The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy

Bad Business Practices


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Curt and Katie talk about the mistakes that therapists make in their business that can impact their clinical practice, their financial stability, and their reputation both with their colleagues and their clients.  

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

In this episode we talk about:

  • The intersection between business and clinical practices
  • The different mistakes that therapists make like not returning phone calls, being clumsy with intake call and intake process, failing to talk about fees before meeting in person, insurance bait and switch, scheduling snafus in shared offices, lack of control in your space, running late, poor referrals, not getting consent from both parents, clients missing payments and racking up debt
  • How to improve business practices to improve clinical relationships
  • Using therapy skills to improve “sales”
  • Systems to help clients engage in treatment from the beginning
  • The importance of establishing fees and contracts/consents prior to the first session
  • Clear parameters can equal clinical safety
  • Timeliness can equate to trust
  • The handoff from intake or practice owner to the clinician who will work with the client
  • Showing confidence in your own work and any referrals you make
  • Making sure to talk through all of the consents and policies
  • Communication practices with clients
  • Taking notes, remembering what has happened in the session
  • Client experience, customer care
  • Re-engagement
  • Deliberate Practice and Scott Miller’s Feedback Informed Treatment
  • The importance of putting systems in place that support you and your clients
  • Resources mentioned:

    We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.

    SimplePractice

    Scott Miller’s Feedback Informed Treatment

    Maureen Werrbach with The Group Practice Exchange

    Dr. Ben Caldwell with Ben Caldwell Labs

    Mixing Modern Therapist live networking events – email us for info: [email protected]

    The conversations happening in Our Facebook Group

    first.therapyreimaginedconference.com

    Other Relevant Episodes:

    Making Bank as a Therapist

    Deliberate Practice 1: Finding Your Blind Spots

    Deliberate Practice 2: Be a Better Therapist

    Our event this year:

    The Therapy Reimagined Conference in Los Angeles in October 2018!!

    Our new consultation services:

    The Fifty-Minute Hour

     Credits:

    Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/

    Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/

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