The Wait Is A Queue

Credentialing takes 90 to 180 days per payer, and the hardest part is not the paperwork. It is the months of silence in the middle, where there is no information, no feedback, and no way to tell a slow system from a stalled one.

This episode is the psychological companion to the credentialing timeline. Why silence gets read as judgment. Why the wait lands so hard on clinicians trained by years of evaluation. Why so many good therapists quietly decide during the wait that they are not cut out for this. And how to spend three to six months you cannot shorten so that they actually produce something.

Nobody in that building has an opinion about you. They are running your file against a checklist.

RESOURCES

The free Credentialing Timeline, the five stages, honest day counts, and the checklist to run before you submit:
craftyourpractice.com/start

The operational half of this episode, on YouTube:
How to Get Credentialed as a Therapist: The Complete Timeline
https://youtu.be/i4cFCeqaEQc

Lisa Reidsema, LMHC · Craft Your Practice
More than fourteen years in private practice, paneled independently and through platforms.