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Jan 2, 2017 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, therapists & therapy

2 min read

New Year, New Plan

Let’s do this thing, 2017!

Rather than my usual, more verbose post today I’m gonna give you a worksheet.

Here’s a little intro though, since you know I can’t hold myself back from writing:

Guess what! You can build your business without planning. You don’t need to lay this stuff out. Clients will probably still come, your office rent might get paid.

But here’s what I believe is true: you can take a couple hours right now to sit down and plan it and save yourself a ton of stress, tears, and frustra…

Jan 2, 2017 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, therapists & therapy

2 min read

Dec 26, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice, Self-care, counseling, counselor, counselors, past experiences, psychologist, psychology, social work, social workers, suicide, therapists, therapy & victims

4 min read

Supporting Suicide Survivors With Nate Wagner

When Nate Wagner and I first spoke in 2015 I was struck by his passion for his practice and supporting those who have lost loved ones to suicide. His memoir, Sibling Suicide: Journey from Despair to Hope, tells his story from his perspective as a brother and as a clinician. He is very generously offering the first two chapters for free here (though I suggest you buy the whole thing).

Suicide is one of those issues that most of us therapists are very uncomfortable with. With the holiday season, i…

Dec 26, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice, Self-care, counseling, counselor, counselors, past experiences, psychologist, psychology, social work, social workers, suicide, therapists, therapy & victims

4 min read

Dec 5, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, balance, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, past experiences, psychologist, therapists & therapy

6 min read

Signs You’re Building The Wrong Practice (and What to Do About It)

Signs You’re Building The Wrong Practice (and What to Do About It)

For those of you who have worked in toxic agencies, do you remember the “Sunday Scaries*?” Laying in bed, dreading the work week. Maybe you didn’t go to brunch or get together with friends on Sundays in order to have enough downtime to bear the next 5 days.

It’s places like that that led me to private practice. In my last job, I never knew if I’d be therapizing my clients or my coworker-friends more on any given day. Or if I’d be t…

Dec 5, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, balance, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, past experiences, psychologist, therapists & therapy

6 min read

Nov 28, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Fees, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, balance, Brew Your Practice, comparison, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, money mistakes, Private Practice & private practice money mistakes

7 min read

Math Makes Fee Setting Fun!

Stacey Steinmiller of Authentic Self Counseling has been a part of the Abundance Practice-Builders Group for what feels like forever. She’s been an incredible support for folks and it’s been awesome to watch her practice grow from across the internet.

Stacey had an “ah ha” moment around fee setting and I love this perspective as an addition to the many ways we can go about deciding what to charge. Hopefully this is helpful for perspective! Here’s Stacey:

Math Makes Fee Setting Fun

Setting fees fo…

Nov 28, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Fees, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, balance, Brew Your Practice, comparison, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, money mistakes, Private Practice & private practice money mistakes

7 min read

Nov 21, 2016 01:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Money, counseling, counselor, counselors, money mistakes, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, social work, social workers & therapists

6 min read

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

I was having a conversation with one of my closest friends this week about spending money. She’s someone I lovingly teased when at craft night years ago she showed up with socks to darn and undies to mend instead of the thrift store frame + newly bought modge podge + various purchases for whatever later-unused and objectively ugly thing I probably created. Not that I judge my visually creative pursuits harshly or anything.

Anyway, my friend and I were talking about how thriftiness, a concept that…

Nov 21, 2016 01:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Money, counseling, counselor, counselors, money mistakes, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, social work, social workers & therapists

6 min read

Oct 31, 2016 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under SEO, Websites, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, Jeff Guenther, Marketing, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, social work, social workers, therapists & therapy

8 min read

SEO for Therapists using Squarespace

Jeff Guenther of The Practice Academy has been so helpful to many of you in the Abundance Practice Builders Facebook Group (Hop in!) so I was thrilled he agreed to write a post about increasing your Search Engine Optimization (SEO), especially when he wanted to make it specific to Squarespace.

