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When Dr. Martha Koo interviews candidates for her interventional psychiatry practice, she doesn't ask about their resume. She puts them back-to-back with a stranger and hands one of them a picture. "Describe this so they can draw it. You can't see what they're drawing." "There's a difference between 'draw a circle on the page' versus 'can you draw a circle, maybe the size of a quarter, in the exact center middle of the page,'" she explains. She's watching for precision. Patience when the other person struggles. Whether they blame or adjust. Dr. Koo has been running TMS practices for 15 years. Her first technician? Now runs recruiting for her entire organization. She stopped filtering for credentials a long time ago. "There is no standardized TMS certification, no standardized esketamine certification," says William Sauvé, MD, who co-founded practices that became Greenbrook TMS. "You're going to have to train those people yourself." We polled the Osmind Psychiatry Collective: what matters most in a new hire? Empathy came in first. Technical skill came in dead last. "Nobody comes to this clinic because they're feeling great and everything's going perfect," Dr. Sauvé tells his staff. "You need people who can resolve things and not get upset when things get a little chaotic." You can teach someone to run a TMS machine. You can't teach them to stay calm when a patient with treatment-resistant depression gets frustrated at session 15. Drs. Koo and Sauvé share their full hiring framework, including interview exercises, scoring rubrics, onboarding checklists. We turned it into a guide: https://lnkd.in/dwv_8H4z

Psychiatry can be isolating. Even when you're leading a multi-site practice. Martha B. Koo, M.D., LFAPA, FASAM, FCTMSS is Chief Medical Officer of Your Behavioral Health, overseeing multiple clinics across Southern California. She joined The Psychiatry Collective for the research and clinical discussions, but stayed for the community. "It's the real-time live interaction. My favorite is the clinical lounge, exchanging ideas. The research hub, staying on point with current research and best practices." Martha discovered metabolic psychiatry through discussions in the community. "It really helped me know what others are doing and keeps me on the forefront of things to add in my practice." The result? She's implementing new approaches she learned directly from peers who are using them in real clinical settings. "Being part of the collective has absolutely enhanced my practice. It's mainly given me such a sense of community... it really feels supportive. It's just invaluable." If you're looking to stay current without the isolation, join The Psychiatry Collective and connect with psychiatrists who are actively advancing their practices.

As psychedelic medicines continue to move closer to FDA approval, the field needs to start laying the groundwork for commercial launch, patient access, and clinic support. Our co-founder Jimmy Qian shared perspectives at CNS Summit earlier this month on what we're learning across the ecosystem: working with 800+ interventional psychiatry practices, conducting the first real-world evidence study from legal Oregon psilocybin services, collaborating with biopharma on launch preparation and commercial development, and engaging with government stakeholders on infrastructure needs. The field is evolving fast. Thanks to CNS Summit for bringing together the researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders pushing this work forward.

You hit 70% capacity and stay there. Wait times in your market are 3-6 months. We asked psychiatrists and PMHNPs across the country what's blocking their schedules. The bottleneck is how referrals flow, how you're positioned online, and whether you've built systems to handle growth. 3 things practitioners say actually work: 1. Call hospitals directly. Monthly. Mary (Virginia PMHNP): "Hospital discharges will wait 6 months to refer internally, and I have availability within a 2-week window." Her fix: Call discharge coordinators every month. Don't wait to be discovered. 2. Hire before you feel ready David (Chicago psychiatrist, overfull for 15 years): "I've often thought about hiring but figured I'd be trading one kind of work for another. But all the smart people I know have practices with people they supervise." The math: 1 psychiatrist + 1 NP = 1.9x capacity. Alternative: Hire a therapist/case manager first to handle measurement-based care. More affordable than hiring another prescriber. 3. Get visible where patients actually search Psychology Today, Therapy Tribe, Google Business Profile, and SEO for interventional treatments (TMS, ketamine, Spravato). We wrote a full guide covering hospital referral scripts, tech stack for scaling, AI intake tools, regional market strategies, and more. What's been your best patient acquisition channel? https://lnkd.in/dqtKE8jB

Your interventional practice can’t afford fragmented operations. With Osmind 360, you get an EHR +a team that handles your billing and prior auths. Full practice management support in one partnership. Purpose-built for modern psychiatry.

Is your interventional psychiatry practices losing money and time to inefficient systems? Osmind 360 is your full practice partner. From Spravato REMS to prior auths, our experts recover revenue others miss.