Private Practice

How To Start Your Private Practice: The Bare Necessities

May 7, 2009

A large percentage of board-certified music therapists are self-employed, yet few universities offer training in starting and managing a business. This leaves the music therapist to “learn on the fly,” reading books, searching for information online, and learning through trial and error. Part of the mission of the Music Therapy Maven blog is to provide […]

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How-To Educate a Diverse Crowd: A Music Therapist’s Dilemma

April 23, 2009

One of the blessings (and curses) of my profession is that music therapy has extensive applications. As I wrote earlier, music therapists work with many different clinical populations in a wide variety of settings. We also consistently do a lot of educating and presenting as most people do not really know what music therapy entails. […]

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Payroll Taxes Simplified, Part II

April 17, 2009

About a month ago, I wrote a post called Payroll Taxes Simplified, Part I. That post defined terms needed to understand the “what” of payroll taxes. This post will provide an overview of the tax schedule, the “when” of payroll taxes. As before, a disclaimer: I am not an accountant. This post does not replace […]

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Payroll Taxes Simplified, Part I

March 20, 2009

The picture you see is what I looked like for the past two years as quarterly filings came due. It took me hours to make all the calculations, fill out all the forms, double-check that I had the correct forms, make sure I made the correct payments PLUS make sure I had the correct ones […]

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