Great Resources for Creating, Maintaining & Enjoying a Thriving Practice

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro.

The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.                               Carolyn Hax

This page is full of great resources for creating, maintaining, and enjoying a thriving, successful private practice.  It's designed for mental health professionals--MFTs, LCSWs, Psychologists, and LPCs.  Books, websites, articles and other resources are posted here for your benefit. 

Check back often to get the updates to this page.

Whether your practice has psychotherapy, coaching, consulting, supervision, speaking, training or workshops, you will find resources to make you, your practice, your life, and your work richer and easier.

Books

Private Practice 

Interested in starting a private psychotherapy practice or making yours better and more profitable? Check out the book selections here .  There are many how to books with practical advice and a variety of approaches.  You won't be disappointed. Click here for books on private practice.

Coaching

Many therapists are interested in adding some types of coaching to their practice.  If  this describes you then you may find these selections  to be a rich repository of how to coach as well as how to promote your services. Click here for books on coaching.

Money

Money, money, money.  If money is on your mind then these books offer a great menu for you to choose from to upgrade your thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward money. Click here for books on money.

Business

Increase your success and make your practice more profitable and easier to run by reading some of the many books available here. Click here for books on business.

Networking 

A rich selection of personable and practical books to help you let people know about you, your services, and the clients you treat. Click here for books on networking.

Marketing 

Many marketing masters have written some very good books.  You will find a great selection of them here.   Click here for books on marketing.

Websites

Chellie Campbell

Listen to and watch Chellie Campbell talk about money and business on this page of her website.   Chellie has great advice that is presented in a practical and entertaining way.  Take a look at her famous Financial Stress Reduction Workshop Teleclass.  Check her out for inspiration as well as ideas. Click here for her website.

Brian Whetten

Sellingbygiving.net is a great resource for therapists and coaches in private practice.  Download Brian's Free Practice Building Kit ($197 Value) by filling out the form on the right side of this page.  You can also feel free to pass this gift along to anyone you know who is seeking to build their practice and bring in more clients.  Brian offers training, coaching and a home study course.  Check out his website to see what's there.  Click here for his site.

 Lynn Grodzki

Great resources for the therapist and coach are on Lynn Grodski's site.  She has written many great books for therapists and coaches.  Click here for her site

 Dan Kennedy

A marketing guru, the prolific and pithy writer and speaker is a fountain of information and great ideas.  Be warned, people either love or hate his frank and folksy talk and great advice.  See what you think.  Click here for his site.

Articles

Harnessing the Winds of Change:  It's the perfect time to reinvent your private practice.

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC

As I talk to fellow psychotherapists, I try to warn them that those of us in private practice are in for some big economic changes. By watching how health care dollars are spent and interpreting current surveys about psychotherapists' earnings, I see disturbing financial markers. But I also see creative strategies by which therapists are already improving their practices—strategies that make me believe that we in private practice can ride out the downturns and develop business models that help us survive and thrive. More....

It's Time To Prosper

Chellie Campbell

All the good information in the world won’t help you unless you put it into an action plan that works! That’s the hardest thing for human beings to do: interrupt our comfortable habits – even destructive ones – to change and do things differently long enough, consistently enough, to make the new information take hold and operate our lives in new and better ways with more success and more money.

This is why it is essential to have a great coach to help you! More...