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is to teach small business development, goal setting, marketing,
communication skills, and leadership development to our clients.
We do this by providing practice building consulting, continuing education seminars, speaking engagements, workshops and professional writing. We welcome all opportunities to present our ideas in small and large forums - for individual practitioners, group practices, professional organizations and the health care industry. We are also dedicated to achieving excellence in our own careers and in the many segments of our personal lives. We are committed to becoming a product of the best of what we teach and the best of what our profession stands for. We understand that you are going to be learning some new skills. We encourage you to let yourself go, be a kid again and have fun learning and exploring new things. IN THIS SPIRIT, we hope to challenge you... and train you... and make you feel excited and enthusiastic... about the practice building training you are about to begin with Kolt Consulting. OUR PURPOSE ... TO HELP PSYCHOTHERAPISTS... build healthy practices during this time of challenge within the evolving health care system. We believe that our profession demands new avenues of continuing education to keep healthy practices thriving, and not just surviving. We know that the qualities that make a very competent therapist do not necessarily make equally successful business people. WE ARE ALSO COMMITTED TO... participating in projects targeted to educate the public about the true value of what we do, so they feel comfortable choosing a therapist to improve the quality of their lives - on individual, couples, family, work and organizational levels.
Laurie Kolt, Ph.D. is an award winning and nationally respected practice building consultant. She is a frequent invited presenter for continuing education workshops, seminars and keynote addresses for international, national, state and local therapy organizations. The author of several books and over 100 practice building articles, her work has been featured in The American Psychological Association (APA) Monitor, Psychotherapy Finances, The APA Independent Practitioner, American Counseling Association's Counseling Today, The APA Division of Psychotherapy Bulletin. She has also been a columnist for the San Diego Daily Transcript and Practice Management Monthly. Dr. Kolt has been in private practice since 1980. She is also a clinical and organizational/industrial psychologist, marriage and family therapist as well as career development researcher. She has been instrumental in building practices across 46 states and 5 countries. She is a 1982 graduate of CSPP at Alliant Univesity in San Diego. She has a thriving practice in Del Mar, California. Dr. Kolt can be reached at (858) 509-1330 or LJKolt@aol.com.
What others have said: "Over the years, I have been personally involved with the governance of organized psychology and our nation's public policy developement. I have become increasingly impressed by the extent to which an individual can make real difference in the policies adopted by national bodies and in the lives of ordinary citizens. Dr. Kolt joins the ranks of those making a real difference by sharing her leadership, vision, and expertise in this book. Dr. Kolt provides clear and practical models and procedures for equiping a practitioner to confront such issues as the following:
These are some of the complex
issues that very few of our training programs have ever addressed.
Dr. Kolt's innovative trainning helps practitioners as well
as educators understand these issues." "Changes in the health care delivery system have made it difficult for psychologists to practice ethically and autonomously. Nevertheless, like me, there are many experienced and new clinicians who see independent practice as the way in which they want to serve the public. Dr. Kolt's training provides all of us with useful and creative ways to successfully meet the goal of a rewarding practice which meets the myriad needs of the American people." -Dorothy W. Cantor, Psy.D. "Dr. Kolt understands the pressures and the challenges that face professionals in today's health care system and demonstrates how to turn this awareness into a successful practice. After galvanizing her readers to action, Dr. Kolt provides them with practical step-by-step information and exercises designed to ethically and professionally integrate business and marketing strategies into independent practice." -Noemi Balinth, Ph.D. "Dr. Kolt will not only help you obtain an ethical profitable practice, she will lead you through a path of self-discovery and provide a toolbox for obtaining your professional dreams. Dr. Kolt's training provides a fascinating exercise in personal development in the service of professional growth. As any good psychologist should, Dr. Kolt helps you clarify your own practice vision and then guides you to a custom plan for getting what you want. Dr. Kolt guides you through the options to develop a personal practice building plan, and then overcome the barriers to its achievement." -Judith Steward, Ph.D. "Dr. Kolt is an excellent resource for those beginning a practice as well as for those facing the challenges of a new healthcare marketplace. Her knowledge base is a welcome and much needed resource to enable therapists to maintain the integrity of a caring practice while also being successful in business. Her contibution is a gift to her profession." -Reverend Richard Bowyer "Reading Dr. Kolt's book is like having a mentor hold your hand and walk you through the practice development and marketing process step by step. It's time for graduate schools and internship programs to teach students these skills and this is the ideal text. Dr. Kolt's book is also an excellent resource for experienced psychologists who want to improve or reinvent their practices." -Michael Brickey, Ph.D., ABPP "Dr. Kolt optimistic and yet inspirational and clear ideas put building a psychotherapy practice back into focus. Her book is a must T.D.R. (Therapists' Desk Reference) for every clinician." -Richard
J. Kay, M.A. "Dr. Kolt helps practitioners successfully launch their therapy practices. Built on a solid foundation of proven business skills, she provides clinicians with both the tools to build a market niche practice and the confidence to achieve success. Her consulting books and online classes help build a practice - and a career in psychology - that most doctoral students never receive." -Judith
E. N. Albino, Ph.D. "There is a real value in
Dr. Kolt's work for those who want a detailed map on building
and maintaining a therapy practice." Send us an e-mail if you would like to be placed on our mailing list.
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