Starting a Counseling Practice Success Stories

Social media can be tricky to use. From automating posts to using the correct hashtags, there are many challenges when growing your online presence. Gaining a following doesn't happen overnight. Abbey and Miranda talk about personal growth and success with social media, such as how Instagram can strengthen your digital presence. They also look into why therapists have trouble with the platform itself.Having been a peer counselor in high school, Abbey felt that being a therapist was a good fit. After graduating with a master's degree, she worked in New Jersey and Pennsylvania figuring out her career with agency work and group practice. During her enrollment in the Business School for Therapists program, she worked on getting state licenses for her clients while also figuring out how to reach them closer from home.---Learn more about Business School for Therapists: news.zynnyme.com/business-school/Website: zynnyme.comBlog: zynnyme.com/blogFacebook: facebook.com/kellyandmirandaInstagram: instagram.com/zynnyme/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/2456942/Pinterest: pinterest.com/zynnyme/Check out more episodes of the Starting a Counseling Practice Success Stories podcast on these platforms + leave a review letting us know what you think:Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyMentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Struggling in private practice doesn't look the same for everyone. You have a full practice but are unable to pay off bills. You created an awesome website but it's not converting prospects into clients. You accept insurance panels and feel burnt out from the overwhelming number of clients. You pay contractors more when they work fewer hours than you. You move to a new state and have to start from scratch.In this episode of Starting a Counseling Practice, we feature various Business School for Therapists alumni who had setbacks in their journeys into private practice. Our guests share ways they weren't progressing in their businesses and where they are now. Topics vary from partnership struggles, mindset shifts, personal life, and lack of business knowledge.Our alumni reveal how Business School helped them create a foundation for their practice that improves clinical outcomes and their lives. From getting the tools they needed to succeed, improving self-esteem, and being a part of a supportive community available 24/7, each guest felt they were able to grow and develop their practice after joining.---Join the FREE Private Practice Community: classroom.zynnyme.com/share/DCZS57H6dbE8S_GZLearn more about Business School for Therapists: news.zynnyme.com/bootcamp/Website: zynnyme.comBlog: zynnyme.com/blogFacebook: facebook.com/kellyandmirandaInstagram: instagram.com/zynnyme/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/2456942/Pinterest: pinterest.com/zynnyme/Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Starting a practice and publishing a book is no easy task. Kelsey has done both while raising her daughter. We interviewed her last year as she worked on her book. Now set to release, she discloses her publishing process and how her practice continues to operate as she begins to shift her focus on the book.Kelsey notices a lack of information in the field and wanted to make sure teens with anxiety were recognized. Inspired by her clients, she created her book to aid teens with anxiety-based anger. She recognized mislabeling their condition wasn't working by the root of their issue. Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Building a group practice requires shifts in mindset, new business practices, and relationship-building with the right clinicians! But how is it done?We spoke with four incredible group practice owners about their experiences building and growing their businesses (SPOILER: It’s about progress in your practice, NOT perfection) and how Business School for Therapists helped inform them every step of the journey.Listen in to learn about hiring practices and the difference between contractors and employees + get insight into what it looks like to make adjustments to policies, processes, marketing, and your group practice vision!---Join the FREE Private Practice Community: classroom.zynnyme.com/share/DCZS57H6dbE8S_GZLearn more about Business School for Therapists: news.zynnyme.com/bootcamp/Website: zynnyme.comBlog: zynnyme.com/blogFacebook: facebook.com/kellyandmirandaInstagram: instagram.com/zynnyme/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/2456942/Pinterest: pinterest.com/zynnyme/Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

