Amanda gets into what time off actually looks like when you run two businesses, and why it looks nothing like the social media version of passive income and unplugging for weeks at a time. She breaks down how premium fees and a smaller caseload changed what taking time off even felt like, why she still chooses to take some calls while traveling, and how she thinks through which commitments to keep and which ones to move when she's out. If you've been telling yourself you can't take time off because you can't afford to stop seeing clients, this episode is worth a listen.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

Resources & Links:

• This episode is sponsored by:
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• Therapy Intensives Academy - use code HHWPOD250 as a podcast listener to get $250 off at checkout
• Apply now for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind
• Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive
• Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income

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At some point, if you add therapy intensives and they actually start working, you hit a decision point nobody prepares you for. Your intensive calendar is filling up, your weekly caseload is still full of people you genuinely care about, and a new consult request just landed in your inbox. What do you do? Amanda gets into the three separate decisions most therapists are trying to answer all at once, why a weekly wait list is not always the compassionate move it feels like, and how to know whether a hybrid practice is your actual destination or just a holding pattern you never examined. The through line in all of it: stop letting a full calendar make the decision for you.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

The Back-to-School sale for the Therapy Intensives Academy was just extended through 8/21! Join now to get $500 off and 6 months free inside the VIP Community and SEO for Therapists membership. Check it out here!

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Amanda makes the case that comparing your intensive rate to what everyone else charges is the easy question dressed up as the hard one. The real question, the one most therapists skip right past, is what are you actually trying to buy back with that money? Time, peace, the ability to say no without panic, evenings that belong to you instead of your notes? That answer looks different for every therapist, and none of it gets solved by copying someone else's rate. She gets concrete about how to actually figure out your number, why therapy intensives change the math in a way that weekly sessions alone can't, and why the structure of your practice has to serve your actual life rather than the other way around.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

The Back-to-School sale for the Therapy Intensives Academy is happening NOW! Join by 8/19 to get $500 off and 6 months free inside the VIP Community and SEO for Therapists membership. Check it out here!

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Amanda makes an argument that might be uncomfortable to sit with: the thing most therapists think is holding them back from premium fees, whether that's a missing certification, not enough years of experience, or a niche that isn't narrow enough, is almost never actually the thing. She walks through what really happens when clients book a therapy intensive, how the modality is usually the hook but the relationship is what keeps them, and why that distinction matters a lot for how you market your practice.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

The Back-to-School sale for the Therapy Intensives Academy is happening NOW! Join by 8/19 to get $500 off and 6 months free inside the VIP Community and SEO for Therapists membership. Check it out here!

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Most therapists change their fee, go out of network, maybe build out a specialized offer, and then wonder why inquiries aren't converting the way they should. Amanda's argument in this episode is that the clinical work changed, the business model changed, but the marketing never got the memo. She breaks down what clients paying premium fees out of pocket are actually looking for, why warm and generic doesn't answer any of their real questions, and what has to shift before the marketing and the fee start working together.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

The Back-to-School sale for the Therapy Intensives Academy is happening NOW! Join by 8/19 to get $500 off and 6 months free inside the VIP Community and SEO for Therapists membership. Check it out here!

This episode is sponsored by:

• Alma — learn more here
• Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period

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Amanda makes the case that premium therapy fees in 2026 have almost nothing to do with certifications, credentials, or years of experience. What's actually driving higher rates is positioning and access, and most therapists are missing both. She walks through how therapy intensives work as a catalyst not just for adding income, but for raising your weekly rate, rebuilding confidence in your clinical work, and shifting the way your entire practice reads to potential clients.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

Register for my upcoming live webinar - The Premium Therapy Fee Method - happening on August 12th at 9am PST. This free 60-minute training will show you exactly what to work on to charge premium fees, and exactly what clients are paying premium fees for in 2026. (If you can't attend live, register to get the replay!)

The Back-to-School sale for the Therapy Intensives Academy is happening NOW! Join by 8/19 to get $500 off and 6 months free inside the VIP Community and SEO for Therapists membership. Check it out here!

