Paying It Forward with Dr. NaRicia Futrell | GP 159 - How to Start, Grow, and Scale a Private Practice| Practice of the Practice

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Do you run a practice with 1099 contractor employees? How can you maintain a healthy and positive relationship with contractor employees that leave the practice? What does “paying it forward” look like in private practice?

In this podcast episode, LaToya Smith speaks about paying it forward with Dr. NaRicia Futrell.

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Meet Dr. NaRicia Futrell

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Dr. Naricia Futrell is a Licensed Clinical Social worker, licensed in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas who has been practicing for more than 10 years. She currently holds a Bachelors in Psychology and a Masters and Doctorate in Social Work. At Gihon, her group practice, they work with adults, children, couples and family systems using a holistic approach to help individuals tap into their own strengths in working through problems.

Visit Gihon Counseling and connect on Facebook, Instagram, Psychology Today and LinkedIn.

In This Podcast

Supporting your contract clinicians
Pay it forward
Help the people that come through your door

Supporting your contract clinicians

There is often movement in private practices that work with contract employees. They may come, gain experience and expertise, and move on again.
This is natural and normal, and this movement can even be beneficial to the practice and both the owner and the contract clinician.

When you’re deciding that you’re going to step out and do something else, or you need to leave, just communicate that with me, and let’s see what that looks like … maybe we can be referral sisters.
Dr. Futrell

Even when contract clinicians decide to move on, it doesn’t have to mean an official goodbye. You can both continue working together by referring to one another.

Pay it forward

There are many ways that private practice owners can support and care for their clinicians, and pay it forward.
Consider offering supervision, be open to sharing wisdom and information, and offer guidance to those who work with you and for you.

Whatever you need to know, I’m not one of those people [that says], “Well, I’m not sharing any information. I’m the [main] person” … like, hey, I probably give too much!
Dr. Futrell

Help the people that come through your door

You don’t have to give everything to your employees, and there definitely is a fine line between helping someone and feeding someone information that they are not working to understand themselves.
However, have an open mind, heart, and hand with those around you. If you have resources to share and ways to raise people up – while running a successful business – then do those things.
Pay it forward, because there were probably many people that helped you too when you were starting as well.

[Decide] first what it is that you want to do and how you want to do that. How [do] you want your name and your company to be represented, and how much of the help [do] you feel like you could give someone without hindering them or making them dependent on you?
Dr. Futrell

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Meet LaToya Smith

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LaToya is a consultant with Practice of the Practice and the owner of LCS Counseling and Consulting Agency in Fortworth Texas. She firmly believes that people don’t have to remain stuck in their pain or the place they became wounded. In addition to this, LaToya encourages her clients to be active in their treatment and work towards their desired outcome.

She has also launched Strong Witness which is a platform designed to connect, transform, and heal communities through the power of storytelling.

Visit LaToya’s website. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Strong Witness Instagram, and Twitter.

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