Where Making Money and Making a Difference Come Together

I just spend an hour reading a professional association list serve and now I feel like I need a stiff drink (or a large ice cream sundae–pick your poison). I’ve talked about the reimbursement cuts we are facing here in Massachusetts. For some psychologists they are a  massive income slash. We’re looking at 12-28% cuts. [...]

Think of a time you wanted to purchase something that was important to you and instead of feeling good about buying it, you felt stressed and disappointed that you could not afford it financially.  Maybe it was a vacation with your family, or possibly it was a product or course to help you grow you [...]

Fear is underrated.  All the great business gurus tell us to blast through fear. Sure, we need to figure out how to manage it and keep going, but sometimes you’re just scared sh**less and you  get stopped in your tracks. And I think that is perfectly OK. When I started my private practice I was [...]

Hey, have you seen the most recent Newsweek article by Sharon Begley?  It seems antidepressants don’t work. Apparently, 82% of the improvement people feel is placebo effect.  If you are a mental health professional, you know this, whether or not we want to admit it. Let’s face facts, folks. When it comes to curing mental [...]

I’m frustrated with mental health as a profession. There have been a few articles and info bites I have seen in the last few weeks that lead me to believe we seem to be stuck in at the developmental level of middle schoolers trying to navigate separation-individuation (Though I’m not sure what or who we [...]

Thanks to this lovely post by my friend, Philippa Kenneally of the EntrepreneurialMD, I’m going to wax eloquent (semi-coherently) about how our emotions guide our business success.  This comes at a time when we are all talking about specialty practices and the fear, anxiety and trepidation that arise when we think that we must specialize. [...]

When I was in grad school, a classmate of mine once said, “Trust the process.” I have no recollection of the specifics of what we were talking about, but that phrase still guides me in my work. Building a practice, or any business, is a process. It doesn’t happen over night and there are no [...]

Does your practice have a specialty niche? If not, don’t worry, most therapists do not specialize and its a darn shame. However, this is one of the biggest fears I hear when I talk to coaching clients about building their practice. The fear sounds like this… “I’ll be bored if I specialize.” “What if I’m [...]

I have this cool, new blog. It has lots of features I know how to use. It has lots of features I don’t know how to use. There are features I want that aren’t installed yet. And I have a vague idea how to track them down and install them. Hazy. It will require some [...]

I hear from a lot of people who want to build a private practice.  So many have great ideas, lots of desire. Some are ready to get started right now. But then there is the fear. Is it just therapists that are this fearful of starting a business?  Any entrepreneur should be careful, cautious  before [...]