Columnists, Psychotherapy Business & Marketing, Subscribers

September 1st, 2025

Is sliding scale a good business practice?

By Liz Varney, LICSW

Most therapists will agree that running a private practice solely on private pay is ideal. Even though...

July 31st, 2025

When therapists need protection from patients

By Eileen Weber

Therapy is meant to be a safe space for the patient and the therapist. But sometimes, it is anything...

July 31st, 2025

Gambling addictions on the rise

By Catherine Robertson Souter

It seems you can’t watch a professional sports game without also viewing a barrage of commercials...

June 30th, 2025

Clinicians see politics entering the therapy room

By Catherine Robertson Souter

If you are feeling more anxious about politics and the state of the world today, you are not alone.

April 1st, 2025

The doctor will ‘see’ you now. Or text, talk, or chat if you would rather

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Before 2020, telehealth therapy had barely infiltrated the profession, covering about 9-11% of all...

March 2nd, 2025

Preventing unplanned therapy termination

By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D

If only therapy would end neatly when the client reaches the desired goals! It is not always easy for the client or the therapist to determine when and how to end therapy. In a...

July 5th, 2024

NH psychologist combines running, therapy

By Catherine Robertson Souter

If "motion is lotion" for the body, what must it do for the mind? With evidence backing the theory that...

January 2nd, 2024

‘Stress in America’ survey shows adults have collective trauma

By Susan Gonsalves

Data from the most recent “Stress in America,” survey shows that people of all ages are still...

May 2nd, 2022

Good customer service benefits patients and practitioner

By Catherine Robertson Souter

The term “customer service” brings to mind smiling hotel clerks welcoming guests, or a helpful sales associate offering to “grab you a different size”...

January 9th, 2022

Spurwink’s ShifaME helps refugees, immigrants through mental health care, education

By Eileen Weber

Editor’s note: three years ago, New England Psychologist featured a story about Spurwink Services in Maine implementing the SHifaME program, based on Trauma Systems...