Insights for the Helpers
Building a Strong Telehealth Practice
The way we deliver care has evolved—and telehealth has become an essential part of that evolution. Telehealth offers a meaningful opportunity to extend your reach, reduce barriers to care, and offer clients the flexibility they…
Navigating Isolation in Private Practice: Strategies for Connection and Collaboration
Private practice offers clinicians a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Among these challenges is the potential for isolation—a common experience for many practitioners working solo. Collaboration and avoiding isolation are so important to the…
When is the Best Time to Year to Start My Private Practice?
It goes without saying: starting or returning to private practice in the behavioral health space is a significant decision that requires careful consideration. One of the big questions you may be asking yourself is, “When…
Embracing Telehealth in Your Practice with Health Affiliates Maine
Over the years, telehealth has emerged as a crucial service model, transforming the way we think about and deliver mental health and substance use services. It offers unparalleled access, privacy, and convenience to clients who…
Navigating Liability Insurance in Private Practice
Running a private practice as a clinician can be an exciting and fulfilling venture. It allows you to make a meaningful impact on the lives of your clients while experiencing freedom and autonomy. However, with…
The Top Tech Items to Purchase for Your Private Practice
Running a private practice in 2024 demands leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance efficiency, organization, and client care. Embracing the latest tech tools ensures your practice stays ahead of the curve, providing seamless and modern services….
Considerations for Your Transition to Private Practice
When thinking about starting your own private practice, moments of excitement and eagerness may quickly be followed by clouds of doubt. You’re not alone in feeling a bit confused or on edge about this big…
Stepping Away Without Stepping Back: A Guide for Preparing for Out-of-Office Time
As a behavioral health professional, just the idea of taking time off may elevate your heart rate. Whether it’s concerns about client care continuity or ensuring the administrative aspects remain in order, it can be…
Cultivating Connection: Questions Every Therapist Should Address in Their Online Profile
Many behavioral health professionals are so focused on caring for their clients that they don’t even consider creating a professional profile. They often don’t realize that it’s an important tool for growing their practice. We…
Empowering Your Professional Identity: The Importance of Online Profiles
In our digital-first society, behavioral health professionals should not overlook the importance of their online identities. At Health Affiliates Maine (HAM), we encourage our affiliated clinicians to use the web as a platform to reflect…
Nurturing the Self: Unveiling the Distinction Between Self-Love and Self-Care for Therapists in Private Practice
We can never say this enough: as a therapist in private practice, your dedication to supporting others on their journey toward wellness is remarkable. We at HAM could not be more appreciative of the work…
The Importance of Initial Client Screening in Private Practice
Our series, Managing Your Private Practice, examines how to successfully run your private practice as a behavioral health clinician. Essential to any therapy practice is a clear process for screening new clients. As clinicians, we…
Managing Your Private Practice: Finding the Right Office Space
As a therapist, you know that finding the right office space for your private practice is critically important. Your office location can be crucial to attracting and retaining clients and to your quality of life—after…
Managing Your Private Practice: Writing Policies
In this blog series, “Managing Your Private Practice,” we look at how to successfully run your private practice as a mental health professional. We started the series with a dive into how to market your…
Managing Your Private Practice: Marketing
In this new series, “Managing Your Private Practice,” we’ll look at various things you can do to keep your private mental health practice thriving. Topics will include marketing and business skills, finances and taxes, writing…
More Effective Time Management
For independently licensed mental health professionals who own their practices, time management is an essential skill. You are juggling your caseload, your schedule, attentive care to your clients, and running your own business. Not to…
Motivational Interviewing for Substance Use Treatment
As a compassionate behavioral and mental health care provider, you incorporate many modalities to treat your clients. For those clients seeking recovery from addiction or substance use, one lesser-known, relatively new model is Motivational Interviewing…
Moral Injury Part One: Are You Experiencing Burnout or Moral Injury?
Your mental and emotional health directly affects your ability to provide quality care to your clients. Healthcare professionals in various industries—and mostly due to factors of the coronavirus pandemic—are feeling guilt, shame and exhaustion, all…
New Year, New Experiences: Are You Ready for Private Practice?
Thinking about opening your own private practice? Way to go! Health Affiliates Maine is proud to help behavioral health professionals as they venture into entrepreneurship, making that potentially overwhelming experience a little easier to navigate….
Private Practice: Creating a Community of Colleagues
Running your own practice allows you to determine your caseload, clients, and your schedule so that your business aligns with your principles. However, if you’ve had your private practice for a while (or even if…
5 Ways to Prioritize Time Management into Your Practice
We know that your time is important to you, but are you using it to your advantage? When running your own practice, it’s easy to let time—and your ability to leverage it—get the better of…
3 Benefits Telehealth Provides Your Practice and Patients
As a nation and throughout Maine communities, there is an ever-increasing need for mental health services. To continue providing quality care during the pandemic, many clinicians, agencies, and mental health workers quickly pivoted from their…
New Training Opportunity: MHRT/C Domain 1 – Behavioral, Psychological and Rehabilitation Intervention Methods
This class meets the requirements for Domain 1, Behavioral, Psychological and Rehabilitation Intervention Models of the Maine MHRT/Community curriculum. Tickets: $300 Location: Online Event Presented By: Mary Gagnon, LMFT Registration: Register Online Refund Policy: Refunds…
5 Ways to Find Joy and Live a Longer Life
Discovering life’s joyful moments fuels our creativity, our purpose, and our overall wellbeing. Although it can be challenging to allow ourselves to truly appreciate what brings us joy daily, it’s well worth the effort as…
9 Ways to Maintain Your Mental Health
Mental health can and should be a daily practice, taken into consideration more often than “when something is wrong” or when going through a particularly difficult time. Taking care of your mental health is a…
Why mental health professionals should be practicing self-care and how to start
As mental health professionals, you may suggest the importance of self-care to your clients, but do you have a difficult time implementing a practice in your own life? During the last year specifically there’s been…
How to Market a Private Practice
5 easy steps to start doing now The new year is a great time to ramp up marketing efforts to grow your private practice. You and your clients know that you’re a wonderfully skilled and…