Starting a private practice—hanging a shingle—is a dream for many licensed clinical social workers. Some enter their master’s programs with this goal already in mind, while others, after years of experience in varying roles, come to learn that private practice may be where they can be most effective and, importantly, happy as a professional.
“I think there are people who are temperamentally able to roll with bureaucracies and function really well and do great work within a bureaucracy. I am not temperamentally suited,” laughs Liz Fletcher, LCSW, when discussing why she went into private practice. Fletcher opened her practice, Big Sky Counseling, Inc, in Oklahoma in 2013.
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