The Abundant Practice Podcast & Blog Spot!
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…
Does Location Impact Fees?
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 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…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…
Social Media and Private Practice
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, 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…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…Starting a Group Practice
Consult Monday
Elizabeth Burke of Empowered Therapy
Chicago 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…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 …
Pregnancy and Maternity Leave
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 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…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
Consult Monday
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…
Categories
- Mindset (96)
- Practice-Building (14)
- Self-care (34)
- Blogging (14)
- Marketing (86)
- Getting Started (43)
- raising rates (1)
- rates (18)
- private pay (16)
- Referrals (18)
- Websites (20)
- Money (2)
- Insurance (10)
- niche (33)
- SEO (9)
- Private Practice (22)
- Work-Life Balance (30)
- Business (19)
- Social Media (23)
- Group Practice (9)
- blog (10)
- money mindset (17)
- Strategizing (4)
- Building a Support System (3)
- Abundance Mind-Set (1)
- website (1)
- policy (4)
- clients (10)
- content creation (1)
- books (1)
- finances (3)
- get started (2)
- askallison (1)
- AAPI (1)
- advocacy (1)
- community (1)
- allisonpuryear (1)
- converting (2)
- gettingclients (1)
- newclients (1)
- supervision (8)
- next steps (6)
- burnout (12)
- motivation (1)
- pre-license (2)
- copywriting (1)
- instagram (2)
- referral (1)
- clinical outcomes (1)
- agency (7)
- elliott connie (1)
- sfbt (1)
- getting clients (4)
- transitioning (1)
- imposter syndrome (4)
- trans (1)
- trauma (3)
- telehealth (1)
- virtual (7)
- first phone call (2)
- ethics (2)
- muslim therapists (1)
- consultation calls to clients (1)
- converting clients (3)
- divorce (1)
- ideal client (9)
- religion (2)
- consultation (3)
- Podcast (27)
- hours (1)
- flow (1)
- boundaries (3)
- systems (4)
- capitalism (1)
- maternity leave (4)
- sex (3)
- schedule (3)
- networking (17)
- decorating (1)
- office (4)
- office space (2)
- distracted (1)
- neurodivergent (1)
- judaism (1)
- groups (1)
- financial (5)
- retreat (1)
- deaf culture (1)
- new clients (1)
- full practice (1)
- emdr (1)
- rural (1)
- cancellation policy (4)
- transitioning to private practice (2)
- getting unstuck (1)
- legal (5)
- parenthood (4)
- self-discipline (1)
- hiring (3)
- clinical work (1)
- accessibility (1)
- coaching (3)
- substance abuse (1)
- technology (1)
- ketamine (1)
- moving (3)
- offerings (1)
- fertility (1)