Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I talk with Rebecca Stone all about emotional support animals.

Here's what we'll discuss:
✔️How are emotional support animals different than service animals?
✔️How are emotional support animals different than therapy animals?
✔️Are there specific trainings/assessments clinicians should be using before writing an ESA letter?
✔️What are recommended training courses?

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this real talk episode, Amy Parks and I go deep on Shiny Object Syndrome and how it relates to group practice owners specifically.

Here's what we'll discuss:

• what shiny object syndrome is
• how social media plays into shiny object syndrome
• the temptation to always get the next best thing
• when it's worth it to make changes
• taking the time to find the ease within yourself
• ideas for how to combat shiny object syndrome
• looking vs. doing

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this interview episode,Greg Higdon and I will be talking about five mistakes group practice owners make when doing their bookkeeping.

Here's what we'll discuss:

★ Greg's business Grow Your Books
★ Common bookkeeping mistakes
★ +The importance of bookkeeping software

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners!

In this interview episode, Ajita Robinson and I will be talking about how to get started with passive income in your private practice. Here's what we'll discuss

• what passive income is
• pajama profit ideas
• how to monetize your space + knowledge
• licensing materials vs. ecourses
• how to protect your intellectual property
• marketing your passive income streams
• heart centered vs. data centered pitches

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners!

In this coaching episode, Annie Wright and I will be talking about how to create an onboarding and management plan for new hires in your group practice.

We'll discuss:

• streamlining the onboarding of new hires
• elements of a good onboarding plan
• elements of a good management plan for first 90 days of new hire
• employee manuals
• how to give constructive feedback in the moment
• using an evaluation template
• creating space for new hires to give feedback
• questions to ask new hires

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners!

In this coaching episode, Becky Guagliardo and I will be talking about Mike Michalowicz's newest book Clockwork, and how to implement the ideas into your group practice. We'll discuss:

• how to step out of the day to day and focus on the big picture of your business
• the 4D test in clockwork (doing, designing, deciding, delegating) + what tasks fall under each category
• how to go from too much doing to more designing + from too much deciding to more delegating
• how clockwork can work specifically for group practice owners
• how to reduce your caseload while growing the caseload of your clinicians
• tips for making design and delegate categories more streamlined
• the difference between delegating + deciding

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this coaching episode, Hannah Kyaw Thaung and I will be talking about creating a multidisciplinary group practice. We'll dive deep on having not just therapists, but other disciplines in a group practice.

• referring clients who need further support in house (especially in areas where there are limited resources)
• risks involved in managing different disciplines
• covering your bases legally
• establishing new leardership positions to provide support to new hires (onboarding coordinator, supervisor, clinical director)
• hiring established providers vs newly graduated providers
• how to deal with staff turnover
• managing expectations for new hires
• pricing differences for different disciplines

Give it a listen!

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners!

In this coaching episode, Kaela Haycraft and I will be talking about managing long-term staff. Here's what we'll cover:

• the ebbs and flows that go along with having long term clinicians who struggle with the change that comes along with growing a group practice
• managing staff through periods of growth (whether it's number of clinicians, new office space, etc.)
• how to discuss pay split with clinicians
• office culture changes as new staff members come on board
• how pay structures change (or don't change) as the practice grows
• how to discuss pay split with clinicians

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I'm talking to Perry Rosenbloom about 3 things that group practice owners can do to improve their SEO. Here's what we'll cover: 

1. Have specialty pages

• start with general pages
• add sub-specialty pages

2. Have bio pages (separate pages)

3. For groups with multiple locations:

• have Google My Business for each location
• list locations on the home page of your website with links to the separate pages for each location

BONUS #4: guest blog or podcast to get traction on your website and improve rankings

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I'm talking with Vicky Brandt all about processes for scheduling the right therapist to a client!

In this episode we cover:
1. How do we find the way to most accurately place a client?
2. How do we decide what type of clients are the best fit for each clinician?
3. How can we best communicate expectations?

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner. 

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I'm talking with Kim Hession all about balancing multiple businesses!

In this episode we cover:
1. Where to put energy when balancing multiple businesses
2. How to narrow your goals into priorities

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! We're back with our series of Real Talk episodes & I am super excited to keep going! In this episode you get to be a fly on the wall while I talk with Sarah Suzuki about how to exercise vulnerability and create mutual accountability with your staff. In this episode we cover:

★ the importance of vulnerability
★ what doesn't work when building relationships with staff
★ how to best communicate with staff
★ the benefits of true vulnerability

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I'm talking with Houston group practice owner Beatrice Craven about what it's really like to run a group practice.

This is the first in our series of Real Talk episodes & I am super excited to get started! In this episode you get to be a fly on the wall while we ask ourselves questions like:

★ What am I doing? (in life & my practice!)
★ To grow or not to grow?
★ Is expanding the right move for me?

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I'm talking about bringing a nurse practitioner into your practice.

In this episode I cover:
1. The legal aspect involved in bringing on a nurse practitioner
2. The benefits of having a nurse practitioner
3. What I've learned from bringing on a nurse practitioner
4. Contracting vs Employing

This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I'm talking with Kate Fish all about reducing clinical caseloads without losing income!

In this episode we cover:
1. How to manage the finacial aspect when decreasing your caseload
2. Trusting your business to stay stable during the shift
3. Managing the fear of your worst-case-scenario
4. The logistics of not seeing any more clients & setting a weekly hour cap


This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner. Get two free months of TherapyNotes here: https://www.therapynotes.com/r/thegrouppracticeexchange/

Hey Group Practice listeners! In this episode, I'm talking with Katie Leikam all about expanding your group practice niche.

In this episode we cover:
1. When to expand your niche + your practice
2. How to market outside your niche to expand your practice
3. How to determine what your ideal group practice looks like


This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.

Welcome to the first episode of 2019 season!

This episode, I’m talking about my word of the year for 2019.

2018 was, for me, a sort of wild and filled with events sort of year. I’ve been thinking about what I want my word for 2019 to be, because there were a lot of ups and downs last year.

I’ve decided that the words I want to use for 2019 and how I want to embody myself are SIMPLIFY and INTENTION.

This year I want to stay focused and simplify everything - from how I do things in business to how I do things in The Group Practice Exchange, and also just how I live my life all around.

Listen to the episode to find out more about how I picked my word AND to find out what’s new this year for The Group Practice Exchange Podcast! We have some exciting new things happening in the podcast this year, so this is an episode you don’t want to miss!