You know that feeling when thinking about starting a private practice. You think that building a business from the ground up is impossible.Where do you start? Who can you look to for help? You search for tutorials and webinars, and it feels daunting as the research continues to get you nowhere. It's too much time, work, and hassle for little results. You start to think: Maybe I can look into this next year or when my work slows down. But then months pass, and you’re still in the same overwhelmed, stuck headspace.In this episode of Starting a Counseling Practice, we feature various Business School for Therapists alumni who all began their journey into private practice from scratch. Each guest opens up about their fears and obstacles before opening their practices and how they've grown.Each clinician featured experienced similar feelings of personal growth along with a sense of community in Business School for Therapists. Our amazing guests reveal how the program helped them move toward creating sustainable, thriving practices!---Join the FREE Private Practice Community: classroom.zynnyme.com/share/DCZS57H6dbE8S_GZLearn more about Business School for Therapists: news.zynnyme.com/bootcamp/Website: zynnyme.comBlog: zynnyme.com/blogFacebook: facebook.com/kellyandmirandaInstagram: instagram.com/zynnyme/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/2456942/Pinterest: pinterest.com/zynnyme/Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Rachel was on the path to her licensure until she hit a setback. Make that a few setbacks. After moving to California, she found out all of her 750 hours of practice in Pennsylvania would not qualify under state law. Without colleagues or connections, she started from scratch. To her, the burn for change helped her continue her journey to private practice. After internships, multiple jobs, and a pandemic, she became licensed after 8 grueling years.Rachel, an LMFT in Pasadena, credits the constraints from the pandemic as the push she needed to make the transition into private practice. As she was returning to group practice from maternity leave, she felt she “needed more margin in life”. Rachel gives advice on how to tell when you are ready to move on from group practice and make the change into private practice. She also credits the Business Bootcamp as a helpful tool she began to work on the business side of her practice.Interested in our Bootcamp program? Click here for more details and when enrollment begins. Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Do you think you would have more difficulty than others sharing your practice? Would you feel comfortable speaking to insurance companies about raising your rates, or referring out clients after you don't feel compatible with them? As an introvert, have you wondered if it's possible to run your own private practice? After years of working within group therapy, Megan was able to bring her own vision to life by opening her practice and relocating. Right when the honeymoon phase fizzled out, her body started taking a toll. She tried medication and implementing techniques from a coaching program, but they just created burnout. Feeling the lowest she ever had, she was close to shutting down her clinical practice, until she stumbled upon a life-changing article.Megan, LMFT in the Portland area, discusses the success she has had in running her business as well as the challenges she faces as a highly sensitive person (HSP). She also challenges how the normalized workload is too much to handle and how personal issues are business issues. Check out Maegan's FREE program on how to avoid going broke and burnout here.Want to share your own private practice success story? Request to be a guest on the show!Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Have you been trying to grow your online presence? Feel like you don't stand out to other practice's websites? Ronald faced the same issue starting his practice late in his professional career. As he worked in education, he wanted to help his students with deeper matters.Ronald, an LMFT in the Bay Area, spoke with Miranda about how he resolved his digital presence. Self-disclosing, niching, and workshops helped attract Ronald's clients. Both discuss certain ways to stand out online, knowing yourself, and dealing with late a career change.Want to learn more about Ronald’s work? Check out his publications on Couples and Relationship therapy here. Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Most of the time, we think of businesses only motivated by money. John, LPCC  and business coach working with therapists in San Francisco,  wants to change that. As he had therapy at a young age, he wanted to pursue it as a career. He continued his education up to a doctoral program where he wanted to teach therapists the business side of the work. Although John noticed faculty weren't backing his proposal, he still wanted to continue helping others. After a retreat where Kelly was speaking, he made the difficult decision to cease his Ph.D. program. Now John works with therapists his own way: Business Made Human. He created his business to help therapists create a purpose-driven practice.Miranda and John talk about the issues therapists have transitioning from agency work to their practice. John discusses how important it is to have a vision and its effects on your practice as a whole. He also wants to remove the stigma of receiving help for clients and therapists alike.Click below on the image to watch the video episode of Starting a counseling practice podcast with zynnyme. Or, scroll down to listen to the podcast version. Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One

Annie had therapy sessions at the age of 8. She loved the sessions with her therapist and wanted to pursue it as a career. Now Annie, a therapist and coach in San Francisco, began setting the foundation of her practice. After talking to a supervisor, she noticed she wasn’t fulfilled by the work she was doing. As she was still developing her practice, she also had a brainchild in the works: Rebel Therapy. Soon, Annie realized she enjoyed the coaching work more than her actual practice. Annie and Miranda speak on what helped develop their practices and why they shut them down. Annie also shares the issue with wanting passive income and if it is "passive".Mentioned in this episode:Register Now - Starting a Profitable Private Practice: Build It Right, Earn More, Love Your Work From Day One