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What happens when someone without a therapy license decides to build a premium-fee practice anyway?

Meet Jessica Scalzo, a professional Peer Counselor and retired competitive runner who turned her lived experience with overtraining and eating disorders into a thriving private practice charging $185 per session.

Jessica was charging $45 when she joined LIMB. Today, she's a pioneer — redefining what's possible for peer counselors, athletes, and anyone told their work "doesn't count."

In this episode, Jessica shares:

• How she built a private practice as one of only two known peer counselors in the U.S.

• The bold leap from $45 to $185 — and what it taught her about worth

• How she helps athletes heal from "R.E.D.S." (Relative Energy Deficiency Syndrome)

• The difference between therapy and peer counseling — and why both matter

• What it means to turn pain into purpose and still make bank

Resources mentioned:

• LIMB Academy

• Fun With Fees Calculator

• Jessica`s Instagram

• Jessica`s Website

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This is your unpopular opinion alert—but someone needs to say it.

If you're taking insurance or charging low fees that don't allow you to pay your bills, take care of your kids, and save for retirement, your practice is out of integrity.

You're modeling a lie—both to your clients and to yourself.

In this fiery, no-fluff episode, Tiffany dismantles the illusion that therapists can do high-quality, transformative work while chronically undercharging. She shows you exactly how low fees erode your integrity, deplete your energy, and keep the entire field stuck in burnout and self-sacrifice.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why low fees aren't generous—they're dishonest;

• The hidden "subsidy system" keeping therapists broke and exhausted;

• The hard truth about who can actually afford to charge low fees (and why you're probably not one of them);

• How cheap therapy devalues the profession and undermines client transformation;

• The financial and emotional red flags that prove your fees are too low.

If your clients are changing—but you're the one deteriorating—it's time to face what that says about your business model.

Integrity starts with truth—and truth starts with charging enough to live.

Email Tiffany at [email protected] with the subject line: "I'm Ready."

She'll walk you through how to raise your fees, reclaim your integrity, and build a practice that honors your worth—without apology.

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After helping build a 12-clinician nonprofit from the ground up, Angelina Miceli, LCSW, realized she'd built everything — except her own joy.

She was burnt out, resentful, and quietly crumbling. In 2024, she joined LIMB, left her director role, and went all in on private practice. Today, she's charging $275 per session and $300 per intake — and loving every minute of it.

If you're scared to leave your "secure" job, Angelina's story is your permission slip.

In this episode, Angelina shares:

• What it felt like to walk away from a leadership role she built from scratch

• Why her "pretend fee" of $150 wasn't serving her or her clients

• How she faced fear, shame, and scarcity to step into premium fees

• The transformation she's experienced after aligning her business with her values

• What it means to create a life that actually feels like your own

Resources mentioned:

• LIMB Academy

• Fun With Fees Calculator

• Angelina`s Instagram

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Therapists love to tell themselves: "I'll figure it out in January." Raise my fees in January. Do my marketing in January. Finally get serious about my business in January.

Here's the truth: by January, it's already too late.

In this urgent episode, Tiffany dismantles the myth of the "new year reset" and shows you why the moves you make this fall will determine your income, stability, and freedom in 2026.

If you're waiting until the calendar flips, you're not planning—you're playing catch-up. And it's costing you everything.

In this episode, Tiffany shares:

• The therapist revenue cycle no one talks about—and why fall is the most important season for your business;

• Dylan's story of turning $3K months into $11K months—and why the turnaround started months before the results showed up;

• The hidden cost of waiting until "things calm down" to raise your fees or get off panels;

• Why later is not safe—later is theft;

• The exact fall steps you need to take to enter 2026 with clarity, ease, and cash flow.

If you're serious about building a premium-fee, cash-pay practice that actually sustains you, the work starts now.

Email Tiffany at [email protected] with the subject line: "Ready." Because your 2026 income is being decided today—whether you act or not.

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In this episode, we're speaking with Katie Gilbertson, a Washington-based therapist who was working three days a week—but still couldn't take a vacation or contribute to retirement.

She thought she had created a dream schedule.

What she hadn't created was financial freedom.

Katie walks us through what it took to finally stop tweaking her website at 10PM and start building a premium-fee practice rooted in clarity, ownership, and ease.

In this episode, Katie shares:

How charging $150–$160—with half her caseload on sliding scale—left her spinning and anxious;

Why "having time" didn't mean having freedom;

The guilt and fear she carried about raising fees on long-term clients;

The moment she stopped waiting for a second job and invested in her own business;

What changed when she stopped managing clients' finances—and started managing her own.

Resources mentioned:

LIMB Academy

FWF Calculator

Katie's Website

Katie's TikTok

More about Katie:

Katie Gilbertson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State. She helps anxious women who people-please & over accommodate, heal attachment wounds, set guilt-free boundaries, and prioritize their needs.

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"Sure, Tiffany—that all sounds great. But is it actually possible? Can any therapist really charge $350 a session and stay full?"

That's the question Tiffany hears over and over again from therapists who are burned out, underpaid, and deeply skeptical that freedom is even possible for them.

