Every single week, someone in the Traveling Therapist Facebook group asks the same question: what do I do about liability insurance when I'm traveling? I'm replaying one of the most listened-to episodes on the show because this question never stops coming up.

In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I walk through what your liability insurance actually needs to see happen for you to stay covered, what changes the second you start seeing clients outside your home country, and the questions you should be asking your provider instead of guessing. I also get into what to do when local rules get murky and what your options are if the whole thing starts to feel like too much to manage on your own.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• What actually determines whether your liability insurance covers you when you're not sitting in your state of licensure.
• The one rule most traveling therapists get wrong about where they're allowed to be located.
• What changes the moment you start seeing clients in another country.
• Where to look for coverage if you're building an international or expat practice.
• What to do if liability insurance starts to feel like more than you want to manage on your own.

Mentioned in the Episode:
Portable Practice Method: https://www.portablepracticemethod.com/free-training
CPH & Associates: https://cphins.com/
HPSO (Healthcare Providers Service Organization): https://www.hpso.com/
International Therapist Directory: https://internationaltherapistdirectory.com/
European Association for Psychotherapy: https://www.europsyche.org/ 

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

Time zones, licensure rules, and figuring out whether the work you trained for is still the work you want to do, building an international therapy practice comes with challenges that don't show up in the highlight reel. In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I'm replaying one of our most popular conversations while I take a recording break to travel through Switzerland and Italy.

I sit down with Lucy Orton, a therapist and corporate coach based in Southeast Asia who sees clients across the UK and the US. She walks me through how she built a global practice around her family's life, how her advertising and marketing background opened an unexpected door into corporate coaching, and why she's shifting toward couples intensives instead of a packed weekly caseload.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• How Lucy built a global practice around her family's life across time zones and licensure differences.
• The unexpected door her advertising and marketing background opened into corporate coaching.
• What an executive roundtable actually is and why it still brings in repeat business years later.
• Why she's shifting toward couples intensives instead of a full caseload of individual sessions.
• The mindset shift that stopped her from undercharging as she moved from coaching into therapy.

Connect with Lucy:
Website - https://www.couplesawaken.com/ | https://www.lucyorton.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lucyortontherapy
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyorton/

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

You can have the license, the laptop, and a full client list, and still stay exactly where you are, because learning to transform your money mindset is the piece most traveling therapists skip until it's absolutely unavoidable. This one's a replay of one of our most-requested episodes, and it earns that spot for a reason. In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I sit down with Scarlett Stanhope, known as the Biz Hippie, to talk about why money, not licensure or tech setup, is usually the real reason people never book the flight.

We get into the core beliefs that quietly run the show long before you ever open a bank statement, the childhood money messaging most people never think to question, and the very uncomfortable topic of charging what you're actually worth. Transforming your money mindset starts here, and if you've been waiting for the money to feel more stable before you make a move, Scarlett is going to poke at that belief a little.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• Why "not enough-ness" shows up the same way whether you're broke or financially comfortable.
• The difference between the tangible and intangible sides of healing your relationship with money.
• What Scarlett's compost pile has to do with breaking a scarcity mindset.
• The real cost of undercharging, and why overcharging can backfire just as fast.
• How Scarlett's pricing "secret sauce" helps you find the edge of your comfort zone.

Connect with Scarlett Stanhope:
Website: https://thebizhippie.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebizhippie/
Book an Abundance Activation Session: https://thebizhippie.com/activate/ 

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

Most therapists can rattle off every diagnostic code without blinking, but ask about their break-even number and things get quiet. Those are exactly the financial blind spots we're unpacking in this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast. I sit down with Rob Freels, founder of FreeRivers CFO Advisory, who spent 25 years across banking, auditing, and 16 years as a CFO before turning his attention to healthcare and mental health practice owners.

Rob breaks down where money actually disappears before it ever hits your bank account, why those losses hit harder the bigger your practice gets, and the one number he says matters more than revenue or profit. If you've ever felt like your finances are a mystery you don't have time to solve, this conversation gives you a place to start.

PLEASE NOTE: In the episode, Rob mentions that contribution margin is revenue minus fixed costs, but he actually meant revenue minus variable costs.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• The invisible fees eating into your revenue before it ever hits your account.
• Why those percentages get more expensive the bigger your practice grows.
• The one financial metric Rob says matters more than revenue or cash flow.
• How to know when it's time to bring in more than a bookkeeper.
• A free calculator that shows you exactly where you stand.

Connect with Robert Freels:
Website: https://freeriverscfo.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robfreels/
Free Break-even Calculator: https://freeriverscfo.com/tolson 

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

Before you post that job listing, you need a plan to financially prepare for your next hire, and that's exactly what today's guest walks us through. Carla Titus is a CFO who works with therapy practices of all sizes, and she breaks down why so many owners jump into hiring before they've actually looked at the numbers.

In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, Carla and I dig into what it actually costs to bring on a new clinician, from the ramp-up period to tracking performance once they're on your team. If you've ever hired someone and then panicked three months later wondering where the money went, this one is for you.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• Why the ramp-up period costs more than most owners plan for.
• What cash runway actually means before you bring on a new hire.
• How to track a remote clinician's performance without living in the dashboard.
• What to do when a clinician isn't hitting their numbers.
• How to know when it's time to cut an underperforming vendor or team member.

Connect with Carla Titus:
Website: https://www.wealthworthwithin.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wealthworthwithin/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wealthworthwithin/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wealthworthwithin
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthandworthwithin
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ceo-financial-clarity-corner-podcast-money-strategy/id1818238749 

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

Figuring out which state's rules apply to your client can feel like a moving target, especially once you're crossing state lines. In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I sit down with Michelle Burlin, a therapist and attorney who spent months combing through every state and territory's reporting laws so the rest of us don't have to.

