PROJECT ADDICTION COUNSELOR How to Create and Sustain a Private Practice
Print, EBook and Audio (read by the author)
Step by step, detailed instructions how to be certified, get office space, marketing, billing, appearance, rapport, legal protection…
All the details, big and small.
This book teaches everything you need to know, from business cards, to marketing to getting your own office—what it costs and how to do it right.
Own your own private counseling practice.
Instead of becoming an employee at a recovery facility, you can have your own private practice. With the Project Addiction book and your state counseling certification you can create and sustain a career of helping others. Project Addiction—Lifemind (PAL) counseling was established in 2004 and is going strong, netting well over $150,000 annually and is training counselors throughout the U.S. and abroad.
PROJECT ADDICTION COUNSELOR provides detailed and step by step instructions to become legally certified, how to secure office space, how to market and advertise, how to design an office, how to build client rapport how to invoice and how to get payment. Chapter titles are;
1.Why Private Practice
2.What You Need
3.What I Did
4.Vision
5.Getting Paid
6.Ethics
Chapters include assignment exercises.
Don’t join a team, BE the team. Private counseling? It’s about time.
14.Alternative Modalities
15.Polymathy
16.Counseling Modalities
17.Appearance
18.Office
19.Marketing
20.Closing
7.Getting Legal
8.Working With Minors
9.Harm to Self or Others
10.Addiction Counseling
11.Hypnotherapy
12.Life-Coach
13.Select Training
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Without a degree or college education Scott Spackey became a certified addiction treatment counselor and began a private practice counseling center which is in its twelfth lucrative year. Without even a high school diploma or college degree he got his high school equivalency diploma and then got legally certified in addiction treatment. Within three years of starting his practice it was earning over $180 a year.
Before this he was involved with a notorious, organized, Los Angeles counterfeit and methamphetamine ring in the 90s.
Scott provides keynote speeches at recovery conventions, provides workshops, authors several books, is a monthly contributor to a Los Angeles magazine and has appeared on Los Angeles TV and radio. He mentors and trains other addiction counselors and still maintains his private practice and is the author of Project Addiction—The Complete Guide to Using, Abusing and Recovering from Drugs and Behaviors and A Stone’s Throw—Memoir of a Dope Fiend, now in film development.
ORDERING INFORMATION: Project Addiction Counselor, BISAC (EDU006000 Education/Counseling/General) by Scott A Spackey 274 pages, 6.14×9.21 is available from Primordial Productions, Phone: 661-383-3182 E-Mail: CCB@PrimordialProductions.net, Website: www.PrimordialProductions.net
ISBN: Softbound: 978-0-9968913-1-8 EBook: 978-0-9968913-5-6
Audio: 978-0-9968913-6-3
LCCN: 2015953967
PRICE: $12.99 for (softbound/hardbound), plus $6 shipping and handling, 18.99 (audio), $9.99 (EPub) (and sales tax for CA orders).
274 PAGES, page 6.14×9.21, 4-color cover/jacket
DISTRIBUORS/WHOLESALERS: Amazon, Ingram Sparks,
PUBLICATION DATE: October 31, 2015
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