The Freedom Therapist

32: Does Scaling Your Therapy Private Practice Mean You're Selling Out?

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You finally start creating a business that feels good in your body.

A group program that works.

A bit more breathing space in your calendar.

Profit that doesn’t rely on you being constantly available.

And then the voice creeps in:

Am I abandoning the work?

Am I betraying my peers who are still in the trenches?

Is it okay to want more — when so many are just barely getting by?

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on a question so many of us carry quietly:

Does building a business that gives me more time, more space, more freedom... mean I’m betraying the therapy industry?

We talk about:

  • The hidden grief behind growing your practice in a crumbling system
  • Why “depletion” has been confused with “dedication” — and what that’s really costing us
  • What came up in our biggest-ever masterclass (300+ therapists!) and why so many resonated with this exact guilt
  • My own experience launching Empowered Emotions, and the fear I had of making money without 1:1 therapy
  • What therapists need now — not just to survive, but to stay

    • This one’s for the therapist who still loves the work… but knows something has to shift.

    Reflection prompts inside the episode:

    • Where have you confused depletion with dedication?
    • Where are you still proving you care by staying at overcapacity?
    • What version of your business would let you stay in this work longer?

      • Because wanting more isn’t betrayal.

      It’s how you stay.

      Resources & Links:

      → Replay the free masterclass: The Scalable Therapist Offer™

      → Join The Freedom Therapist Club: Enrolments are now open for the rest of 2025. This is where we rebuild your practice in a way that holds you too. Learn more + join we are currently 80% FULL for 2025

      → Come say hi or share what landed: @miapoko

       

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