Navigating the Complexities of Private Practice: Balancing Client Care, Ethics, Self-Confidence, and the Need for Profit

Presenter: Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC
https://privatepracticesuccess.com/

CEUs:  Category 1 | 4 CEUs -- 4 Continuing Education Hours (CEUs), including 1 hour approved for Ethics credit -- Recorded version will be available with Category 2 CEUs 

A 4-Hour CEU Workshop for Early-Career Therapists, their supervisors and owners/operators of a private practice

Starting and operating a private practice brings challenges to a therapist beyond simple logistics. Despite finishing graduate school, getting licensed and having spent time in other settings, you need to consider important concerns, including:

• How do you reconcile profit and service, or deal with the psychological issues that are inherent in money?   
• What is the best way to quickly supervise yourself, session by session, to make sure that you feel confident in your clinical work?
• What ethical red flags exist primarily for those in  private practice—and how can you avoid them?
• How can you help clients stay long enough to complete their treatment?

In this workshop using lecture, discussion, breakout rooms and with adequate time for questions and answers, participants will:

• Reconcile oppositional concerns or bias between the concepts of service and profit
• Increase their insight regarding their own personal money history and how this may be sabotaging their professional decisions
• Learn a ten-minute “self supervision” formula that provides clarity and confidence between sessions, case by case.
• See why a sliding scale may be unethical to offer in a private practice setting
• Recognize how those in private practice are vulnerable for a variety of ethical “boundary crossings”
• Engage clients from the first “hello” through their course of treatment to improve client retention

Participants with learn how to:

1. Understand how to reconcile profit and service without bias
2. Practice a quick ten-minute self-supervision structure to improve clinical confidence
3. Identify common ethical boundary crossings that occur in private practice and how to avoid them
4. Adopt basic clinical skills that can significantly improve client retention