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Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.

Amanda gets into her own fee history, from her very first client at $85 a session to charging $400 to $500 an hour for therapy intensives, and what actually made each increase possible. This isn't a pep talk about charging your worth. It's an honest look at the two myths keeping most therapists underpriced, how to know when you're actually ready to raise your rates, and why staying too low for too long costs your clients something too.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

Register for my upcoming live webinar - The Premium Therapy Fee Method - happening on August 12th at 9am PST. This free 60-minute training will show you exactly what to work on to charge premium fees, and exactly what clients are paying premium fees for in 2026.

Resources & Links:

• This episode is sponsored by:
  • Alma - learn more here
  • Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period
• Therapy Intensives Academy
• Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Therapists Mastermind
• Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income

Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries!

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Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.

Amanda makes the case for the one thing that has done more for her business growth than any offer, marketing strategy, or sales technique: capacity. If you're a therapist who knows your offer works and clients keep coming back, but you still feel like you're drowning, your problem probably isn't your strategy. It's that you are the entire delivery mechanism for everything in your business. Amanda gets into how she recognized that in her own practice, what finally pushed her to hire her first virtual assistant, how to know when you're actually ready, and which tasks to hand off first.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

Apply here for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind - a 6-month hybrid, high-level mastermind with high-touch 1:1 coaching for therapists who are ready to stop relying on trading hours for dollars (even premium ones) and scale beyond the therapy room.

Resources & Links:

• This episode is sponsored by:
  • Alma - learn more here
  • Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period
• Therapy Intensives Academy
• Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive
• Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income

Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries!

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Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.

Amanda calls out something she's been sitting with for a while: the obsession with building faster using AI, and why it's actually working against you. This isn't an anti-AI episode, but it is an honest one. She breaks down why handing your program design, landing page copy, and curriculum over to AI creates something that could belong to anyone, and in a crowded market full of therapists-turned-coaches, generic is the most expensive thing you can be. She also gets into the over-delivery trap, why five group calls a week is not the flex it sounds like, and what actually drives results in a coaching container. If you've been cranking out content and wondering why it's not landing, this episode is probably going to tell you why.

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

Apply here for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind - a 6-month hybrid, high-level mastermind with high-touch 1:1 coaching for therapists who are ready to stop relying on trading hours for dollars (even premium ones) and scale beyond the therapy room.

Resources & Links:

• This episode is sponsored by:
  • Alma - learn more here
  • Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period
• SEO for Therapists Email Membership
• Therapy Intensives Academy - use code HHWPOD250 as a podcast listener to get $250 off at checkout.
• Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive
• Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income
• SEO Freebie

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Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.

Amanda sits down with Danielle Sampson, a licensed clinical social worker who went from seeing 28-30 insurance clients a week to building a thriving SEO business for therapists, launching a course, and starting a group practice, all within about a year. Danielle gets real about what it actually looked like to scale: the membership idea that flopped, the shoulder surgery that forced her to think differently about income, the late nights setting up systems she had no idea how to use, and the month she made more than she had in all of last year. She and Amanda also dig into what makes a coaching relationship actually work, why staying in the room longer than most people do matters, and how to think about profit versus revenue when your income starts to grow faster than you expected.

Connect with Danielle:

• Website: http://www.daniellesampsoncoaching.com
• Instagram: @smalltownseo
• Free 30-Minute SEO Webinar

Connect with Amanda:

• Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching
• Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website

Apply here for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind - a 6-month hybrid, high-level mastermind with high-touch 1:1 coaching for therapists who are ready to stop relying on trading hours for dollars (even premium ones) and scale beyond the therapy room.

Resources & Links:

• This episode is sponsored by:
  • Alma - learn more here
  • Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period
• SEO for Therapists Email Membership
• Therapy Intensives Academy - use code HHWPOD250 as a podcast listener to get $250 off at checkout.
• Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive
• Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income
• SEO Freebie

Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries!

→ Submit extra reviews here

Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.