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Aug 29, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, balance, Brew Your Practice, client trauma, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, past experiences, Private Practice, Self-care, therapists, victims & Wendy Williams LCSW

6 min read

Safety in Your Private Practice: Wendy Williams Guest Post

A few months ago when I wrote Healing From Client-Related Trauma, Wendy Williams reached out and proposed a post about how to stay safe in private practice. As an avid fan of safety, I agreed that it would be really helpful to the Abundance community. Wendy breaks it down into what may seem like obvious steps to some, but I’m pretty sure I’ve personally broken at least half of these in the past week, lulled by my assumption that I’m safe. Interesting given that not long before I wrote that blog …

Aug 29, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, balance, Brew Your Practice, client trauma, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, past experiences, Private Practice, Self-care, therapists, victims & Wendy Williams LCSW

6 min read

Aug 15, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, Uncategorized, balance, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselor, entrepreneur, past experiences, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, Self-care, therapists & therapy

4 min read

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…

Aug 15, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, Uncategorized, balance, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselor, entrepreneur, past experiences, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, Self-care, therapists & therapy

4 min read

Mar 20, 2016 04:31pm

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, private pay, Websites, Brew Your Practice, Jane Carter & Joe Sanok

3 min read

Brew Your Practice

I'm taking a few minutes out of my maternity leave (June is sleeping) to tell you about a super-fun and educational get together with Joe Sanok, Jane Carter, me, and hopefully you.

Something exciting is brewing…specifically, a possible “Brew Your Practice” event this September, if enough of you express interest! I’m teaming up withJoe Sanok, LPC, NCC of Practice of the Practice and Jane Carter, LPC of the National Association of Counselors in Private Practice for a potential 2-day mini-conference…

Mar 20, 2016 04:31pm

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, private pay, Websites, Brew Your Practice, Jane Carter & Joe Sanok

3 min read

Feb 1, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Insurance, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts & private pay

7 min read

No Shows and Late Cancellations

One of the questions I see pop up most often in the Abundance Practice-Builders Facebook Group (feel free to join) and in day-to-day questions I get from private practitioners is how to handle last minute cancellations and no-shows. I put these questions in two camps: the I-don’t-know-what-my-policy-should-be camp and the I-don’t-know-how-to-enforce-my-policy camp. Let’s talk about both.

What Should My Policy Be?

For the most part, you get to decide what your policy is. If you’re on insurance pan…

Feb 1, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Insurance, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts & private pay

7 min read

Jan 18, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, money mistakes, Private Practice & private practice money mistakes

10 min read

The 6 Money Mistakes You're Making in Your Practice

It's a little presumptuous of me, isn’t it? Assuming you’re making the same mistakes I did. But here’s what I’ve seen as I’ve helped people build their practices over the last few years: I see patterns. And the money side of private practice often has the most predictable problems.

You may remember that January is self-care month here at Abundance. You’re probably no stranger to finances impacting your self-care. Getting your finances straightened out can create so much freedom and let you B R E…

Jan 18, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, money mistakes, Private Practice & private practice money mistakes

10 min read

Dec 7, 2015 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Insurance, Nuts & Bolts, private pay & Private Practice

5 min read

Shortcuts to Getting Paperwork Done

Today’s seemingly unsexy topic will actually help you build clientele. Really! Let me explain why.

We’ve all been there. Somehow we got behind on your notes. Boring, awful, annoying notes. If you work in an agency, you’re probably VERY familiar with this, but you have some sort of system that makes you get it done by a certain time (audits, standard of care agreements, bosses). If you’re in private practice, though you’re likely seeing fewer people and have more down time, it’s easy to get behind…

Dec 7, 2015 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Insurance, Nuts & Bolts, private pay & Private Practice

5 min read

Oct 26, 2015 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Mindset & private pay

7 min read

Surviving the Pre-Licensed Stage: Staying Motivated When You Feel Like Quitting

This month’s guest post is from Seida Hood, MSW. She has been an active member of the Abundance Practice Builders Facebook Group (c'mon in, you're welcome to join) from it’s early stages and has given and gotten lots of great support there. As a pre-licensed therapist, she is in the trenches with the rest of you on the path to get the magical letters after your name after years of work. I love this post because it so beautifully encapsulates the soaring highs and demoralizing lows of early priva…

Oct 26, 2015 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Mindset & private pay

7 min read

Sep 14, 2015 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Insurance, Mindset, Practice-Building & private pay

6 min read

Re-Starting Your Practice When You Move

Adventure! Necessity! Exploration! Education! There are a million great reasons to move some exciting, some heart-breaking. Maybe your practice is in that beautiful, easy place where referrals roll in effortlessly and it pains you to leave it. Maybe you are still in the building stages and are tired at the thought of investing all over again. Fair enough.

Here are some things I’ve learned as I’ve ping-ponged across the United States as private practitioner:

You are in transition. You know all thos…

Sep 14, 2015 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Insurance, Mindset, Practice-Building & private pay

6 min read

May 11, 2015 10:43pm

By Allison Puryear

Under Insurance, Money & private pay

8 min read

Go ahead & call me a traitor

People love to hate on insurance companies. I get it, they can be a pain, require diagnosis, reimburse as little as they can get away with and require a whole extra step that you as a business owner then have to manage (or pay someone else to manage). As a practice-builder, I'm not supposed to encourage you to even consider managed care. I'm supposed to say "follow your private pay dream! And I do! When the circumstances are right.

Do you have more than nine months of living expenses saved up?An …

May 11, 2015 10:43pm

By Allison Puryear

Under Insurance, Money & private pay

8 min read

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private pay

Safety in Your Private Practice: Wendy Williams Guest Post

Boundaries and Passing The Buck

Boundaries

Brew Your Practice

No Shows and Late Cancellations

The 6 Money Mistakes You're Making in Your Practice

Shortcuts to Getting Paperwork Done

Surviving the Pre-Licensed Stage: Staying Motivated When You Feel Like Quitting

Re-Starting Your Practice When You Move

Go ahead & call me a traitor

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