By Compassionate Climb
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Meet Melanie Snyder, a therapist and the owner of Tri-State Psychotherapy Group, a multi-state group practice that serves clients in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. They provide individual, family, and couples therapy and have clinicians that speak Mandarin and Spanish. She currently lives in New York state but previously lived in Massachusetts, where she started her private practice. At that time many of her clients were college students and she wanted to be able to continue to provide therapy when they returned home for breaks and the summer. Recognizing a need she began hiring a year and a half ago and her team has grown to 15 clinicians! She shares her challenges navigating federal, state, and licensure regulations, the administrative side of the business, as well as carrying a caseload.
Key takeaways:
There is no multi-state checklist out there! Ensure you are familiar with the state licensure and employment laws of the clinicians you hire.
Connect with and learn from other therapists who are doing what you want to do.
Retreats can be a helpful way to make your team feel closer and connected to one another.
Be clear and upfront about expectations in the beginning so it is clear what to prioritize and there is less need for micromanagement.
Melanie’s links:
Website
Facebook
Meet Tanya Berfield, the Director of Student Advocacy and Title IX Coordinator at a college and an empowerment and transformation coach. In her pursuit of happiness and discovering her own value and worth, she obtained her doctorate and several certifications. She shares how the limiting beliefs from childhood contributed to her drive to always be more and do more. She describes invincibility as the belief that we can and should do it all and capacity as the amount of work we can do. It is her belief that if you are not taking care of yourself, you are not providing or producing the best that you could be. Listen to learn about her experience with summits and starting her own podcast!
Key Takeaways:
-Understand how you set your expectations.
-People enjoy when you don’t show up perfect.
-“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, not the rest of you” Katie Reed
-Focus on the core foundation: sleep, nutrition, and movement and give yourself the time to do it and build upon it.
-Include your children in your self-care process!
-Cultivate beneficial and helpful relationships.
-Lead by learning about other people.
-Seek out people who are invested and engaged.
Tanya's Links:
Chakra Alignment Meditation
Empower Her Summit
Facebook
YouTube
Julia's Links:
CompassionateConsulting Company
FreeConsult
Facebook
In honor of Ring Rx renewing their sponsorship of the show, I am replaying the episode where I interview Doug Parent, the CEO of Ring Rx, a HIPAA compliant telephone, text, and fax communication platform. He shares his start in the family business which was a call center for healthcare providers. He describes the start and growth of the company, what sets them apart, and upcoming enhancements.
I have used Ring Rx in my group practice since July 2021 and could not be a more satisfied customer. The platform has grown with us, the customer service is unparalleled, and I recommend them to all of my consulting clients.
Mary Dibble is a life coach who helps busy moms live better lives by prioritizing themselves and their needs, allowing them to show up fully not just for themselves but others, too.
Her life started with adversity that taught her a great deal of resilience. Growing up with financial insecurity with a single mom and an absentee father, she had low self-esteem and felt like she was desperate for attention from others. This led her down the path of substance abuse. Through finding a new connection with spirituality and being saved by God, she was motivated to become sober, though this was not an easy path for her. She found herself in an abusive relationship but thankfully was able to leave it. Her next relationship ended when she became pregnant and refused to have an abortion. However, she says her son saved her life. He was the biggest motivation she had ever had to finally get sober and put her life on the track for her success and healing.
Since then, she received her own life changing mentoring through a life coach, became a life coach herself, found her soulmate, and had had two more children. Her life has completely turned around and she credits that to the many turning points she has had that pushed her further and further along the path, closer to her goals. By learning that she was worthy of what she wanted out of life, she has found she’s become a better mom and partner, and has been able to help others do the same.
Learn more about Mary’s amazing story on this week’s episode of the Compassionate Climb Podcast!
Key highlights:
Her son was her most powerful motivator to get sober and she has been ever since. “He taught me love I never really knew existed, he gave me purpose”.
When she started focusing on the fact that she was the common denominator in many of the difficult aspects of her life, she realized she needed to work on herself and change things. This was pushed further by her experience with getting life coaching. It helped her realize that she was worthy of the things she wanted out of life.
“I have a wonderful, healthy marriage that I never thought possible.” She does remind us that no relationship is perfect, however! Healthy relationships are all about good communication, compromising, and doing things for each other.
