Radical Practice Podcast

In this episode we are joined by Vanessa Solis! We discuss: 

• The privilege and cost of being authentic
• Creating community in private and group practice
• Social locations and identity-sharing
• The importance of a clear vision
• Power dynamics within therapy
• Premium fees —> offering free services
• Business development as a healing journey

Resources:

Join the community! Connect with us on Instagram. 

Check out Vanessa's practice/community: Empowered Mind Therapy Center.

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

In this episode we are joined by Paul Fugelsang! We discuss: 

• Why Paul started a private practice
• Advice for new practices
• How Open Path began
• How to navigate offering sliding scale in a sustainable way
• The commodification of therapy
• Tips on starting a non-profit
• The importance of rest

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Instagram. 

Find Open Path here.  

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

In this episode we are joined by Jamie Weber! We discuss: 

• Grad school and oppression
• The origins of imposter syndrome
• The alleged gift of assimilation
• Working through money trauma with abundance
• Why Jamie is taking insurance
• Collective care in mental health

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Instagram. 

Find Jamie Weber here and on Instagram. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

In this episode we are joined by Judy Hu! We discuss: 

• What a boundary coach is/does
• Why Judy quit taking insurance
• The problem with “one right way”
• The importance of starting from a “there’s nothing wrong with me” mindset
• The value of understanding oppression when contextualizing suffering
• How worthiness relates to boundaries
• Ancestral exploration and genograms
• How to be in right-relationship with others

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Instagram. 

Find Judy Hu here and on Instagram. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

In this episode, we discuss the following: 

• What micro-activism is
• The different activist archetypes
• Accessibility in mental health
• How much do we really need to earn? 
• Dignity and the beloved community
• The importance of communicating our humanity to each other
• The role of love in therapy

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Find Omkari Williams here. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this episode, we discuss the following: 

• Inner wisdom vs. an oppressive society
• The real purpose of the DSM
• Using lived experience for connection
• The problem with assessments
• Burnout, capitalism, and recovery
• Should we try and change the system? 
• Boundaries
• Lynnae’s personal experience with therapy and what worked

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Find Lynnae Brown here!

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

We'll take a few months off, then return in late January/early February 2024. Looking forward to seeing you then! 

It's been such an honor to record 20 episodes to share with you! Thank you for being here, thank you for listening, and thank you for all of the great feedback. We love recording Radical Practice. 

In this episode, we discuss your business mindset, and the following: 

• How your values can disrupt business culture
• How to get the word out about your business
• The value of re-visiting your vision
• The importance of having people to hold our vision for us
• Writing a future letter to yourself
• Power in our businesses
• How to utilize the elevator pitch

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

We loved this conversation with Fara Tucker!

In this episode, you'll hear us discuss: 

• How Fara got into the social work field
• The decision to take insurance or do private pay
• How to build generosity and accessibility into your private practice
• The difficult decision Fara had to make in her private practice
• What came *after* private practice

Resources: 

Fara's touching Instagram account.

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this episode, we talk about: 

• Healing through business ownership
• The importance of finding a business mentor
• Trusting your gut
• How perfectionism shows up
• How to motivate yourself
• What to do when you're stuck
• What white supremacy culture has to do with business development
• How we downplay our skills

Resources: 

SCORE Mentors through the Small Business Administration

Gretchen Rubin and the Four Tendencies

Anna Caitlin photography

Lisa Congdon

Meenadchi and Meenadchi's website

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.