How to build a thriving fee-for-service practice : integrating the healing side with the business side of psychotherapy

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    • Kolt, Laurie

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How to build a thriving fee-for-service practice : integrating the healing side with the business side of psychotherapy

Laurie Kolt

(Practical resources for the mental health professional)

Academic Press, c1999

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Includes index

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Twenty years ago, a therapist could hang up a shingle, make some networking calls, and begin to create a steady stream of referrals. Since then, private practice has changed dramatically. Now therapists everywhere are struggling just to keep their practices going. The need has never been greater for sound business tools for building and marketing a therapy practice. How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice is essential reading for newly licensed therapists, seasoned professionals, and others wanting to prepare practitioners for success. How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice guides you from your ideal practice vision through the "how-to" steps to succeed. You will learn that a private practice is, in effect, a small business. Chapters contain solid training to help you not only to survive, but also to thrive in a highly competitive market place. Examples, worksheets, business forms, flow charts, paper and pen exercises, and even assignments in the "real world," expose you to essential materials and ideas. Coverage includes surveying the needs of one's community, capitalizing on unusual market niches, marketing ideas to build one's practice, creating brochures, widening one's scope and expertise through public speaking, seminars, workshops, and writing, analyzing financial data and projections, tracking client information, and more. * Contains foreword by American Psychological Association President Dr. Patrick DeLeon * Provides a crash course in business management for therapists * Includes examples, worksheets, business forms, and exercises * Supplies tools for bypassing restrictions of managed care * Suitable for newly licensed therapists and seasoned professionals Written by a licensed therapist with over 19 years of experience in private practice, this book is a much-needed reference for mental health practitioners pursuing fee-for-service practice.

Table of Contents

P.H. DeLeon, Foreward. L. Kolt, Preface. About the Author. Private Practice in Transition. Choosing a Strategic Specialty. Developing Your Marketing Plans. How To Do Seminars, Workshops, Writing, and Large-Scale Projects. Giving Psychology Away. Anatomy of a Small Business. Starting a New Office or Relocating. Practice Management Tracking and Statistics. Motivational Blocks to Private Success. References. Additional Resources. Index.

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  • NCID
    BA47085055
  • ISBN
    • 0124179452
    • 0124179452
  • LCCN
    99061536
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    San Diego, Calif. ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 258 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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