The Abundant Practice Podcast & Blog Spot!

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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Brittni Fudge of Kindred Counseling

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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Rebeeca Wong of Connectfulness Counseling

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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Jessica Weikers of Fog City Counseling

• Making sure her niche is niched enoug…

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…

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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 a…

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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 co…