All tagged GetRealGetGoing

GetReal, GetGOING: Marketing Your Practice

Now that you’ve taken steps towards opening your practice it’s time to think about getting the word out — that is, stepping outside of your therapy office — virtually and literally — and sharing your professional interests with a broader community. In this post, Dr. Amy shares some of her tips and ideas for marketing your fledgling practice.

Taking Advantage of your Agency Years Part 2: Organizing all that info!

Agencies introduce fledgling therapists to a myriad of new contacts, materials and useful information. There are a few simple steps you can take now, during your agency years, to help store all this information so that you can actually put it to good use! In this post, Dr. Amy explains some key tips to staying organized, keeping everyone straight, and how to make your “Future Self’ immensely happy.

Taking Advantage of your Agency Years Part 1: Connections and Relationships

While it’s tempting to spend your early agency years dreaming and preparing for the day you’ll fly solo and start your own private practice, there are gems to be mined from your early career that will help lay the groundwork for your later goals. In this post, Dr. Amy explains some essential things you need to take away from your agency experience.

Money Talks

One thing that causes potential private practitioners to hesitate before going solo is the prospect of having to deal with accounting and money. Don’t be afraid! In this post, Dr. Amy talks about how you can improve your financial vocabulary.

Mindfulness and Meditation

Mindfulness as a clinical practice has become prominent in our field in recent years. A mindfulness routine can sustain us as practitioners as well our patients. During the early years of your career, the hassles and demands of agency life can crowd out self-care. Staying strong and present means that you must find ways to take even small moments to clear your head. Read on for some suggestions from Dr. Amy to help you along your mindfulness journey.

Safety First!

As a mental health clinician, you might find yourself in potentially risky situations which are rarely confronted by members of other professions, this is especially true when you are in the field. In this article, Dr. Amy explains how to trust your instincts and offers some useful tips to keep you safe.

Websites are for Everyone!

Once you’re licensed, it is vital to have a website. I’d even go so far as to say that it can be professional suicide NOT to have a website. Websites not only provide a source of information about you and your practice, they can add to your credibility, generate leads, showcase your brand, and save you time by handling customer service inquiries and by allowing clients to book appointments directly. Read on for tips on how to get started creating your professional site…

10 Essential Office Supplies for Your New Private Practice

It’s actually happening! You’ve rented your office and you’re getting ready to welcome your first patient! You’ve picked out some furniture, hung your diplomas, and added some art to the walls. You’ve probably ordered your pens and paper and other basics but are also a number of less obvious supplies that you might not yet have in your toolkit. Here are some of Dr. Amy’s recommendations for office essentials that you may not have thought of….

Debt: Suze Orman understands, even if your parents don’t!

Once upon a time there was a young graduate student named Dr. Amy who was struggling with money. She found herself up to her eyeballs in debt from school, working for peanuts while getting her training hours for licensure, and all the while trying to figure out how to pay the rent on her crappy little apartment. Then one day little Dr. Amy discovered a very smart lady name Suze Orman and the rest is history….

acknowledges that there are times you have to beg, borrow and max out a credit card to get yourself on a professional track, and that it can be okay to invest in yourself and your career.

Think Big, Get Big Results

It’s time to THINK BIG, have a vision for something that is beyond what you have done before and that likely entails more than a few moving parts. Big-thought-projects tend not to happen in a day, they take longer, which means they demand not just inspiration and motivation, but the stamina to hang on. In this blog, Dr. Amy gives you the resources you need to hang on and achieve your big dreams.