Description:
As a BIPOC therapist, you learned a lot of things in graduate school, but how to set up your own private practice wasn't one of them. Most of us got through graduate school figuring out--on our own--how to adapt the things we learned to the populations we want to serve. It was exhausting! And now you want to start a private psychotherapy practice but you're afraid because none of what you learned seems to apply to being a entrepreneur. I've been there, and I get it!
Building a Place for Us gives you a step-by-step guide that will help you launch your private practice serving Black clients successfully! From reflective questions to help you focus your practice to tangible instructions for creating a practice, Building a Place for Us will provide you the confidence and knowledge to build a sustainable private practice in which you and your clients can thrive!
Brief description: David Goode-Cross, PhD is a licensed psychologist and the owner of East Towson Psychological Services, a group practice specializing in working with clients in the intersections of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ identities. In addition to his work in the practice, Dr. Goode-Cross provides consultation and supervision to BIPOC therapists developing their solo or group practices.
Review Quotes: As a fellow Black and queer psychologist with no formal training on the business of psychology, this book was a timely, digestible and practical tool for developing my relatively new practice. Dr. Goode-Cross' reflective questions and case examples encouraged me to reevaluate my understanding of sustaining a purposeful and profitable business. One of the most helpful aspects of the book was quantifying known (and unknown) business costs and translating those figures into how administrative and clinical time I would need to allot in expanding my practice. --- Daniel K. Phillip, PsyD, Owner, Together + Through This book has filled a longstanding gap in considerations and step-by-step process for starting a private practice that graduate schools, unfortunately, do not fill. This book is packed with information and is easy to understand and digest. --- Karen Y. Powdrill, LCPC, therapist in private practice