Clinicians Creating Impact

Last week, Leah Davidson shared her framework for befriending your nervous system at work. This week, we're diving deeper into this topic, discussing how to implement this framework in your work as a clinician so you can be there for yourself and your clients, even in the face of challenges.

Discover the practical side of how to befriend your nervous system in your work as a clinician. Leah is sharing exactly what you're signing up for when you start befriending your nervous system and how to widen your zone of resilience through intentional self-care practices.

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Leah Davidson is a speech pathologist in private practice in Toronto, as well as a professional resilience coach and consultant through the Forward-Facing Institute. She's spent over two decades working in the area of traumatic brain injuries and she's also certified in pain reprocessing therapy, emotional freedom technique, and breathwork.

Tune in this week to discover how to befriend your nervous system as a clinician. Leah Davidson is here to show you how your nervous system can impact your clinical reasoning, and learn her wonderful nervous system framework, so you can be there for yourself while also being the clinician your clients need.

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How can you easily leverage the power of AI in your work as a clinician? Technology has the ability to make our work as clinicians easier and more efficient. This week, I'm showing you how to start using ChatGPT to your advantage in your clinical workplace.

Tune in this week to discover how to start using ChatGPT in your clinical workplace. I'm sharing three specific ways to use AI in your practice and how doing so boosts efficiency of your work, allowing you to make a bigger impact in your work as a clinician.

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There are some topics that most clinicians seem to agree are difficult to candidly communicate to clients, like hygiene, attendance, contradicting another clinician's advice, and collecting payment. Whatever your own definition of a hard conversation that comes up regularly in your work as a clinician is, substitute that for the topics I'm discussing today.

Tune in this week to discover the art of hard conversations. I'm sharing how to get clear on your own thoughts about broaching difficult conversations and showing you how to start engaging with your clients more candidly where necessary.

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Therapeutic intuition is an important clinical skill. The ability to perceive and understand the subtle, non-verbal cues our clients give us helps us make informed and empathetic decisions in the assessment, treatment, and care of our patients. We develop this intuition through our work as clinicians, but that isn't the full story.

Discover what using your therapeutic intuition looks like in practice. I'm sharing specific examples from my own career to illustrate the power of therapeutic intuition, the science behind how your clinical intuition works, and I'm helping you see how you can start serving your clients at the highest level by engaging the empathetic part of your brain with intention.

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Our mission as clinicians is to create an outstanding experience for our clients, empowering their recovery. As a clinician owner, I've directly seen the positive client impact of having happy clinicians. One of the ways we do this at Abilities is by giving our clinicians some control over how they deliver results to our clients. This autonomy has made a huge difference.

Discover the secret to keeping clinicians in a good mental state in the workplace. I'm discussing how I empower my clinicians to do their job at the highest level by giving them choice and autonomy, and how you can start doing this in your own work as an individual, so you can deliver amazing results for clients.

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How can you intentionally design your schedule for success so that you don't have to take your work home or sacrifice your personal time as the days get shorter? Designing a clinical schedule that really works doesn't have to be difficult. What currently seems like it takes hours of preparation can take 30 minutes or less, and will save you hours throughout the week as a result.

Discover how to design a clinical schedule that sets you up for success. I'm giving you a plan for scheduling your weeks, taking all variables, breaks, and free time into account, and showing you how to start exercising boundaries around how you really want to spend your time.

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Many of us, as clinicians, have gotten into this work because we want to relieve the suffering experienced by others. But what about the suffering you experience as a clinician? How can we heal the healers and eliminate suffering for clinicians?

I witnessed a talk recently positing the idea that suffering is the avoidance or resistance of a feeling. So this week, I'm showing you how to identify the feelings that are contributing to your suffering, and I'm showing you the value of deeply feeling those uncomfortable feelings so you can begin to heal from them.

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You may think it's unusual to go down the path of coaching when I'm already running a successful practice. However, the art of coaching has allowed me to be a better leader here at Abilities. This week, I'm sharing how coaching has made me a more effective clinician and business owner.

Discover five lessons I've learned from coaching. I'm sharing the truth about our human insecurities, the amazing power your brain has, how to use open-ended questions to expand your understanding of yourself and others, and how to make decisions that work best for everybody concerned.

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Gabriel Wong is back to share his advice for potential clinic owners, telling us why you don't need to be the best clinician to start a successful practice and sharing some aspects of owning a clinic that you may never have considered before. He is a physiotherapist, and the knowledge he has to share as the founder and operator of Westcoast SCI Physiotherapy will be incredibly useful for any clinicians out there operating their own business or considering starting their own practice.

Tune in this week as Gabriel Wong shares his tips for operating your own business as a clinician. He is talking us through some of the more challenging times of being a clinic owner, the hidden non-financial costs of running your own practice, and we're discussing what we both love about being clinic owners.

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