11 Influential Facebook Groups For Private Practice Owners

Starting a private practice can be a daunting task. Fortunately, there are many online groups that offer support for private practice owners. In this article, we will share our favorite Facebook groups for private practice owners. These groups offer valuable resources and support for those who are starting or growing a private practice.

Stress Less Therapist Community Group

This group is the free community group that coincides with the blog www.stresslesstherapsit.com, where Alexandria Theordor shares her expertise on how to open, run and expand a private therapy practice and non-clinical businesses.

Stress Less Enterprises LLC is a small business owned by Alexandria Theordor, a woman with a mission to help mental health therapists reach their full potential through business ownership. The corresponding blog, StressLessTherapist.com, provides valuable insights, tips, tricks, and resources to assist mental health professionals in acquiring the necessary business skills to establish, promote, and expand their business successfully. For some, this entails private practice ownership, while others prefer to create an additional non-clinical business to diversify their income without sacrificing their identity as therapists. Alexandria works with therapists to identify their unique set of skills, target their ideal client, and streamline their marketing and administrative processes, allowing them to spend more time doing what they genuinely value.

Life is too short to spend it all at work. Prioritize your life and ensure that your job fits around it, not the other way around.

Check out Stress Less Therapist Community Group Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sltcommunitygroup

Money Mastery for Therapists

Money Mastery for Therapists is a place to learn and share knowledge about finances with an emphasis on financial and tax planning for self-employed mental health professionals. Run by Will Hinder, a financial advisor and spouse of a therapist, he knows the ins and outs of running a therapy practice like the back of his hand.

Common topics include investing, tax planning, retirement accounts, life & disability insurance, annuities, estate planning, employer sponsored retirement plans, student loans and more!

Check out Money Mastery for Therapists here.

Private Practice Startup (Community Group)

Starting your own mental health or private practice can be difficult. Each week this group releases a free podcast for entrepreneurs, business experts, and private practitioners to provide guidance on how to make that dream come true. Members are welcome to share resources, feedback, and encouragement for those who have already started in private practice or who are looking to do so. The Private Practice Startup Community is a very large group ( over 12K members) and growing, which makes is a great source to learn more about what is working and not working in the practice ownership world.

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theprivatepracticestartup/

Additional Streams of Income for Therapists

Working as a giant brainstorming board for therapeutic entrepreneurs, this group focused on side hustles for clinicians. Topics range from what it is like to work for companies such as better help, to more creative part time jobs therapists are doing that are outside of the therapeutic setting.

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1256710291112365/

Compliance for Therapists

Forum for therapists to ask, collaborate, share and discuss knowledge around all aspects of compliance including HIPAA, No Surprises Act, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employment issues and professional / billing ethics.

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/no.surprises.act

Therapists As Writers

This forum is designed to be at the start of the publishing process for those therapists who wish to publish their first (or second) book. Writers may have different goals for their writing, including achieving success with a popular novel or using their book to establish their niche practice. This group will help them achieve their goals!

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/402196387404343/

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SimplePractice Community

Their mission is to help facilitate productive discussions on SimplePractice for independent health care professionals. Requests for advice about how to maximize the program’s potential for your small practice are encouraged! This group is moderated by Gillian, Ruth and the SimplePractice team.

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/simplepractice/

Simple Practice Billing Community

This page centers on helping providers specifically with billing using SimplePractice EHR software. They are an independent Facebook group and not officially part of the Simple Practice support team.

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330626687964176/

Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite) for Therapists Users Group

This is an organization for group mental health and a number of other professionals using the Google Workspace platforms for management and management. The purpose is to exchange ideas, share experiences, and build a community of mental health professionals.

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/156648721856703/

How to Build an Online Therapy Group Practice

Starting a private practice is one thing, but a group therapy practice in an entirely new beast that has many rewards and challenges on its creation journey. This Facebook group is tailored specifically for those who want to build an online group practice and goes over the basics for starting as well as provides support for current group owners.

Dives into questions such as:

• How do you add therapists?
• Should you be insurance based or private pay?
• How do you get clients for a group with varied professional expertise?

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinegrouppractice/

Financial Self-Care for Therapists | Money Mindset, Saving, & Investing

This group of individuals provides information on financial self-empowerment, saving, and investing for mental health professionals and people in other service professions. This grassroots group is run by Kaci Schmitt of Invested Therapist. This is the education- and mentorship-based counterpart to Invested Therapist. This group is also open to members in adjacent public-facing field, including but not limited to other healthcare/medical providers, attorneys, coaches, and educators.

Link to group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/financialselfcare/

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