The Abundant Practice Podcast & Blog Spot!

Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome

Hello. Welcome to the rest of your life. It’s not what any of us want to accept but, if we keep growing, we are all going to struggle with Imposter Syndrome off and on, forever. Like, I fully expect to be 110 years old and having some doubts about my abilities.

Instead of falling into the shit of it, since it feels awful, I’ve been very curious about it in my life and my consulting clients’ lives. I have some good news for you: Imposter Syndrome is actually a good thing in a num…

Read more…

Risks of Full Time Work and Private Practice



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

[et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#000000" show_divider="on" divider_style="solid" divider_position="top" hide_on_mobile="on" /]

Lindsay Melka of Empathic Counseling and Psychotherapy



Lindsay MelkaLindsay Melka, LPC is based in Denver, CO. She is the founder of Empathic Counseling and Therapy, a psychotherapy practice that specializes in counseling individuals who struggle with shame, insecurity and personal relationships. She has worked in the field of addictions for over a dec…

Read more…

What I Expected vs What Happened: a Guest Post from Lindsay Melka

I am so grateful to have gotten to consult with Lindsay Melka and I’m honored that she is writing for the blog this month. She is brilliant, thoughtful, brave and so honest it sometimes makes my heart ache. You’ll get to hear more about her story (the really hard part where she had to stop working entirely to take care of herself) on the podcast June 5 when we flip the usual podcast structure and talk about some unspoken about things that can happen to us as we build. I know a lot of us learn by…

Read more…

Does Location Impact Fees?



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

[et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#000000" show_divider="on" divider_style="solid" divider_position="top" hide_on_mobile="on" /]

Ebru Halper of Family Services of Westchester



Ebru HalperEbru Halper, MHC-LP, is a psychotherapist at a community mental health clinic in White Plains, NY, where she works with a broad range of disorders across the lifespan. Her passion for women’s mental health issues led the way to this second career in counseling. Ebru has been published in a peer…

Read more…

Giving Others Praise

There’s this house I love that had pigeons living in it. It was a few blocks from my office, this gorgeous, great-bones, hulking house that would be perfect for a bunch of therapists to have practices in. The pigeons had nested inside. The porch was falling apart. I researched who the owners were and fantasized a scenario where I call them, buy the property, fix it up and it serves as an amazing office space for myself and my best therapist buddies, a healing space for clients who feel heard and…

Read more…

Social Media and Private Practice



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

[et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#000000" show_divider="on" divider_style="solid" divider_position="top" hide_on_mobile="on" /]



Michelle Horton of Michelle Horton Therapy



Michelle Horton Abundant Practice PodcastMichelle Horton, MFT has a private practice in downtown San Francisco where she focuses on working with founders and those in start-up community struggling with overwhelm, stress and anxiety as well as professional women experiencing life transitions. When she's not in the office you can usually fin…

Read more…

High Maintenance: An Unlikely Goal

"High Maintenance" brings up some some interesting images...

I’m not talking about insisting upon caviar and peeled grapes, or looking and acting “polished” every day. That’s not necessarily a bad thing - it’s just not what I’m talking about here. Until this month, I’ve equated being high maintenance with snobbery, being demanding, and worst of all, being inconsiderate.

Being inconsiderate is the worst.

I listened to a Naptime Empires podcast with Nikki Elledge Brown and Rachael Cook and Nikki r…

Read more…

Starting a Group Practice



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

Elizabeth Burke of Empowered Therapy



Elizabeth BurkeChicago therapist Elizabeth J. Burke, owner and founder of Empowered Therapy, Inc. is a Licensed Clinical Social worker in the state of Illinois. She holds a Master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in women’s and gender studies from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2011, she received a fellowship for her work in Psychoanalysis from the Chicago Center for Psycho…

Read more…

Parenting and Private Practice

I’ve been asked numerous times to write about balancing parenting and starting a practice. I kept nodding my head and put check marks next to it on my “Blog Post Ideas” doc and skipping over it every time it came time to write.

I've been avoiding this post hard core.

Know why? Shame. Honestly, I was letting my perfectionism dwell in the realm of parenting and feeling completely inadequate all the time. I’d read too much conflicting advice that all seemed to make logical sense. And the “follow …

Read more…

Pregnancy and Maternity Leave



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

[et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#000000" show_divider="on" divider_style="solid" divider_position="top" hide_on_mobile="on" /]

Sarah Ellis Goldberg of Sarah Ellis Goldberg Psychotherapy



Sarah Ellis LCSWSarah Goldberg Ellis, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and owner of a private psychotherapy practice in Marlton, New Jersey.  She specializes in providing individual and family therapy to adolescents and adults struggling with eating disorders, anxiety, d…

Read more…

Categories

Due to a website migration, historic links pre-fall 2022 may be broken; please get in touch for new links. Please also note that historic podcast episodes may contain out-of-date information and highlight sponsors that we no longer work with.