by Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. | Jan 15, 2022 | Ideas, Practice development, Professional development
Check out the picture below. It's a "mowercycle," created by someone who probably had very little money but lots of ingenuity, using items already on hand to solve a common problem. What does this have to do with mental health practice? You may not have the desire...
by Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. | Nov 21, 2019 | Productivity, Professional development, Research, searching, Web content
Keeping up with the latest research in your field is essential to maintaining an ethically responsible mental health practice. However, unlike our salaried colleagues in the academic community, we have limited time for reading journal articles. One way to stay abreast...
by Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. | Feb 10, 2018 | Business matters, Ideas, Practice development, Professional development
If you would like to earn some of your income from non-clinical sources, consider running training workshops and courses. It's a great way to help people who don't need or don't want therapy, and it gives you wider visibility in your community. Teaching and training...
by Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. | Jul 22, 2017 | Business matters, Professional development, Writing
Report writing is not my favorite professional activity, but it is one of the most important. Just as with therapy, a report can affect other people's lives. Whenever I sit down to write a report, I have three main goals in mind - two of them for clinical purposes and...
by Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. | Mar 24, 2017 | Business matters, Networking, Practice development, Professional development
The following is a guest blog post by Rachel Bédard, PhD (psychologist) and Mallory Griffith MA, CCC-SLP (speech language pathologist), who collaborated in its writing. We mental health professionals often collaborate with psychiatrists and medical doctors for the...
by lauren | Jan 17, 2017 | Business matters, Practice development, Professional development, Self-care
Looking back over 32 years of practice, 22 of those years spent raising children while exclusively in independent practice what strikes me as critical is finding and maintaining a balance of care for your partner, children and family members, your patients, your...
