidates for Employment	Tags: Hiring, interviews, Staff
Considerations when rebuilding your infrastructure	Updating the way everything is done	Tags: Growth, Infrastructure
How to redesign your leadership structure as you grow	Redefining roles	Tags: Leading, Leadership, Change
Most hazardous practice size? Ten people	Expansion Issues	Tags: Size, Dangerous
How increased size adds resiliency, stability, and makes you stronger	Expansion Issues	Tags: Growth, Size, Resiliency
Overcoming bottlenecks in mental health practice	Updating the way everything is done	Tags: Problems, Bottlenecks, Challenges
Make new plans guaranteed to overcome stalled marketing	Keeping up your Marketing and Branding	Tags: Marketing, Branding
Staff development: How to build excellence into your current staff	Training Staff	Tags: Managing, Staff development, Supervision
Why therapists should not outsource marketing: We do it better	Marketing and Branding during Start-up
Human resources in mental health practices	Developing Human Resources	Tags: Benefits, Human resources
When we need to fire an employee	Hiring & Firing Staff Employee issues	Tags: Startup, Hiring, Firing
Recruitment methods for finding excellent staff	Recruiting & Interviewing Candidates for Employment	Tags: Startup, Recruiting, Staff
Making Opening Day a marketing event	Launch of practice	Tags: Marketing, Startup, Opening Day
Building your practice infrastructure: Tech, legal, and financial structure	Practice Infrastructure–Tech, Website, etc.	Tags: Infrastructure
Assembling your team of practice advisors	Building a Team	Tags: Finances, Advisors
Selecting a practice management system	Practice Infrastructure–Tech, Website, etc.	Tags: Startup, Infrastructure
Developing an excellent practice website	Practice Infrastructure–Tech, Website, etc.
How to set up your first office space	Office Space and Location	Tags: office
Why massive unemployment will not kill psychotherapy	Overcoming hardships	Tags: Crisis
Picking the best option: Independent Contracting vs Employing	Practice Infrastructure–Tech, Website, etc.	Tags: Startup, Money
Why create another mental health practice?	Before Starting	Tags: Startup, Purpose, The Dream
When an employee leaves: Saying goodbye well	Hiring & Firing Staff Employee issues	Tags: Crisis, Hiring, Firing
Psychotherapy practice finances in a crisis	Overcoming hardships	Tags: Crisis, Finances
Leading during crises: Passing the Coronavirus test	Overcoming hardships
How to use everything to reinforce your branding messages	Keeping up your Marketing and Branding	Tags: Marketing, Branding
How to grow consistent community marketing: Community Connection Plan	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity Marketing and Branding during Start-up	Tags: Marketing, Growing
Ten steps to starting a strong mental health practice	Before Starting
How mental health businesses weathered the health care storms	Overcoming hardships	Tags: Success, Growing
How to calculate a psychotherapist’s private practice pay	Newbies: Posts for early career therapists What it is like to do therapy Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Wages, Income
Psychotherapy office space: Rent, lease, or purchase?	Office Space and Location Expansion Issues	Tags: space
Eight steps to adding the right office space	Office Space and Location Expansion Issues	Tags: space
Grow, hire, run out of space, repeat…forever	Expansion Issues
Reflections on therapy office design	Office Space and Location	Tags: Location, space, office
Financial rewards for owners of private practices	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Ownership
Successful Practice Management that leaves you sane	Managing staff & processes	Tags: Private practice, Managing
How to increase therapist pay in private practice	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Money, Private practice, Finances
3 Steps to Starting a Private Practice	Before Starting	Tags: Startup
From nothing to something: The beginning of my practice	Newbies: Posts for early career therapists What it is like to do therapy	Tags: Startup, Purpose, Growing
Growing pains: Outgrowing your brand and how to fix it	Keeping up your Marketing and Branding	Tags: Growth, Marketing, Branding, Growing
Starting a new business? The start-up blues	Overcoming hardships	Tags: Marketing, Startup, Managing, Self-management
5 best marketing favorites in psychotherapy practice	Keeping up your Marketing and Branding	Tags: Marketing, Growing
Follow the money: Therapist pay in private practice	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Money
Wealth in Mental Health – Where are the good paying jobs?	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Money, Jobs
Using staff complaints to make your organization great	Good managerial habits	Tags: Growing, Crises
From nothing to something: Beginning of an organization	Newbies: Posts for early career therapists What it is like to do therapy	Tags: Startup, Growing
Why don’t my clients change the way they’re “supposed to”?	What it is like to do therapy Art of therapy	Tags: Startup, Therapy, The Dream
Wealth in mental health–Why isn’t there more?	Financial aspects of a growing practice	Tags: Money, Managing
Push and pull marketing for mental health	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Referrers
Connecting therapists with each other: An interview with David Klow	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing
Social media builds practices: An interview with Dr. Kelly Flanagan	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Social media
Developing deeper referrer relationships: How to broaden your reach	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Startup, Growing
