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Ariadne’s Thread: Private Practice Set up Guide for Clinicians
Private practice offers therapists and mental health clinicians a path toward greater autonomy, flexible scheduling, and a more sustainable way of working. Many clinicians are drawn to private practice after experiencing burnout, rigid productivity expectations, or misalignment within group practice settings, including environments that feel limiting or exploitative.
While starting a private practice is often assumed to be complicated, the process is more straightforward than most clinicians expect when it’s broken into clear, practical steps.
This private practice startup guide for therapists and clinicians walks you through building a private therapy practice from the ground up—including setup, insurance credentialing, systems, and launching your caseload—so you can move forward with clarity and confidence.
Ethical practice is woven throughout the guide, with special attention to decision-making grounded in the NASW Code of Ethics. The goal is to help you build not only a functional private practice, but one that feels ethically aligned, clinically sound, and sustainable over time.
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This guide is also available in an E-Book form that still allows you to access the dowloadable content and subscribe to the learning community.
50 State Licensing and CEU Tracker
Getting lost in the intricate and varied process of licensing and CEUs? We’ve got you covered. This dowloadable excel or google spreadsheet allows you to track licensing from graduation to full independent licensure and beyond. Track your required CEUs, supervision hours, and clinical hours.
1:1 Private Practice Coaching
Are you just starting out on your private practice journey and don’t know where to go next? Have questions or want additional guidance? Book a 1:1 coaching session on all things private practice. You get an hour of undivided attention to go over business plans, answer questions, or just pick my brain! Want to learn more about this opportunity? Click below.