Today we're going to dive into the question of whether it's appropriate to specialize in topics you have a personal connection with. Whether you're considering specializing in treating something your loved one has dealt with, something you've dealt with in the past, or even your current experiences, in this episode we discuss things to consider before specializing in something you're personally connected to.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

Today we're diving into how to respond when clients give you constructive feedback. No matter how you slice it, it's always hard! But it's also a wonderful opportunity to lean into the therapeutic process and potentially have a healing experience. In this episode I share some of the do's and don'ts of how to respond when clients give critical feedback.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

An article in the APA's Monitor on Psychology showcasing stress and burnout levels updated with 2023 data show that therapist burnout is very much still prevalent. In this video, I take a look at the available data on therapist burnout and offer some practical tools to help us move towards health as a profession.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/04/psychologists-career-burnout

https://dictionary.apa.org/burnout

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/04/psychologists-covid-burnout

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9423708/

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

In this episode, I share those "wolf in sheep's clothing" signs that you're in an unhealthy work environment, which leave us feeling disoriented and wondering if we're the problem, because our bosses and employers *seem* super supportive but something still doesn't feel right.

I hope this video helps you feel empowered to catch those unhealthy signs more accurately so you can be equipped to navigate them well.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

Links Mentioned:

Original Video: "Signs You're in an Unhealthy Work Environment"

https://youtu.be/wLGOHzY_r7E

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

Is blogging still worth it in 2024?? (spoiler: yes!) In this episode, I share some of the ways blogging looks different for therapists in private practice in 2024, and offer a few tools to simplify the blogging process. I believe in you! :)

Links mentioned:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-school-digital-marketing-and-online/id1138869817?i=1000640311651

You can also watch the video version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bw_GiH2QUw

https://twitter.com/neilpatel/status/1737132479075725579

https://answerthepublic.com/

https://chat.openai.com/share/1bb1818f-3562-4f6f-a9bc-abefb0dbc2a4

https://www.temi.com/

(to convert audio to text - there is a fee! There may be other options out there I just haven't looked into it)

https://youtu.be/wXNW_oWcBQc

https://youtu.be/sshFmCue3hc

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

If you keep getting stuck trying to get started in private practice, this video explores some common snags I hear from folks and offers a few tools to help you get unstuck and move forward.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

I often find myself wanting to hear personal, human stories from fellow therapists. And I'm also curious what the experience of being a therapist is like when we're sometimes going through tough times ourselves.

Today I'm sharing my story of growing up in a narcissistic household and the experience of unpacking that as a 30-year-old while seeing clients in my therapy practice. Thank you for listening to my story.

Links referenced:

Video: "Why I Chose the Counseling Profession"

https://youtu.be/eFsSWfMnUG4

Documentary about Barry Minkow (my former pastor): "King of the Con"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16452470/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

(It might be on Apple tv or Discovery+? I couldn't find where it's streaming but you can see the trailer in the link above)

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

In this video, I’ll share some of the tools I try to utilize in my initial phone call with potential clients to emphasize a therapeutic frame, so that folks feel supported and cared for, regardless of whether they book with me or not.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

This episode is an unscripted and rambly take on the cultural emphasis on finding meaning and identity in our career, and some ways I see this potentially affecting us negatively as we pursue fulfillment in our careers and lives. I hope you find this perspective freeing and encouraging.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

Links Mentioned:The Ezra Klein Show: "Birthrates are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?"

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/birthrates-are-plummeting-worldwide-why/id1548604447?i=1000649683423

The Ezra Klein Show: "The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals

"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-conflict-between-our-work-and-parenting-ideals/id1548604447?i=1000650100198

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.

This episode takes a look at the importance of building trust with potential clients before they've ever had a conversation with you. I take a look at three of your submitted websites to see where you're doing an awesome job building trust with potential clients and offer some gentle feedback.

FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:

Links Mentioned:

Dr. Vanessa Vitiello Williams:

https://drvvitiello.com/

Dr. Jenna Brownfield:

https://www.drjennabrownfield.com/

Ananda Tree Therapy:

https://anandatreetherapy.ca/

LINKS

*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

👉 FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling: https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8

👉 How to DIY a Therapist Website that Fills your Practice: https://privatepracticeskills.teachable.com/

👉 All my filming gear: https://kit.co/privatepracticeskills/all-my-gear

This podcast is geared toward therapists of all kinds, including psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs, social workers, and others in the clinical counseling field. Welcome to Private Practice Skills! I’m Dr. Marie Fang, psychologist in private practice. I post videos offering tools I learned the hard way about starting and growing private practice so that you don’t have to.

Website: www.privatepracticeskills.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/privatepracticeskills

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/privatepracticeskills/

This podcast is not intended as professional or legal advice. Be sure to seek the services of a professional if you are in need of them.