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Real conversations with private pay therapists and industry experts who are actually doing the work. From practice-building strategies to navigating the realities of running a sustainable therapy business, these interviews give you practical insights you can use today -…
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S2E40 | First Brick | Private Pay, LGBTQ Affirming Care & Building From the Ground Up | Jay Hess, LCSW (opens the original)
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Jay Hess named the practice First Brick as a nod to the Stonewall riots. If you know, you know. If you don't, now you do. Jay is a licensed clinical social worker based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the founder of First Brick Counseling. The practice is fully private pay, in-person only, from day one. Every single decision flows from what the LGBTQ plus community, and specifically transgender and gender nonconforming clients, actually need. There was a gender neutral restroom or Jay was not s
S2E39| Building Connections in Mental Health Care w/Dr. Brian Dixon, MD (opens the original)
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Dr. Brian Dixon is back. He owns a seven-figure practice in Texas, built Feel Guide to solve the referral problem he kept running into, and has invested close to $100,000 in business coaching over his career. He knows what he is doing and he does not sugarcoat it. We talked about how to ask for a consult the right way and why most new clinicians get it wrong, why nothing about building a private pay practice is free and what it actually costs to do it right, what the referral network has to look
S2E38 | Get Out of Your Own Way | Private Pay, 37K Followers & Two Books Sitting on the Shelf | Alinne Butcher, LMFT (opens the original)
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I sat down with Alinne Butcher, a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of Over The Rug Therapy based in Granada Hills, California. Alinne is a trauma-informed, antiracist, attachment therapist who has been in practice for three years and is also a new mom doing all of this with a baby at home. She also has 37,000 Instagram followers, two completed books, and zero products on the market. We had a real conversation about what it looks like to build an audience of that size without a
S2E37 | I Never Set Out to Build a Business | 20 Years, Private Pay & Delivering What You Sell | Lynn Zakeri, LCSW (opens the original)
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This week I sat down with Lynn Zakeri, a licensed clinical social worker based in the Chicago area who has been in private practice for over 20 years. She is the 2022 Illinois NASW Social Worker of the Year, has been featured in over 100 national media outlets, and runs a hybrid group practice licensed across 15 states between her and her associates. She never set out to build a business. She set out to become a really good therapist. The business followed. That has been her philosophy for over
S2E36 | We Make Spectacular Friends | Provider Community, CE Training & Bringing Bodies Together | Elena Khazanova (opens the original)
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This week I sat down with Elena Khazanova and I did not expect to almost cry. Elena has been doing this work for over 25 years. She started as a massage therapist and craniosacral therapist, went back for her counseling degree, and built a practice that now centers entirely on provider wellbeing. She brings providers together for connection, friendship, networking, and play. And she trains therapists to become CE providers so that the clinical wisdom sitting inside practitioners who are not PESI
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