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Where New Businesses Get Stuck
Where New Businesses Get Stuck
There’s a theme I see in the folks who get stuck on the struggle side of their business. It’s wholeheartedly a mindset struggle. A space of desperation, fear, resignation, helplessness, scarcity.
It usually starts in three ways:
- The clinician has a great marketing plan but didn’t have realistic expectations about how quickly they would build.
- The clinician brought clients over from another practice but didn’t learn how to bring in new clients.
- The clinician …
Is My Niche Too Small
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Rebecca Hames of Rebecca Hames Therapy
Rebecca Hames is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in Los Angeles. While building her practice, she is a part time cheese monger and can be found selling organic, grass fed cheeses at local farmers markets on the weekends. To learn more about her therapy practice focusing on straight spouses and mixed orientation couples visit www.rebeccahamestherapy.com.For Consult Monday we discuss:
- How to word your nic…
Sample Private Practice Schedules
Whether you’re on the front end of starting a private practice or you’re managing a busy caseload, your schedule is a make or break situation. It’s not what you think; your schedule is a make or break for your longevity and happiness, not whether or not clients will come. Clients who really want to see you will make things work.
A part of what we do in the very first meeting of the Abundance Practice-Building Group is talk about what each person wants their schedule to look like. I’m a proponent…
A part of what we do in the very first meeting of the Abundance Practice-Building Group is talk about what each person wants their schedule to look like. I’m a proponent…
Which Great Ideas to Focus On
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Brittni Fudge of Kindred Counseling
Brittni Fudge, MA, NCC, LPC owns Kindred Counseling, PLLC, where she provides counseling for moms in all stages of motherhood. Brittni’s first role is a mother of three children under age seven, and is also a mental health therapist, Love & Logic facilitator, parent coach, and former school counselor. Brittni is on a mission to support mothers in their mental health so they can be fully present with their littles.For Consult Monday we dis…
5 Ways to Dance With Your Fear of Online Marketing
Daniel Fava has been a really helpful member of the free Abundance Practice-Builders Facebook Group for a long time. He’s a tech guy with a therapist wife and you can tell from this post that he blends the emotional and technological beautifully. He’s seen how having an amazing website helped his wife’s private practice and is driven to spread the love to others’ practices as well. When I asked him to guest post, I was thinking more about his tech know-how, the kind of stuff that makes me gla…
When Should I Outsource?
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Rebeeca Wong of Connectfulness Counseling
Rebecca Wong is a relationship therapist and consultant. She's a co-host of the Practice Of Being Seen podcast and the creator of Connectfulness, a research-based practice that encourages you to explore and embrace every aspect of your humanity – including everything that’s marvelous and all that’s messy. Rebecca helps her clients dare to share their truest self with the world. Rebecca says, "when you truly see yourself you create a …The Benefit of the Doubt
I’ve mentioned being wholly Team Locke so this post shouldn’t be a huge surprise. I’ve noticed a pattern in some folks as they’re in that scary building stage: a propensity to jump headlong into conclusions. I want to create a little structure to protect you from that because it’s not who you are and what you’re about (if it was you’d probably be super-annoyed by me all the time and likely unsubscribe pretty quickly).
Here are the top 3 ways I see this show up & suggestions on how to give the be…
Here are the top 3 ways I see this show up & suggestions on how to give the be…
Is My Niche Too Broad
Consult Monday
Jessica Weikers of Fog City Counseling
Jessica Weikers is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern in private practice in San Francisco. She is passionate about supporting artists, activists, queer folks, and millennials in moving through self-doubt, anxiety, and depression into meaningful, fulfilling, and empowered lives.To learn more about Jessica and her practice, please visit us as Fog City Counseling.For Consult Monday we discuss:
- Making sure her niche is niched enoug…
How Long It Takes To Get Full
Want to know the fastest way to tap into shame and/or superiority as a private practitioner? Compare your private practice’s growth to a colleagues’ practices’ growth. Or, ask in a practice-building FB group (hop into ours; it’s awesome!) where people from all over the world with a million different sets of circumstances can share.
So many of us learn through example. I think there’s incredible wisdom to asking how those who have gone before us, or those who are working diligently alongside us,…
So many of us learn through example. I think there’s incredible wisdom to asking how those who have gone before us, or those who are working diligently alongside us,…
Money in Private Practice
Consult Monday
Racquel Jones of Transforming Lives
I am a licensed clinical social worker in New York City. I provide psychotherapy to individuals suffering from addiction (alcohol, drugs and food), anxiety and the after effects of childhood trauma (sexual, physical and emotional abuse). I am a 1994 graduate of Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York and I have Post Graduate training through the Jewish Board Family Institute and Family Institute of Westchester. I am …Categories
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