Where Making Money and Making a Difference Come Together

As I speak to psychologists and social workers about their private practice businesses, I hear a lot of comments about the difficulites of working within managed care, managing increasing costs and maintaining an acceptable standard of living.  Clients seem less willing to pay out of pocket, or even pay their co-pays.  I hear many people [...]

I just stumbled upon this wonderful article by Lynn Grodski, "Harnessing the Winds of Change." It is a somewhat long article, but full of great information about our need to change practice models to survive new trends in healthcare and in the economy. You can read this article in the Psychotherapy Networker by clicking here.

By TwitterButtons.com Anyone who knows me is aware that I am a big fan of Twitter.  For me, it is one of the best social psychology experiements ever! Twitter allows us to communicate with anyone in the world who has similar interests. We can choose who to follow and others can choose to follow us. [...]

Below is a list of the resources I have used over the past few years to build my successful private practice.  I highly recommend them.

During the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to speak with many psychologists and social workers about building and marketing our private practices in the ever evolving world of health care. While many practitioners are ready to establish a web presense, many are also wary, unsure or simply against putting up a web [...]

Change is coming to health care.  We see evidence of this every day.  We will need new models of practice.  Yet, many of us are stuck trying make the "old" models work.  What is the "old" model? Probably a version of how you earn your living now:  individual therapy(or couples or family) provided in 50  [...]

As mental health professionals we strive to make change in people's lives. Most of the time we do this one person at a time and this approach can be life-changing for those few people we meet with over the course of our careers. But what if we want to make large, sweeping, lasting change for many [...]

Do you ever wish you could get your research, treatment approach, or just a quote or two into the popular media?  Whether it is to inform the public, establish yourself as an expert, or promote your product or service, PR is never a bad thing.  Up to now, getting your name into popular media was [...]

What is an Entrepreneurial Psychologist?  We are psychologists who see the possibilities in our professional knowledge and training to solve people's problems and make a good financial living at the same time.  As psychologists we have so much to offer people to support and assist them in living whole,healthy lives.  Our research and knowledge drive [...]

As psychologists and mental health professionals, we have an ethical obligation to get up to speed on technology. The statistics are that 80% of ALL people search for medical and mental health information online. If 80% of our clients are online and we are not, who will they get information from? Currently, there are many, [...]