Smart Practice Central

04/05/2023

I recently launched Atomic Behavioral Care, LLC, a private practice support service that helps licensed clinicians in Colorado start, build, manage, and/or grow their practice. Users of this amazing service get the support and feeling of being a part of a meaningful cohort, receiving private individual and group business trainings, individual and group clinical consultation, referrals, and administrative support, while owning and independently operating their practice 100%. There are no franchise fees, no membership fees, no upfront costs, and no service cancellation fees. Please check us out and reach out if you are soon to be licensed, or already licensed. Whether you are just starting up, thinking about private practice, or already in your practice and looking for help, please reach out as I look forward to hearing from you. Howard Baumgarten LPC - Founder/Director, Atomic Behavioral Care, LLC

Fill your schedule with new clients and grow your practice Join other like-minded mental health professionals who are using Atomic Behavioral for support Clinical and business support when you need it Find more clients and receive referrals appropriate to your skills Get help starting, managing and....

05/16/2022

Episode 16 - "Tag Lines" just dropped today! Learn all about therapist branding~

‎Show PsychBiz, Ep How to Figure Out a Tagline that Helps you Connect - May 16, 2022

08/31/2021

Listen to this cool episode with Jane Travis! You won't regret it.

On this Episode of PsychBiz, we’re talking to counselor turned private practice business expert, podcaster and author, Jane Travis about overcoming imposter syndrome as a therapist 🙌

In this interview, Jane Travis shares her insights on:

- The unrealistic expectations we set for ourselves that hold us back in our business
- The importance of showing up online
- Money mindset
- And more!

Listen now 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-and-getting-more-clients-with-private/id1551212705?i=1000533651601

And for this episode’s giveaway, we are giving away some FREE copies of Jane Travis’ amazing book, Grow Your Private Practice! 🎉

If you’ve been looking for no-nonsense, grounded and practical insight to grow your private practice, you’ll definitely want to enter, so here’s how:

1. Write a review of PsychBiz wherever you get your podcasts
2. Take a screenshot of your review
3. Email it to [email protected] with “Grow Your Private Practice” as the subject line

07/28/2021

So honored to be a guest on Jane Travis' Podcast, "The Grow Your Private Practice Show" talking Jane asked me all about stress, compassion fatigue and burnout! So fun Jane. Thank you.

‎Show The Grow Your Private Practice Show, Ep Compassion fatigue and burnout: What therapists need to know, with Howard Baumgarten - Jul 27, 2021

09/07/2020

I am excited to share that my brand new website launched last week and already won a small design award https://www.webguruawards.com/sites/howard-baumgarten thanks to my web designer, Sarah Gershone, owner of Strong Roots Web Design https://strongrootswebdesign.com/.
Please check out the award and "like" it. from the award page, please click on my new side and comment in this post...Thank you

Strong Roots Web Design specializes in providing expert web site design for mental health professionals. This website showcases the services of Howard Baumgarten, a therapist and author who provides therapy, wellness trainings, and small business consulting.

05/01/2020

https://amp.cnn.com/…/er-doctor-coronavirus-help…/index.html

The loss of Dr. Breen is a tragic story. She is the victim of a very serious problem in the medical community called Physician Burnout, which is a secondary psychological trauma and involves the pre-stage of Compassion Fatigue. I have spent the last 10 years of my career training physicians and healthcare workers about these dangers and the pandemic crisis has made health care workers exponentially more vulnerable to this syndrome.
..This documentary came out long before Corona.

04/18/2020

What to do about COVID-19 shelter-in-place blues? When feeling down, neurobiology changes. While there are new limits to what you can and can not do that differ from your previous non-pandemic lifestyle, the possibilities for strengthening and re-wiring your brain under these circumstances are endless! Manage blues and uncertainty by finding your resilience in this adverse opportunity. Here are 10 things you can do (do the ones you haven't tried) to decrease and manage extreme emotions, live more calmly, and improve neurobiological flow:

1. Tend your yard - Garden, rake, trip, manicure, mow

2. Bake or Cook - Something new if you do it already

3. Change up a room in your home

4. Create a daily journal entry of what you accomplished

5. Go for a walk or run

6. Put something positive into your social media feed

7. Paint, or draw, or write creatively - even if you aren't good

8. Turn off all electronics for one hour daily, be with family, see what ensues.

9. Sit outside & listen, mindfully

10. Create and do a small task

What are three things you are doing to manage that are new and different for you?

04/17/2020

Yield to "Emotional Agility" by moving away from rigidity and denial. Find your compassionate self in this time of uncertainty.

https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_david_the_gift_and_power_of_emotional_courage?referrer=playlist-how_to_make_compassion_thrive -477834

Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth an...

04/04/2020

My good friend Donald Altman has done it again and brought forth a very timely installment of mindfulness!

Guest Donald Altman discusses how mindfulness is not a magical panacea, but when understood and applied properly, it offers the benefits of greater wholeness, connection to others, and balance for dealing with life's ups and downs.

10/24/2019

One of my favorite programs. Please share and register today.

Professionals are under more stress than ever evidenced by increases in demand for better services that are more efficient and thorough, higher costs, reduced staffing, and diminishing resources. Many workers are putting in longer hours and for less pay. From working overtime to simply burning the m...

10/24/2019

One of my favorite programs. Please share and register today.

Professionals are under more stress than ever evidenced by increases in demand for better services that are more efficient and thorough, higher costs, reduced staffing, and diminishing resources. Many workers are putting in longer hours and for less pay. From working overtime to simply burning the m...