Therapist Tips by Therapy Practice Solutions

Crushing Your Consultation Calls Written by Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Therapy Practice Solutions Virtual Assistant Many mental health clinicians who work in private practice offer some form of consultation before their initial session with a new client. These consultations are usually free, within 10-15 minutes long, and can be scheduled if the client doesn’t feel ready to jump right into an intake session. Some clinicians host these calls over the phone, while others may have a Zoom interview to screen a new client. Regardless of how your consultation calls look logistically, the purpose is usually the same: to give the mental health clinician and client seeking services a brief chance to talk and ensure goodness of fit . However, clinicians may have some hesitation about consultation calls: where am I supposed to fit a free call into my schedule when I have so much other administrative work to do? What if the client tries to turn a free ten minute call into an impromptu session? What ...

  Written by Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Therapy Practice Solutions Virtual Assistant You’ve weighed your options on whether you’d like to be a private pay only practice or accept insurance (and if you haven’t done this yet, check out our blog post here ). You’ve decided you’d like to accept insurance on top of accepting private pay clients. Great! … Now what? Many mental health clinicians who operate a private practice may feel lost when it comes to credentialing. Chances are, you weren’t taught how to become credentialed with insurance panels in graduate school! There are tons of options you can use to learn how to credential - you can call and ask the insurance company the steps, hire a credentialing business or Virtual Assistant to do it for you, watch a webinar, and so on. No matter your choice for becoming credentialed, one thing will remain the same - all avenues will need the same basic preparation work done, whether you’re credentialing yourself or requesting help from a comp...