Start A Therapy Practice Podcast

Alexis has spent some time working as a traveling therapist. From that experience, she was motivated to help other therapists and professionals to maximize their skillset to serve their clients more meaningfully.   You are going to want to connect with Alexis on Facebook and see what she is doing with Facebook Live to help you be a better therapist.

 

Links AlexisJoelle.com

 

OTscopes.com is where you can catch Alexis live video casting.

 

Instagram – Follow Alexis

 

If you would like to receive updates via email from Alexis about upcoming tools, courses and strategies click HERE.

Letha Marchetti has a private practice in San Rafael, California. Listen in as Letha explains how her focus on trauma recovery and neurological disorders has propelled her practice.   Letha is also an author. Learn how she uses her book Dragons to Daisies to generate referrals and position herself as an authority. 

 

Here is what we cover:

• How to approach referral sources to get referrals
• How choosing a niche has propelled her practice
• How her public speaking generates referrals
• How she uses her book to generate referrals
• Her training website

Question from a practice owner: “What is the best way to approach a doctor to ask them to send me referrals?”

 

This is not the first time I have seen this question. First, I want to point out that the question is flawed. My answers, which I give in this podcast, are like President John F. Kennedy’s quote:  “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Just insert “potential referral source” for the word “country.”

 

Be sure to track your efforts with my free networking spreadsheet.

Joe Sanok is a mental health counselor. His private practice is in Michigan. Joe is also a business consultant, and podcaster.   Joe has the #1 podcast for private practice counselors and it's called The Practice of the Practice. 

Gordy Rogers, a graduate of Yale and Columbia, is also ChiefScientific Officer of Articulate Technologies, Inc. the companybehind Speech Buddies™, the revolutionary system for treatingspeech disorders. Gordy also helped create SpeechBuddy.com, the first onlineMarketplace for parents to find and book appointments with localspeech professionals. If your a Speech Therapist you can listyourself for free on SpeechBuddy.com to help potential clientsto find you. Gordy is an internationally renowned speaker and expert onspeech disorders and a frequent contributor to industry-relatedconferences and peer-reviewed publications.

I celebrated my 10th anniversary of private practice and the 50th episode of the podcast almost at the same time this month. It seemed a great reason to bring my family on to talk about private practice. 

 

My wife and I talk about the pros and cons of private practice when we first started and then as we grew. We also bring in our kids and ask them what they think of the family business. My dog even makes an appearance. 

 

At the end we give some details about The Academy of Private Practice which is were you can learn about how to start and grow a practice. There is nothing else like it in scope and in value.  

Amberlynn Slavin is an Occupational Therapist and while in OT school she had an idea for an app to help kids with writing difficulties. Her husband Ben assisted her in finding someone to develop the SnapType app.

 

Listen in as they explain how they went from knowing nothing about creating an app to having the SnapType app in the app store with half a million downloads.

How the idea of the app came about

Where they found an app developer

What the SnapType app does

How they spent only $300 to see if it would work

What they did to monetize the SnapType app

Tips for creating an app

Sound Health Music, in San Diego is Kat Fulton’s private practice. She also has a continuing education website atMusicTherapyEd.com. She has been a keynote speaker at conferences and is a team builder for Forturne 500 companies. Kat also helps people like you launch their expertise into the world profitably, practically, and successfully.

No matter what type of therapist you are, this podcast will give you insight and motivation to take your business and your skills to the next level. If you want to learn how to start a music therapy practice or any type of therapy practice this episode is a great place to start.

How Kat became a Music Therapist

Why and how she started a private practice

How she juggled her practice and launching a continuing education website

How you can teach a course on Kat’s continuing education website

How to position and market yourself as an authority in your geographical area

How to pitch yourself to another authority like Forbes.com

How Kat marketed her new private practice location

What to have on your practice website

How to diversify your practice revenue stream

Katie Schwartz is a Speech Therapist who has a private practice called Business Speech Improvement where she helps her clients communicate better in a corporate or business type of setting.

 

A few of the areas that she works on with her clients are:

Accent modification

Presentation skills

Rate of speech

Listening skills

Small talk strategies

And more.

 

Katie was also the founder and past president of Corporate Speech Pathology Network (CORSPAN) which is an international organization where members share ideas and client referrals.

 

How Katie got started in executive coaching

How therapists can start an executive coaching business

Rules and regulations for therapists who want to treat across state lines

CORSPAN - Corporate Speech Pathology Network - What it is and how to join

What types of clients she treats

What a treatment session looks like

How she finds new clients

  

Hallie Bulkin is a Speech Therapist and founder of Little Sprout Speech Therapy in the Maryland/DC area.

She wrote an article in the ASHA Leader Magazine about having a baby while owning a private practice. Hallie also produces short instructional videos to promote her private practice.

How she coordinated having a baby while still running her private practice

Personal service comes before everything

What she learned from her time working for the state agencies

What EMR she uses and why

Where she does most of her on line marketing

How to find therapist to hire

How Hallie conducts an interview

Why and How she creates therapy videos

The products she sells through her website

 

Links

 Hallie's article in ASHA Leader Magazine

Hallie's Facebook Page

Contact Hallie

Little Sprout Speech - Hallie's private practice website

Little Sprout TV - Hallie's videos

 

Eat That Frog 

The Magic of Thinking Big (This is on Scott's must read list)

Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey

Failing Forward by John Maxwell

 

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

 

Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

 

Lean In by Sheryl Sandburg