Craft Your Practice Method

About Craft Your Practice Method

Where the art of therapy meets the business of practice. The Craft Your Practice Method™ Podcast is for therapists building real private practices. Honest conversations about identity, boundaries, systems, money, and credentialing, the parts of practice ownership nobody trained you for. Hosted by Lisa Reidsema, LMHC. New episodes every other Wednesday.

Publisher

Lisa Reidsema LMHC

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jan 2026

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   The Denial You Never Appealed

   Episode 20: The Denial You Never AppealedA large share of denied claims are payable, and they are never appealed. Not because the procedure is hard, because it is not, but because appealing feels like conflict, and therapists are trained to stay with difficulty rather than to argue with institutions. This episode looks at where that reluctance comes from, why the system has it priced in, and the reframe that shrinks the whole task: appealing is not conflict, it is administration. You are not asking for a favor. You are pointing out that under their own rules, this claim is payable. It closes the credentialing run with the through-line underneath all of it, which is that getting paid is a learnable skill nobody taught you, and that is fixable. Resources:The free Credentialing Timeline, the full step by step with the real windows, at craftyourpractice.com/start Pairs with YouTube Episode 30, The Appeal Letter That Gets Claims Paid

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   The Money You Already Earned

   Episode 19: The Money You Already EarnedA few years into taking insurance, Lisa billed a wrong CPT code for months. The claims paid. Nothing flagged. By the time she caught it, the appeal deadline had closed and thousands of dollars for work she had already done were gone permanently. This episode tells that story in full, including the part most people skip, which is the shame of it. It goes on to name why therapists avoid looking at the money at all, how that avoidance is a pattern we would recognize instantly in a client, why the answer is a weekly review rhythm rather than vigilance, and how to build a relationship with your own numbers that does not require you to feel like a bad person for wanting to be paid. Resources:The free Credentialing Timeline, the full step by step with the real windows, at craftyourpractice.com/start Pairs with YouTube Episode 29, You Got Paneled, Now Get Paid

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Priced by Someone Else

   Platforms versus independent credentialing, and the question underneath the economics. Lisa is on Headway and has a referral link, and Headway is the only one of these platforms she has ever used, which she says plainly at the top. This episode is not a three way comparison and does not pretend to be one. It is about what it does to a person to have her clinical hour priced by a company she will never meet, why every therapist who takes insurance is already in that position, and the two kinds of shame that drive this decision more than the numbers do. The shame of using a platform, the shame of refusing one on principle while the practice starves, and why both are the same error. Includes an honest argument against the platform that pays her, the thing about leaving that almost nobody mentions, and the recommendation: use a platform and credential yourself in parallel. The economics, the fee models, the ownership facts and the rate cut story are all in the paired YouTube episode. Resources:The free Credentialing Timeline, stage by stage, with the realistic waits at each step: craftyourpractice.com/startHeadway: craftyourpractice.com/headway Pairs with YouTube Episode 28, Headway, Alma, or Independent, The Honest Economics. Disclosure: the Headway link above is a referral link. If you sign up through it, I may receive a referral payment at no additional cost to you. My recommendations are determined by independent judgment, financial relationships are disclosed openly, and compensation never determines the recommendation. I only recommend products and services that I use personally, have carefully evaluated, or believe genuinely serve therapists well.

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