For Mental Health Providers

Free guides, tools, and resources, built for providers by one of your own.

Three free 2026-2027 resource guides you can download right now, plus Own Your Panel, a tool for solo therapists tired of insurance running the show.

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Provider Resource Guides

Free guides for behavioral health providers, from one of your own.

These guides cover two of the most consequential decisions a practice can make, choosing the right EHR and building a marketing strategy that actually fills a caseload. Both are free. No email required.

2027 Edition · Economic Forecast

2027 Behavioral Health Economic Forecast

Market-level projections for 2027 across all four practice settings, built from current market research, HRSA workforce data, and private practice financial benchmarks. Includes 2027 revenue projection calculators for solo and group practices.

  • U.S. behavioral health market size and CAGR projections through 2027
  • Key tailwinds and headwinds by practice type
  • Solo, group, multi-site, and residential benchmarks and 2027 outlooks
  • Revenue projection calculators: two solo and two group scenarios
  • 14 cited sources, all peer-reviewed or government data
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PDF · 14 pages · 33 KB · Free · 2027 Edition

2026 Edition · Provider Resource Guide

EHR Selection for Behavioral Health

A practical comparison for solo practices, group practices, multi-site organizations, and residential facilities. Includes a side-by-side feature chart across 7 platforms, a Netsmart CareFabric® spotlight, and a vendor checklist you can bring to every demo.

  • EHR essentials every behavioral health system must cover
  • Platform-by-platform breakdown: SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, ICANotes, Valant, Netsmart & more
  • Full feature & pricing comparison chart
  • Key questions to ask every vendor before signing
  • Implementation checklist & pre-demo prep
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PDF · 10 pages · 138 KB · Free · Updated 2026

2026 Edition · Provider Resource Guide

Marketing Your Behavioral Health Practice

How to get noticed, fill your caseload, and grow in a competitive 2026 marketplace. Covers every practice type and every major marketing channel, with a 90-day master checklist you can start using today.

  • Marketing fundamentals: niche, website, Google Business Profile
  • Solo, group, multi-site & residential strategies
  • Private pay marketing and premium rate positioning
  • Digital marketing deep dive: SEO, Google Ads, social, email
  • 90-day master marketing checklist by priority level
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PDF · 13 pages · 273 KB · Free

Edition 01 · Practitioner Workbook

The AI-Ready Counselor

A structured, self-paced workbook for mental health professionals navigating AI in payer systems, clinical work, and the business of therapy. Clarity and compliance without the hype or the overwhelm.

  • How payers are using AI in utilization review, claims, and prior auth
  • Evaluating ambient scribes and note-drafting tools against HIPAA & ethics
  • Where AI adds real leverage in marketing, scheduling, and admin
  • Compliance guardrails: BAAs, informed consent, licensing board positions
  • 60+ item readiness checklist, designed to revisit quarterly
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PDF · 25 pages · 53 KB · Free

Also from Justin
Own Your Panel

Because insurance companies count on you not knowing your rights.

Every solo therapist I know runs into the same invisible tax, hours of paperwork, denials that don't get fought, and reimbursement rates that haven't budged in years. The tools built for large groups don't fit solo practice. The advice online is either outdated or generic. And most of us just don't have the bandwidth to become armchair experts on payer contracts between sessions.

Own Your Panel is built specifically for us. Not a billing platform. Not a credentialing service. An insurance rights and advocacy tool that helps solo clinicians understand where they stand, fight denials in minutes instead of hours, and actually negotiate for better rates.

It's free to start. No credit card to join the waitlist. Founding members lock in 30% off forever.

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The Numbers

The case for knowing your rights.

36%
Less per session from insurance vs. private pay, the gap Own Your Panel helps close
$50K
Average annual revenue lost by practices using outdated billing approaches
243 / 375
Insurance plans failed 2023 network adequacy standards, creating leverage you're not using
What It Does

Everything a solo practice needs to get paid fairly.

Built for LPCs, LCSWs, MFTs, and psychologists in private practice. Every feature is shaped by what solo clinicians actually need, not what enterprise billing software thinks we need.

AI appeal letter generator

Enter the denial code, CPT code, and payer. Get a professional, payer-specific appeal letter ready to send in under a minute.

Rate benchmarking

See how your reimbursements compare to regional peers. Know immediately if you're being underpaid, and by how much.

Directory status checker

Verify you're correctly listed and actively counted in payer directories, protecting you under new ghost network regulations.

Contract negotiation scripts

Proven language for requesting rate increases from the most common payers, tailored to your license type and state.

Network adequacy alerts

Get notified when new federal or state laws create leverage for your practice, like the 2025 network adequacy rule changes.

Denial pattern tracker

Log and track denials by payer and code. Identify patterns that reveal systematic underpayment or bad-faith denial practices.

See Demo in Action Before 2027 Launch

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Including the live appeal-letter generator demo. No account required.

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Clinical & Technology Advisory

The thing most behavioral health technology companies are missing: a practicing clinician at the table.

Software shapes clinical work. But software is almost never built by the people doing the clinical work. The result is systems that technically function and practically frustrate. Documentation workflows that don't match how sessions actually unfold. Note templates that satisfy billing requirements but lose clinical nuance. Implementation plans that underestimate change management because nobody involved has sat across from a client in crisis.

I've spent years building the bridge from the clinical side, creating tools, writing guides, and working with practices navigating the exact workflows that behavioral health technology is meant to serve. What I bring to a technology organization isn't a generalist's curiosity. It's a clinician's conviction about what actually matters, grounded in daily practice.

What I bring to behavioral health technology

Clinical workflow translation

Documented and analyzed clinical workflows across solo practice, group practice, CMHC, residential, and court-involved settings, including the edge cases that break standard EHR configurations.

Deep knowledge of behavioral health EHR platforms

Authored a comprehensive 2026 behavioral health EHR guide covering the major platforms across solo, group, multi-site, and residential settings, written for the practices that use these systems daily.

Provider adoption and change management

Having trained clinicians on documentation standards, AI tools, and payer compliance, I understand the human side of EHR implementation: what makes clinicians trust a system, what makes them work around it, and how to close that gap.

Clinician-to-technology builder

Built Own Your Panel (insurance RCM tool for solo therapists) and The AI-Ready Counselor (AI compliance workbook for clinicians). Building something clinicians actually use teaches you what documentation and workflow problems are worth solving.

Complex care settings, not just outpatient

Court-involved family work, ADHD assessment, reunification therapy, and expert witness testimony require the same multi-party, compliance-forward, documentation-intensive workflows that define CMHC, CCBHC, and residential behavioral health environments.

"The most useful thing I can offer a behavioral health technology organization is what a decade of clinical practice produced: an instinct for the difference between a workflow that looks clean in a demo and one that actually holds up in a session."

Justin Puch, LPC

You went to school to help people.

Not to fight insurance companies. Join 340+ therapists on the waitlist, early access is free, founding members lock in 30% off forever.

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