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Upcoming Seminars

  • September 18-20, 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana

InterContinental New Orleans
444 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA.

Starting, Maintaining, and Expanding a Successful Practice: Surviving or Thriving?
Sponsored by The Louisiana Counseling Association.
Registration: http://www.lacounseling.org
Call 800-493-4424 or log onto lacounseling.org for details.

  • September 11, 2010
    Doubletree Hotel Chicago - Oak Brook
    1909 Spring Rd.
    Starting, Maintaining, and Expanding a Successful Practice: Surviving or Thriving?
    Sponsored by The Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association.

    Registration: http://imhca.org/calendar/workshops_other.html
    Call 800-493-4424 or log onto imhca.org for details

  • October 15, 2010
    Hilton Garden Inn & The Gillespie Conference Center
    53995 Indiana SR 933
    South Bend, IN 46637
    Starting, Maintaining, and Expanding a Successful Practice: Surviving or Thriving?

    Registration: www.counseloracademy.com

  • October 16, 2010
    The Westin Southfield-Detroit
    1500 town center, Southfield , Michigan 48075
    Starting, Maintaining, and Expanding a Successful Practice: Surviving or Thriving?

    Registration: www.counseloracademy.com

  • October 18, 2010
    Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites
    120 West Market Street
    Indianapolis, IN    46204
    Starting, Maintaining, and Expanding a Successful Practice: Surviving or Thriving?

    Registration: www.counseloracademy.com

  • October 29, 2010
    Sioux Falls, SD
     Log on to www.sdcounseling.org for details

  • December 4, 2010
    325 N. Wells St.
    Chicago, IL 60654
    Starting, Maintaining, and Expanding a Successful Practice: Surviving or Thriving?
    Sponsored by The Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association.

    Registration: http://imhca.org/calendar/workshops_other.html
    Call 800-493-4424 or log onto imhca.org for details

  • March 5, 2011
    Crowne Plaza Northbrook Chicago
    2875 Milwaukee Ave.
    Starting, Maintaining, and Expanding a Successful Practice: Surviving or Thriving?
    Sponsored by The Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association.

    Registration: http://imhca.org/calendar/workshops_other.html
    Call 800-493-4424 or log onto imhca.org for details

Norman C. Dasenbrook MS, LCPC


Robert J. Walsh MA, NCC, LCPC

Both Norman Dasenbrook and Robert Walsh are available to present their day-long workshop on "How to Start a Successful Private Practice." They can present keynote speeches, break-out sessions or pre-conference workshops. If your group, state organization or professional society would like to sponsor this workshop or have them speak on any of the other topics listed below, please call or e-mail for details.Every counseling association needs a stable financial base to support its services to members. Walsh and Dasenbrook Consulting is a unique consulting practice as our mission is to help state counseling organizations and their branches develop reliable sources of revenue beyond dues. We have found that the key to financial success lies in the organizations ability to provide high quality and profitable workshops. We are prepared to help your association organize a program of profitable workshops that serve the needs of your members while supporting the association. The most successful workshops are in the areas of exam preparation and establishing or expanding a private practice. Other topics include:

  • Motivating the adolescent
  • Conflict resolution
  • Mediation as an alternative dispute resolution process in family therapy
  • The mental heath professional as a consultant to business and industry
  • Play therapy
  • Train the trainer
  • Exam preparation

Private Practice Seminar
Agenda for the Day:


Hour 1: Introduction to Private Practice Changing Paradigms/ Seeing Yourself as a Businessperson/ Participants Settings/ Presenters Experience

Hour 2: Setting Up a Private Practice/ Cost Effective Strategies/ 8 Steps to Startup

Hour 3: Office Procedures/ Getting Started/ Forms, Charting/ HIPPA Compliance/ Phone, Answering Services/ Mal-Practice and Office Insurance/ Business Ethics/ Incorporation or Not/ Obtaining Pertinent Client Information/ Fee Structure

Hour 4: Referral Sources and Marketing/ Identifying and Prospecting Potential Niches/ Cross Pollinating Approach

Hour 5: Use of Computers in Private Practice/ Client Billing, Insurance Billing, Fee Collection, EOB’s/ HCFA's

Hour 6: Understanding Managed Care/ Insurance/ Definition of Insurance Types/ Getting on Insurance Panels, Three-Part Response to Denials/ Choosing Managed Care Companies, Questions and Answers

In 1999, The Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association asked Robert and Norman to conduct a workshop for licensed mental health professionals on "Starting a Successful Private Practice." The response was tremendous. Paula Kosin, MS, president of the Kosin Group in Downers Grove, IL, reviewed the workshop for an article in the Illinois Mental Health newsletter. She wrote, "Dasenbrook teamed up with Bob Walsh to present a day-long look at what it takes to establish, expand and manage a private practice. The packed agenda for the day included a wide range of critical topics to consider. For participants, the day would pass quickly and be extremely informative. The content of the workshop was comprehensive The information-packed workshop, laced with good humor and war stories, was a terrific way to introduce the participants to what it takes to be successful." As a result of the response from the workshop, Dasenbrook and Walsh co-authored The Complete Guide to Private Practice for Licensed Mental Health Professionals.

 
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