• Building a Six-Figure Counseling Practice: How Much Can a Master's Level Counselor Make?
• Six Counselor Rumors About Accepting Health Insurance
• 17 Reasons Why Your Insurance Claims are Being Denied
• Starting a Counseling Practice: The Counseling Office (Part 2)
• Marketing a Counseling Practice: Don't Censor Your Fans!
• Your Counseling Office: The Bar is Both High and Low
• The Online Counseling Myth: What Online Therapy Won't Do For Your Practice
• Improving Client Retention: 7 Strategies For Keeping Your Clients (Part Two)
• Improving Client Retention: 7 Strategies for Ethically Keeping Your Clients (Part One)

To learn more about each of these topics about private practice, click on the following links:

1. Starting a Private Practice (PDF)
2. Meeting HIPAA requirements (PDF)
3. Transfer Plan - Counselor Incapacitation or Termination of Practice (PDF)
4. Provider Relations Contact List for Managed Care and Insurance Panels (PDF) (Updated 4/11)
5. Working with Managed Care (MS Word)
6. Managed Care Response Templates
   1. How to get on provider panels
   2. Responding to claim denials
7. Marketing and Advertising (PDF)
8. Selling or Buying a Private Practice (PDF)
9. Websites for Counselors (PDF)
10. Superbill: a cost effective insurance billing strategy (PDF)
11. Implementing Informed Consent (PDF)
12. Electronic Claims Submission (PDF) -- New!

All files are in .PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. If you do not have this program, you may download it for free here.

Questions regarding private practice are being solicited for a Question and Answer section. E-mail your queries to Rebecca Daniel-Burke at rdanielburke@counseling.org.