Everything you do for your client matters. If and how you choose to diagnose your client matters a lot. Amanda B. wrote in asking if it is OK to routinely give a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder to her clients if they do not exhibit symptoms warranting a more serious diagnosis. (She was trying to {...}
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22 Ways to Know Your Private Practice Is In Trouble . . .
I've been reading Louis Baraja's book, Small Business, Big Life: 5 Steps to Creating a Great Life with Your Own Small Business. In it he lists the 22 Temptations of a Small Business Owner that entrepreneurs often fail to notice and then stumble over while building their businesses.
That list got {...}
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20 Questions To Ask Other Therapists
When I left employment to begin my own private practice in 1991,
I started by identifying therapists that I believed to be highly successful. Then, I picked up the phone, introduced myself, and asked if I could take them to lunch or coffee to pick their brains about being in private practice. {...}
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RED THREAD: What Books Have You Been Reading?
Part of growing your private practice includes learning new things.
What books have you been reading to help you grow your private practice and what are you learning from them? {...}
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