We've been on the road for eight months now, and we've seen some amazing sights! We just finished up a trip to Niagra Falls, and it was incredible. The power and beauty of those falls are truly awe-inspiring.

 

But that wasn't our only stop on this trip. We also visited Vermont and Maine, both of which were beautiful in their own ways. And now we're in the Poconos, which is definitely one of the most relaxing places we've been to yet.

 

Of course, along the way we've learned a lot about Airbnb. (In case you didn't know, they can be quite tricky!) We almost ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere Vermont, but thankfully we made it to the next town in time. And we rented electric bikes for the first time while in Maine...which was WAY better than using regular bikes! Haha.

 

I'm continuing my entrepreneurial journey and have two major projects right now. One is hosting a webinar called "Don't Panic: How to survive a rigorous insurance audit" with Gabrielle Juliano-Villani. She's an expert on the topic and I know her webinar will be packed with valuable information.

 

The second project is the "Nitty Gritty of Multi-state Private Practice Extension" course with Dr. Lisa Lovelace. Here's a free webinar we created around this topic if you're interested in this topic. Lisa is an amazing speaker and I know this webinar will be packed with useful information for private practice owners who are looking to expand their business into multiple states.

 

Both of these projects are really exciting and I can't wait to share them with you!!

 

I hope you enjoy this episode!

Links in this episode:

 

"Don't Panic: How to survive a rigorous insurance audit"

 

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Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

For today’s episode, we have Sydney Conroy, a first-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge at the PEDAL Research Center. Her current work focuses on the voices and experiences of children in play therapy sessions, as well as issues including trauma, the COVID-19 epidemic, and social discomfort. Sydney has experience working with children and families in both a private practice at Eastside Play Therapy and a community agency environment. She is currently residing in the UK and applying to become a therapist there. She has less knowledge about therapists who travel frequently, but she wants to share her perspective on going to a new country to practice therapy and developing a network. 

 

Tune in to this episode to find out more about Sydney!

 

“I think it's going to show up in a lot more nuanced ways that we would only get from therapists’ perspective of like being in the room with people that are processing that week after week, you're not necessarily going to hear that from teachers, or parents or people that are dedicated to looking to those specific issues.”

 

Learn More About:

• How did you go from being a child therapist to a traveling therapist?
• What is it like living in a foreign country?
• What it’s like to be a digital nomad

 

Connect with Sydney:

Website: https://www.sydneyconroy.com/

Twitter: SydneyConroy_ 

 

Thanks to our sponsor: SuperBill!

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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!
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• www.facebook.com/groups/onlineandtraveling/
• www.thetravelingtherapist.com

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

Dr. Abigail Hitchen is a licensed psychologist in California with a telehealth credential for Florida. She has Iowa roots but was mostly raised in Oregon, and spent the last ten years in Southern California.

 

She has a background in Latinx mental health and migration patterns and social justice and was involved in several projects at the San Diego/Tijuana border. She started 100% telehealth in 2019 (pre-pandemic) as a means of fulfilling a dream of spending longer bits of time traveling the world.

 

She now owns and runs a 100% telehealth, largely insurance based, private practice with one hired therapist and will be expanding to more coming soon. She just left Southern California and is back on the nomad trail for a bit before getting married and moving to Scotland later this year! Abbie is currently navigating how to run a mostly insurance-based practice while changing residency away from California.

 

She has been to 39 countries and counting, and apart from psychology, loves photography, wildlife, food and wine, learning languages, and meeting people from all around the world.

 

She is the owner and psychotherapist at Karuna Psychological Services, can find her at www.karunapsychologicalservices.com and therapist facing Instagram account where she documents her digital nomad travels and traveling therapist stories @nejmagoesnomad.

 

Today, she’s going to share her story and all the places she’s been and the places she’s going to go! Find out about it and enjoy this episode!

 

“I was planning on leaving blue shoes anyway, but I got nervous because they just stopped paying me. And that I can't have the people that I see the most from those insurance companies, I can't have suddenly months of no pay, and then having to scramble to figure all that out.”

