It is 8:51 a.m. You have T-minus 9 minutes before you will open the door - refreshed, alert, prepared - for you next client. T-minus 7 minutes: Oh shit! You just spent two minutes just staring off...
Therapists & Money: Survey Results
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Ready for Another Client? Here’s How To Find Them
How do you get your next client? According to the ole statistics, 1-2% of the people who hear your message will be eager to connect with you. What does that mean for you? It means that if you want...
Success is not Random: How to Create Confidence
Need more confidence so you can do things like: Talk to professional strangers so they can instantly recognize your brilliance? Raise your fees knowing that your clients will stay? Ask your...
The Truth About Being “SO Busy”
Ask a therapist (or really anyone these days) how they’re doing and you’re sure to get a litany of sighs and shudders, exclamations about how busy they are – overwhelmed and stressed out by the...
How Much Should Therapy Cost? A Q For Clients AND Therapists
Let’s be real. Money is, well… complicated. Dread. Shame. Desperation. Terror. Guilt. Frustration. Desire. Envy. These are just a few of the feelings that overtake us when considering our financial...
5 Podcasts Every Therapist in Private Practice MUST Listen To
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Do Good or Make Money: The Therapist’s Dilemma
For those of us in the helping professions – therapists, social workers, psychologists – there is a split that divides us. It goes something like this: There are those of us who are in the field to...
Am I a Professional Fraud? Three Questions to Ask Yourself
I’ve talked to So. Many. People. who have years of formal education, spend hours reading books to up their skillset, invest tons of money into continuing education, and then, when it comes down to...
When You’re At a Party Filled with Cool People and You Just Want to Climb into a Hole filled with Marshmallows
I’m at a writing event, surrounded by hip, accomplished movers and shakers. Somehow I am here, amongst all these stylish, well-bred folk – collaborating, joking, secretly rubbing my elbows against...
“I’m gonna Spank your twat!” & Other Revelatory Moments of an Upwardly Misfit
It was a balmy spring afternoon and my sister-in-sin, Jen, had brought her latest beau home to meet the family. This occasion was particularly important because the beau would meet dear Gran’mamma....
Learn how to charge premium fees while increasing the quality of care for your clients
Because therapists with more money have more capacity to make change