Private Practice Blog for Therapists
Hundreds of articles on building, growing, and sustaining your private practice — written by therapists, for therapists. Not recycled generic business advice.
Social Media for Therapists: What Works, What to Avoid, and How to Stay Ethical
This post covers the ethics, the strategy, the platforms, and the honest reality of social media for therapists in private practice - including how to use it without letting it use you.
Multiple Streams of Income for Therapists: What Actually Works
Are you interested in learning how to generate multiple streams of income as a therapist? Check out these 8 income stream ideas for therapists on the zynnyme blog today!
Semi-Retired and Fully Booked: How Clifton Built a Thriving Cash-Pay Practice Over Decades
Clifton started private practice before there was even a Yellow Pages deadline to miss, and the practice he runs today looks nothing like the one he built in the eighties. If you've ever wondered whether it's too late to pivot, niche down, ditch insurance, or learn something new, his story across five decades has a few things to say about that.
Anna's Playbook for Prepping Your Private Practice for Maternity Leave
Most therapists figure out how to prep their practice for maternity leave right when it's too late to make the decisions that matter most. Anna McDonald has built and rebuilt her practice across three pregnancies, and she's honest about all of it: the business-structure choices with invisible deadlines, saving for the business and not just the household, keeping her marketing warm while she's out, and the hard-won lesson about group practice that made her move her whole timeline. If you're growing your family and your practice at the same time, start here.
State of Therapy: Why Therapists Feel Trapped by Insurance: The Power and Control Wheel, Reframed
A colleague told us recently that he missed our laughter; he'd noticed the fun had gone thin on the podcast. He was right.
Both of us come out of domestic violence work, so we know the power and control wheel well. On a whim, we held it up against what therapists are living inside the insurance system right now, and went wedge by wedge. Once you see the pattern on paper, you can't un-see it.
We Adapted the Duluth Power and Control Wheel for Insurance Companies and Therapists. Here's Why.
The denials, the clawbacks, the gaslighting letters: none of it is random. We adapted the Duluth Power and Control Wheel to name the coordinated pattern of power and control insurance companies and venture-backed platforms are using against therapists, told through real stories and documented examples, with guidance on safety planning, leaving panels, and systemic change.
Therapy Transcripts Are Being Subpoenaed in Court: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
A woman's private therapy messages, typed to her therapist through an app, were subpoenaed and used against her in court by her former employer. It is not a hypothetical, and it is not only a Talkspace problem. Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer break down the Kamrass v. AdventHealth case, why therapist-client privilege does not protect what you think it does, why "HIPAA compliant" is more marketing than protection, and the concrete steps you can take to guard your clients' data.
Starting a Private Practice in Counseling Checklist
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SimplePractice Terms and Conditions Changes - What EVERY Therapist (or Client) Should Know
Learn about the major changes to SimplePractice’s terms and conditions + electronic health record alternatives.
How to Ask for a Raise When You’re Underpaid: Insurance Edition
Learn more about the downsides of insurance panels in private practice and how to negotiate a raise from insurance providers.
Starting a Private Practice With a Business Partner: Lessons from Allison and Amanda
Three years ago, Allison and Amanda were tired, overworked, and stuck on insurance panels at a generalist group practice - here's how they built something completely different, together, on their own terms.
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