She had always had a dream of helping people and receiving life coaching helped show her a potential path to that dream. She wanted to show people that they don’t have to be defined by their past or history and that they can change their lives.
People, moms especially, need to prioritize their needs more. “You can’t pour from an empty cup”, Mary says, and notes that it’s difficult to take care of others when you’re burnt out and exhausted.
She even says that many of us “hinder ourselves from really living life”.
She worried people wouldn’t take her seriously because of her lack of a higher education. But she learned that she does have value to give to others through her own experiences in life. She is constantly learning and taking more classes to become a better life coach and help as many people as possible.
Website
Leslie Kuny is a dance educator of over 20 years who also works as a choreographer and adjudicator in the dance world. In this week’s episode, she shares her experience with leaving a business partnership and how important it is for values to be in alignment.
She explains how she started working on a dance studio with a colleague right during the beginning of COVID, how she came to realize that she had to walk away, and how walking away is not always a good feeling, even when it is the right choice. Leslie speaks to her experience with finding her identity, clarifying her business values, and how important aligned values are in business.
She also makes sure to highlight the importance that any networking or connection that is done genuinely is never a 100% loss, even if things do not work out! We always learn from new experiences, even the ones that are difficult, and they gave her the opportunities to network with new individuals and hone her skills in certain areas.
Listen to the full episode to hear Leslie’s explanation of her “goo phase” and how important it is to keep pushing through difficult times and the silver linings that can exist within them.
You can find Leslie online at:
https://www.lesliekuny.com/
YouTube
Meet Brenda Meller, owner of Meller Marketing and LinkedIn coach who helps business owners, job seekers, and those looking to market themselves and network get “more of the LinkedIn pie”. While she started in corporate marketing, she quickly found a niche for herself with a side hustle helping people market themselves on social media and doing speaking events. After her position was eliminated at her corporate job, she decided to go full-time in her side marketing business.
She originally found LinkedIn in the early days of social media, giving her time to learn the ins and outs and all of the tricks to using it effectively to network. In 2020 she found herself moving away from consulting about other social media platforms and went all-in on helping people utilize LinkedIn more effectively.
In this episode, Brenda shares her Climb, how she got into LinkedIn, and plenty of tips on how to make the most of your LinkedIn profile. Not only that, but she provides free checklists on her website for people to use with their small businesses, primarily focused on LinkedIn! https://www.mellermarketing.com/checklists
Key takeaways:
On dealing with difficult transitions, especially the sudden loss of a job, Brenda has this advice: “Embrace the emotions but at some point you have to stop feeling the emotions and you have to be productive with your time and your energy and figure out what’s next for you”.
She says LinkedIn is a great option because it’s a large platform that is purely a professional networking site. While it does have a jobs board, it’s primarily for personal and company networking and marketing
One of the great tips she has is on “building your social media karma” on LinkedIn by regularly engaging with people’s posts on your home page. The more you engage with people, the more likely they are to check out your profile and engage with your posts!
Make sure your headline is clickable! “Your headline follows you everywhere on LinkedIn” she says, so don’t use it to put “job title at company” but to entice people to look at your page.
Your about section should not be a copy/paste of your resume! This makes you look like a job seeker and NOT someone looking to network. You want to speak to your ideal target audience through your about section!
Brenda’s links:
Website
Brenda’s LinkedIn
Meller Marketing’s LinkedIn
Meet Nick DeCourcey, an LICSW who recently started his private practice, Aspirations Counseling, and is transitioning full-time! His career climb has been fueled by a desire to work within his values. After getting his MSW, he began working in outpatient community mental health but felt that there was a misalignment in his views of helping clients compared to the agency which led him to consider private practice.
His private practice journey started with a lot of self-directed learning but then when he found Julia’s webinar on starting a private practice through the National Association of Social Workers, he felt more prepared to take action. After obtaining his LICSW, he scheduled a consult with Julia and decided to purchase a package to help guide him in building his business. He attributes a lot of his current success and profitability to Julia’s help as a consultant and recommends that everyone considering going into private practice get one!
Most impressively, he went from starting his private practice to leaving his agency job in less than a year! With such rapid growth in his private practice, it no longer made sense to continue seeing clients in the community mental health agency he had been working with. In a little over a year, he went from considering private practice, to establishing the business, to building a full time caseload. Find out how he did it, how a consultant can help, and how to tell if private practice may be right for you in this week’s episode.
