Finding a high quality or ideal supervisor who will mentor you in private practice is about as valuable as getting a business loan, minus the high interest rates and debt. This is a person who says they’re willing and able to help you with your goal of starting and growing your practice/caseload, in exchange for a percentage of your income. And…
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Finding a High Quality or Ideal Supervisor in Private or Group Practice, part I
First Steps to Getting into a Private or Group Practice While You’re Pre- or Provisionally-Licensed
“Doing something new brings excitement, opportunity and anxiety. Allow the excitement to motivate you, the opportunity to push you forward and the anxiety to quiet down as you learn and implement.” -Tyra Butler, Early Career Clinician Coach You’re thinking you’d like to go the private or group practice route to get yourself established and have a money-making practice; but first…
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It’s All About Relationships: part III, The Most Powerful Way to Help Your Clients Feel Understood
Knowing what our clients need from us in session is the number one thing to keep our pulse on. From the moment they enter our door, we need ways to tune into them. This is especially true in private practice because if they’re private pay clients, they’re offering to pay a fee in exchange for our help. If they don’t…
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It’s All About Relationships: Part II
If our effectiveness as clinicians hinges on cultivating rapport and strengthening the relationship–no matter what theoretical orientation we work from–it raises the question, what can we either do more of, or differently to ensure this occurs? We want to look at our existing strengths and from there assess what we need to learn, or ways we want to grow. This…
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It’s All About Relationships: A Breakdown of What This Means for Us Therapists
“It’s all about relationships” was posted in several spots throughout the hall of my graduate school’s department of Marriage and Family Therapy. One was on a banner, another on a 12×16 poster and another as the tagline beneath some of the promotional paperwork. I’d ponder the meaning of that phrase as I passed from one classroom to another or…
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