And in this fiery episode, Tiffany answers the question directly: YES. It's possible. But only if you're willing to think bigger than the average therapist.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why most therapists stay stuck at "average"—and why you don't have to;

• How to break out of the conditioning that keeps you undercharging and exhausted;

• The surprising truth about what clients actually pay for (hint: it's not worksheets);

• Why premium-fee therapy is not only possible, but necessary for deep, transformational work;

• Tiffany's 3-step roadmap to move from skeptical to fully booked at $300–$500 per session.

If you've been secretly wondering if anyone out there is really doing this—this episode is your answer. And it's your permission to stop playing small.

Email Tiffany at [email protected] with the subject line: "I'm Ready."

If you're done working the shipyard of your own mind and ready to build a practice that actually sustains you, this is where it starts.

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In this episode, we're speaking with Maggie Evans, an art therapist, highly sensitive person, and single mom who broke free from the burnout of BetterHelp and built a premium-fee private practice that supports both her nervous system and her child.

If you think your personality, parenting status, or sensitivity disqualifies you from making bank as a therapist—Maggie's story will prove otherwise.

In this episode, Maggie shares:

How she went from 30 BetterHelp clients at $30/session to building a sustainable practice from scratch;

What it took to unlearn the martyr mindset of motherhood and entrepreneurship;

Why perimenopause and ADHD diagnoses inspired her niche—and her premium rates;

Her fiercely non-negotiable boundaries (no nights, no weekends, no guilt);

How LIMB helped her show up for her son—and herself—in the ways that truly matter.

Resources mentioned:

LIMB Academy

FWF Calculator

Maggie's Website

Maggie's Instagram

More about Maggie:

Maggie is a metaphor-loving artist, therapist, and mother who works with spirituality-seeking women who've found themselves lost, stuck, and broken-hearted. From wedding dress designer to full-time private practice therapist during Covid, Maggie does her best work out along the edges.

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You're full—or close to it. You're managing. Paying the bills. Picking up your kid. Logging back on after dinner for that one "flexible" client.

It's not suffering. But it's sure as hell not success.

In this episode, Tiffany lays bare the trap so many therapists fall into: "good enough."

The caseload is fine. The fee is okay. The marriage is stable. The roof mostly holds.

But when life hits—an aging parent, a sick child, a partner out of work—good enough becomes not even close.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why "things are okay" is the most dangerous place to be in private practice;

• The slow death of your future under the weight of quiet resentment and canceled vacations;

• How systemic conditioning teaches therapists to endure instead of prepare; What Natasha (from a previous episode) realized when her dad had a stroke—and why she stopped waiting;

• How to treat business investment as protection, not risk.

If you're waiting until things fall apart before building the business you deserve, stop.

Email Tiffany at [email protected] with the subject line: "Ready."

Let's build the business that protects you.

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In this episode, we're speaking with Natasha Deen—a DC-area therapist specialized in working with Muslim daughters of immigrants—who went from "okay enough" to powerful, unapologetic fee ownership.

Natasha joined LIMB thinking she might raise her fee.

Instead, she transformed her mindset, boundaries, and belief in what's possible—for her clients, her practice, and her life.

Natasha's story is a masterclass in rejecting the slow death of small dreams.

In this episode, Natasha shares:

Why charging $170/session still left her dreaming of a life she couldn't reach;

The wake-up call that came during Fee Week—and the boundary audit that followed;

How her father's stroke redefined what really matters;

Why she stopped waiting for a partner, a raise, or "someday" to live the life she wanted;

The ripple effect raising her fee had on her practice, personal life, and vision for the future.

Resources mentioned:

LIMB Academy

FWF Calculator

Natasha's Website

More about Natasha:

Natasha is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland and Virginia. She specializes in helping Muslim daughters of immigrants balance self-care and family care and work through feelings of overwhelm and guilt. Through trauma-informed care and faith-based counseling, she helps them heal their mind, body, heart, and soul, so they can connect with themselves and their families in a deeper, more meaningful way.

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Five years ago, insurance filled your caseload. It wasn't ideal—but it worked. You weren't thriving, but you were surviving. You told yourself: "One day I'll do something different."

That day is here. And the game has changed.

In this urgent episode, Tiffany breaks down why the therapist insurance hustle is collapsing—and what you must do now if you want to protect your time, your income, and your well-being.

In this episode, Tiffany reveals:

• Why your caseload isn't refilling like it used to—even if you're on every panel;

• How tech conglomerates are taking over insurance-based referrals and squeezing out solo providers;

• The truth about reimbursement rate cuts (some slashed by 40%)—and what it means for your future;

• The illusion of "stability" insurance used to offer—and why it was always a trap;

• What it really takes to build a practice rooted in freedom, sustainability, and clinical excellence.

This is not a drill. The insurance model is crumbling. You can keep trying to survive inside it—or you can make a different choice.

Email Tiffany at [email protected] with the subject line: "Emancipate."

She'll send you your first step toward stepping out of the system that was never built for you.

You don't have to do it alone. You just have to decide you're not staying stuck.