What it’s Like Before Starting a Private Practice

What it’s Like Before Starting a Private Practice
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I often hear common themes come up amongst therapists before starting a private practice into the early months after their doors are officially "open." I thought I'd share them here to help you feel validated and empowered to navigate similar concerns.
Here are some videos addressing some of the potential roadblocks I touch on in today's episode:
"How to Start a Private Practice Completely from Scratch"
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"How to Plan for Private Practice Before Getting Started"
• How to Plan for Privat...
"What if I Don't Get Enough Clients?"
• Addressing Your Privat...
"What if I Don't Make Enough Money in Private Practice?"
• What if I Don't Make E...
"How to Avoid Isolation in Private Practice"
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[@Prehknight22]

Thank you for normalizing these stages. As someone in those scary first few months of private practice, seeing the lack of clients and wondering if this was a big mistake, it helps to hear that it's just part of the process 😊

[@miyakko2u]

I said from the start I wanted to do PP. my MSW profs Poo pooed me but here I am, happy, healthy, thriving, and helping my community in ways CMH never allowed me to do during candidacy. No regrets. I had all these stages but was like sink or swim!

[@momoftwosweetkids]

I am in school to go into PP too. CMH will be a part of my journey, of course, but PP is my end goal. Did you wait until you were licensed to go into PP or did you work for a PP post graduation?

[@miyakko2u]

@@momoftwosweetkids I went to CMH to learn as much as I could in a short period of time. I learned what I resonated with and it turned out to be trauma. As soon as I got licensed I joined a group. It was a waste of my time. Should have just gone into Pp right away. But it worked out. Never slowed down since going pp

[@NewPerspectives314]

Are you me? lol. You have described both my experience and my thinking. Thank you for the validation and for instilling hope!

[@brightonbrooks6166]

Finding these videos inspiring. I launched my PP in April (the checklist was helpful!) and still only have 1 client but I'm maintaining hope and doing important work in the meantime of networking, tweaking marketing, learning bookkeeping, etc. Glad I kept my day job to ramp up slowly, though, as that alleviates most of anxiety.

[@heyrobin]

I’m one of those that entered school with the sole intention of going into pp as soon as I can. I really appreciate your optimism and I’d love to see you make a video on specific marketing techniques that are commonly used to build practices. I tend to be methodical so having an idea of which techniques foster greater results will give me an idea of just how I should throw my net. As always, thank you for what you do! I find your videos to be informative and helpful!

[@shaquillesinclair7045]

She's got a few good marketing videos (they are probably in a playlist on her main KZbin page somewhere)

[@DNSKY444]

I feel so seen and heard, Marie! Thanks so much for this, I feel so inspired! Downloaded your checklist and I can see where I have already started on some of the items already, yet continue to question! LOL Glad to have found you along this journey!

[@kgrant2636]

Thank you!! This was such a timely post for me👍🏾

[@ayannajarrett7753]

Omg 😳 I just went thru literally all of these! Thank u

[@psikologdamladedeoglu9574]

Thank you for this video, you are telling about my current situation right now. 🥰