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Making Therapy Work When the System Feels Broken
In this episode, Kelly and Miranda dive into the overwhelming changes in the mental health field, from shifting insurance policies to emerging AI technologies, while encouraging therapists to honor their own needs and strengths as they navigate an uncertain landscape.
Ethical Marketing for Therapists: Navigating Boundaries While Growing Your Practice
Learn how to market ethically as a therapist to grow your private practice, attract ideal clients, and build trust online without compromising your professional values.
How Katie Built a Thriving Practice for High Risk Teens and Found Her Purpose
Katie shares her inspiring journey from solo practice to running a thriving group practice for high-risk teens, discussing how following her curiosity, passion, and willingness to evolve led to unexpected success and new ventures, including her upcoming book and training program for therapists.
Marketing for Therapists Starting a Therapy Practice
Learn how to use your first year of private practice to refine your marketing strategy, attract ideal clients, build referral relationships, track results, and create sustainable systems that grow your practice ethically and effectively.
Healing Religious Trauma and Building a Private Practice: Cassidy on Therapy, Faith, and Writing
In this episode, Cassidy opens up about her path from schoolteacher to trauma therapist and eventually to published author, describing how her experiences with religious trauma, support from a creative community, and carving out space in her group practice all came together, along with her personal journey of self-discovery, to inspire and fuel the writing of her book "Becoming Me," which focuses on unraveling and healing the sacred wounds of religious trauma in women, especially within the LDS faith.
Marketing for Therapists Who Hate Marketing: A Personality-Based Approach
Learn how to market your therapy practice authentically by leveraging your natural strengths, whether you’re a relationship builder, educator, creative, researcher, or analyst, so you attract ideal clients without hustling, faking it, or burning out.
The Hidden Dangers of Tech Therapy Contracts: Ethics, Labor, and the Fight for Fair Pay with Liath
In this episode, Miranda, Kelly, and Laith dig into how venture-backed tech companies are transforming the therapy landscape, revealing hidden risks in contracts, ethical dilemmas with AI and client data, and why therapists need to take back their power by making well-informed choices about where they work.
Therapists Are Paying $4K a Month for a Directory?
Therapists are handing over thousands each month to platforms that profit from their labor and client data - and many don’t even realize it.
Marketing for Therapists on a Budget: Free and Low-Cost Strategies That Actually Work
Learn how to market your private practice effectively, attract ideal clients, and grow a sustainable therapy business using practical, low-budget strategies, content marketing, and authentic networking.
Moving States as a Therapist? Amity Shares Her Private Practice Startup Blueprint
Amity shares how building a private practice shaped around her values—especially peace and balance—helped her overcome burnout, navigate big life transitions, and create a more fulfilling life and career.
The State of Therapy: Tips for Therapists on Handling Insurance Rate Hikes and Technology
In this episode, Kelly and Miranda dive into how changes in health insurance, AI, and policy decisions are reshaping the mental health landscape—and what therapists can do to protect their practices and clients.
Fertility Specialization and Professional Women: Dr. Wiyatta’s Guide to Counseling Niches
Dr. Wiyatta shares her journey from working in corrections to building a flexible, specialized private practice that empowers her to define her own schedule, focus on her niche, and create a business that truly reflects her passions and expertise.
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