Unlock hidden tax savings: Top tax deductions for psychologists
Financial Literacy for Psychologists with Heard
November 2025
Join Heard’s webinar to learn how to maximize your tax savings as a psychologist. The speakers have helped thousands successfully file and save money by identifying key deductions. Tax deductions can significantly reduce your tax bill, but only if you know what to write off.
In this session, you’ll learn about common deductions like business meals, travel, and home office expenses, as well as overlooked opportunities like personal psychotherapy. The speakers share actionable tips on staying organized year-round to streamline tax preparation and avoid last-minute stress.
Learning objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants can:
Identify several key deductions that can help them save money.
Explain how to track their deductions.
Discuss several ways to streamline tax preparation.
Presenter disclaimer
Forrest Perry and Andrew Riesen have working relationships with Heard. As such, they have both a financial and an intellectual interest in the webinar content. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a balanced view on key tax deductions and strategies to help psychologists save money, stay organized, and avoid financial mistakes.
Accessibility
We strive to provide an inclusive, accessible experience that enables all individuals to engage with our programming. Captioning is displayed on this webinar recording and a transcript is also available. If you require any other accommodations to fully engage with this webinar recording, please contact Advertising.
This program does not offer CE credit.
Paid for by
This topical webinar for APA members is paid for by Heard. The content was created by Heard and does not reflect the views of APA or its editorial staff. Email Advertising to learn more. Heard offers an accounting platform for psychologists that enables them to manage their bookkeeping, taxes, and payroll, all in one place.
Presenters
Forrest Perry
A former CPA who graduated cum laude from Gonzaga University with an accounting and finance degree. He started his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he worked in the public accounting/external audit department and served a variety of clients. His passion for the mental health field led him to join Heard in 2021 as its second employee. He has consulted with thousands of therapists over the past 3 years and helped build out Heard’s teams and processes for tax, accounting/bookkeeping operations, customer support, customer success, onboarding, and sales. He currently leads partnerships at Heard. Forrest enjoys traveling the world, exploring the outdoors (skiing and backpacking), and rooting for Gonzaga Basketball.
Andrew Riesen
Andrew Riesen is a mission-driven entrepreneur, financial accountant, and CEO of Heard, a financial back-office solutions provider designed to support therapists in private practice. Before founding Heard, Andrew worked at PwC, where he gained experience as a financial accountant, helped establish an internal software incubator, and co-founded an affordable sales tax solution for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Passionate about empowering mental health professionals, Andrew focuses on streamlining business operations for therapists, enabling them to focus on client care. Andrew is an avid explorer of the Pacific Northwest, often found trail running, cycling, or snowboarding in his free time. When he’s not outdoors, he enjoys delving into books and journaling.
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