The training we never had—Excellence in managing staff	Supervising Staff	Tags: Startup, Leading, Owner's skills
Dilemmas of success: Do it myself or delegate	Updating the way everything is done	Tags: Hiring, Growing, Owner's skills
Types of mental health organizations	Practice Infrastructure–Tech, Website, etc.	Tags: Startup, Jobs
Selling a practice: How they become assets and how to maximize their value	How to sell	Tags: Money, Managing
Avoiding these partnership issues saves you down the line	Practice Infrastructure–Tech, Website, etc. Leading an Organization	Tags: Startup, Partnerships
Ten examples of culture change in one organization	Training Staff	Tags: Leading, Community, Culture, Growing
How to convert solid referral relationships into fan clubs	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Referrers
How to use meetings to build your workplace culture	Training Staff	Tags: Startup, Culture, Growing
Addition by subtraction: Types of difficult, disastrous employees	Hiring & Firing Staff Employee issues	Tags: Mistakes, Managing, Hiring, Firing
Psychiatrist and non-psychiatrist ownership	Before Starting	Tags: Startup
Our Philosophy for Working in Community	Supervising Staff	Tags: Startup, Managing, Culture
How clinicians end up with the right clients	Before Starting	Tags: Startup, Therapy
Mandatory owner’s skills: How to know if you have what it takes	Before Starting	Tags: Startup, Self-management, Owner's skills
How to think about the basics of managing leaders	Managing staff & processes	Tags: Leading, Managing, Culture
Finding your community: The location and space	Office Space and Location	Tags: Marketing, Community, Referrers
Matching one’s leadership style to the environment	Leading an Organization	Tags: Leading, Managing
The invisible library behind me	What it is like to do therapy Art of therapy	Tags: Therapy
How many referrals do you need for a full caseload?	Delivering Therapy Services	Tags: Startup, Money, Growing
How to accelerate the building of a full-time caseload	Delivering Therapy Services	Tags: Startup, Money, Growing
Why join insurance panels	Delivering Therapy Services	Tags: Money, Managing
The benefits of creating demand in your community	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing
Daily business demand #1: Scheduling	Scheduling	Tags: Startup, Managing
Daily business demand #2: Providing therapy	Delivering Therapy Services	Tags: Startup, Therapy
Learning to manage myself: Solving my self-imposed roller coaster	Good managerial habits	Tags: Managing, Self-management, Owner's skills
Daily business demand #3: Billing	Billing	Tags: Billing, Money, Managing
Weekly business demand #4: Collecting	Collecting	Tags: Managing
Weekly business demand #5: Planning marketing	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Managing
A marketing video on a practice-wide marketing system	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Growing
Walking our staff through a crisis	Leading an Organization	Tags: Managing, Crises
The place of fear in decisions about practice	Before Starting	Tags: Startup, Partnerships
How to estimate your private practice income	Before Starting	Tags: Money, Managing
Authenticity: The real me vs the office me	What a Therapist's Life is like What it is like to do therapy	Tags: Therapy, Owner's skills
Mistaken ideas that I needed to overcome	What a Therapist's Life is like What it is like to do therapy	Tags: Self-management, Owner's skills
Finding the first job	Newbies: Posts for early career therapists What it is like to do therapy	Tags: Startup, Jobs
Creating demand by marketing	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Referrers, Growing
Spectacular belly flops in marketing	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Mistakes, Money
Running out of tricks: Middle therapy	What it is like to do therapy Art of therapy	Tags: Growing, Therapy
Client Retention Part I: Is it good for clients to stay longer in therapy?	What it is like to do therapy Art of therapy	Tags: Growing, Therapy
Client retention Part II: Beyond the therapist’s control	What it is like to do therapy Art of therapy	Tags: Growing, Therapy
Client retention Part III: How to retain clients	What it is like to do therapy Art of therapy	Tags: Growing, Therapy
A different language: What tracking numbers can tell us	Good managerial habits	Tags: Money, Managing
Rainmaker Lessons: Staying optimistic when marketing	Keeping up your Marketing and Branding	Tags: Marketing
Social media marketing: Good or bad?	Marketing and Branding during Start-up	Tags: Marketing, Social media
Finding the right psychotherapy markets	Marketing and Branding during Start-up	Tags: Marketing, Startup
Branding: A name, some services, and how the dream becomes real	Marketing and Branding during Start-up	Tags: Marketing, Purpose, The Dream
Overcoming false beliefs about money, business, & selling	Redefining roles	Tags: Startup, Owner's skills, The Dream
Why would anyone want to be a therapist?	What a Therapist's Life is like What it is like to do therapy	Tags: Purpose, Therapy, The Dream
How to become a community of clinicians	Supervising Staff	Tags: Startup, Community, Culture
Business success: What does it take?	Before Starting	Tags: Leading, Managing, Self-management
How to overcome crises–When several clinicians leave	Overcoming hardships	Tags: Money, Crises
Become an owner or work for one	Before Starting	Tags: Startup, Purpose, Ownership, Jobs
Types of marketing: What works for you?	Marketing and Branding as a Core Activity	Tags: Marketing, Startup
It’s a marathon and not a sprint: Burnout prevention	What a Therapist's Life is like What it is like to do therapy	Tags: Therapy, Crises