" It's not that you hate being a psychologist, it's just that you're doing it in a way that makes you hate being a psychologist"

In this engaging and informative episode, Anna interviews Nadene van der Linden, a clinical psychologist with a decade of experience in private practice, about the intersection of psychology and business. Nadene shares her journey of career evolution, from transitioning from therapy client to coaching therapists, selling therapy skills training, and supervising EMDR and schema therapy.

Nadene discusses the challenges and realities of starting and running a successful private practice, including financial sustainability, setting fees, therapist confidence and managing client relations. Nadene also emphasises the importance of therapist confidence and being aware of toxic self doubt.

Nadene shares her wealth of wisdom in overcoming professional burnout, leveraging skills to explore creative ventures within psychology and the significance of building a personal brand in the therapy business. This is definitely a psychology and business podcast.

The pod explores the following topics:

• Journey into Private Practice: Challenges and evolution
• Transitioning from therapy to coaching and training
• the realities of running a successful private practice
• Common mistakes when starting private practice
• Embracing the business side of private practice
• navigating burnout and self doubt in therapy
• client retention and pressure on therapists
• buidling confidence and overcoming toxic self doubt
• the importance of self care for therapists

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