The Therapist Experience Podcast

TTE 39: How to Sell Yourself & Become a Cash Pay Private Practice

Our most popular guest, Eddie Reece, returns for this episode to dive deep into the nuts and bolts of transitioning away from insurance and becoming a fully cash pay private practice.

This will be controversial:

If you take money from an insurance company, the insurance company is paying you. And who pays you, is who you work for. You do not work for that client. You work for that insurance company and you are now working for somebody who underpays you, under-respects you, and does not really have any good feelings about what it is you’re doing because you’re costing them money.

So if you take insurance, you’re not a business owner. You’re a sub-contractor.

You need to listen to this episode to learn more.

TTE 38: Forming a Group Practice is Easier Than You Think

Alison didn’t plan on building a group practice. In fact, she found it daunting to even think about a group practice.

But one day she decided to hire a play therapist to help meet the needs of incoming inquiries.

Then she hired more therapists that worked in the same niche she did.

And eventually, a group practice was formed. And guess what? It was easier than you think.

TTE 37: Starting a Private Practice is Not a Linear Journey

Entrepreneurship is never a linear journey. And if you’re going into private practice, you are an entrepreneur. In this episode of The Therapist Experience, Jihan Madyun from The Fulfillment Project shares her Therapist Experience and all the twists and turns of starting & growing her private practice.

Knowing Your Ideal Client & Strategically Mapping Out Your Time to Acquire Them

Camille Braxton has become an expert marketer & this has allowed her to grow a thriving business. After discovering her specialty three years ago, she hired a consultant to help her understand her ideal clients (professional women struggling to find a work/life balance). From there, she strategically chose to market to professional groups where her ideal clients congregate, and her private practice exploded.

TTE 35: How Jeff Bright Went from 6 to 60 Clients in 11 Months in Private Practice

I’m not sure if a private practice has ever had this kind of explosive growth. Learn how Jeff Bright took his private practice to over 60 clients in only 11 months. This is absolutely one Therapist Experience episode you don’t want to miss!

In this episode, we dive into how Jeff has built such an incredibly strong and thriving private practice in such a short amount of time.

TTE 34: Using Authorship to Become an Expert & Create Your Sales Funnel

Gigi Hamilton has authored several mental wellness books, which have served as springboards into doing local seminars and workshops. Because she’s an author, people take her expertise more seriously than non-authors. Thanks to her books, she has created a detailed sales funnel that incorporates her authorship, seminars, workshops, worksheets and counseling.

In this episode, we dive deep into the value of becoming an author and dissect Gigi’s sales funnel for your benefit.

TTE 33: Raise Your Rates 50% and Fill Your Private Practice: A Lesson in Valuing Yourself

Karina Melvin struggled with setting up and growing her private practice in Ireland. The biggest issue she encountered was valuing herself properly.

After researching online, she decided to hire Lynn Grodzky. After seeing success from that, she hired Kelly & Miranda from ZynnyMe.

And Miranda pushed her to charge more for her services, to properly value her time and her experience. And ironically, once Karina charged 50% more, her private practice filled up.

TTE 32: Getting Your Name to be a Household Name in Your Community Through Free Workshops

Working with your local community centers to offer free workshops is how you get your local community to know, like and trust you. Dr. Carleah East has used that as a springboard into building a thriving private practice where she speaks at local events, national events, and hosts online webinars.

Dr. Carleah East has built a thriving private practice by actively engaging her community and her niche through speaking engagements.

She shares with us how nervous she was during her first speaking event, how she got her first few local events, how she has graduated into national events, and how she is now transitioning into also offering webinars.

TTE 31: Using Facebook to Build & Maintain Relationships with Other Local Therapists… And Skyrocket Your Referrals

Shane Birkel created a Facebook group for local therapists to network on. And his referrals skyrocketed as a result. This is his Therapist Experience.

Entrepreneurship is about taking well-thought out, calculated risks. Shane Birkel is no stranger to that. He recently invested in his business through Most Awesome Conference, left insurance panels and moved to a cash-based private practice, and niched into couples counseling. Thanks to his building & maintaining strong relationships with therapists in his area, he was able to have the support of a strong referral network to take these calculated risks, which resulted in a flourishing private practice.

TTE 30: Finding a Niche Within a Niche & Standing Out From the Crowd

Dana McNeil is a member of three different networking groups with her fellow therapists, psychologists and MFTs. But as opposed to blending in, Dana stands out and is able to be referred to more easily thanks to her being a Gottman Method Level 3 trained therapist, something nobody else in her group can claim. This has made her unique, memorable, and makes it easier for people to refer to her.