Uncommon Couch

There are SO many lessons that you will learn during your first full year as an entrepreneur. I've learned a LOT about myself and what it takes to build a private practice, and that's what I am going to be talking about today.

In this episode, I share the 8 biggest lessons that I learned during my first year in full-time private practice. You'll hear the insight of how I ended up quitting my full-time job plus my biggest tips for setting up your business for success from the very beginning. I shared the importance of your vision, staying on track when things get difficult, and how you can keep yourself inspired.

What you'll find in this episode:

• My story of how I left my full-time job
• The 8 lessons that I learned in my first year of private practice
• Why you can't give yourself an exit door
• Reasons why you need to create your own belief structure
• A manta you should repeat to yourself

Learn more:

Check out my free guide 5 Creative Ways to Get Clients

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

Have you ever considered the impact of food on mental health? In this episode, I am joined by a renowned expert in mental health, nutrition, and trauma, Dr. Leslie Korn.

Leslie shares how she works with clients and other clinicians to integrate nutrition as a tool to support mental health. I am so excited to be sharing her story with you today.

We talk about a holistic approach to healing mental health and trauma and the role of nutrition in creating and maintaining health. Leslie gives her insight into how she got interested in bringing nutrition into her practice, the first steps to take if you want to integrate nutrition into your practice, and where she sees her business going next.

What you'll find in this episode:

• How she works with her clients and other clinicians
• The first steps of integrating nutrition into your practice
• Why you have to look at nutrition holistically for mental health and trauma
• What sparked Leslie's interest in nutrition
• What Leslie wishes she knew when starting her practice
• Her visions for the next chapter of her practice

About Leslie:

Leslie Korn is a renowned expert in mental health nutrition and the treatment of trauma who has provided over 60,000 hours of clinical treatment using non-pharmaceutical methods for mental and physical illness. She is the founding director of the Leslie Korn Institute for Integrative Medicine. She is Certified in Functional Nutritional Therapy, National Board Certified in 2 forms of Bodywork therapies. She completed her graduate training at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health. She has served as a clinical instructor and clinical supervisor at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and was faculty at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and clinical preceptor at Bastyr University.

Originally from Boston, Dr. Leslie ran a clinic in rural indigenous Mexico for over 25 years. She was a National Institutes of Health research scientist in mind-body medicine, was a Fulbright Scholar on indigenous medicine.

She is the author of Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: A Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection (Norton, 2016), The Good Mood Kitchen (Norton, 2017), Natural Woman, (Shambhala, 2020) Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature and the Body (Routledge, 2012), Multicultural Counseling Workbook (Premiere Publishing, 2016), and Preventing and Treating Diabetes, Naturally, (DayKeeper Press, 2019 ) She works with clients and teaches clinicians in the application of mental health nutrition.

Connect with Leslie:

Website | Institute

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

There's a lot of confusion about the coaching industry and why some mental health professionals are bringing coaching into their practices. This is actually one of my favorite topics and exactly what I am going to be discussing in this episode.

You'll hear an overview of what coaching is and what it means to me. I talk about my thoughts on how coaching and therapy can work together and I debunk myths about coaching (that are only partially true). I also share 8 of the common reasons that many mental health professionals get into coaching and if you're considering adding this into your existing practice I even share a few options for how you can get started.

What you'll find in this episode:

• What coaching is
• My perspective on the synergy between coaching and therapy
• 3 myths about coaching that are partially true
• How I felt about therapy early on in my career
• 8 common reasons that therapists choose to coach
• 3 options that people take when adding coaching to their therapy practice

Mentioned in this episode:

3 Mistakes Therapists Make When Starting a Coaching Practice And What To Do Instead

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

I am thrilled to bring you guys today's guest, Dr. Nanetta Payne. Nanetta is a licensed clinical psychologist, transformational life coach, and ordained minister of spiritual consciousness who helps her clients create an unapologetically authentic life.

Nanetta and I talk about how she got started in the mental health field, how her work has evolved over the years, and how she incorporates spirituality into her business. She shares the impact that people have when they're disconnected from God (or whatever spiritual guidance they believe in). She shares her advice for other practice owners about how she uses her intuition within her practice, how she structures her business, and her plans for expansion.

What you'll find in this episode:

• What Nanetta does now to blend coaching and traditional therapy
• Her journey in this field and how she got into this work
• How Nanetta structures her practice
• The process she uses to follow her intuition
• What brings Nanetta excitement within her business
• How being disconnected from God (or the universe) can impact you
• What a typical day looks like within her practice
• Why she decided to take on fewer clients and develop deeper relationships with them
• Her plans for expanding her practice

About Nanetta:Dr. Nanetta Payne is a licensed clinical psychologist, transformational life coach, and ordained minister of spiritual consciousness. She is the author of the book: "The LOVE PROJECT - Master Your Life through the Power of Love." Dr. Payne specializes in coaching very successful women who look like they have it all together, but feel like things are falling apart on the inside to create an unapologetically authentic life.

