How does PayPal report my sales to the IRS? Will I receive a tax Form 1099-K?
It’s that time of year again, when your accountant wants you to 1099 everyone you’ve given money to above $600 (for 2020 taxes). Unfortunately,…
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How Much Do Therapists Make?
Private practice therapist salary To earn six figures in private practice, your gross revenue should be at least 30% more than your goal. Divide…
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How To Talk To Your Kids About Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Here are some quick tips on how to talk to your kids about coronavirus (COVID-19). There are more in-depth thoughts following these tips. This…
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Coronavirus and Online Counseling: Special Report with Clay Cockrell
How are you able to run your private practice in a time where people are afraid to leave their house because of Coronavirus? Are…
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What the HELL is Happening in Michigan? How HB 4325 will improve access to mental health
From Joe: Special thanks to Jeremy Zug from Practice Solutions for this article. Jeremy is also a consultant with Practice of the Practice and…
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Starting Your Paperwork Off Right in Private Practice
Starting up a counseling practice isn’t actually that difficult- maybe you pick a name, get a business license and open a business bank account,…
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How to Name a Private Practice | Step-by-Step
This weekend a friend visited me. This isn’t any friend, he’s my best friend from college. We were roommates. Scheduled our graduate school classes…
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Doing Time Evaluations in Career, Relationships, and Life
Maybe you’ve done a time study at work. Or you’ve said to yourself, “I’m only going to work on the yard for an hour,…
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Avoid the Summer Slump in Private Practice
For many private practices, they experience a “summer slump.” Summer is a time when people go on vacations, spend time away, and may feel…
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12 Mistakes New Private Practices Should Avoid
In starting a private practice, people screw up a lot of things. We have helped over a thousand practices start, grow, and scale. We’ve…
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Everybody Hurts, Sometimes aka How to Change the World
When you see it, you can’t unsee. It is literally everywhere. I’ll tell you what I’m talking about in a second. First, think back…
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Why You Don’t Do Anything With Ideas
How many people stood in terrible weather, with a smartphone in their pocket, waiting for a taxi and thought, “This is ridiculous, I wish…
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How to Stop Fighting
Want to stop fighting? Have you ever been in an “almost car accident?” You almost got sideswiped. Someone was in your blind spot and…
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The Five Most Important Questions for Private Practice: An Authoritative Guide
How much time should I spend on my private practice? Should I take insurance in my private practice? How do I set my rates…
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You Can’t Have Big Ideas Unless You Do These Three Things
I recently ran into a dad I know. He said that they are often at hockey several nights a week. I know other kids…
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Keystone Habits and Experiences, Not Resolutions
Are we doing this again? The New Year is upon us and we’re giving it another go: the diet, the working out, the date…
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Stop Volunteering
You need to stop volunteering. I’m serious, it’s draining you. You think it’s making an impact, but it’s not. In fact, you might be…
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Should you start a group practice?
Recently I was talking to someone who said, “I’m full, but I don’t want to start a group practice.” We talked about how when…
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How to Get the Most Out of Vacation
I was so frustrated with Christina for not putting something back somewhere that I now don’t remember. I said, “I need to go for…
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The Filter of Fatherhood
Father’s Day can bring up a variety of emotions. For some, fathers have passed away so it’s a time of remembrance. For others, their…
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When to Leave
I sat on a chair opposite my wife, having run the numbers for the thousandth time. “I think I can leave if I have…
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