For Florida clinicians who own a practice or are about to. The legal, financial and operational questions that decide whether a practice works — free, and written by an LMHC who has helped launch more than 200 of them.
Mentality Today handles credentialing, billing, claims and practice operations for Florida practices, from your first panel application to your tenth clinician.
Talk to Mentality Today →Qualified is the floor; fit is the decision. The four fits that make a hire right for your practice, licensed vs prelicensed hires in Florida, structured interview questions that reveal fit, reference checks that aren’t theater, and a suggested reading list.
Read it → Free tool · Hiring cliniciansDescribe your practice and the seat you’re filling. Get a role profile for your job post, interview questions for the four fits, a 1–5 rubric, reference-check questions, and a side-by-side comparison of your candidates. Runs entirely in your browser.
Open the scorecard → Guide · Hiring cliniciansFive agencies, four different tests, and the one most likely to audit a Florida group practice. A live 4-of-6 workers’ comp check, the facts that make therapy practices look like employers, what misclassification costs, and the three realistic ways to fix it.
Read it → Guide · Starting outThe honest sequence from graduation to a practice that pays you — what an RMHCI can and can't do, the business setup order, why credentialing has to start before you resign, and a live calculator for the one number everything depends on.
Read it → Free tool · SetupFourteen steps from LLC to first client, in the order that actually works, with time, cost and “needs first” on every step. Total out of pocket to get legally set up: about $125.
Open the checklist → Guide · RevenueWhich payers actually matter here, the behavioral health carve-out that stalls applications for months, the Medicare change that opened enrollment to mental health counselors in 2024, Florida Medicaid under the rebuilt SMMC 3.0, and what really causes delays.
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