Bookkeeping for Therapists — Clean Books for Your Private Practice
You track your clients’ progress meticulously — your practice’s finances deserve the same care. Between insurance payouts that arrive weeks after sessions, private-pay and sliding-scale fees, platform deposits from Headway or Alma, and quarterly tax estimates, a therapy practice’s books get messy fast. Maxim Liberty gives therapists a dedicated bookkeeper, daily transaction logging, and tax-ready monthly financials — from $75/month.
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Solo practitioners and group practices get the same dedicated bookkeeper model: your transactions logged daily, every account reconciled monthly, and financials your CPA can file from — at $15/hour, billing only actual time worked. We work from your bank, processor, and payout reports, never your clinical records. 100% money-back guarantee on your first deposit. Serving practices across the U.S. since 2005.
On This Page
- Where therapy-practice money gets messy
- Insurance, platforms & clawbacks
- Quarterly taxes and the S-corp question
- What we handle
- Client privacy and your books
- Therapist bookkeeping FAQs
Where Therapy-Practice Money Gets Messy
A private practice rarely has one clean revenue stream. Sessions might be billed to insurance at contracted rates, paid privately at full fee, discounted on a sliding scale, or routed through platforms like Headway, Alma, or Grow Therapy that pay net of their fees on their own schedule. Meanwhile your EHR (SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane) shows what you earned, your bank shows what actually arrived, and the difference — processing fees, platform cuts, insurance adjustments, no-show gaps — is exactly where books go wrong. We reconcile earned-to-received every month, so you know your true session revenue, your effective rate per payer, and what is still owed to you.
Insurance, Platforms & Clawbacks
Insurance payouts arrive batched, late, and occasionally negative — a payer recoups an earlier overpayment and your deposit shrinks with no explanation attached. If your books just mirror bank deposits, clawbacks silently distort your revenue. We book payouts against what was earned, track adjustments and recoupments explicitly, and keep per-payer revenue visible, so you can see which panels actually pay you well enough to stay on — a decision worth thousands that most therapists make on gut feel.
Quarterly Taxes and the S-Corp Question
Most therapists are solo LLCs or S-corps, which means quarterly estimated taxes, owner pay that must be handled correctly (a reasonable salary via payroll if you elect S-corp status), and deductions worth capturing all year: office rent, supervision and consultation, CEUs and licensure, liability insurance, EHR subscriptions, home-office costs. Clean monthly books mean your CPA files from real numbers instead of a March shoebox — and our payroll support keeps S-corp salaries clean. We keep the records; your CPA makes the tax elections.
What We Handle for Therapy Practices
Daily transaction logging, monthly reconciliation of bank, processor, and platform accounts, earned-vs-received revenue tie-outs, clean expense categorization, 1099s for contractors and supervisees via our 1099 filing service, and financial statements sized for a practice owner, not a CFO. Group practices get per-clinician revenue and compensation tracking. Behind on your books? Our catch-up bookkeeping team rebuilds practice records routinely — including multi-year backlogs. We support QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Wave, working alongside whatever EHR you already use.
Client Privacy and Your Books
Bookkeeping for a therapy practice does not require clinical information. We work from bank feeds, processor statements, and payout reports — amounts, dates, and payers, not names, diagnoses, or session notes. Your EHR stays yours; we never need login access to clinical records. That separation protects your clients and keeps your bookkeeping clean and simple.
Therapist Bookkeeping FAQs
My EHR has reports — do I still need a bookkeeper?
Your EHR reports what you earned inside it; it cannot reconcile that against what actually reached your bank after platform fees, processing costs, insurance adjustments, and clawbacks — or categorize the expense side of your practice at all. We tie the two worlds together monthly so your true profit is a number, not a feeling.
How do you handle Headway, Alma, or Grow Therapy payouts?
Platform deposits arrive net of fees and batched across sessions. We book them against earned revenue so fees are visible as a cost of doing business (and deductible), sessions are never double-counted, and your effective per-session rate on each platform is something you can actually compare.
I just elected S-corp status — what changes in my books?
You now need a reasonable owner salary through payroll, with distributions tracked separately from wages, and cleaner-than-ever books to support both. We handle the bookkeeping side and coordinate payroll; your CPA sets the salary and files the elections.
Do you need access to my client records?
No. We work exclusively from financial sources — bank accounts, card processors, and payout reports. No names, no notes, no diagnoses. Your clinical records stay entirely within your EHR.
What does bookkeeping cost for a solo practice?
Plans start at $75/month for 5 hours of dedicated bookkeeper time at $15/hour, billed only for actual time worked — most solo practices fit comfortably in the smallest plan. Test us with little to no risk: every first deposit carries our 100% money-back guarantee.
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Dedicated bookkeeping for therapists and group practices — from $75/month with a money-back guarantee on your first deposit.