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You want your clients to be relaxed & comfortable around you, so having pictures on your website or social media where you look strained or tense, blurry, fuzzy, too filtered, or like you’re faking a laugh may throw a wrench in your branding & marketing. Professional photographer Jenny Levine stopped by the podcast this week to talk about how to find a great branding photographer, what questions to ask, & the tips & tricks to feel prepared for your photoshoot. We also talk about helpful hi…

I’m so glad I’m getting more Ask Allison questions about supervision: how to get it, where to find it, how to offer it. We all benefit from supervision and I want to make sure great supervisors get great supervisees and vice versa. This week I cover group supervision, finding supervisees, and the CYA parts of starting a supervision business. Yep, that’s a business even if you’re still in hospital, community, or agency, supervision on the side is a business.

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Last spring, Shatara Sheppard offered to share her experiences with police brutality and racial profiling and how it impacted her daily life as both a clinician and as a woman of color. I’m so glad to welcome her back to the podcast to discuss healing, and the ways white therapists can keep going because the work is definitely not done. The world has changed in the few short months since Shatara’s first visit to the podcast, but it’s also stayed the same in many ways we should be aware of.…

You're a human, just like your clients, and you may run into a situation where you have to cancel your session. So how do you go about being fair in creating and enforcing a cancellation policy? Join me today to talk about fees, circumstances, and frequency surrounding the ifs and whens for your cancellation policy. Nobody has that many flat tires. I hope. 

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When you've put in a lot of hours working on your networking, your website, and building a therapeutic office space, don't let the hidden sibling of Should and To-Do keep you from getting your practice underway. Not Yet is the silent, sneaky excuse that keeps you thinking you need to tweak your website one more time or go over your outgoing message again just to see if it's ready. You put in the work. You're ready. Join me and Abundance Party member Elizabeth as we beat back the not yet…

Think about future you: you’ve got a full practice, and things are pretty awesome. You’re proud of the work right now you put in. Is right now you feeling stalled? That happens, and it’s okay. Let’s get those gears unstuck for right now you and future you. This week on Ask Allison, I answer the question: What are the top 3 things I need to know to build quickly and quit my job? Spoiler alert - you know I’m going to tell you to niche, network, and get a great website up and running as soon a…

SEO can feel daunting, especially if the idea of sitting down to write more stuff after all the writing you did for your website copy makes you want to use your laptop as a $1000 frisbee. Join Jessica Tappana of Simplified SEO and me today to talk about SEO, your website copy (both blogs and your website copy), the pros and cons of dropdown menus, service pages, and where to get the most bang for your buck for SEO. We’ve got some great, actionable advice for you - yes, even if you want to play f…

Your development as a clinician is important and I will always advocate that you seek out great supervision at the start of your career. Just because something or someone seems "legitimate", the way an agency job seems legitimate, doesn't mean it's good or that you’re becoming a better clinician for it. This week’s Ask Allison and worksheet is all about getting the right resources under your belt to hone your skills and get what you need to serve your ideal clients - even if you’re not in pr…

Self-disclosure is a hard stop for us as therapists, right? Our training and agency time tell us even a family photo on your desk is too much disclosure.  But in truth, a lot of what happens in our lives is relatable. So what role does intentionality play? I’m so excited to have Dr. Rosie Gilderthorp as our featured speaker this month and guest trainer for the Abundance Party. Join us as we talk about the types of disclosure to avoid in your marketing and boundaries, what are appropriate stories…

When we go through school, our internships, and agency work, we start to get an idea of who we do great work with and what clients bring out the best of our clinical skills and flourish because of it. A great fit for you is also a great fit for your client, and great fits lead to healing which, come on, is awesome.

I would say that out of the hundreds or thousand people I’ve talked to about niche, 85% of the time our ideal client is a version of ourselves. My ideal client for therapy resembles t…