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Start My Wellness can help you build, market, and run a successful private practice.
Psychiatrists
With the demand for psychiatric services on the rise, there’s never been a better time to establish your private practice. Let us guide you towards professional fulfillment and financial success.
Therapists / Counselors
Now is the perfect time to translate your education and experience into a thriving private practice. Partner with Start My Wellness to make achieving your career aspirations a priority.
Nurse Practitioners
Your skills as a Psychiatric NP are essential for integrated mental health care. Start My Wellness can help you elevate your career by building a private practice with our support and guidance.
Why Partner With Start My Wellness?
Have you always wanted to start your own private practice in social work, psychology, or psychiatry, but were not sure how?
Do you think about the advantages of a flexible schedule, strong income, and the satisfaction of helping people? Start My Wellness is seeking qualified mental health professionals who share our passion for helping others and who want to be financially successful.
We help you start and run your own successful private practice.
Dr. Anton Babushkin founded Start My Wellness in 2015. Dr. Babushkin has over 15 years of experience as a mental health professional and close to 10 years as an entrepreneur. He combines his strong interest in business and mental health to create a turnkey opportunity for healthcare professionals to start and run a private practice while improving access to mental health services.
Since 2015, the company has grown to become a knowledgeable, cutting-edge provider of business services. Our team of experts has deep knowledge in marketing, networking, building, continuing education, billing, and credentialing. We work closely with you toward your goals.
We offer a turnkey opportunity to:
- Register your practice and obtain all the necessary legal paperwork
- Get access to high-quality office space
- Get assistance with specialized marketing to build your referral network
- Obtain mentoring and continuing education from experienced colleagues
- Make sure you get paid by insurance companies and patients promptly
Billing & Collections
We have a proven track record of collecting over 95% of all outstanding invoices, and we strive every day to ensure you get paid for every service completed. We only work with higher-paying commercial insurances to help you have a high hourly rate per session.
Marketing & Network Building
Our full-time marketing team helps you establish and maintain a strong online and offline presence, and consistently nurture your own referral networks to ensure an ongoing stream of patients.
Office Space & Administrative Support
Your dedicated account manager assists you with all the administrative aspects of private practice, including credentialing. We also provide beautiful office space and a friendly receptionist for in-person appointments.
Continuing Education & Mentoring
Our experienced senior leadership hosts at least two hours of relevant educational content each week, and mentors meet with you regularly to ensure you get the support and feedback you need to run a successful practice.
Additional Support & Collaboration
- For Mental Health Therapists: We help you connect with and pay for a good supervisor and support other educational experiences.
- For Nurse Practitioners: We help you connect with and pay for a good collaborative physician and support other educational experiences.
Reviews from Current Clients
“I began at Start My Wellness in October 2023 and quickly filled a caseload. The focus on marketing and business is something I had never previously considered in my work. In the last few years, my main focus outside of providing psychotherapy has been further clinical training. That is where my passion is, but it did not exactly translate to promoting my services to potential clients. Start My Wellness helped me to think about what I could improve to be more successful. Things like tweaking my advertisements were effective ways to gain exposure. Start My Wellness has supported me to connect the dots between what I am already good at – practicing psychotherapy – and building a successful practice. I am very happy I found them.”
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Skills to Start a Therapy Practice
The transition to private practice is fraught with challenges that extend beyond clinical expertise, involving tasks such as billing, patient acquisition, and setting up an office space, not to mention handling the myriad administrative duties that come with running a business.
Sourcing New Patients for a Private Therapy Practice: Strategies and Insights
Private practice inherently demands a dynamic balance; while working with an established roster of patients, there’s a continuous need to enhance one’s skills and expand the patient base to secure the practice’s success.
Mastering the Business of Private Practice: A Clinician’s Guide to Financial Management
The transition from clinician to business owner brings forth the challenge of grappling with financial instruments such as balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow.
Mastering Marketing for Your Private Practice: Strategies and Tips for Success
Market your private practice effectively: Keep your online presence current and easy to find. Answer key questions about your practice, and highlight your expertise. Attract the right clients by providing the right information.
Empowering Your Private Practice: Specialized Therapeutic Skills for Therapists
We’ll explore the importance of truly listening to clients, conducting thorough assessments, developing tailored treatment plans, and guiding clients through therapy to achieve meaningful progress.
Essential Requirements for Starting a Successful Private Practice
Many individuals who have recently graduated from graduate school often find themselves contemplating the possibility of starting a private practice. The answer, as it turns out, is not a simple one and depends on several factors, the most significant of which is their licensure status.
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DBusiness Magazine: Mental Pivot featuring Start My Wellness
In March, Dr. Anton Babushkin and Start My Wellness was featured in DBusiness Magazine.
Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce Podcast
Recently, Start My Wellness CEO Dr. Anton Babushkin was featured on the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce Podcast. Listen Now!
Detroit Business Class of 2020 30 in their Thirties Feature
The 2020 Class of 30 in Their Thirties dug deep for an extra measure of fortitude to meet the outbreak of COVID-19 and, along the way, developed new products and services, sought out cutting-edge business models, and pivoted into uncharted waters. Check out Dr. Anton Babushkin’s feature below!
Check out the Detroit Economic Club’s Professional Development Seminar led by Anton Babushkin!
Detroit Economic Club’s Virtual Professional Development Seminar Session on Emotional and Mental Wellness led by Anton Babushkin
Join us for the 2020 National Virtual Pitch Contest!
2020 National Virtual Pitch Contest with Start My Wellness. Tune in as contestants from across the U.S. pitch their business ideas in three minutes. First and second place winners will be chosen. Corporate therapy corporate wellness Dr. Anton babushkin.
Virtual YL Professional Development Seminar: Mental and Emotional Wellness on August 6, 2020
Emotional and mental wellness is an intentional process, rooted in our day-to-day choices. Dr. Anton Babushkin will help you understand what might be holding you back from greater success and more overall wellness.
Physician Wellness- taking time to care for yourself
During this difficult time, a lot is being asked of our medical professionals. It is even more important for doctors to be able to stop and take a few minutes to take care of themselves. In the video below, Dr. Anton Babushkin, CEO of Start My Wellness, speaks with psychiatrist Dr. Arjune Rama about physician wellness. They focus on tips for optimizing personal wellness during the pandemic. (Dr. Rama can be reached at http://www.arjuneramamd.com/)
Dr. Babushkin, Owner/Director, Made the Oakland County 40 Under 40!
An FBI special agent, an Oakland County commissioner, a farmer/ township trustee and a cancer survivor who rose from a part-time deli clerk to become corporate affairs manager for a major grocery chain are among those selected for the Oakland County Executive’s Elite 40 Under 40 Class of 2020.
Business strategy is personal
As a psychoanalyst and an entrepreneur, I often think about the commonalities between these two disciplines. Michael Watkins, writing in Harvard Business Review, defines business strategy as “a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organization, generates a desired pattern of decision making…it defines the actions people should take (and not take) and things they should prioritize (and not prioritize) to achieve desired results.”
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Start My Wellness
1603 E 9 Mile Rd
Ferndale, MI 48220