The Key To Financial Success In Private Practice Psychotherapy

The only way to make a lot of money in Private Psychotherapy Practice is to make money while you are asleep. This means that it is essential to have multiple streams of income independent of your active involvement.

Since I have had a remarkable private practice for forty years, I would like to share some of things that have worked for me:

• Specialization in a needed intervention. For me, Child Psychotherapy gave me my start and Emotional Intelligence/Anger Management is my current specialization.
• Seek additional training in your specialty. (Harvard University in Child Psychotherapy served me well)
• Have a professionally designed website with a blog established for your practice.
• Master Social Networking, blogging, presenting, writing articles as well as making TV. and radio appearances.
• You must become active on Linked in, Facebook and other social networking sites.
• Write books, blogs and articles about your specialty.
• Market your books on your website as well as through your own and the Affiliate Programs of others. This brings in money while you are asleep. (Anderson & Anderson) earns in excess of $100,000 per year from the sell of books and DVDs alone.
• Self-publish your books, posters, DVDs, CDs and other material associated with your specialty. (Our books are printed in China for $1.50 and sell for $28 to $250 each)
• Train and certify others in your specialty. (We train providers all over the U.S. as well as other English Speaking countries in the Anderson & Anderson Anger Management Facilitator Certification)
• The Anderson & Anderson Anger Management Training is three days at a cost of $1500 per person. If ten persons attend one training, that equals $15,000.00.
• Provide your services in other languages. (Our curriculum is published in Spanish, English, Chinese and French)
• If you would like to receive high fees for your work, locate your office in an affluent area. (We are in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles)
• Work with a high income demographic. (We provide Coaching for Physicians and Attorneys)
• Provide a service that is needed or wanted. (We provide anger management that is often mandated by Human Resource Managers, Hospital Administrators and Courts)
• Emotional Intelligence Coaching and Anger Management can add additional streams of income for Managed Care Practices.
• Always charge more that everyone else. Inexpensive is really cheap and gains you nothing.
• Whenever you need or want a raise, increase you fees or the price of your products.

Click here for a summary of my practice success:  http://www.helpstartshere.org/press-room/african-americans-in-social-work-qa-with-anger-management-specialist-and-millionaire-entrepreneur-george-anderson-msw.html.

George Anderson to present to the Long Beach Memorial Hospital

Tomorrow, November 14, 2012, George Anderson will present to the Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Staff.

This one-hour presentation is the same one that was presented to the American Medical Association’s Conference in Hawaii on November 9, 2012. The title of the presentation is “Emotional Intelligence for Disruptive Physician Behavior”.

Both presentations are a clear indication of the status of Emotional Intelligence For Impulse Control for Physicians in the United States. Any intervention that is approved for physicians is automatically considered legitimate/acceptable for the rest of the population.

Emotional Intelligence for Impulse Control/Disruptive Behavior is a current source of concern for HealthCare Organizations Nationwide.

Anderson & Anderson is considered the major organization for providing intervention for “disruptive physician behavior”.

George Anderson, CAMF

The American Medical Association Supports The Value Of Emotional Intelligence

A large number of Medical School Deans and Faculty responded with support for including Emotional Intelligence in the training of medical students and residents. All of the Deans present at the Hawaii Conference for George Anderson’s Presentation “What are the solutions? Anger Management in healthcare” clearly supports the inclusion of Emotional Intelligence for Impulse Control.

The following topics were included with examples in Anderson’s Presentation:

• The important role played by the use of the Bar On EQ 2.0 Emotional Intelligence Assessment in coaching and training physicians.
• Explanation of the 5 EQ Composites and the 15 Sub-scales.
• EQ Skilled-based coaching.
• Anderson & Anderson curriculum for skill enhancement in EQ.
• The importance of practice in developing and improving EQ skills.

This presentation offered those in attendance an opportunity to learn how coaching can be used as a practical application for skill enhancement in Emotional Intelligence in Medical Schools.

George Anderson, CAMF

Diplomate, American Association of Anger Management Providers

 

American Association of Anger Management Providers Expands

The American Association of Anger Management Providers has a new website, a new Executive Director and plans to sponsor its first national conference. Announcements will be made as soon as the current website is finalized.

Begininning this week, all current and previous members will be sent renewal applications and requests to assist the organization in our plans for our first national conference in Los Angeles in June.

Please visit the new website and offer your own suggestions. Consider volunteering to become a Regional Vice President for your state or region.