 

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

For today’s episode, we have with us Sara Barroso LMHC who is a licensed therapist in Massachusetts. Sara's practice focuses on helping people who are dealing with complex trauma, disordered eating, body image problems, depression, and anxiety. Sara has spent the last ten years traveling and has spent the last year residing in Tanzania. Her tele-health private practice was established in 2021, enabling her to work anywhere in the world. Today, she will talk about her story and experience! Find out about it and enjoy this episode!

 

“Everything here looks the same. So it's harder for me to identify what's like a not so safe neighborhood, just kind of by like picking up on people's behaviors and like the way they're interacting and kind of like, what's going on, and what's perceived as kind of shady behavior in this culture”

 

Learn More About:

• Sara Barroso’s story
• How Sara adapted to a new culture and life in Africa
• The pros and cons of living in Tanzania

 

Connect with Sarah:

Website: sarabarrosolmhc.com

 

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

Lisa Lovelace is a therapist who, before 2012, didn’t offer online therapy. That’s when she began noticing the appeal of an online therapy practice and started doing online therapy. She was doing online therapy before it was such a big thing and so popular! Then, Lisa quickly added on a few colleagues and her practice grew significantly in the first three years alone! Synergy eTherapy was one of the first online therapy group practices in the United States. They provide high-quality mental health services in 16 states and are always hiring new clinicians to provide even more services in even more states. It isn’t easy. It isn’t quick. But, I know YOU can do this too!

Lisa CAN HELP YOU BUILD, GROW, AND REFINE YOUR ONLINE THERAPY GROUP PRACTICE! Learn more here https://www.synergyetherapy.com/online-group-practice/

Join Lisa’s free Facebook group here. https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinegrouppractice/

 

Thanks to our sponsor: SuperBill!

From explaining superbills and verifying OON benefits, to submitting claims and tracking reimbursement, SuperBill is a one-stop shop for you and your client's insurance needs. So you can spend your time exploring the places you love. 🛫🌍 Get One Month Free with Code KYMTOLSON

 

 

Connect with me:

Instagram: TheTravelingTherapist_Kym

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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:

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• 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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

We have been to so many places in the last month!! The month started with a trip through Virginia to see our families. We went to Lynchburg, Williamsburg, Chesapeake and Richmond then on to West Virginia for a few weeks. We really are starting to feel the cost of these airbnbs. Yikes. Monthly rentals are starting to seem more appealing, price wise. We got to try skiing on artificial turf and I got to visit Niagra Falls for the first time! 💕

Thanks to our Sponsor Hushmail.

 

Big News!! 

The Expert’s Guide To Becoming A Traveling Therapist is available for purchase! This is a comprehensive course of curated experts showing you how to travel the world, fund your traveling obsession, and still see your clients. Learn from therapists that are already making this lifestyle a reality. This course consists of carefully chosen Traveling Therapist Experts in our field. All of the contributors have created amazing trainings to teach you the ins and outs of being a traveling therapist.

Click to learn more. 

https://course.thetravelingtherapist.com/sp

 

Connect with me:

Instagram: TheTravelingTherapist_Kym

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

Erin Carey is the founder of Roam Generation, a PR agency focused on helping travel, leisure and luxury brands, experts and destinations share their unique and inspiring story with the world.

 

Erin has over 20 years of communications experience in the corporate environment and has interviewed in excess of 1000 people throughout her career. She has an inquisitive nature and loves to ask the big questions, to get to the real heart of the story. 

 

Roam Generation came about while Erin and her family were living on a yacht and sailing the world’s oceans. However, they weren’t sailors when they came up with the idea of leaving the rat race and sailing away. Without letting that minor detail get in the way, Erin and her husband bought a yacht on the opposite side of the world and went on to cross the Atlantic Ocean a mere 18 months later. 

 

Let this provide you with an indication of Erin’s personality - driven, tenacious and determined!

 

Connect with Erin:

Website: www.roamgeneration.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sailingtoroam

 

Big News!! 

The Expert’s Guide To Becoming A Traveling Therapist is available for purchase! This is a comprehensive course of curated experts showing you how to travel the world, fund your traveling obsession, and still see your clients. Learn from therapists that are already making this lifestyle a reality. This course consists of carefully chosen Traveling Therapist Experts in our field. All of the contributors have created amazing trainings to teach you the ins and outs of being a traveling therapist.

