E110: How Marcuetta Went from Insurance Panels to $350 Per Session PLUS What She Learned from Opening and Closing a Therapy Group Practice.

In this episode, we’re speaking with Dr. Marcuetta Sims, a licensed psychologist and premium fee therapist who practices in Georgia. 

Tune in to hear Marcuetta share how she went from being stressed out and overwhelmed on insurance panels to charging $350/session and running her own group practice after graduating LIMB.  

PLUS Marcuetta spills the tea on what it’s really like to run a group practice behind-the-scenes and how motherhood has shaped her decisions around this new season of her professional life.  

You’re not gonna want to miss this.

 

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In this episode, Marcuetta will share:

What led Marcuetta to leave insurance panels and go cash pay, premium fee at her private practice (her answers may surprise you);  

How the LIMB community helped her reshape how she understood her Christian faith and overcome false narratives around money; 

How she, as a black woman, faced internalized narratives around black folks, including what she could charge and who would pay her full fee; 

Three pieces of strategy she used to go from insurance panels to $350/session; 

Why she opened and then closed her group practice; 

Why she’s taken up speaking and consultation and taken a pause on seeing clients at this phase in her professional life and business.

 

More about Marcuetta

Dr. Marcuetta Sims is a licensed psychologist, yoga and meditation teacher, the CEO/Founder of the Worth, Wisdom, and Wellness Center, and site/clinical director for Cumberland Counseling Centers. She loves working with perfectionists who still feel worthless. Her current joys are being a new mommy and loving on her husband and fur baby.  

Learn more at drmarcuettasims.com.

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