Click here to review the new website for AAAMP, Association of Anger Management Providers:
http://aaamp1.wordpress.com

George Anderson, MSW, BCD, CAMF

Diplomate, American Association of Anger Management Providers

Anderson & Anderson’s Anger Management Spreads to the Sultanate of Oman

The Ministry of Education for the nation of Oman has selected Anderson & Anderson to provide Anger Management Facilitator Certification for a key member of its organization. According to the Rashid Alalawi,

“Mr. Anderson as you know, anger is a problem all over the world. Therefore, I have been sent to receive training from you and see if we can implement your model in Oman”

Mr. Alalawi is scheduled to attend the three day live Anderson & Anderson Facilitator Certification Training in East Rutherford, New Jersey on October 19,20,21, 2012. Other participants are coming from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. This training will include the Anderson & Anderson Emotional Intelligence for impulse control/anger management.

George Anderson, CAMF

Diplomate, American Association of Anger Management Providers

 

 

Anger Management Coaching Can Be Lucrative

The secrets to making money and changing lives with Emotional Intelligence/Anger Management is expert training, CAMF which is Certified Anger Management Facilitator Certification, curricula, EQ assessments, client workbooks and social media marketing.

It is not at all unusual to earn an average of $50,000 per year by working 12 hours per week. This can be accomplished by providing small group classes, individual coaching, Emotional Intelligence Assessments as well as Organizational Anger Management training for violence prevention, hostile work environments and anger management intervention for business and industry.

Take a look at the enclosed article from Business Week:

Anger Management Goes to the Doctor

By Chase Scheinbaum on August 02, 2012

In an operating room at a large regional hospital, George Anderson opted to sit on a low metal stool. He had no interest in the patient undergoing open-heart surgery. Instead, he positioned himself to have a good angle on the surgeon’s face. Asked by the hospital to help the cardiac specialist curb his explosive tantrums, Anderson, an anger management expert, watched carefully for signs of irritation. For a while, the surgeon worked steadily, but then, just as he sewed a valve into the patient’s heart, his phone buzzed. He took the call. Not a friendly one, evidently. He cursed and screamed into his hands-free headset for about a minute before abruptly hanging up. No one uttered a word. “Everyone in the room was stunned,” says Anderson, 73, in his soothing Mississippi accent.

In an earlier blowup, the doctor had torn into an anesthesiologist and attorneys were calling—even while he was in the OR. (Because of confidentiality rules, Anderson will only identify the doctor as one of the “top bypass surgeons” in the country.) If the surgeon couldn’t keep his rage in check, he would lose his job and the hospital would possibly be penalized, to say nothing of the patients under his scalpel. After the operation, the surgeon took off his latex gloves, threw them on the floor, and left the operating room in silence.

Anderson & Anderson, the business Anderson founded 30 years ago in Los Angeles, has trained and certified at least 11,000 anger management specialists. Lockheed Martin (LMT), Halliburton (HAL), and United Parcel Service (UPS) have used his services to ward off lawsuits and dust-ups, as has the federal prison system. He was even tapped to consult on Anger Management, the 2003 Adam Sandler/Jack Nicholson comedy.

Over his career, Anderson has had clients from a variety of industries, including athletes, cops, and business executives (though as yet no JetBlue (JBLU) flight attendants). Last year, for the first time, more than a third of his income came from medical workers; this year he expects to add 125 more of them, sent to him because of their inability to manage the pressures of the job. Asks Anderson: “Can you imagine the amount of stress a doctor experiences just by waking up in the morning?

”The unflappable George Anderson

Medical professionals present Anderson with unique challenges. Their hours are brutal, the stakes are high, and the threat of malpractice suits is ever-present. The life-or-death nature of the work wears at steely nerves even on the best days, Anderson says. Many doctors work long hours at the expense of family and exercise, which can dissolve tension. One doctor laughed in his face when he suggested she take a vacation. There’s another factor to consider: Since 2010, doctors’ pay has stagnated, with some specialties weathering a 10 percent cut.

Anderson was among the first of his peers to capitalize on the boom of rageaholic caregivers. It began in earnest in 2009 when the Joint Commission, an independent body that is the largest accreditor of medical programs, mandated that hospitals deal with “disruptive” docs. In one study, published in American Journal of Nursing in 2002, 90 percent of hospital workers, including doctors and nurses, reported “yelling” and “abusive language,” along with “condescension” and “berating colleagues.” A quarter of the 1,200 people in that survey said they witnessed such behavior weekly. “There isn’t a doctor alive who hasn’t seen it,” says William Norcross, executive director of a program at the University of California at San Diego that uses anger management to treat irascible physicians.

Consider increasing your income by gaining your CAMF and offering these services.

