Planning your parental leave is essential to ensure you spend more time with your newborn while continuing to provide the best care to your patients/clients. This plan should include informing clients/patients and colleagues in advance and offering treatment alternatives while you’re absent. Dr. Ken Braslow and Dr. Kari Kagan share their experiences on parental leave and answer your questions on setting up a realistic schedule for your return, identifying what type of patients/clients to take in when getting back to practice, how much time is enough, and more. Enjoy! If you want your question featured and discussed on the show, simply send it to [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

Building a successful business involves many aspects of your practice, including your office space. A productive work environment that is efficiently designed and aesthetically pleasing creates a positive atmosphere for clinicians and patients/clients. In this episode of the Enlightened Practice Podcast, Dr. Ken Braslow invites Carolyn Boldt, co-founder of design-build firm CrossFields, to discuss how to design an ideal office space and the benefits a great design may have for you and your patients/clients. If you want your question featured and discussed on the show, send it to [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

We received a question from one of our listeners requesting advice on how to negotiate with an insurance company. Our hosts, Dr. Ken Braslow and Dr. Kari Kagan share their experiences and provide some handy tips on credentialing, marketplace, and dealing with insurance companies and claims adjusters. If you want your question featured and discussed on the show, send it to [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

Dr. Ken Braslow and Dr. Kari Kagan answer a listener’s question about the business side of practice when handling college students and their parents want to talk about their care. Things like knowing who made the decision to see the therapist, setting up the initial interview, scheduling, payment, and other great details are discussed by our hosts in this interesting episode of the Enlightened Practice Podcast.

Dr. Ken Braslow invites Dr. Amy Berlin to discuss practice wills, a legal document that sets out the wishes of the private practice owner in relation to their property; a good idea for protecting patients and colleagues. Let’s learn more about the ethics of planning this sooner than later in this valuable new episode of the Enlightened Practice Podcast. If you want your question featured and discussed on the show, send it to [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

Dr. Ken Braslow and special guest Dr. Amy Berlin discuss how suitable information systems help organizations manage change while enabling individual clinicians to think creatively within their practices. Our hosts share their experiences to demonstrate how maximizing efficiency can help with clinical care. Sit back and enjoy this enlightening episode. If you want your question featured and discussed on the show, send it to [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

We have a special guest in this episode, Dr. Xenia Borue. She’s a child and adolescent psychiatrist who runs and works in a private practice that specialized in developmental disorders. Together with our host, Dr. Ken Braslow, they talk about groups and clinics and the complexities, the rewards, and the challenges that underlie all of that. If you want your question featured and discussed on the show, send it to [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

Our hosts welcome Daniela Tempesta, a social worker and group practice owner in the Bay Area. She shares with us her academic background and insight about the cooperative work social workers engage in with mental health professionals. We believe you’ll find this episode beneficial and a learning experience. Enjoy!

Dr. Ken Braslow and Dr. Kari Kagan, answer a question from our audience: What is the best location for a practice? Our hosts discuss office considerations when starting a practice or when you’re ready to emerge from your home office and open a public location. There’s a lot to consider before signing a contract like public transportation, parking availability, downtown vs. the suburbs, and whether to sign a lease alone or sublet. We hope to help you make a well-informed decision, so tune in to this new episode of the Enlightened Practice Podcast and enjoy! If you want your question featured and discussed on the show, send it to [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

Our hosts, Dr. Ken Braslow and Dr. Kari Kagan, share some reasons why to switch from a current EMR/EHR to a new service, how much time it may take, the features to consider when making the switch, and the impact on patients and clients. Invite your colleagues to tune in and learn more about the most user-friendly, affordable EMR/EHR for mental health practitioners, Luminello. To submit your questions for discussion on the show, email: [email protected]