Therapist Tips by Therapy Practice Solutions

Written by Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Therapy Practice Solutions Virtual Assistant  Last month, we talked about the differences between an insurance-based practice and a private pay only practice for mental health practitioners (if you missed that blog, check it out here!). If you’ve got enough referral sources and are in an area with enough paying clients, private pay could be a great way to make more money and keep your caseload down. Once you’ve decided you’d like to have a private pay mental health private practice, the next step is to decide on your rates. Lost on what the first step is to decide what to charge your current and potential clients? Check out these three tips on how to set your private pay rate as a mental health clinician! Set A Rate That Supports You One of the reasons many mental health therapists decide to go private pay is because insurance companies can pay abysmally low rates (no offense, insurance companies). You may find as an insurance-accepting provider t...

  Written by Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Therapy Practice Solutions Virtual Assistant July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month , founded by Bebe Moore Campbell after witnessing the treatment barriers her daughter faced while trying to seek out mental health treatment. While Campbell highlighted inadequate care in the BIPOC community specifically, difficulty accessing mental health treatment exists for all cultural groups in varying degrees. Why is that? Treatment barriers are the main cause of individuals not receiving the care they need. A treatment barrier is any condition or factor that stands in the way of an individual receiving care. In the mental health field, there are multiple treatment barriers that can prevent an individual from even seeking out care, let alone receiving it. Across American communities, the percent of individuals who do not receive care due to barriers ranges from 44% to 70% . As mental health clinicians, what treatment barriers should we look out for, ...