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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…

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Social Media and Private Practice



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

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Michelle Horton of Michelle Horton Therapy



Michelle Horton Abundant Practice PodcastMichelle 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…

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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…

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Starting a Group Practice



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

Elizabeth Burke of Empowered Therapy



Elizabeth BurkeChicago 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…

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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 …

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Pregnancy and Maternity Leave



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

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Sarah Ellis Goldberg of Sarah Ellis Goldberg Psychotherapy



Sarah Ellis LCSWSarah 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…

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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:

  1. The clinician has a great marketing plan but didn’t have realistic expectations about how quickly they would build.
  2. The clinician brought clients over from another practice but didn’t learn how to bring in new clients.
  3. The clinician…

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Is My Niche Too Small



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

Rebecca Hames of Rebecca Hames Therapy



Rebecca hamesRebecca 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…

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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 proponen…

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Which Great Ideas to Focus On



Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

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…

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