Episode #810: Is a Slow Month a Crisis?

You know that feeling of having a great first year in practice & then hitting your first real slow stretch that completely blindsides you, even though you knew logically it would happen? Today I’m back with Rebecca Smith, my Limitless Practice grad with the premium fee private pay practice in New Orleans, to get into exactly that. We talk about why a downward trend is not a straight line & why the real fix is looking at what actually worked to fill you up in the first place, nurturing those referral sources, getting back to blogging, whatever it was, instead of spiraling in Facebook groups. Rebecca & I get into why so many slumps come down to therapists who inherited a caseload from a group practice or an insurance panel & never actually had to learn to market, why “women in transition” isn’t a niche but EMDR for anxiety as your client describes it is, & the financial side of padding your budget in good months so a slow one doesn’t send you into panic. We close out talking about why paying yourself the same conservative salary every month, even when income swings wildly, is what keeps you out of desperate decision-making.

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