Meet Audrey Schoen, a private practice clinician in California who explains how she is able to charge premium fees while maintaining integrity. When Audrey first made the switch to private practice after giving birth to twins, she was charging $100 per session and was thrilled about it. She shares how life circumstances and coaching resulted in a mindset shift that has allowed her to increase her fee to $375 confidently and sustain a full caseload.

Key Takeaways: 

- When you’re not charging enough, who/what is subsidizing that cost? Is that subsidizing hurting you? 

- Talk about the changes openly with your clients being affected by the price increase

- Location matters but there are people with the means in every state

- Determine the structure that works best for you and who you want to serve and do so consciously within your total financial needs

- Pay attention to and work on your own relationship with money

https://www.facebook.com/groups/balancedpractice/

https://www.balancedprivatepractice.com/

https://www.instagram.com/balancedprivatepractice/

Meet Jamie Roberts, a therapist and group practice owner in California. Equilibrium Counseling Services, her group practice, works specifically with LGBT+ and neurodivergent teens and young adults to help discover and understand their identity. Jamie is passionate about supporting young people and being for them the person she needed when she was younger. 

Key Takeaways: 

- If you’re looking for a diagnosis, allow yourself to be curious and ask why

- Pay attention to and lean into how you best communicate and work

- As a clinician working with neurodivergent clients, consider: sensory needs, what does it look like for rules and boundaries to be equitable vs equal across clients, be upfront about what your systems look like

- If you don’t say the hard things, clients don’t know it’s okay to talk to you about the hard things

https://equilibriumcs.com/

https://www.facebook.com/EquilibriumCounseling/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6FubczAj4gWMkqC8k1WKA

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093169156031

https://www.instagram.com/neurodivergenttherapist/?fbclid=IwAR2thUVFx31oIegXcTOPeHxyq-Bd3KmdlU7uHRmUQE8dh_biW46qRXFppFw

https://www.tiktok.com/@neurodivergenttherapist

Meet Doreen Huffman LMHC PMHNP, a fellow group practice owner. Doreen started her career in community mental health and once fully licensed started working for a group practice. When she eventually decided to open a practice of her own, an issue she often encountered was finding prescribers for her patients who needed medication management. She decided to fix her own problem and went back to school. She is now both a psychiatric nurse practitioner and a therapist. She shares the growth of her practice, DLH Consulting and Psychiatric Services, and her efforts to share what she has learned by having practicum students and interns and through the local Facebook group she created.

Key Takeaways: 

-Don’t underestimate the power of baked goods when networking in person

-Networking with other local professionals can be a great source of referrals

-Joining a group practice can be a great opportunity to learn and prepare for your own

-Always have a vacation on the calendar

⁠https://www.dlhconsultant.com/⁠⁠

https://www.facebook.com/dlhconsulting/⁠⁠

https://www.instagram.com/dlh.consulting/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1931648187098725

Meet Carolyn Robistow, an entrepreneur helping other entrepreneurs create healthy relationships with alcohol, all while sailing the eastern coast and Bahamas. Carolyn coined the term Groundhog Day Drinker after recognizing in herself that she was tired of waking up on day one of her goals each time she drank. Throughout the process of redefining her relationship with alcohol, she determined three pillars to her success: personal support, brain spotting, and embodied truth. Now, she works to share that experience and information with others who find themselves in a gray-area of drinking.

Key Takeaways: 

- Consider your habits as a relationship versus a math equation

- What works for others may not work for you, but that does not mean you are the problem

https://www.carolynrobistow.net/

https://www.facebook.com/Carolynrobistow

https://www.instagram.com/carolynrobistow/

In this episode I review the book Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky. I discuss their method of:

1. starting each day by choosing a highlight

2. making adjustments to avoid distraction in order to remain laser focused on the identified highlight

3. resetting our defaults and using our body to energize our brains

4. evaluating our process each night to continually improve the method

I also share how slight changes that I have implemented since completing the book have been transformative in how I structure my day and my level of focus when completing tasks.

https://compassionateconsultingcompany.com

Meet Elise Gilbert Hall, owner of Attunement Counseling and Wellness Collective in Rhode Island. Throughout her professional career she has worked in community mental health, a school system, various agencies, and private practice; all of which have led to where she is today. In the two years since she founded Attunement Counseling, Elise has seen continual growth, but finds herself asking: “How do I scale my group practice without losing touch with my team?"

Key Takeaways: 

- Schedule regular touch-points with all team members

- Set office hours for employees to access you

- Create opportunities for personal connection outside of the office

- Provide multiple avenues for feedback

- Maintain transparency and communication

https://www.attunementcollective.com/