In the course of your graduate education, internship, and supervised training, you thought many times about the kind of practice you might want to develop. Now that you are ready to start an independent practice, either full-time or part-time, it is important to balance your concept of the ideal practice with realistic goals for establishing and growing your professional practice.

The National Register's Marketing Strategy and Financial Planning to Build Your Professional Practice will help you succeed.

The information in this webpage was not included in the National Register ECP Practice Guide so that it could be updated periodically. We invite feedback from those of you who use this information. In so doing, we hope that this document will serve as a living resource. We have extracted advice provided by ECPs, obtained information from the web, and attached published documents which we thought would be helpful as a supplement to the National Register Marketing Strategy and Financial Planning Guide to Build Your Professional Practice.

Thus, if you have suggestions for improvement, please send them to jacquie@nationalregister.org.

Marketing Strategy and Financial Planning to Build Your Professional Practice: Supporting Documents

• Marketing Tips
• Worksheet I - Expense Estimates
• Worksheet II - Operating Expense Estimates
• Worksheet III - Income and Expense Statement
• Worksheet IV - Balance Sheet

Practice Resources:

• Direct Delivery of Health Care Services to Individuals
• External Review of Health Care Organizations
• Integrated Medical and Stand-Alone Billing Programs

Financial Assistance:

• Funding Resources:
  APA ECP funding resources http://www.apa.org/earlycareer/funding.html
  APA funding opportunities for students & ECPs http://www.apa.org/ppo/funding/atoz.html
• Loan repayment from Federal Government for practicing in designated underserved areas
• Loan Consolidation

Relevant Articles:

• Read past articles from The Register Report
• Surviving the Minefield of Managed Care Contracting by Clifford Stromberg
• Beyond Flying Solo: A Guide to Options in Structuring the Practice by Clifford Stromberg

Links

• Links to all Licensing Boards
• Link to all State and Provincial Psychological Associations

 

 

 

 

 

Updated: 8/15/2007