Starting a Group Practice

Consult Monday

Elizabeth Burke of Empowered Therapy

Chicago therapist Elizabeth J. Burke, owner and founder of Empowered Therapy, Inc. is a Licensed Clinical Social worker in the state of Illinois. She holds a Master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in women’s and gender studies from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2011, she received a fellowship for her work in Psychoanalysis from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. In her private practice, she provides a variety of services to women, including relationship counseling, couples counseling, depression therapy and anxiety treatment. She presents regularly on anxiety treatment and relationships management in local health clinics throughout Illinois.

Sponsored by BeingSeen.org, a new online directory with a cap on the number of therapists based on your city's population. Your membership fee goes to a non-profit that supports clients finding sliding scale therapists in their area (whether you slide or not). 

For Consult Monday we discuss:

• Her experience building her practice over the last 1.5 year
• The marketing strategies that worked for her
• How she gets tons of referrals from doctors
• Scaling by adding clinicians
• How to convert Workshop participants into clients

Links:

Empoweredtherapy.org

 

What I Wish I'd Said Wednesday

Maureen Werrbach of Urban Wellness

Maureen is the owner of Urban Wellness, a group practice with about 20 therapists in two location in Chicago, as well as the owner of The Group Practice Exchange, a coaching business for group practice owners. As a therapist, she works with adults with trauma histories, as well as entrepreneurs with relationship and work/life balance issues. Her practice serves children, teens, and adults on a variety of issues, as well as provides psychological testing and medication management. She loves using her creative juices as a business owner, both in her group practice and in her coaching business to help it grow, and she LOVES helping others level up their own group practices!

Urban Wellness

The Group Practice Exchange

The Group Practice Exchange Mastermind Group

The Group Practice Exchange Podcast

Sponsored by BeingSeen.org, a new online directory with a cap on the number of therapists based on your city's population. Your membership fee goes to a non-profit that supports clients finding sliding scale therapists in their area (whether you slide or not). 

For What I Wish I'd Said Wednesday we discuss:

• Switch from what worked solo to what will work as a group
• Shift from face to face as owner to more online marketing
• How to encourage associates to market themselves
• Convert those that call for you to clients for your associates easier with a receptionist (once you’re bigger)
• A trick to help your/your associates presentations yield higher conversion rates
• FB Ad hacks
• Why marketing to other therapists is VITAL

Links:

The Group Practice Exchange

All Call Technologies

DNA Info (for Chicago)

Social Lab Marketing (my FB ads guru)

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Allison Puryear, LCSW, CEDS of Abundance Practice-Building

Allison Puryear is an LCSW with a nearly diagnosable obsession with business development. She has started practices in three different cities and wants you to know that building a private practice is shockingly doable when you have a plan and support. You can download a free private practice checklist to make sure you have your ducks in a row, get weekly private practice tips, and join the Abundance Practice-Building Group to gain the confidence and tools you need to succeed.