8-11 see a patient each hour. 1-4 see another patient each hour. On call one week a month so I get to squeeze in a few extra patients at odd hours. Some days I will schedule patients for lunch hour. When I first started at this job, there was a backlog of testing so I did a boatload of assessments. Now I am too booked up with psychotherapy cases to do very much testing. It is a pretty hectic pace, but I get breaks when people don't show. My pay is productivity based, so I like to keep my productivity high 😎. I see a mix of kids, teens, and adults. Also, do a little bit of marital therapy. A smidge of forensic work. I am also on hospital's pain committee and the addiction program committee. I was going to provide clinical supervision for an aspiring LPC on the side but that is on hold for now. Also, consult a bit with colleagues during the few minutes between patients.
To tell the truth, I am not going to keep doing this long term and plan on going back into a more administrative role in a few years. I love providing psychotherapy, just not all the time and I also would prefer to be able to be more selective about cases that I take on personally. Each therapist has their own unique personality style and strengths and weaknesses and fitting patients to therapist is important and something that I was able to do effectively with my previous employer. We don't even try to do that here because it is more of an independent practice model for each of the psychologists so referrals are just assigned to whoever has an opening or per patient's request.
