Where the Client Is

Category: launch

  • Build Your Practice…with Help

    Try this: Google “psychotherapy” plus the town where you work. What comes up?

  • Bookkeeping for Therapists

    How best to keep the books?

  • Start-Up Basics Teleconference

    Susan Giurleo is offering a week-long teleconference series on getting a private practice underway.  Price?  Free if you listen in, cheap if you participate. 

  • Therapy Business Cards – The Result

    Got my cards from vistaprint today.  Look nice.  It was around $30 for 500 cards, 7 days shipping, the better paper, etc.  Though on second glance at the cards, saw a faint blue line on the card…and on the next…and the next.  All of them had the line.

  • Private Practice Bookstore

    There are lots (and lots) of books that will walk you through launching and growing a private psychotherapy practice.  Many are collected at the Where the Client Is Bookstore.  Take a look.  (Your purchases there help support the site.)  

  • 10 Ways to Market Your Private Practice Today

      By Biz Savvy Therapist‘s Dr. Susan Giurleo (reprinted with permission):

  • Your Therapy Website

    Next up:  web presence.  I’ve heard from long-time therapists that somewhere between most and all of their referrals come from the web.  Not from clients referring clients, but from the web–strangers clicking to get help. What I did:  Built a website.  Got a Psychology Today profile up. What you can do (or I can do…

  • Outgoing Message

    Today, my cell phone became my work phone.  Meaning, I changed the outgoing message.  Now it’s client-call friendly.  I’ve heard this done different ways.  What I ended up with: “Hi, you’ve reached the office of [me].  Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you within one business day.  If this is an emergency,…

  • Therapy Business Cards – Where to Order

    Lots of companies want your business card business. I’ve had a couple of them recommended: designyourowncard.com and vistaprint.com.  Google will have still other ideas.  It’s not unfun picking out colors, fonts, etc.  Then they run you through a lot of optional extras (I passed on all).  Then you get your price–next to nothing!  Then you…

  • Therapy Business Cards – What’s Allowed

    Next stop, the card.  What to include?  How to design?  Where to purchase? First up, gotta get the rules straight.  Figuring out what your state board allows and forbids takes some poking around.  Here, some potentially helpful links