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Does your private practice have an outpatient structure? Why are outpatient structures some of the most important but often overlooked aspects of the mental health industry? What can you do to equalize your mental health ecosystem?
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks about mental health ecosystems in psychiatry with Dr. Brian Dixon.
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Meet Dr. Brian Dixon
Dr. Brian Dixon is an award-winning entrepreneur working to improve the mental health ecosystem for clinicians and patients.
He is also a fellowship-trained child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with years of business experience from owning his own outpatient practice, Simply Psych, which offers practice management and business consulting for mental health, with a focus on clinicians.
Visit Simply Psych and connect on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Connect with Dr. Dixon on Twitter.
In This Podcast
- Dr. Dixon’s mental health ecosystem
- Improve your mental health ecosystem
- Dr. Dixon’s advice to private practitioners
Dr. Dixon’s mental health ecosystem
Businesses are like ecosystems.
They are multifaceted structures with many different aspects that work together and rely on one another for the whole entity to be sustainable and successful.
However, the mental health ecosystem often misses a vital piece: a robust outpatient system.
At the end of the day, there is a whole level that we’re missing which is the outpatient level.
Dr. Dixon
The outpatient level is the most important level of the mental health ecosystem.
Improve your mental health ecosystem
How can you remedy and strengthen your private practice as it exists within the mental wellness ecosystem and industry? Maintain strong referrals and communication with agencies.
We have to stay in contact with folks who do inpatient, so I’m always talking about how to improve communication within hospital systems … and continue to fight stigma.
Dr. Dixon
The mental health ecosystem is a pyramid with all the different aspects of care, from inpatient to outpatient, working together and relying on one another.
For successful work, do what you are good at and don’t do what you’re not good at. Delegate and find connections with others so that you are working in your zone of expertise alongside others who are working within theirs.
Dr. Dixon’s advice to private practitioners
Grow the pie! There is no competition because the ecosystem scales by itself as long as you stick with it. You are not a slice of one thing, you are a part of something bigger.
Useful Links mentioned in this episode:
- What’s your phase of practice? Click here to get full access, totally free!
- Visit Simply Psych and connect on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
- Connect with Dr. Dixon on Twitter.
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Meet Joe Sanok
Joe Sanok helps counselors to create thriving practices that are the envy of other counselors. He has helped counselors to grow their businesses by 50-500% and is proud of all the private practice owners that are growing their income, influence, and impact on the world. Click here to explore consulting with Joe.
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