How is a Community Practice different from a Group Practice or a Private Practice?
A group practice is a traditional model for a therapy business. Clinicians come together to share expenses. There is often an owner or team of owners who share in the profits of the clinicians in their group. While there may be a sense of camaraderie and friendship that develops over time, the primary relationship between members of the practice is financial.
A community practice is based on the premise that mental health professionals businesses thrive when like-minded and like-hearted clinicians come together to collaborate, cross-refer, and learn from each other. The primary relationship between members of the community is based on aligned values and a shared understanding that preserving the sacredness of our work depends on how we take care of ourselves and each other.
What is the value of practicing in community?
We know the energy and flow of a space and the people in it have a profound impact on us. When you work in or are a part of a community practice there is a sense of equilibrium and reciprocity between what you give to others during the day and what you receive back. A community practice is a place to recharge, re-center and re-energize in a way that prevents burnout, compassion fatigue and general exhaustion.
If you’re part of a community practice,
can you still have your own individual practice?
Absolutely
Members of a community practice are either individual business owners or on their way to becoming business owners. We are committed to working collaboratively with each therapist in our community, believing that each of us is capable of building a thriving therapy business without being in competition with one another.
How is a Community Practice different from a Group Practice or a Private Practice?
A group practice is a traditional model for a therapy business. Clinicians come together
to share expenses. There is often an owner or team of owners who share in the profits
of the clinicians in their group. While there may be a sense of camaraderie and
friendship that develops over time, the primary relationship between
members of the practice is financial.
A community practice is based on the premise that mental health professionals businesses thrive when like-minded and like-hearted clinicians come together to collaborate, cross-refer, and learn from each other. The primary relationship between members of the community is based on aligned values and a shared understanding that preserving the sacredness of our work depends on how we take care of ourselves and each other.
What is the value of practicing in community?
We know the energy and flow of a space and the people in it have
a profound impact on us. When you work in or are a part of a community practice there is a sense of equilibrium and reciprocity between what you give to others during the day and what you receive back. A community practice is a place to recharge, re-center and re-energize in a way that prevents burnout, compassion fatigue and general exhaustion.
Being part of a community allows us to create balance and spaciousness in our lives. When we practice, either physically or virtually, surrounded by safe and supportive colleagues, we are better able to access our own intuition, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. When we let go of operating from a place of fear and scarcity our clients do better, our practices do better and we have the time and energy we need to achieve real balance and wholeness in our lives.
If you’re part of a community practice,
can you still have your own individual practice?
Absolutely.
Members of a community practice are either individual business owners or on their way to becoming
business owners. We are committed to working collaboratively with each therapist in our community,
believing that each of us is capable of building a thriving therapy business without being in competition
with one another.
What are the specific benefits you can anticipate being a part of a community practice?
When deciding to join a traditional practice, a clinician would typically ask the owner or landlord, “What’s included in my rent?”
Answers typically vary from parking and paper, to use of the copy machine and internet etc. In a community practice, we ask each other, “What is our reciprocal exchange?”
We commit to offering each other various resources and we allow ourselves to receive the things we need.
A community practice model is about letting go of the old paradigm of transactional relationships and embracing a holistic business and whole-person mindset that is relational at its core.
