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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 glaz…
When I asked him to guest post, I was thinking more about his tech know-how, the kind of stuff that makes me glaz…
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
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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
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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 …Self-care-An Ethical Imperative for Helping Professionals
Jamie Stacks and I have been internet friends for what feels like a long time. Jamie has been a staunch advocate for self care, not just through her awesome Facebook Group REAL Self-Care for Therapists, but also through the way she interacts with people, the example she sets, and the passion she has for making sure we’re taking care of ourselves so we can do great work. She’s someone to follow if you, like me, have flirted with burnout or questioned if you can keep doing what you’re doing. I lo…
How To Move From Insurance to Private Pay
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Jeffrey Jarrett of Family Therapist, Santa Barbara
Jeffrey Jarrett, M.A., LMFT is a private practitioner and consultant based in Santa Barbara, California. He attended UCLA and Pepperdine graduate schools before moving back to his hometown of Santa Barbara in 2005, where he finished his Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University. He has taught in the graduate program at Antioch University and worked at Santa Barbara City College, both as a teacher and as a …Pacing Yourself
It’s so easy to go full throttle when you get excited about something. I’m the last one to tell you to dampen your enthusiasm… if you’ve know me at all you know my excitability and passion are not the most easily containable.
But here’s the deal: we only have so much time and energy. There are 1 million different ways to market your private practice but that doesn’t mean you have to do all of them. I’d so much rather you go deep on a few activities than to spread yourself, and your message, too …
But here’s the deal: we only have so much time and energy. There are 1 million different ways to market your private practice but that doesn’t mean you have to do all of them. I’d so much rather you go deep on a few activities than to spread yourself, and your message, too …
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