If you’re like me, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by this stuff. My I-don’t-do-tech brain starts to freak out and tell me I can’t do it. Jeff makes it easy. He breaks it down into manageable steps and shows…

Oct 31, 2016 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under SEO, Websites, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, Jeff Guenther, Marketing, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, social work, social workers, therapists & therapy

8 min read

Sep 26, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Nuts & Bolts, Websites, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, blog, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, Marketing, Melvin Varghese, multiple streams of income, passive income, podcasting, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, Selling the Couch Podcast, social work, social workers, The Healthcasters, therapists & therapy

9 min read

7 Compelling Reasons to Launch a Podcast

You guys probably know today’s guest blogger, Melvin Varghese, as the founder and host of the Selling the Couch Podcast. Over the past year we’ve become friends and I can assure you he is just as kind, warm and genuine as you think. A few months ago, after playing with the idea of launching my own podcast, I turned to Melvin for a podcast consultation. I wanted to flesh out some ideas before taking the next step. Melvin blew my mind in that consultation. I knew he’d had huge success with Selling…

Sep 26, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Nuts & Bolts, Websites, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, blog, Brew Your Practice, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, Marketing, Melvin Varghese, multiple streams of income, passive income, podcasting, Private Practice, psychologist, psychology, Selling the Couch Podcast, social work, social workers, The Healthcasters, therapists & therapy

9 min read

Sep 19, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Mindset, Private Practice, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, Bloom Counseling and Counsulting, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, Lauren Woodward LCSW & psychologist

8 min read

What I Learned While Growing my Successful Private Practice

Guys, I’m excited to introduce you to Lauren Woodard, LCSW for a couple reasons. I know, guest posts are usually the last week of the month, but we’re doing ‘em back to back because Lauren is a badass and she's sharing some lessons learned.

Lauren is an Abundance Practice-Building Group Grad. In the last year she has built exactly the private practice she wants despite some hurdles and, within the first year of her practice, was voted “Best of Western North Carolina” in the Psychologist/Counselo…

Sep 19, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Getting Referrals, Mindset, Private Practice, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, Bloom Counseling and Counsulting, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, Lauren Woodward LCSW & psychologist

8 min read

Sep 5, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, private pay, Private Practice, balance, Brew Your Practice, comparison, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, grad school, how long to build, launching, psychology, Self-care & therapists

5 min read

What To Expect Your First Year, Part 1

When I first started working with folks who’d experienced trauma I used a handout. A you’re-not-crazy-these-reactions-are-normal-for-this-circumstance list of symptoms with brief descriptions of why. One of the members of the Abundance Facebook Group (jump in!) said it would be helpful to have a list of normative experiences in the early days of your practice. A brilliant suggestion and I’m happy to flesh it out like that list I used back in the day.

I’m not going to pretend like there’s ONE exp…

Sep 5, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, private pay, Private Practice, balance, Brew Your Practice, comparison, counseling, counselors, entrepreneur, grad school, how long to build, launching, psychology, Self-care & therapists

5 min read

Aug 29, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, balance, Brew Your Practice, client trauma, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, past experiences, Private Practice, Self-care, therapists, victims & Wendy Williams LCSW

6 min read

Safety in Your Private Practice: Wendy Williams Guest Post

A few months ago when I wrote Healing From Client-Related Trauma, Wendy Williams reached out and proposed a post about how to stay safe in private practice. As an avid fan of safety, I agreed that it would be really helpful to the Abundance community. Wendy breaks it down into what may seem like obvious steps to some, but I’m pretty sure I’ve personally broken at least half of these in the past week, lulled by my assumption that I’m safe. Interesting given that not long before I wrote that blog …

Aug 29, 2016 06:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, private pay, Abundance Practice Building, Allison Puryear, balance, Brew Your Practice, client trauma, counseling, counselor, counselors, entrepreneur, past experiences, Private Practice, Self-care, therapists, victims & Wendy Williams LCSW

6 min read

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counselors

New Year, New Plan

Supporting Suicide Survivors With Nate Wagner

Signs You’re Building The Wrong Practice (and What to Do About It)

Math Makes Fee Setting Fun!

Math Makes Fee Setting Fun

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

SEO for Therapists using Squarespace

7 Compelling Reasons to Launch a Podcast

What I Learned While Growing my Successful Private Practice

What To Expect Your First Year, Part 1

Safety in Your Private Practice: Wendy Williams Guest Post

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