One of the first things that people do when they walk into my therapy office is comment how nice it is. They talk about how relaxing it feels...often finishing their observations with a comment something along the lines of "it doesn't even feel like I'm coming to...
Compared with finding a therapist in a big city, signing up for text-message therapy was a breeze. All I had to do was open an app on my phone, pick a username, and type my first message. Predictably, the first thing I wrote my new therapist was a question: "Hi. How...
When I ran a survey a couple of weeks ago, most of the survey results from therapists and graduate students expressed their concern and desire about "how to find clients." Almost no one expressed an interest in the location of building a practice or the office space...
[This is my fourth post in a series about building a thriving therapy practice. Check out the earlier posts here, here and here]. I have always loved helping people. It is something that I feel passionate about. I heard early on that it was a "calling" of mine and...
One of the things that my colleagues and I are constantly joking...and sometimes lamenting about -- is that most graduate programs in therapy and counseling don't teach you anything about the actual business application of what you have just spent the last 2-5 years...
Last week I started a new blog series on Building a Thriving Therapy Practice. I will be completely honest with you. I don't consider myself the expert on this topic. No surprise there. I haven't written any books on it. If that's what you want, Lynn Grodzki's books...
It is not unusual for me to get about 5-6 messages a month from people who want to meet up either in person, or on the phone, to talk about building a therapy practice. For whatever reason these people have found what I'm doing as a therapist in private practice...
One of the books that I have really enjoyed reading over the years because of my interest in the integration of theology and psychology, especially pertaining to pastoral counseling in the context of the Christian community is Theology and Pastoral Counseling: A New...
“Good therapists” tend to embody qualities that you would look for, perhaps, in a mentor: They believe in you and in the possibility of things going well for you, they want to hear what you have to say, and they redirect you from cynicism to hope and expectancy....
"How did you make that clear whiteboard?" There are a lot of questions I get as a therapist, but the above question is one I get a lot of from clients...and from other therapists. I would like to say that I came up with the idea myself, but I didn't. Rather, my good...