Click to learn more. 

https://course.thetravelingtherapist.com/sp

 

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

Join us in today’s episode as we have Amber Priestley, a therapist and business coach with multiple interests who loves to travel and discover new places! Amber is dedicated to providing other therapists with a tested formula for starting and expanding wildly successful counseling practices. In her private practice, clinical therapist Amber likes to work with stressed-out professionals and couples. Today, she will share her journey and talks about how she makes things work! Tune in and find out more about it in this episode!

 

“Here's what I have to say, because I struggled for a long time, just like a lot of people with what makes you legitimate. And I always thought, growing that group practice and having that office of buckling clinicians was success. And I realized really quickly as I got more experience in the field, that that's not really what was in alignment with what was healthy for me professionally, or personally”

 

Learn More About:

• How did Amber go from just being a typical therapist to a traveling therapist?
• What does a traveling therapist's lifestyle look like?
• Developing a way to scale up so you can help more people and not have to be locked into that one-to-one model that constraints you.

 

Connect with Amber:

Website: https://savvytherapist.com

Facebook Group: Join the Savy Therapist Facebook Group

Other links: https://linktr.ee/alpriestley

 

Big News!! 

The Expert’s Guide To Becoming A Traveling Therapist is available for purchase! This is a comprehensive course of curated experts showing you how to travel the world, fund your traveling obsession, and still see your clients.

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

In today’s episode, we have Andrea Shipley. She is an LPC and a nomadic therapist who built her own private counseling practice, sold her house, and converted a 2002 Thomas school bus into her traveling home office. She’s been exploring and working from the road since 2019 and doesn’t have plans to settle down any time soon. Andrea also created a small group coaching program where she helps people imagine, design, strategize, and build the lifestyles of their dreams … while enjoying the ride.  Listen to this episode as she shares her journey and her program called “Lifestyle Design” 

 

“So like, relative to any other life I've ever lived, I feel pretty good in this one, I feel more free in this lifestyle, I feel more in control of my life than I have when I've worked for other people. And I'm getting the variety and the experiences that are really important to me. It’s not perfect, but it's really working pretty well.”

 

• Andrea shares her journey to where she is right now
• How did Andrea go from being just your typical therapist to a traveling therapist?
• The freedom to be stable and still somewhere or move around a lot

 

LINKS:

Free webinar – 5 Shifts to Designing a Life You Love: design.aliveexplorations.com/CjX171

Wellness Center website: www.aliveexpl

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym

Join us for this episode as Sheryl Smith takes us on a journey through Japan and Asia. 

Sheryl traveled to Okinawa to the University of Okinawa where she was a cross cultural psychology assistant of Psychologist Dr Kevin Flanagan. 

She flew to Tokyo and ran support groups at The International Publications Education and Communication (IPEC) for East/west relations. She traveled to Kyoto, Osaka, Shikoku, and Hokkaido eventually traveling to China and The Philippines. In this episode she discusses her journey in Japan and what the culture and experience taught her. Her rich experience informs her as the therapist she is today. 

Sheryl is in the process of building her coaching and mediation practice. Her website is under construction. She can be reached at [email protected] and https://www.corejapancoaching.com/

 

Big News!! 

The Expert’s Guide To Becoming A Traveling Therapist is available for purchase! This is a comprehensive course of curated experts showing you how to travel the world, fund your traveling obsession, and still see your clients. Learn from therapists that are already making this lifestyle a reality. This course consists of carefully chosen Traveling Therapist Experts in our field. All of the contributors have created amazing trainings to teach you the ins and outs of being a traveling therapist.

Click to learn more. 

https://course.thetravelingtherapist.com/sp

 

Connect with me:

Instagram: TheTravelingTherapist_Kym

 Signup to learn more about the life as Traveling Therapist: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/l2v7c3

 The Travel

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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

Sessions Health: Built for traveling therapists with global EHR access, clean interface, and therapist-friendly pricing at just $39/month. www.sessionshealth.com/kym