George Anderson, CAMF

310-207-3591 or http://www.andersonservices.com

Anderson & Anderson Responds To Requests For East Coast Trainings

On September 17, 2012, Anderson & Anderson will announce its’ Anger Management Facilitator Certification trainings for New Jersey on October 25,26,27,2012 as well as April 4, 5, and 6, 2013. The hotel selected to this training will be within easy reach from Manhattan as well as other east coast cities and states.

Please visit this site tomorrow for the location and time.

George Anderson, MSW, LCSW, BCD

Concerge Trainings of 6 Participants Now Available

Our April trainings in Los Angeles and Chicago were both small and very intensive. The participants gave Yacine Bell, our Oakland based Faculty person who conducted the Los Angeles training the best evaluations of any of our trainngs. According to the 6 persons in attendance, it was the intamacy and personalization of the material that resonated with all of the participants.

I provided the training in Chicago for another 6 participants and received appreciation for not cancelled the training because of the small number. Therefore, I decided in Chicago to purposely market future small training of between 6 and ten any where in the U.S,

Suggest a location and help us get 6 persons and we will be there. We will soon announce a Three Day Training for London the second weekend in August. Follow our website as well as our new Facebook Page at Facebook@andersonandanderson.

Impulsive Control for Developmentally Disabled Adults and Youth

A developmental disability is a disability that is manifested before the person reaches 22 years of age, which constitutes a substantial disability to the affected individual, and is attributable to mental retardation or related conditions which include cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism or other neurological conditions when such conditions result in impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior similar to that of a person with mental retardation.

Adaptive behavior means that the person has overall adaptive behavior which is significantly limited in two or more skill areas (communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure, and work:, as measured by an instrument which is standardized, appropriate to the person’s living environment, and administered and clinically determined by a qualified professional.

Like so many other skill enhancement interventions, anger management professionals have overlooked the entire developmentally disabled population. This is unfortunate, unacceptable and must be addressed.

Like any other individuals, persons who are developmentally disabled suffer from deficits in their ability to understand and manage stress, recognize when they are becoming angry and control their behavior when unpleasant feelings are present. In addition, they may be prone to appear insensitive and lacking in empathy.

Anger management classes for developmentally disabled persons must sometimes be offered on an individual basis or in dyads or very small groups. Graphics with pictures as well as CDs and DVDs or posters must be maximized for those who learn best with visual material.

Frequent, brief sessions are often better than 50- minute sessions that overwhelm the client’s capacity to sustain attention. All providers must have a minimum of 40 hours in Anger Management Facilitator Certification.

For persons 18 years of age or older, the Bar On EQi Assessment is ideal to determine the current skill level relative to the 15 emotional intelligence scales contained in this instrument.

George Anderson
, http://www.andersonservices.com
 Anderson & Anderson
, APC, 310-207-3591

 

The Etiology of Anger Does Not Offer Solution to its Managememnt

The Etiology of Anger Does Not Offer Solutions to its Management

If one comes across a person who has been shot by an arrow, one does not spend time wondering where the arrow came from, or the cast of the individual who shot it, or analyzing what type of wood the shaft is made of, or the manner in which the arrowhead was fashioned. Rather, one should focus on immediately pulling out the arrow.

–Shayyammuni, the Buddha

It is a popular notion in some anger management programs to focus on identifying the ‘triggers’ which may cause a person to behave angrily. It is common to observe in anger management process groups, participants explaining how someone “pushed my buttons”.

This notion takes away the responsibility of the angry perpetrators responsibility for his or her aggression and or violence. We are responsible for our own behavior regardless of the circumstances.

Rather than focusing on the cause of ones anger, it is far more productive to learn to recognize the initial signs of irritation, frustration, discomfort or whatever other emotions precede your anger, labeling these feelings and developing tools to stop the anger from becoming destructive to you or someone else.

While assessments are useful in anger management intervention, rarely is it worthwhile to examine “triggers or buttons” which may lead to anger. Few, if any legitimate Emotional Intelligence Assessments include questions on triggers or buttons.Think of a Juke Box, if you push the button for a particular tune and something else plays, over time you will give up pushing that button because you do not hear the tune which you expected. Similarly, if the person who is responding to the “triggers” ceases to respond, that issue is close to resolution.

Anger management assessments should assess for anger, stress, assertive communication and other emotional intelligence scales. Skill enhancement in the 15 Bar On EQi Scales should be taught in all anger management classes or coaching.

George Anderson, MSW, BCD
www.andersonservices.com
www.aaamp.org
www.anger-management-resources.org
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George Anderson is a Diplomate in the American Association of Anger Management Providers.