From Teacher to Successful Private Practice Owner with Peggy
Peggy, LMFT, provides therapy for kids and elders in Burlingame and San Mateo, California (she’s currently working fully remote and accepting anyone in CA). Her specialties include working with kids, art therapy, and Brainspotting.
For 25 years, Peggy worked as a teacher, but large classroom sizes limited her impact, and she was ready to help people on a deeper level. Wanting more impact, freedom, and control, Peggy became a licensed therapist in January 2020 and fully opened her practice in July 2020.
Having completed Bootcamp, she now has a full practice with 23 personally referred clients and just started getting referrals from the people she serves. Peggy recently signed an office lease and plans to have a hybrid practice moving forward, offering both in-person and virtual sessions to people who need her services across the state of California.
Check out her full Private Practice Success Story here:
How are you pivoting or supporting your community during COVID-19?: I just started my practice in January and I had to pivot to all telehealth in a few days when our shelter-in-place orders came. I was able to see all 40+ clients and end the school year well.
Your experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: Loved learning so many things I didn't know!
How were you feeling before you signed up for Bootcamp?: Definitely uncertain. Just starting my practice, COVID, fires…you name it, us Californians have had it, and yet I just felt that starting off my practice with good solid tips helped to keep me regulated and calmer than I might have been.
What did your private practice look like before Bootcamp started?: I was really just starting out. I had a supervisor from private practice but she wasn't very helpful about how to start doing what she was already doing. Bootcamp answered a lot of those questions and got me thinking about important steps to being a businesswoman.
How do you feel after Business School Bootcamp for Therapists?: I still have a ways to go, but I felt that I had some solid footing.
How have your private practice and life changed after Bootcamp (processes, clinically, work-life balance, financially)?: I am making good money! I am not working on Fridays or Saturdays and still having a good amount of regulars. I think I have a good life balance but will always strive for more.
What would you say to someone else who is on the fence about joining Business School Bootcamp for Therapists?: If you can afford it, you should do it!
What do you wish you had known about private practice before you started?: I think some of the nitty-gritty things. I had some big stumbling blocks because it just felt too big. There is an enormous amount of needing to believe in yourself!
