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		<title>Your Digital Footprint Is Behind You</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I received an email from &#8220;Jane.&#8221;  Jane was a reader asking  a question about building her practice.  She gave me permission to answer it on the blog and include her name.  As a token of my appreciation for allowing me to publicly post her inquiry, I offered to link the post back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubleshooting For Your Private Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grow Your Practice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Get Clients]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was working with a new client helping her to develop a marketing plan for the next three years.  Getting her to tell herself (and me) the truth about her practice was a bit like washing a water-phobic dog!  She had access to the information &#8211; how much money she was bringing in, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Know What Your Colleagues Are Up To?  Market Research In 9 Simple Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 02:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grow Your Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Matters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had lunch with one of my favorite counselors-in-training, Jean Becker-Sullivan.  Jean has been honing her entrepreneurial skills for decades so I shouldn&#8217;t have been caught  off guard when she told me about the market research she has be doing in Summit County, Colorado in preparation for her soon-to-open private practice there. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Practice from the Inside Out Is Now On Facebook</title>
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		<comments>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/private-practice-from-the-inside-out-is-now-on-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising | Publicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To-Do's]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/?p=15137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, gang &#8211; Just a quick heads up to let you know that after five months of creeping along, I&#8217;ve finally got my business page up on Facebook. I&#8217;m still tweaking it a bit but I&#8217;m eager to connect with you there so . . . hit those &#8220;Like&#8221; buttons so you can follow and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal And Professional Names In Private Practice . . . And One Therapist&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
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		<comments>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/personal-and-professional-names-in-private-practice-and-one-therapists-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 04:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising | Publicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Decision Making]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, I was attending my monthly consultation group when an interesting discussion came up about naming our businesses and whether or not to use our personal names as our business names. My colleague, Amanda Wigfield, MA, CSPT, CSAT was obviously embroiled in the middle of making this decision and, as a parent, had [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>How To Inform Clients When Your Fees Or Reimbursement Policies Change</title>
		<link>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-inform-clients-when-your-fees-or-reimbursement-policies-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-inform-clients-when-your-fees-or-reimbursement-policies-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money Matters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, I talked with you about how to terminate contracts with managed care companies.  That&#8217;s just one of several reasons that you may need to change your fees or reimbursement policies in private practice. During the last month, I&#8217;ve been having a really interesting discussion via email with a psychologist in South Carolina who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>How To Disentangle Your Private Practice From Managed Care</title>
		<link>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-disentangle-your-private-practice-from-managed-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-disentangle-your-private-practice-from-managed-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance | Managed Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Referrals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress Busters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Provider Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitions in Private Practice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes managed care companies change the terms of their contracts.  Most contracts allow either party to terminate the contract without cause i.e. &#8220;a material breach of a contract term&#8221; at their discretion.  Sometimes a therapist&#8217;s finances change such that s/he needs to resign from a provider panel.  Sometime disputes arise between providers and managed care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Avoid Collection Agencies When Your Clients Owe You Money</title>
		<link>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-avoid-colletion-agencies-when-your-clients-owe-you-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-avoid-colletion-agencies-when-your-clients-owe-you-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance | Managed Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Collection]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/?p=14944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I was hanging out on LinkedIn when I noticed a therapist had started a thread of discussion on using collections agencies to recover money owed by a client.  The therapist was asking for other mental health professionals&#8217; experiences and opinions. My colleague and e-friend, Jay Ostrowski, MA, LPC, LPCS, NCC, DCC wrote such [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How To Create And Use A Sliding Fee Scale</title>
		<link>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-create-and-use-a-sliding-fee-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/how-to-create-and-use-a-sliding-fee-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grow Your Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduced fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sliding Scale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Barbara Olson wrote in from Monroe Washington talking about her own struggle to provide services to clients in need while also setting limits on how low she should slide on her fees . . . . Dear Tamara, I just wanted to drop you a note and tell you how wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>5 Places To Grow Your Professional Community</title>
		<link>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/5-places-to-grow-your-professional-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/5-places-to-grow-your-professional-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Suttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Professional Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Post]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/?p=14532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months back, Sarah Fudin and I exchanged emails about the possibility of her writing a guest post related to online professional development.  As the Social Media and Outreach Coordinator for the University of Southern California&#8217;s MA program in teaching, Sarah&#8217;s post is a reminder of the many ways social media can serve mental health [...]]]></description>
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