She's been practicing for 26 years, mainly in the forensic realm, licensed in Oregon and Alaska. Along the way she went to law school and now runs a forensic private practice where she does risk assessments, expert witness work, and trainings for clinicians. She breaks down what mandated reporting actually requires state by state, what changes when you're doing telehealth across state lines, and why she says to always err on the side of caution.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• Why treating sex addiction is its own specialty, separate from other addictions.
• The three categories that show up again and again across state reporting laws.
• What "reasonable cause" actually means when you're the one deciding to report.
• Why the client's location, not yours, determines which state's rules apply.
• How age of consent differences between states complicate telehealth mandated reporting.

Connect with Michelle Burlin:
Website: https://veritasconsultingservices.com/ | https://mbhglobalenterprise.org/
Book - A Clinician's Guide to Mandated Reporting: https://a.co/d/00W9SVEf

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

If you've ever wondered what it actually takes to start building a life you don't need a vacation from, this episode is going to give you the real, unfiltered version. In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I sit down with Jennie Blackwood, who went from barely covering her bills in a corporate marketing job to running a seven-figure business built on multiple income streams.

Jennie walks us through the moment that changed everything, the leap she took when her family's income disappeared almost overnight, and how she's structured her business so it actually supports the life she wants instead of running her into the ground. We also get into the mindset work it took to keep going when things got hard, and what building a life you don't need a vacation from really looks like day to day.

In This Episode, I Cover…

• The middle-of-the-night idea that turned into a business almost overnight.
• The moment she realized she was doing all the work and keeping almost none of the money.
• Why she built a team around her instead of staying the face of the business.
• How one course led to a coaching program with 300+ women in eighteen months.
• The human design concept she uses to work just three days a week.

Connect with Jennie Blackwood:
Website: https://www.jennieblackwood.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialgraze.charcuterie/
https://www.instagram.com/girlwhynotyou_ 

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

You can build a therapist website using AI now, and it does not have to take nine months or cost five thousand dollars like mine did. I spent years bouncing from Weebly to Brighter Vision to a developer who farmed my project out and disappeared, and honestly, I regret most of that money and time.

In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I'm walking through the exact process I used to build aifortherapists.com for about $36 in under two hours, using Claude to plan the site and Manus to actually build it. I'm also opening up my live AI website workshop on August 4th, 5th, and 6th, where we build a site from scratch together, plus a few lessons I learned the hard way about domains, contact forms, and email that you'll want before you start.

In This Episode, I Cover…

• Why Weebly, Brighter Vision, and a $5,000 web developer all fell short before she found a better way.
• The real cost of being locked into a website you cannot update yourself.
• How to use Claude or ChatGPT to plan out your website before building anything.
• What Manus does differently, and how she built aifortherapists.com there for about $36.
• What to check before transferring an old domain, including contact forms and email.

Mentioned in this episode:
AI for websites training https://kymtolson.kartra.com/page/AIwebsite
AI website I made: https://aifortherapists.com

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

Being a digital nomad therapist looks like freedom from the outside: laptop open somewhere new, sessions running from a different country every few months. But the reality involves a lot more paperwork than postcards.

In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I sit down with Sonia Jaeger, who has been running her practice from all over the world for over a decade. We get into what it actually takes to work internationally as a therapist, from navigating shifting regulations across Germany and France to building the kind of support system that keeps you from doing it all alone.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• How online therapy regulations in Germany have changed since Sonia started in 2014.
• The legal difference between working as a counselor and a licensed psychotherapist abroad.
• Her routine for settling into a new location before taking on client work.
• How she manages client sessions across time zones while keeping a small caseload.
• What led her to co-found the LIT community for location-independent therapists.

Connect with Sonia Jaeger:
Website: https://www.sonia-jaeger.com | https://locationindependenttherapists.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsoniajaeger/

Get 25% off the first payment of LIT Community membership (monthly or annual plan) using the code THETRAVELINGTHERAPIST

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym

If you've ever come back from a vacation still running on empty, you already understand why PTO doesn't fix burnout on its own. In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I sit down with ShannonElaine John, a licensed therapist and EMDR specialist who spent over a decade in the travel industry before founding Travel To Retreat, a travel advisory built specifically for burned-out healthcare and service professionals.

ShannonElaine unpacks the guilt and savior complex that keep so many of us from actually stepping away, why the balance between rest and fun determines whether time off actually works, and how that same thinking is showing up in her work with ancestral travel and retreat planning for other practitioners.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• Why guilt and a savior complex keep healthcare professionals from truly taking their PTO.
• The two-part balance between rest and fun that actually resolves burnout.
• How a decade in the travel industry shaped ShannonElaine's approach to burnout prevention.
• What ancestral travel is and why it's becoming a meaningful way to reconnect with identity.
• How ShannonElaine helps other practitioners plan and run their own retreats.

Connect with ShannonElaine John:
Website: https://traveltoretreat.com/ | https://alongyourjourney.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonelaine-john/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShannonES.John/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happychani | https://www.instagram.com/traveltoretreat

Are you ready to take the plunge and become a Traveling Therapist? Whether you want to be a full-time digital nomad or just want the flexibility to bring your practice with you while you travel a couple of times a year, the Portable Practice Method will give you the framework to be protected!
➡️ JOIN NOW: www.portablepracticemethod.com/

Connect with me:

• www.instagram.com/thetravelingtherapist_kym
• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

The Traveling Therapist Podcast is Sponsored by:

Berries: Say goodbye to the burden of mental health notes with automated note and treatment plan creation! www.heyberries.com/therapists

Alma: Alma is on a mission to simplify access to mental health care by focusing first and foremost on supporting clinicians www.helloalma.com/kym