Practice Before You Hire Your First Clinician, Read This The first hire in a group practice is the decision that sets everything else in motion. Most practice owners get it wrong — not because they hired the wrong person, but because they never built the structure to support the right one.
Going out-of-network is the right move for many practitioners. It is also a decision that requires a real transition plan, not a sudden announcement to your clients.
Practice The Membership Model Is Coming to Mental Health. Here Is What Practitioners Need to Know. Direct-pay membership practices are growing across healthcare. A small but increasing number of mental health practitioners are adopting the model — with results that challenge some basic assumptions about how therapy gets paid for.
Practice Burnout in Mental Health Practitioners Is Not a Personal Failure. The Research Says It Is a Systems Problem. Three decades of burnout research point to the same conclusion: the causes of clinician burnout are structural, not individual. The interventions most commonly offered to practitioners address the wrong level entirely.
Practice The Therapeutic Alliance Predicts Outcomes Better Than Treatment Modality. Practices Are Not Acting Like It. Decades of psychotherapy outcome research have produced one finding robust enough to survive every methodological challenge: the quality of the therapeutic relationship is among the strongest predictors of treatment success. The way most practices are structured ignores this entirely.
Practice The Therapy Profession Has a Pricing Problem. Therapists Created It. The mental health field has systematically undervalued its own services for decades. That is not the insurance industry's fault. It is ours.
Practice Supervision Is Not a Requirement. It Is a Competitive Advantage. Most practitioners treat supervision as something they did before licensure. The ones building great practices treat it as something they never stopped doing.
Practice Every Group Practice Is a Leadership Problem in Disguise The clinicians who struggle most with group practice ownership are not struggling with business. They are struggling with authority.
Practice Your Cancellation Policy Isn't a Policy. It's a Performance. Most therapists have a cancellation policy. Most therapists do not enforce it. That gap between what the policy says and what actually happens is costing them more than money.
Practice 62% of therapists have no plans to raise their fees in 2026. The ones who did last year are earning nearly $20,000 more. Only 33% of therapists raised their rates in 2025. The ones who did are earning nearly $20,000 more, and most still won't try again this year.
Practice How Therapists Are Becoming Business Assets The boundary between mental health and organizational strategy is disintegrating — and a new generation of clinician-advisors are advising the C-suite decision makers.