Key highlights:
Nick's transition to private practice was fueled by his desire “to help, not just be helpful”.
Nick also said that “my private practice, getting it going and making it profitable, was easier than my final paper for my master’s”!
To help him decide if it was the right move for him, Nick put a dollar value on his peace of mind.
A consultant can not only give you resources and ideas on how to get going and keep going, but they can also help you avoid really expensive mistakes down the road.
Nick shared that the 30 minute free consult Julia offered helped him determine they were the right fit.
Nick has also worked hard to make himself “findable” like investing in his website, having a Psychology Today page, and even leaving his business cards (with chocolate chip cookies!) at local doctor’s offices.
Julia's Links:
Compassionate Consulting Company
Free Consult
Nick’s Links:
Website
Psychology Today
Julia has made mention of the Enneagram in several episodes so it was time to give it a full one! Julia provides an overview of the nine types, wings, and triads, shares how this model of the human psyche has been transformative in her self-development journey, and how she incorporates with her team.
Julia provides Enneagram trainings to team to improve communication and enhance relationships. If you are interested email: [email protected]
Julia has recorded an Enneagram training with a move in depth overview in addition to how to incorporate in clinical work and integrate with teams available for purchase here.
Meet Brianna Pelletier, the Director of Operations at Compassionate Counseling Company. She shares her career climb from obtaining her Bachelor's in Psychology to working as a practice manager, and her decision to return to school for her Master's Degree. She reflects on her journey with the practice over the past year and a half, from her start as an Administrative Assistant to her promotion to Director of Operations. She discusses the benefits of hiring administrative staff to improve systems and processes and enable the business owner to work on the business as opposed to in the business. She describes the culture of the practice and the process of training additional administrative support.
Learn more about Brianna here: https://www.compassionatecounselingcompany.com/brianna-pelletier/
Sabrina Trobak is a counselor who works with clients to get to the bottom of their core beliefs to help them challenge and manage their anxiety. As a child, Sabrina always wanted to be a teacher, and ending up doing this for 20 years. When she was suddenly put into an administrative position, she had to attend graduate school to continue in that role. While she had no interest in administrative work, she did have an interest in helping people, so she got her master’s degree in counseling psychology.
After working as a school counselor for a year, she attended a three day workshop focusing on suicide. The modality that was used in the workshop was about people’s core beliefs. This inspired her to learn more about this modality and take it on herself. The model of therapy she learned focused on people’s core beliefs that contribute to anxiety which is common in people who have also experienced trauma. For many people, this core belief is “not good enough, not important, not valued”. Sabrina believed in this modality so much that she took a huge leap of faith and left her job to pursue private practice. This decision paid off and within six months she had a wait list which has continued today.
Listen to the full episode to hear more about this modality, how she developed her book, and how she works with clients to challenge their core beliefs and replace them with more positive ones.
Key highlights:
Challenging core beliefs is important because they are the source of anxiety for many people. “I can take 4 or 5 sessions and teach you how to manage your anxiety but then you have to manage your anxiety for the rest of your life”
She explains that as we go through life we “fill our buckets” with thoughts and beliefs that contribute to the core belief we have. In her work she helps people go through their buckets and pull out those things and examine this. This also helps people to continue doing this through their lives and not just in therapy
Many people can only recognize that they’re anxious when their anxiety has reached a high level. This means that they’re not doing anything about managing anxiety before it gets to that point. But at a high level, anxiety has cortisol flooding the brain, making it that much more difficult to calm down in the moment.
Anxiety often stems from a belief that we cannot handle something. “Anxiety and confidence are almost like on a teeter totter with each other” so as confidence increases, anxiety decreases and vice versa.
“We are not good at feeling our emotions. We just push them down and suppress them. That means we’re getting fuller and fuller with emotions and that makes it harder and harder to just cope with daily life.” This helps to reinforce that core belief of ‘not good enough’.
Marketing her book has been one of the biggest learning curves for her on her Climb. Farmers markets and free workshops are how she’s primarily promoted her book. She also started attending health and wellness expos and appearing on podcasts to help promote it. Something else she has done is to focus on growing her social media.
Sabrina’s links:
Website
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