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Cory Miller is a passionate entrepreneur who believes in finding and maintaining work happiness that aligns with your purpose and plays to your strengths, talents and ambitions, while challenging you to do great things with your life.

Cory Miller

Cory Miller is a passionate entrepreneur who believes in finding and maintaining work happiness that aligns with your purpose and plays to your strengths, talents and ambitions, while challenging you to do great things with your life.

Will My Health Insurance Cover Therapy?

Therapy Tools

You’ve recognized that you need a mental health professional to help work through some concerns. You chose a counselor with the right credentials and are ready to make an appointment. Now you’re wondering if your health insurance will cover therapy. The answer is probably. Congress passed the Paul Wellstone and…

Understanding the Types of Counselors

Therapy Tools

You’ve reached the decision to seek support from a counselor. You have healing to do, and you understand that you can’t do it alone. But when you start looking for a counselor, you find it’s not as easy as you thought. There are many different types of counselors, and the…

7 Pieces of Advice on Setting Counseling Fees

Growing Your Mental Health Practice

Setting fees for your counseling services means balancing your desire to help others and your need to pay the bills to keep your practice operational. Of course, you want to set counseling fees your clients can support, but you also have to stay in business. It can be tricky to…

Marketing a Mental Health Practice

Managing Your Mental Health Practice

Marketing a mental health practice might feel like a foreign concept. You’ve studied mental health for years and worked diligently to cultivate an ethical practice. But how can you ensure that you market your practice to clients who will benefit from counseling and help keep you in business? Marketing your…

Social Media Marketing for Mental Health Professionals

Growing Your Mental Health Practice

Social media marketing is a must for everyone in business. Mental health professionals are no exception. Whether you’re marketing for yourself, your private practice, or for an agency, you need to understand social media marketing.  Like it or not, social media is extremely popular in the United States. About 223…

Finding the Right Counselor for You

Therapy Tools

Reaching the decision to seek out a counselor is a brave step that isn’t always easy to take. The next step is finding the right counselor for you. It would be great if finding the right counselor was as simple as identifying the right type of counselor with appropriate credentials.…

Creating a Business Plan to Grow Your Counseling Practice

Growing Your Mental Health Practice

Have you heard the saying that a goal without a plan is just a wish? You don’t want your private counseling practice to be just a wish. You have goals to establish and grow your practice. And the best way to accomplish them is to create a counseling practice business…

How to Build Therapy Websites Using WordPress

Growing Your Mental Health Practice

Most people start their search for any service, including counseling, online. They want to know what their options are before taking the next step. That's why counselors must have websites for their practices. And it's best to build therapy websites using WordPress. Why Build Your Therapy Website Using WordPress? WordPress…

What to Look for in Therapy Billing Software

Managing Your Mental Health Practice

You dislike even thinking about billing for your counseling services. After all, you got into this profession to help people. The financial aspects can all feel just a bit icky and dealing with insurance is confusing. But you have to charge clients a fair amount, so you can continue helping…

Starting Your Own Counseling Business

Starting Your Mental Health Practice

You’re thinking about starting your own counseling business. It’s not surprising that you want to. After all, about half of professional counselors work in private practice. Establishing a practice is a significant milestone for counselors. Aside from feeling ready, this post provides practical tips for starting your own counseling business.…

How Daily Affirmations Can Positively Impact Your Life

Therapy Tools

Daily positive affirmations are statements that can boost your confidence and counteract negative thoughts and feelings. They encourage you to focus on your strengths instead of telling yourself things that accentuate your shortcomings, which can be bad for your mental health. The Science Behind the Practice Negative thoughts can have…

Writing a Marketing Letter to Physicians

Growing Your Mental Health Practice

Many people initially turn to their trusted primary care physician when they have a mental health concern. It’s natural for them to seek help from the doctor they already know and trust. These inquiries put physicians in a unique position to help you grow your counseling practice. One way of…

How to Advertise Counselors’ Services

Growing Your Mental Health Practice

People are searching online for counselors perhaps more than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in mental health concerns, leaving more people seeking counseling. You can help people find your practice online by understanding how to advertise counselors' services. Strategize Before You Advertise You know there are people out…

The Traumatic Impact of Racism, COVID-19, & the Strong Black Woman Myth

Managing Your Mental Health Practice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYXpKLy0Oyk In this webinar replay, Lisa Lackey, LCPC, CSAT, CMAT discusses what can cause burnout for women, including the significant impacts of racism, COVID-19, and the strong black woman myth. Lisa Lackey is an esteemed therapy practitioner and dynamic trauma expert who is driven by a passion to support people…

Incorporating Your Therapy Practice with Nellie Akalp

Starting Your Mental Health Practice

https://youtu.be/p_8NrOTUnhc In this recorded webinar, Cory Miller and Nellie Akalp talk about the benefits of incorporating your therapy practice and give helpful tips for getting the process started. Nellie Akalp is a passionate entrepreneur, business expert and mother of four. She is the CEO of CorpNet.com, a trusted resource and service…