Welcome to The Therapist Experience Podcast, where we interview successful therapists about what it's really like to grow a successful private practice.
We discuss everything from marketing, the entrepreneurial journey, the importance of niching down, what to charge per session, how to incorporate the right technology, and the roller coaster of being a small business owner.
Ami Grace considers herself a holistic psychotherapist and began incorporating holistic ideology into her private practice before it became popularized in the mainstream. As a result, she found traditional psychiatrists opposing her initially and found it tough to gain traction.
But she gutted it out and now has a thriving private practice.
Here is her Therapist Experience.
We last interviewed Dana over a year ago on The Therapist Experience, when she was still just an intern. She is now fully licensed, a few months into her private practice, and has a completely full, cash-pay private practice. Here’s an update on her story.
In this week’s episode of The Therapist Experience, we answer your questions on how to start, grow and market a private practice.
Jen Blough has been planning the growth & marketing of her private practice for years, working diligently to execute a specific plan to enable her to scale and grow her practice.
Her dedication & execution has allowed her private practice to flourish and allow her to focus on her niche and passions.
Nityda Gessel took a yoga class while finishing her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and it forever changed how she looked at mental health.
She now integrates Yoga into her private practice and it has helped her define a niche in an otherwise crowded market.
In a 3 week period, Irene Schreiner went from renting a little room in an office to renting a 3 room suite in a different building.
She did this by making numerous, calculated business decisions that enabled her to build a thriving private practice in a matter of weeks.
One of the primary driving factors that enabled her to do this is by doing detailed demographic research into where she would open her private practice. Listen to the episode to discover all of the details.
This is Episode 2 of The Therapist Experience Mini-Series on Falling Into Cash, an entire month dedicated to giveaways, promotions and invaluable content to help you and your private practice fall into more cash this fall season.
This is Episode 1 of The Therapist Experience Mini-Series on Falling Into Cash, an entire month dedicated to giveaways, promotions and invaluable content to help you and your private practice fall into more cash this fall season.
When Nate Wagner began his practice, he began as more of a generalist. Over the last year, he began focusing more on suicide loss and sibling loss. Based off of his own personal experiences, he knows that sibling loss is often neglected and that there is a big need for it.
As he began understanding his specialty more, the copywriting for his website came naturally. Once he realized how much this specialty resonated with him, and resonated with his potential clients who were finding him for any element of grief, Nate switched gears, wrote a book, and his ideal clients began finding him with ease.
Who are the people out there who need to make referrals to therapists as a part of their daily business?
Dan Schacht wanted to be the answer to those people’s needs so that he’s solving the problem they have.
