How to Make a Six Figure Salary as a Therapist

Let us know if these tips helped you make 100k as a therapist!

If you’re interested in joining the KMA team, visit our Careers page https://www.kmatherapy.com/careers or contact our recruiter Tre Reid at [email protected] for more information.

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Whether you've been practicing for years or you're just graduating soon, you want to make sure you're making the salary you deserve as a therapist.

Hey guys, I'm Tre, a recruiter here at KMA Therapy. Even though a quick Google search will tell you that most therapists make 50 to 60k, I've seen many therapists make over 100k here at KMA Therapy.

If you want to make over $100,000 per year as a therapist, here are four easy strategies to make it well within your reach.

1: Establish a full and consistent schedule

To make over $100,000 as a therapist, your schedule needs to allow you to see as many clients as possible. Your schedule should offer about four to five days per week, with lots of availability every day.

If you're working in multiple locations, at least two days per week should be at one location. This allows clients to choose times that work for them without having to push sessions into the following week.

2: Offer evening sessions

Your clients have busy lives. It doesn't matter whether it's a full-time job or full-time school schedule. Your schedule has to suit their needs. The therapists in our practice who are making $100,000 are usually working evening sessions between five to 9 pm in addition to their daytime sessions.

If you're a new therapist, your evening sessions will most likely fill up first, so you want to make sure you offer at least two or three evenings in your schedule.

3: Work with a group therapy practice

When you factor in bookkeeping, emailing, and scheduling clients, those hours add up fast. If you're running your own private practice, you’re responsible for all of these hours on top of your regular client hours.

In our experience, therapists at KMA are a lot more likely to make that six figures if they spend that time actually seeing clients. Working with a group practice as opposed to running your own private practice allows you to focus on the most meaningful parts of the therapy process – using your skills to improve your clients’ lives.

4: Practice excellent client retention

To make over $100,000 as a therapist, you need to do more than just get new clients to book with you. Your clients actually need to come back. Even in a group practice, you can get all the clients assigned to you, but your schedule will never build if you don't keep those clients.

To make six figures, you really need to have a robust, full schedule. Therapists in our practice who have the best retention have these three things in common:

• Number one: They set the clients up for success by helping them understand how long therapy will last and what their treatment plan entails
• Number two: They create strong therapeutic relationships by connecting and bonding with their clients
• Number three: They're really great at scheduling. A lot of them see the same client at the same time every week. This helps them establish consistency and really build up that schedule.

Here at KMA, we really want you to be successful. We are committed to seeing each one of our therapists hit that $100,000 goal. So, we work individually with each one of our therapists to ensure they make that salary potential.

We believe that for all the good you do as a therapist, you deserve to live a life of abundance.

So if you're interested in joining our team, check out our Careers page or just email the address above and don't be shy to let us know if these tips helped you reach that 100k.