Bookkeeping and payroll for mental health professionals in private practice

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Pricing

Flat monthly pricing that fits the size of your practice.

Monthly Bookkeeping

Your books kept current every month for one flat rate.

What's included

Each month, transactions are categorized, bank and credit card accounts are reconciled, and a profit and loss and balance sheet arrive with a short note about anything worth a second look. If something doesn't make sense, ask, plain-language explanations are part of the service. The books stay tax-ready all year, so your preparer starts tax season with everything already in hand.

How the service is priced

The rate depends on the number of accounts, the volume of transactions, and whether payroll or contract clinicians are involved. A solo therapist with one checking account is priced lower than a group practice with several accounts. Either way the monthly rate is fixed.

Starting at

For solo practices

$165/mo

Transaction categorization

Account reconciliation

Monthly reports

Books kept tax-ready

Flat monthly rate

Work directly with Aretha

Additional Services

Some practices need more than just monthly bookkeeping.

Catch-Up Bookkeeping

For practices whose books have not been done at all. Months or years of transactions recorded, accounts reconciled, and everything brought current, without judgment about how it got this way.

Priced per engagement

Clean-Up Bookkeeping

Your books exist, but the numbers do not hold up. Miscategorized transactions, unreconciled accounts, duplicates, and balances nobody believes. I review what is there, correct what is wrong, reconcile every account, and hand your practice back books it can finally trust.

Priced per engagement

Full-Service Payroll

Payroll run dependably for practices whose payroll system is already up and running, so every pay period is processed on time and payday stops living in your head.

Starting at $150/mo

Bill Payment

Rent, software subscriptions, insurance, and vendor bills tracked, scheduled, paid on time, and recorded cleanly in your books.

From $85/mo

Invoicing

Statements go out on time, payments get matched, and you can see who still owes you. The money you earned actually shows up.

Starting at $85/mo

1099 Preparation

Year-end 1099s prepared and filed on time for the contractors your practice pays, with simple per-form pricing.

From $100 for 5 forms

QuickBooks Online Setup & Training

QuickBooks Online set up around how a mental health practice actually earns and spends, with hands-on training so you can use it with confidence. Configured by a QuickBooks ProAdvisor who knows what a practice's books should look like.

One-time, starting at $400

What This Gets You

Clean books do more than keep your tax preparer happy.

Know What Your Practice Earns

A full calendar and a comfortable bank balance are not the same thing as profit. Between sliding scale slots, cancellations, software subscriptions, and payments that land weeks after the session happened, it's easy to work hard all month and still be guessing. Monthly reports show you what a week of clinical hours really leaves behind, and that number is what tells you whether to raise a fee, add an associate, or leave things alone for now.

Tax Time Without the Scramble

I don't prepare returns, so my job is to hand the person who does a file with nothing left to chase. When the accounts are reconciled every month, your preparer starts with clean numbers instead of a folder of statements. That usually means a smaller bill from them and no evenings in March trying to remember what a charge from last May was for.

Your Attention Back on Clients

Bookkeeping tends to get done late at night after the notes are finished, or it doesn't get done at all. Handing it over gives you back those hours and also the quiet worry that sits underneath them when you know the books are behind. Your attention goes back where you wanted it, which is the people who came to you for help.

Helping the People Who Help Others

Let's Start With
a Short Conversation

Tell me where your books stand right now, even if the honest answer is that nobody has looked at them in a year. I'll ask a few questions and give you a clear idea of how I can help.

AD Keeps The Books is Aretha Dirde, a bookkeeper who spent more than 15 years as a licensed nurse in mental health before taking over the books for the people doing that work. She handles monthly bookkeeping, catch-up and clean-up work, and payroll for therapists, psychologists, counselors, and clinical social workers in private practice, and she does the work herself for every client. Based in Lancaster, California, serving practices nationwide. QuickBooks ProAdvisor certified.

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