Jul 24, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Abundance Mind-Set, Practice-Building, Private Practice & Self-care

3 min read

Private Practice Won't Solve Your Problems

I love private practice. It changed my life. It changed my family’s life. It made me love therapy more than I ever had. It opened up opportunities I never knew were available.

I have also had moments of hating private practice. The weeks without phone calls. The insecurity. The inconsistent income. The many new skills I had to learn.

As a Private Practice Proselytizer, I want people to know that they can have so much of what they want in life through private practice (assuming they want time, fr…

Jul 24, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Abundance Mind-Set, Practice-Building, Private Practice & Self-care

3 min read

Jul 17, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Abundance Mind-Set, Fees, Mindset, Money & Private Practice

5 min read

Charging Too Much?

So, let’s talk about whether you’re charging too much.

There are two groups here:

The people who have some money stuff to work through that aren’t actually charging too much, but fear they are (cue imposter syndrome, not-enoughness, fear people won’t pay it, etc.) They’re usually in the process of accepting a new fee and it’s uncomfortable but it passes after stating the fee several times and seeing that people aren’t punching you in the face when you say it and many are happy to pay it. Depe…

Jul 17, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Abundance Mind-Set, Fees, Mindset, Money & Private Practice

5 min read

Jul 10, 2017 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Private Practice

4 min read

Paying Your Dues?

Raise your hand if you have a strong opinion about whether a new counselor should have to work in an agency before venturing into private practice. Just kidding, we can’t see you.

I have a strong, unpopular opinion. Ready for it?

I’m a fan of starting with the end in mind in business and in personal development. I’m a fan of getting where we want to be sooner rather than later. AND I’m a fan of solid clinical skills. (I feel like I’m on an HGTV episode.... Long awkward pause…) I choose NOT dictati…

Jul 10, 2017 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Private Practice

4 min read

Jun 12, 2017 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Blogging, Building a Support System, Practice-Building & Private Practice

4 min read

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…

Jun 12, 2017 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Blogging, Building a Support System, Practice-Building & Private Practice

4 min read

Jun 5, 2017 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Building a Support System, Business-Building, Guest Post, niche, Practice-Building & Private Practice

8 min read

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…

Jun 5, 2017 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Building a Support System, Business-Building, Guest Post, niche, Practice-Building & Private Practice

8 min read

May 8, 2017 05:45am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business & Private Practice

6 min read

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 …

May 8, 2017 05:45am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business & Private Practice

6 min read

May 1, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Practice-Building, Private Practice & Work-Life Balance

5 min read

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…

May 1, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Practice-Building, Private Practice & Work-Life Balance

5 min read

Apr 17, 2017 04:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Private Practice, Self-care & Social Media

7 min read

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…

Apr 17, 2017 04:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Private Practice, Self-care & Social Media

7 min read

Apr 10, 2017 05:45am

By Allison Puryear

Under Practice-Building & Private Practice

8 min read

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,…

Apr 10, 2017 05:45am

By Allison Puryear

Under Practice-Building & Private Practice

8 min read

Feb 6, 2017 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Group Practice, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, Private Practice, Self-care, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, balance, Brew Your Practice, counseling, entrepreneur, money mindset, money mistakes, past experiences & private practice money mistakes

4 min read

You’re On A Spiral Staircase

I don’t think a single Abundance Practice-Building Group gets completed without me referencing the spiral staircase. This usually occurs in the 5th week of the group which is focused solely on money (and thus security and self-worth and all the other things we associate with it). Here’s how it usually happens: one of my group members shares that they are struggling with X. They mention that they used to struggle with X in the past, thought they were passed it, and now it’s rearing it’s ugly head…

Feb 6, 2017 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Group Practice, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, Private Practice, Self-care, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, balance, Brew Your Practice, counseling, entrepreneur, money mindset, money mistakes, past experiences & private practice money mistakes

4 min read

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