Dr. Nanetta Payne received her doctoral training from Jackson State University. Her internship and residency was completed at Brown University Medical Center. Dr. Payne completed her coaching and ministerial studies at Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development, founded by Rev. Dr. Iyanla Vanzant.

Her unique therapeutic approach came through her own intensive 'transformational soul work.' Healing the wounds of her past has become the catalyst to reclaiming her Freedom. Dr. Payne now has a greater appreciation and love for herself and the boldness to create the life she knows her soul is destined to live. Dr. Payne is honored to support the planet along their transformational journey of awakening-to the love, beauty, and magnificence that dwells within.

Connect with Nanetta:Website | Facebook

Mentioned in this episode:The Love Project: Master Your Life through the Power of Love

Want to enhance your intuition right away?

Check out Alyssa's free guide: 3 Intuitive Exercises to Enhance Your Clinical Work For Therapists, Coaches, & Healers

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

Are you flexing your intuition muscles? Your intuition is a powerful tool that's especially handy for growing your business. I am excited to share the conversation I had with an intuitive healer and business coach for spiritual entrepreneurs, Dr. Josephine Hardman.

Josephine and I explore how she developed her coaching practice after working in academia. She shares realizations she's made about discovering your life's purpose and honing your intuition. She also gives some great insight into using your intuitive tools and how she uses her own intuitive tools as a guide for her work.

What you'll find in this episode:

• Her transition from more traditional work to the coaching practice she runs now
• Why your life purpose doesn't have to be validated by the external world
• What her coaching practice looks like now
• The emphasis she's put on helping people develop their own intuition
• Honing into your intuition on purpose
• Intuitive tools that help guide her work
• How she's learned to separate herself from vanity metrics and focus on the one-on-one connection
• What Josephine see's next for her practice

About Josephine:Josephine Hardman, PhD is an intuitive healer and business coach for spiritual entrepreneurs. Through modalities like the Akashic Records, Tarot, energy healing, and business coaching, Josephine helps healers grow their businesses and do their highest-level spiritual work. Before starting her healing and coaching practice, Josephine taught English and writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College for 10 years.

Connect with Josephine:Website | Instagram

Want to enhance your intuition right away? Check out my free guide: 3 Intuitive Exercises to Enhance Your Clinical Work For Therapists, Coaches, & Healers

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

Do you need more clients in your private practice? Are you feeling stuck and unsure about how to get more clients in the door? If so, this is the episode for you! Dr. Amanda Crowell and I talk about the most common questions we get about practice building. We share about our upcoming support lab program and how it will help you on your journey of creating a profitable uncommon practice.

Marketing your practice doesn't have to be a painful process. That's why we broke down our favorite practice building questions that our clients ask us all the time! We answered 5 of the most commonly asked questions and how the support lab provides a no-nonsense roadmap to grow your practice in a way that is clear, supportive, and fun!

What you'll find in this episode:

• How our group coaching program, Support Lab, helps you to grow your practice
• How to write better copy for your marketing materials
• What you need to know about fancy marketing materials
• The in's and out's of networking to build your practice
• How to get more people to sign up for sessions after intake calls
• How you can parlay your expertise into an online program

About Amanda:Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist and business coach who helps therapists and coaches get more clients and make more money. Amanda's TEDx talk has received more than half a million views since January 2019 and has been featured on TED's "Ideas" blog. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, and Quartz. Amanda combines her expertise in cognitive psychology, marketing, and mindset hacking to help therapists and coaches create the practice they need with clients they love.

Connect with Amanda:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Podcast

Mentioned in this episode:

FREE MASTERCLASS: How to Build a Private Pay Practice During a Pandemic (Sept. 22 at 11 a.m.)

GROUP COACHING PROGRAM: Support Lab (Kicks off Sept. 29)

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

Are you ready to start offering that service you've been dreaming of? Maybe you have a spark of an idea about expanding into coaching, online courses, or other work outside of the therapy room. The sky's the limit. Whatever it may be, the big thing to consider is this: there will always be risks when stepping away from the quote-unquote "traditional therapy practices."

In this episode, I am talking about embracing the thoughts you've been having around expanding your income and impact outside of the therapy room. You'll hear what three shifts need to happen beforehand and three ways you can get paid work outside of therapy. You'll hear my personal story of being scared and taking action anyway and what it really means to be an entrepreneur!

