SimplePractice 2024 impact and must-read content

In your day-to-day work as a therapist, it may sometimes be difficult to see the overall impact you’re having. 

You might recognize specific accomplishments and feel inspired after a meaningful session with a client, but seeing the bigger picture may not be as clear. 

To help therapists measure the impact of their accomplishments over this past year, SimplePractice rolled out a 2024 Year in Review feature—so you can visualize the impact of your efforts over the course of the entire year. If you haven’t already seen it in your account, you can view your Year in Review anytime by selecting the “2024 year in review” in the bottom left navigation menu.

Being a therapist in private practice can be challenging—and your work deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated. 

In this article, we’ll take a look at the overall impact metrics of the more than 225,000 practitioners and clinicians on SimplePractice, and share some of the must-read articles we published this year to help you manage your private practice.

SimplePractice 2024 impact by the numbers

In 2024, the SimplePractice community:

• Spent 5.7 billion minutes in therapy sessions
• Met with 10 million clients
• Scheduled 105 million appointments
• Wrote 9.2 million progress notes
• Scheduled 52.4 million sessions covered by insurance

These numbers are clear proof of the impact you’re making in the mental health field and in your clients’ lives.

SimplePractice also rolled out several new features in 2024, including calendar settings, new measurement-based care tools, and easier ways to hold group therapy appointments.

Out of these new additions, SimplePracticers users:

• Scheduled 711,000 out-of-office blocks (in case you need the reminder: set boundaries and take a vacation!)
• Completed 5 million measures
• Held 57,000 group appointments

Many group practices grew in size in 2024, with:

• 5.7K non-clinical staff added to group practices
• 18.2K clinicians added to group practices

Thinking of adding staff to your practice or starting a group practice this year? 

Here are some resources to help you build your team and practice:

• How to hire clinicians for your group practice
• What to know before starting a group practice
• How to record a HIPAA-compliant group clinic voicemail script
• Choosing a clinic management system software 

Must-read articles of the year

Pollen blog articles 

The SimplePractice Pollen blog contains hundreds of articles—many written by clinicians like yourself—that share advice, wisdom, and inspiration to help you thrive in your career and practice.

Here are 10 must-read Pollen articles that we published in 2024:

1. When therapists’ personal emotions arise in session: As therapists, we also bring our own pain, experiences, and worries into the room: disappointment regarding political divides, exhaustion from engaging in ongoing telehealth video therapy, anxieties about the state of the world, or personal issues that arise in our families and social lives.
2. How to determine the fair cost of therapy: The better we care for ourselves, the stronger a model we provide our clients—inviting them to do the same boundary setting and self-work in their own lives.
3. Therapists and clients experiencing political anxiety: If you or your clients are experiencing anxiety about the election or U.S. politics, you are not alone. Here are some therapist tips on how to manage it.
4. Overcoming generational trauma to thrive in private practice: Generational trauma is trauma that is passed down from generation to generation. The root cause of many private practice owners’ lack of progress may stem from unresolved generational trauma. Learn how to honestly assess the impact your familial past may affect your present, and future, self.
5. How do you talk to someone about starting therapy?: As a therapist, the most common question I am asked by clients, family, and friends is, How do I effectively encourage my friend or loved one to see a therapist?. Learn how to start those conversations by reading this article.
6. Mental health for mental health professionals: When we think about mental health for mental health professionals, we’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge the high levels of stress, burnout, and even suicidality among therapists and clinicians. 
7. How to talk about suicide: If a client, family member, friend, or colleague is struggling with mental health issues, a stressful life situation, or suicidal ideation, check in with them using this narrative, person-centered approach.
8. 45 essential psychology statistics: These statistics are an important tool for contextualizing and understanding human behavior among representative samples of the population.
9. How to build a client waitlist: It’s only natural that therapists want to keep their caseloads full and help as many people as possible, however, there is only so much time in the week.
10. Therapist boundaries from a dynamic perspective: Therapists need to examine their boundaries. Although there are many ways to think about and implement boundaries, this article offers insights on a psychoanalytical approach that may be right for you. 

If you’re interested in writing for Pollen, email us at editorial@simplepractice.com. 

Resource articles

SimplePractice’s Resource center also has hundreds of free eBooks, guides, worksheets, and templates to help you manage and grow your practice.

You can download a wide variety of worksheet PDFs to save to your electronic health record (EHR), customize for your practice’s needs, and share with therapy clients.

Here are some must-read articles and PDFs of 2024 to check out and download:

1. How to start a private practice on the side: This article contains a free 33-page eBook with all the tips and steps to build a private practice.
2. Guide to the human brain (and a free human brain diagram): This brain diagram can support therapists in session to explain different parts of the human brain and how they function together—or, you can use it as decor in your office. 
3. Therapist’s guide to creating a website: Therapist websites aren’t just digital real estate—they can help you forge a real connection with potential clients and grow your practice in the process. Use this step-by-step guide to get started.
4. Guide to getting your first 30 clients: If you’re looking to build your caseload, this downloadable checklist contains seven actionable steps to get more therapy clients.
5. Therapist rate increase letter template: New year, new therapy rate? Learn how to effectively and compassionately communicate your therapy fee increase by reading this article, then download and customize the letter template to put your knowledge to use.
6. Gaslighting warning signs worksheet: This gaslighting warning signs worksheet can be a useful tool to share with clients who are navigating difficult or emotionally abusive relationships.
7. Boundary exploration worksheet: Use this worksheet to help clients understand different types of boundaries—intellectual, emotional, physical, and more—and how they affect the quality of their relationships.
8. A step-by-step guide to the therapy intake process: Building a connection with a new client while collecting and documenting information can feel like a juggling act. This guide covers how to prepare for intake sessions, tips for writing intake notes, therapy intake questions, and more.
9. Money beliefs and behaviors assessment: Financial burdens can cause relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, and insomnia. This free assessment helps therapists increase client awareness of their money beliefs and financial behaviors.
10. Urge surfing worksheet: “Urge surfing” is a technique used to ride the wave of an intense emotion, unwanted behavior, or impulse—without panicking or experiencing other forms of distress like “blowing up” or “melting down.” Use this worksheet to help your clients ride that wave and manage their response to distressing situations.

How SimplePractice streamlines running your practice

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If you’ve been considering switching to an EHR system, SimplePractice empowers you to streamline appointment bookings, reminders, and rescheduling and simplify the billing and coding process—so you get more time for the things that matter most to you.

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