Do you ever wish you could have a peek into someone else’s practice to see how they are spending their time and what they are working on outside of session time? To make sure that nothing has slipped through the cracks of your own practice? The This Week In The Life of A Vibrant Therapist will offer you this peek into my practice.
In a past post, I wrote about identifying routine tasks that we complete in our practices, so we can create systems for effectively managing these tasks.
I thought you may also like to see a more specific sampling of what some of my weeks look like and how those routine tasks fit into the mix. Thus, I am starting a new series of posts called This Week In The Life Of A Vibrant Therapist. I will periodically add to this series throughout the upcoming year, to capture what is on my mind at different times of the year and different times of the month.
This series of posts will capture some of the extra tasks I am working on each week, but will not include the more regular tasks such as seeing clients or documentation as we all know those are the tasks we all know therapists need to be doing.
Week of 10/3/2022
First week of the month
First week of 4th quarter 2022
Note: This was a lighter week in terms of the number of client’s I saw and instead of getting anxious about this fact, I used the extra time and energy to focus on my well-being + tackling projects that may otherwise slide to the bottom of my list of priorities.
A Week In The Life of A Vibrant Therapist-The Week of 10/3/2022
- Morning walks every day before I sat down to start my work.
- Monday brain dump + getting organized for the week.
- Updates to insurance company directories/attestations for this quarter. This also included updating my passwords for these sites.
- Reviewed the No Surprises Act to determine if there were any relevant updates that would impact my practice.
- Planned my continuing education hours for the remainder of 2022 and signed up for the courses I will take.
- Started to map out my content for the remainder of 2022 (emails, blog posts, social media themes).
- Closed multiple files.
- Reviewed a chunk of my HIPAA Policy & Procedures manual. I have been reviewing several sections of this manual each month to make sure my day to day operations are in compliance and to prepare for my annual HIPAA Risk Assessment which I am planning to complete in December.
- Networking with colleagues. Note: This is a three for one activity for me–self care + sharing about my therapy practice + sharing my work with the Vibrant Therapist Consulting, too.
- Left work one hour early on Thursday to grocery shop! My kids had a day off of school this week, so I made an intentional choice to end my work day early and complete this family task during work hours since I wouldn’t be able to do it solo on Friday as usual.
What does a week in your life look like this month, Vibrant Therapist?