Build your practice and attract more clients to your practice by creating regular content on your private practice website. I’ll make it easy for you!
Welcome 2013! I tell my private practice consulting clients is to have an integrated blog on their private practice website and become a regular online content creator. Potential clients are searching online for your services and I want them to be able to find you more easily. Here’s how blogging can help.
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Are there any therapeutic disadvantages to blogging? Doesn’t incessant blogging on the part of the therapist read by patients run the risk of making the therapist’s “stuff” — her blog entries and blatant self-promotion! — the subject of the therapy or the patient’s inner work, as opposed to the true work of the therapy itself? I would think so. Therefore, therapists who blog ought to keep it to a reasonable minimum. An entry every three months, done in some real depth and analysis, is a good way to go. The psychiatrist Dr. Steven Reidbord’s blog “Reidbord Reflections” is a good example.
Cynthia, I don’t think this is the case. I’ve been blogging for a number of years and this has never been an issue. In fact, it’s actually been a benefit for some clients in that a blog topic has helped then think about an issue in a different way and then use this as a springboard into their own work. And the business benefits of blogging for me have been enormous. I count blogging as one of the biggest reasons I have a full practice and 2 associates working for me today.
Cynthia, Thanks for your comment. I think we are talking about different kinds of blogging…I’m encouraging therapists to become regular content creators by writing valuable professional content focused on their professional expertise, like sharing relevant research, writing helpful and timely mental health tips, sharing book resources, etc. I’m not encouraging personal reflective blogging on private practice website.
Great idea! I’m in! Here’s my practice website:
http://www.bcwag.com
Sara
Definitely in! I enjoy blogging b
I’m up for a good challenge!! It will give me accountability to blog regularly as opposed to when I want to/need to or as the wind blows!!
thank you
I currently blog only when inspiration hits, so I welcome the challenge!
Thanks!
Hi Julie, I’d love to participate. x Jodie jodiegale.com
Hi I am in! My challenge is to find a time in my busy schedule as I have just expanded my practice to a second location. I think blogging is a great tool so I am looking forward to it! Blessings Mateja
Thank you for this inspiration and opportunity!
Thanks Julie. Your safe platform presents another opportunity for us to be indirect accountability partners instead of staunch competition. I’m all IN!
Happy New Year
http://www.PrivatePracticeWithStyle.blogspot.com
http://www.TheConciergePsychologist.com
Hi Julie, great idea…I’m all for trying this! Thanks!
http://www.soultenders.com
Sounds fun… http://www.thecenterforemotionalhealth.com
Hi Julie! What a great challenge. My goal has been to have blog feature up and running in 2013. I’m all in and look forward to your posts. Blessings! April
Looking forward to this!!! Thanks, Julie!
I’m going to give it a try! be-empowered-today.com/about
I’m in Julie! http://www.clintonpower.com.au/blog
Thank you for the challenge and the push.
great challenge, great motivation. I am in!
Hi Julie:
I think blogging can be a very courageous step because your thoughts and perspectives are being evaluated by a large audience of cultural difference. However, it can be a very insightful endeavor for both the therapist and client/followers of the blog when information blogged is useful for development, insight, and mental health. My blog, although I am not working on my private practice yet, is about sharing knowledge about counseling and human behavior. I embrace anything to write about if it entails enlightening my audience, sharing expertise on child therapy and mental health, and most of all, advocating. I would say my site is based on advocacy and “setting the record straight” from my perspective of things.
Blogging doesn’t have to be a selfish endeavor if it is used to help those who visit your site! If it just so happens that while the client is being enlightened the therapist wins favor with an audience, that is great!
The ultimate goal, ethically and personally, should be to help whoever visits your site and share something new with them.
All the best
Sounds great, would love to be part:
http://connectingmindbodybreath.wordpress.com/
Here’s my email address since I’m in the process of developing a website for my practice…dmaaslmhc@hotmail.com. I’m so excited about all these new challenges as I revamp my practice & move my business into the computer world. Thanks for offering this to push me to keep moving forward!!
This is a wonderful idea. Thanks for your encouragement. My website and blog are separate but linked together.
Website: http://www.tiffanyfriascounseling.com/
blog: http://tiffanyfriascounseling.wordpress.com/
I am in! I started last week based on the webinar you did for NASW in November. I have posted twice already, and doing once a week.
http://www.YouCanLiveBetter.org/blog
Amanda, good for you! Happy to have you join us for this challenge and I’m thrilled that you enjoyed my NASW webinar. The first challenge is up! http://blogs.psychcentral.com/private-practice/2013/01/therapist-blog-challenge-1-let-google-pick-your-topic/
OK, I’m in, but you’re going to be reading a lot of blogs.
Oh, good, Carl! Looking forward to it.
Great idea,
I am looking forward sharing this experience with you all.
My website is http://www.bravetherapy.com and my blog is: http://www.bravetherapy.org, they are also linked and accessible separately.
Andi