I started thinking about this a few years ago when it occurred to me that the standard 24-hour cancellation policy most therapists have has no connection to anything therapeutic OR business-focused. I mean, really, that amount of time is not only arbitrary, but it is not conducive to continuity of sessions, maintaining consistency or momentum […]
Read more >In the last week, I’ve been spending time doing one of the things I love the most: meeting new people who’ve made counseling their life’s work, and talking with them about their practice and–this is what I really love–their dreams for what their practice could be: for their clients, and for themselves (and, at times, […]
Read more >When the BCBS of Montana sent letters out to just about every therapist in Montana asking them to pay back a large portion of the reimbursements they’d sent between July 2013 and July 2014, it wasn’t a joke. Yes this is 2015, and yes, they were talking about 2013. (Apparently they can go back that […]
Read more >If you’re not going to be in-network with insurance companies, you are actually going to have to do things differently than the hundreds of other in-network therapists in your area. I know from my own experience that this extra thought and effort is well worth the pay off, but it does take some intention and […]
Read more >I am in the middle of a saga with Blue Cross Blue Shield right now (more about that in a later newsletter; be sure to get it by signing up here) and it made me think about how grateful I am to be in the position I am right now AND about the biggest mistake […]
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