Today I offered my marketing/building a successful private practice workshop. The feedback I got was fabulous (and of course I always have trouble believing it). I was also excited about presenting my updated workbook, which will be available for purchase on my website soon.www.TherapyMarketingCoach.com What I am reminded of by group members and my own experience is what a difference it is to have a support group.Everyone is exchanging information and ideas, we all leave feeling energized and ready to go back to creating marketing materials. What I also love about these groups is the mixture of people, today there were newly licensed people, some of us seasoned people, office administrators working for therapists and a personal fitness trainer. We are all working towards the same goals of developing a private practice or clinic. We all struggle with setting fees, limits on our time, how to find clients and . . . Read more »

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Of course I am avoiding doing the real work I need today and got lost reading posts on LinkedIn. One discussion was about cyber-bullying. Even though several people mention that what you write online stays online, people can’t seem to walk away. There is a difference between having my feelings hurt by what someone writes in response to my post, which has happened, and people posting they have been stalked or sent inappropriate emails. For me it is a reminder that we are on the World Wide Web and we must be very careful about how we participate. Many of the participants in the cyber-bully thread were asking for the owner of the group to take responsibility, but what we forget is anyone can start a group and there is no real management of these public forums unless the person is making obvious threats or inappropriate responses. Some of the . . . Read more »

I think many of you know my feelings about working with the insurance companies. I don’t blame them for all the problems in the healthcare system anymore, only see them as a thorn in my side. They often feel unfair to me, when I used to be on insurance panels and the client was coming to someone in network to save money, what the insurance company felt was reasonable and customary was $60 a session and the client’s co-pay was $40, that didn’t seem fair. I also objected to being on panels for about 10 years and never getting a cost of living increase and one time actually getting the rate lowered from $60 to $50. Before I got off all the panels and this was over 7 years ago I did ask them for a cost of living increase and was turned down by all of them, I know . . . Read more »

Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that’s a mother’s love, I want no part of it.
Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in “Now Voyager”

The experience of having lived (or living) in trauma is probably the number one reason that brings people to psychotherapy. It is the shame we feel at who we are, how we feel and what has happened to us and why it has happened that truly brings us to seek help. We may not immediately identify our problem as the result of trauma or neglect, that label may come later with more analysis and objectivity. What you may identify is a difficulty with relationships, self-esteem, eating disorders, alcohol and substance abuse, or any compulsive behavior, self-sabotage and/or self-destructive behavior. What’s important to remember is we are not born with self-loathing or low self-esteem we learn this from how others . . . Read more »

I have been following the Linkedin groups and the current social media fever. Though I am not sure everyone grasps the reason for using these marketing tools. It has also lead to some interesting conversations about the direction of healthcare, the insurance companies and anti-trust laws (are we breaking them by even discussing how we are paid) and the struggle many are having in building private practices. In my previous post I was talking about the way healthcare may be headed and the demise of the insurance companies as we know them. Though this leads me off topic of marketing and practice development, but I would encourage you to check out some of these conversations.
There are simple things one can do for promoting their website, and I believe everyone should have one. It is one of the most economical means of having a web presence. I see many people . . . Read more »

The other day in my class at ICP, we were talking about what informs our work. Within Contemporary Psychoanalysis there are many theories to work within. It started me thinking about friends and colleagues who work in different theories and some I wasn’t sure what their theory was. There are so many theories to work from.  My journey as a therapist has had many theoretical orientations, I started off in Gestalt therapy, added some Jung, moved into the recovery field, a brief stop in solution-focused, then into codependency work, object relations and now my training in psychoanalysis. Wow! that is quite a road. I have worked in psychiatric facilities, drug and alcohol in-patient and out patient programs, in-patient eating disorders unit and out-patient sexual addiction program. All of these have influenced how I work and how I feel as a therapist. So let me ask you:

1) Do you believe . . . Read more »