Taking Clients With You When You Open Your Own Practice

When we start our private practices, it can feel like a huge relief to take some clients with you from your old agency or group. Knowing you’re not starting at zero can be a huge boost for some therapists, but knowing the ethics behind it is also a majorly crucial first step. 

So can you take clients with you when you leave an agency or group practice? It depends on a few things; you may have had to sign a non-compete clause that says you wouldn’t solicit clients of the practice. Those don’t typ…

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Episode # 231: Great Photos for Your Website with Jenny Levine

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You want your clients to be relaxed & comfortable around you, so having pictures on your website or social media where you look strained or tense, blurry, fuzzy, too filtered, or like you’re faking a laugh may throw a wrench in your branding & marketing. Professional photographer Jenny Levine stopped by the podcast this week to talk about how to find a great branding photographer, what questions to ask, & the tips & tricks to feel prepared for your photoshoot. We also talk about helpful hints …

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Episode # 230: Healing and Racial Trauma with Shatara Sheppard

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Last spring, Shatara Sheppard offered to share her experiences with police brutality and racial profiling and how it impacted her daily life as both a clinician and as a woman of color. I’m so glad to welcome her back to the podcast to discuss healing, and the ways white therapists can keep going because the work is definitely not done. The world has changed in the few short months since Shatara’s first visit to the podcast, but it’s also stayed the same in many ways we should be aware of. S…

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Episode # 229: Busting Excuses for Private Practice

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When you've put in a lot of hours working on your networking, your website, and building a therapeutic office space, don't let the hidden sibling of Should and To-Do keep you from getting your practice underway. Not Yet is the silent, sneaky excuse that keeps you thinking you need to tweak your website one more time or go over your outgoing message again just to see if it's ready. You put in the work. You're ready. Join me and Abundance Party member Elizabeth as we beat back the not yet and …

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Ask Allison Episode #62: Surviving economic collapse, double locks and telehealth from the office, and Sef-Pay Now

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In this episode of Ask Allison, Allison discusses a potential economic collapse, double locks and telehealth from home, and what other self-pay therapists are doing now.

Sponsored by TherapyNotes

 

Allison Puryear, LCSW, CEDS of Abundance Practice-Building

Hi! I’m Allison Puryear (rhymes with “career”). If you’ve been within 10 feet of me, you may know that I’m as passionate about practice building as I am about helping my clients change their lives. However, you should know that I did not…

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You Don't Need A Consultant

In a facebook group I watched the unfolding of one of variations of the “consultants aren’t helpful and are out for your money” conversation. I watch these with interest and a tinge of fear. Is it me they’re talking about? Do they think I’m one of the money-grubbers who takes advantage?

So, let me be 100% totally clear: You don’t need a consultant. You can build your practice without one just fine.

I don’t want anyone to get the impression that they’re going to crash and burn without the support …

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Boundaries and Passing The Buck

Boundaries

So we’ve talked about saying no in our practice. We’ve talked about making sure you’re fitting your practice into your life (rather than vice versa), working when you want, marketing the right way for you, upholding your no show and late cancellation policy… I could go back over alllll the blogs and I’m guessing 90% of them mention at least something boundary-related.

It’s not that I’m obsessed with boundaries. Not really. It’s just that those boundaries are the difference between wor…

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