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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.



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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 gla…

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When Should I Outsource?

Abundant Practice Podcast Allison Puryear

Consult Monday

Rebeeca Wong of Connectfulness Counseling

Rebecca WongRebecca 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 …

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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 b…

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