Hi, this is Dave Kats with Therapist Consultants, and I have a tip for you. We are often asked what's the best software to run a therapy practice. Really, there are three of them that are up at the top that we think are doing a good job. The first one is SimplePractice. SimplePractice has come onto the scene the last four or five years and has been very popular with the therapists. We don't get paid by any of these software companies. We don't endorse any of these software companies where I'm just telling you what I hear from the therapists that we service.

The first one, and in no particular order, but the first one is SimplePractice. Most of the therapy software you pay by the month and by how many therapists you have but with SimplePractice, they adjusted their prices lately. You want to see how their prices compare to the other two. The other two that I want to tell you about are TherapyAppointment and TherapyNotes.

SimplePractice, TherapyAppointment, and TherapyNotes all have...

Hi, this is Dave Kats, with Therapist Consultants, and I have a tip for you. You want to know who the busiest therapists are in our organization? Those therapists that have a niche and that work in their niche. Now, when you first start in practice, you take about anybody that walks as long as you know that you can help them, but as you get farther into your practice, you get more about thinking about being a specialist and specializing in something or having a niche.

Now, there are broad niches, like probably the broadest niche that I know of is couples counseling. It's a good niche and a lot of therapists are in couples counseling, and it's a good thing to do. There's some sub niches under that, like couples counseling of those people that have had affairs and divorce counseling is another one that would be a subcategory under that, but the biggest niche is marriage or couples relationships. Then there are smaller and smaller niches and a lot of times you have to pick your niche...

Hi. This is Dave Kats, and I have a tip for you. One of the best things you can do to avoid disagreement and disgruntled patients is to go over your financial policy. I would say that a majority of times that patients are unhappy with therapists that we hear about is because they didn't understand their financial obligation. Now, chances are you explained it a little bit, chances are you were in the right, I'm sure you were, but they just don't understand it because it goes out of them so fast.

Here's what I suggest you do. Have, of course, a written policy, but don't just hand them that policy, go over the written policy because that way they know they'll be paying for no-shows and they know what the fee is for each service, and they know how they're going to be billed. Then you're going to have happy people because they're getting no surprises. You remember what's been recently just a No-Surprises Medical Act. Well, we have been enacting that for a long time and we think you...

Hi, this is Dave Kats, therapist consultants and I have a tip for you, I have a scenario for you and then I have a question for you. Here's the scenario. Let's say that you're in practice, you have a nice website, but you haven't really changed anything on your website, or added any articles to your website for the last six months. Now, here's the rest of the scenario. Let's say there's another therapist that was in practice six months ago, but they went out of business, say right down the street from you. They went out of business six months ago, so nothing has changed on their website. What's the difference between your website and a person who's been on a business for six months?

If you haven't changed anything on your website, how do the search engines even know that you're in business anymore? One of the ways they know you're in business is that you constantly see new things on your website. To that end, you probably should be putting blogs on your website. Now it's easy to...