The Business of Starting a Private Practice
You've just completed your second year in your first post-graduate social work job. The paperwork is killing you. Supervisors are hounding you. Your salary is barely supporting you. You begin making...
View ArticlePrivate Practice: When It's Not Right For You
If you are contemplating that jump to private practice in social work, how do you know whether you are ready or not? Given appropriate licensing and experience, you will still have to make that inner...
View ArticleBuilding Your Private Practice
After gaining some years of experience under my belt and conducting much research about the business aspects of private practice, I felt confident to venture into this territory of social work, but not...
View ArticleBuilding a Practice While Raising a Family
I have five kids and I did it. It was not always easy, but whenever social workers or therapists who are moms, or who want to be moms, ask me how I built a full-time private practice with small...
View ArticleEthics in Private Practice
The NASW Code of Ethics does not mention private practice, per se...it does not specifically condone or support private practice, and it does not reject or warn against private practice. It does,...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Private Practice Book Review
Book review of The Ethics of Private Practice, by Jeffrey E. Barnett, Jeffrey Zimmerman, & Steven Walfish, reviewed by Mila Ruiz Tecala.
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: Leaping Into Private Practice
One of the best parts of starting a private practice is that you can take it slowly. You can rent an office full time or for just a few hours a week. If you are ambivalent, I think it is worth finding...
View ArticleProgress Through Perseverance and Compassion (and a Little Bit of Butter)
While she was certainly a challenge, and not at all what I envisioned, Ms. B taught me that I should strive to enter any new client situation with perseverance, patience, compassion, empathy, and maybe...
View ArticleThe Business of Starting a Private Practice
You've just completed your second year in your first post-graduate social work job. The paperwork is killing you. Supervisors are hounding you. Your salary is barely supporting you. You begin making...
View ArticlePrivate Practice: When It's Not Right For You
If you are contemplating that jump to private practice in social work, how do you know whether you are ready or not? Given appropriate licensing and experience, you will still have to make that inner...
View ArticleBuilding Your Private Practice
After gaining some years of experience under my belt and conducting much research about the business aspects of private practice, I felt confident to venture into this territory of social work, but not...
View ArticleBuilding a Practice While Raising a Family
I have five kids and I did it. It was not always easy, but whenever social workers or therapists who are moms, or who want to be moms, ask me how I built a full-time private practice with small...
View ArticleEthics in Private Practice
The NASW Code of Ethics does not mention private practice, per se...it does not specifically condone or support private practice, and it does not reject or warn against private practice. It does,...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Private Practice Book Review
Book review of The Ethics of Private Practice, by Jeffrey E. Barnett, Jeffrey Zimmerman, & Steven Walfish, reviewed by Mila Ruiz Tecala.
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: Leaping Into Private Practice
One of the best parts of starting a private practice is that you can take it slowly. You can rent an office full time or for just a few hours a week. If you are ambivalent, I think it is worth finding...
View ArticleProgress Through Perseverance and Compassion (and a Little Bit of Butter)
While she was certainly a challenge, and not at all what I envisioned, Ms. B taught me that I should strive to enter any new client situation with perseverance, patience, compassion, empathy, and maybe...
View ArticlePriorities and Connections: Observations From Social Work Private Practice in...
The financial turmoil, physical danger, and emotional strain of the COVID-19 crisis create adversity for all and tragedy for many. But for some, this crisis may become a painful but meaningful catalyst...
View ArticleConversations on Social Work Careers: Interview With Becky Morales, LCSW-S
In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, Your Social Work Career Coach Jennifer Luna interviews Becky Morales, LCSW-S. Have you thought about changing careers into private practice?...
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