What you'll find in this episode:

• The three big shifts that need to happen before expanding your work beyond therapy
• What it means to be an entrepreneur
• My personal story of working through fear and taking action
• What it means to do paid work in your expertise, outside of the therapy room
• Three ways to to get paid work outside of therapy
• The intangible risks that present themselves when we step into non-traditional work

If you're ready to add coaching to your practice, check out my online course CoachLaunch: Launch Your Coaching Practice in 30 Days.

https://www.dralyssaadams.com/add-coaching-to-practice

The CoachLauch online program was created specifically for therapists to help you start coaching right away and to ethically market your coaching-therapy hybrid practice, so that you can use your clinical skills in a creative way, make more money, and work with clients you love.

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

Are you listening to that nudge that is guiding you to make something happen? In this episode, I talked with Kimberly Wilson. Kimberly is a multi-passionate entrepreneur and psychotherapist, and we share a passion around the importance of trusting your intuitive nudges.

Kimberly and I talk about some of the internal processes she goes through when she is deciding to go after what she wants. She shares some of her personal practices for getting her creative juices flowing and the importance of taking yourself on an artist date. If you've been wondering what to do about a gut feeling you've been having you'll definitely want to hear this episode.

What you'll find in this episode:

• What Kimberly does within her work as a psychotherapist, podcaster, writer and wellness entrepreneur
• How each aspect of her businesses evolved into what they are today
• The internal process she goes through when going after her dreams
• How to trust your intuitive nudges
• Practices Kimberly has to keep her creative juices flowing
• Her advice on why you need to take an artist date with yourself
• What Kimberly is most passionate about and her tips for finding what you enjoy
• Her vision for the next chapter in her business

About Kimberly:Kimberly is the author of six books, a psychotherapist in private practice, and designer of the TranquiliT clothing line. She also hosts the Tranquility du Jour podcast and serves as the president of Pigs & Pugs Project. She has master's degrees in social work and women's studies and has been called upon as a wellness expert for US News & World Report, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, books, TV, and radio. She lives in Washington, DC with four rescue pets and one human.

Connect with Kimberly:Website | Instagram | Facebook | Podcast

Mentioned in this episode:Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

The Artist's Way

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Untamed

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

Sharing your ideas with the world is risky. People might judge you and what you have to say. On the other hand, not sharing your ideas can be even riskier. Think about it, your unique perspective and creative ideas around your area of expertise are needed by so many people. That's why in this episode, I am exploring the second step to an uncommon practice which involves stepping into your role as a thought leader.

I'll share the three sticking points that my clients experience when they start to think of themselves as a thought leader. You'll find out why you have to be willing to show up imperfectly and how sharing your expertise will improve not only your marketing but also your clinical work. Being a thought leader will give you a stronger stance and more well-informed ideas. Take a listen, get excited about sharing your ideas on a larger stage and then get out there and start doing it!

What you'll find in this episode:

• The three sticking points that come up around being a thought leader
• An exercise on sharing your expertise
• Why you have to be willing to show up imperfectly
• Why you should take action even if you feel fear
• How the world might need to know your unique thoughts and perspective
• Practical ways you can share your ideas and content with the world

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!

One thing that's very critical in growing your uncommon practice is finding community. In this episode, I talked with Jana DuFort of Fitness Lives Inside. She and I get real about how community can support you as a practice owner and she shares what she did to find a community of her own.

Jana helps clients with both their mental and physical health and supports them in getting off the diet and exercise rollercoaster while finding energy to live a life they love. We talked about her practice and how she got to this point in her work. She shares her advice for helping clients overcome resistance, how she ended up doing a blend of mental and physical health work for clients, and her best productivity tips for getting things done!

What you'll find in this episode:

• How Jana serves her clients with both their mental and physical health
• Her background and how she got to this point in her professional journey
• How she melds pieces of her therapy background with elements of her fitness work
• What she does to help people with resistance
• The types of clients she usually serves
• Why you should be doing and eating things that you like
• What she's done to find a community within her professional field
• Jana's tips for time management and the process of scheduling your day
• How she uses her intuition to guide her decisions
• Where she sees her practice going next

About Jana:

With more than a decade of experience in mental and physical health, Jana has worked with diverse groups in both facets. She has worked with clients from adolescents to seniors of all fitness levels, people with disabilities, mental health disorders, recovering addicts and families in distress.

Jana's unique approach isn't about quick fixes. Her experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Fitness Professional make her uniquely qualified to help you address the deeper issues preventing you from reaching your goals. Her work addresses the roadblocks we make for ourselves, deep within, and makes healthy living a reality and a part of who we are every day.

Connect with Jana:Website: https://fitnesslivesinside.com

The Uncommon Couch is the place for therapists and coaches who want to take their practice on the road less traveled. If you enjoyed this show, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll never miss an episode. Want to get to know me more? Find out more about me on my website or by following along on Facebook or Instagram!