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Online Social Networking with Counseling Clients: Six “Facebooking” Rules

I have profiles on Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Reddit, Technorati, Ning, Squidoo, XING, Yahoo Answers, MySpace, Yedda, Furl, Blogger, WordPress, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Yelp, Knol, Facebook, Orkut, Foursquare, and Skype… to name a few.

Building a Six-Figure Counseling Practice: How Much Can a Master’s Level Counselor Make?

According to Salary.com, the average Licensed Professional Counselor working in Cambridge, Massachusetts makes $39,778 a year*. That’s beyond bleak. For a city where a 900 square foot apartment can run over $400,000, it’s dismal. Is this our fate? Financially speaking, are counselors better off getting jobs at Wal-mart? I don’t think so. With good practice [...]

Six Counselor Rumors About Accepting Health Insurance

From recent graduates to seasoned clinicians, today it seems that everyone in part- or full-time private practice is asking the same question: “Should I accept health insurance?”It’s a complicated question. The decision whether to accept third party payments will have a big impact on your counseling practice. The question is made even more difficult as [...]

17 Reasons Why Your Insurance Claims are Being Denied

Medical billing is a frustrating process for counselors who are often juggling too many business tasks, as well as trying to provide excellent clinical care. In fact, many counseling practices collect less than 85% of the monies that they’re rightly owed from insurance companies. However, with good planning, and a smart billing staff (in house [...]

Starting a Counseling Practice: The Counseling Office (Part 2)

In my last article, I talked about “the counseling office” and how, while it may be true that therapist offices are sometimes poorly designed, client’s expectations of what counselor offices should look like are often derived from what they’ve seen on TV (read the previous post to view images of some fantastic TV counseling offices!).

Marketing a Counseling Practice: Don’t Censor Your Fans!

[Readers, don’t forget to leave your comments below—I reply to every comment or question!] It’s hard to get people to talk about your business…if you’re a restaurant. If you’re a counselor, you’re really fighting an uphill battle, as clients need to overcome the social stigma of being in counseling in order to tell others about [...]

Your Counseling Office: The Bar is Both High and Low

As a counselor, your primary focus in on providing great clinical care. This, of course, is the most important thing you can do to help build your counseling practice. However, while great clinical care is necessary, it’s not all you need, and many good counselors fail at building a private practice.

The Online Counseling Myth: What Online Therapy Won’t Do For Your Practice

Every week, for the past several years, I’ve received calls from counselors who’ve decided to begin offering online therapy. I used to respond to these calls with excitement: “Great! Congratulations! Welcome to the club!” I would say. However, more recently I’ve become a bit hesitant with my cheers, “wait a second” I might say, “What [...]