therapy business

Private Practice 101 (Week 6): 6 Reasons Why Marketing a Business is Like Finding a Spouse

April 15, 2010

We’re nearing the end of our Private Practice 101 series! By now you’ve started to lay down the foundation of your business, from it’s structure to paperwork to getting paid. But it doesn’t matter how strong your business structure and services are…if no one knows about them. Today we start talking about marketing. I’m going […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 5): The Paperwork

April 6, 2010

We are now officially halfway through our Private Practice 101 series! So far, we’ve discussed your purpose and reason for starting a business, finding people to help you on your journey, setting up your business structure, and what it takes to get paid. Today’s topic: Paperwork. In my mind, there’s one reason paperwork exists: it’s […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 4): Show Me the Money!

March 30, 2010

We are now in week 4 of our Private Practice 101 series. We’ve previously covered evaluating why you want to start a practice, determining who needs to be on your business team, and reviewing what types of businesses you can start. And if you go back and re-read those posts, make sure you check out […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 3): What Type of Business Are You?

March 23, 2010

We are now in Week 3 of our “Private Practice 101” series! So far we’ve talked about determining why you want to start a practice (Week 1) and creating your business team (Week 2). I encourage you to check out the comments sections of the previous posts. There have been some great questions and useful […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 2): Who’s On Your Team?

March 16, 2010

In week 2 of the Private Practice 101 series, we’ll talk about other professionals you have on your business team that can help you develop a smooth-running, legitimate, successful private practice. But before we dive in, I want to send a quick THANK YOU to everyone who wrote awesome comments in last week’s post. You […]

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Private Practice 101: An Introduction to Creating Your Own Private Practice

March 9, 2010

One of the joys of starting something new is not knowing where it will take you. Inevitably the direction you initially thought it would take ends up morphing into something a little different. It’s happening with this blog. I initially thought this blog would be more sharing about music and music therapy. But I’ve started […]

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How To Start Your Private Practice: The Bare Necessities

May 7, 2009

A large percentage of board-certified music therapists are self-employed, yet few universities offer training in starting and managing a business. This leaves the music therapist to “learn on the fly,” reading books, searching for information online, and learning through trial and error. Part of the mission of the Music Therapy Maven blog is to provide […]

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