All the New Year, New Me stuff is still burning a little bright on our social media. Maybe you’re getting hit with ads for planners or organization tools, which can feel really overwhelming when you don’t know where to start but you know you don’t want to make choices that will edge you towards burn out or building a practice you don’t want. Danielle Swimm joins me today on the podcast to talk about the totally radical notion that therapists are people who deserve a liveable salary, where to start really building your practice, and seeing results.

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New beginnings are on all our minds this week here - our Ask Allison addresses all the new fun stuff - the onboarding of new clients and good fit sessions, what you need to have in your client or patient intake packets (hint, always check your state license requirements), and we cover the role social media might play in starting your private practice.

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Building a supportive friendship with other clinicians and therapists can be a huge boon to your business. And guess what? Making friendships is...dare I say it, easy? Fun? Good? Join me and my guests today, Shayla Peterson and Janay Price from Therafriend Network. We talk about all the good stuff about our social health, the pandemic's impact on networking, friendship, and support.

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Even if you're still doing virtual therapy right now, having a therapeutic space is a big part of your clients feeling safe welcomed in your practice. It is easy to say that when you can make it rain at that funky furniture place you love, but how do you decorate on a budget or decorate around structural oddities like no windows? What do you cover with your landlord and what are the right questions to ask? As always, we got you covered.

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Well, that sucked. Here at Abundance, our team wishes you a happy, healthy, safe, and healing 2021.

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Sometimes it feels like picking a niche is just throwing stuff to the wall and seeing what sticks - you think "I love working with this population and age group, but my area also only takes XYZ insurance which means I have to see this other population, too." What about working with kids? Or a high-needs population? How do you network or market your niche? Let's dive in!

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Going private pay in a community that’s so attached to the idea of accepting insurance, and they start balking at your very reasonable fee, can feel like a drag. Especially when you feel like you have to defend your full fee and you’re struggling with the guilt gremlins and money shaming from colleagues. Having some feedback in your tool-kit can make the difference between caving from the guilt and fear, or building a practice that you know works for you. Join me and Leah for a real wake-up call of a podcast for knowing your worth and not letting in that fee-shaming.

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Got a client who always pays in cash? What do you do for an adult paying for another adult's session and how does that translate for no-show fees? Let's work on some money boundaries this week on Ask Allison!

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New moms are a population that needs us now more than ever, so how do you network to frontline workers (i.e., docs, doulas, midwives, and the other clinicians who will refer to you) right now? Join Ashley and me as we discuss in and out of network clients, cash pay practices, and ways to get yourself out there for referral sources while staying covid-compliant.

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Sometimes stuff can get awkward and it mostly doesn't need to. If you've got that gray-area this feels weird feeling, let's talk about handling those awkward moments that come up. What do you do when you might know the relative of a client? What do you do if one of your new clients is your ex's new ex? That's a fun one. What do you do when your clients give you their art, or poetry,  podcast, or blog URL? You're not a book critic, so how do you navigate to read or not to read?

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