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Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Evan Dumas, your co-hosts of Group Practice Tech. In our latest episode, we're looking back on some of the major developments that impacted the group practice landscape this year.  We discuss artificial intelligence and how it's impacting providers; ethical and clinical considerations for AI use; LPC and MFT eligibility as Medicare providers in 2024, and opting out if that's applicable; third party tracking on practice websites and HIPAA; a recent study looking at the efficacy equivalencies between telehealth and in person care; and the upcoming Compacts going live. Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/ For more, visit our website. Resources AI Podcast: Episode 322: [Tech Tips] Considerations for AI Use in Your Group Practice   CE course: The Evolving Legal-Ethical Standard Of Care For The Clinical Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Mental Health (2 legal-ethical CE credit hours)   PCT Blog: Artificial Intelligence Utilization & Implications in Mental Health Care: How Person Centered Tech is Helping the Helpers  Medicare PCT Blog: Big News on the Medicare Front — Attention Counselors and Marriage & Family Therapists! (including a link to ZynnyMe's great tutorial on how to opt out, if that's the determination your practice makes is right for you)   Training (non-CE): Introduction to Medicare and Medicare Credentialing   Training (non-CE): Medicare Billing  Teletherapy General practice optimization & fortification/HIPAA compliance & risk management

Today's topic is one that many clinicians have navigated, are navigating, or will navigate in the future. It's the idea of increasing fees with existing clients. I've seen this topic come up repeatedly in online groups for therapists, and I know it brings anxiety and confusion. Let's dig into it together!Our Featured GuestsKelly Higdon and Miranda PalmerKelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer are therapists, private practice owners, and the founders of ZynnyMe, where they teach and train therapists to build valuable and gratifying businesses. Their year-long training program, Business School Bootcamp, is a super-powerful system that teaches therapists everything they wish they had learned in grad school about running a successful private practice. In this episode, Kelly and Miranda will discuss the idea that we are betraying our client if we increase fees, along with ways to work through that mindset. We will cover the nitty-gritty of how to communicate fee increases to clients with all the logistical nuances. Our conversation wraps up with simple scripts you can use during sessions to stay on track, be clear, and affirm your clients without causing feelings of abandonment.www.zynnyme.com Starting a Counseling Practice PodcastYou'll Learn:Why the idea of increasing fees is intimidating even though many therapists are leaving a lot of money on the tableWhy increasing fees ties into mixed messages in our minds about our self-worth and valueHow the cumulative effect of a sliding scale adds up to significant amounts over time and reflects bias that we usually guard againstHow automation in today's world allows us to avoid those difficult conversationsWhy the recommendation is to create a letter but have the conversation with the client in session; give them the letter after the conversation (or email virtual clients)Why the letter is a transitional object and shouldn't make excuses for the fee increaseIdeas for scripting the notification letter and stating the fee increaseThe need for us to be honest with our clients to be able to continue providing great careThe misconception that schedules and fees should always stay the same; these are unrealistic expectations!How to present workable options to clients without feeling like you're abandoning themWhy clinicians have to do what it takes to care for themselves before they can care for their clientsHighlights in the conversation with clients about increasing fees:Own your emotions about it.Let the client know the relationship with them is valuable to you.Check in with the client's feelings and options moving forward.Why the window of notice should be long enough to prepare for termination or referralResources:Want to launch your online course?Please check out our free 7-Day Course Creator Starter Kit For TherapistsLooking to launch a successful podcast?Please check out our free "Using Podcasting To Grow Your Business" workshop for therapists.

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Evan Dumas, your co-hosts of Group Practice Tech. Our latest episode is an audio replay of our recent panel with ZynnyMe and Ström Consulting on what therapists need to be aware of regarding terms and conditions. We discuss the red flags from Simple Practice's new T&Cs; Zoom's updated T&Cs; the differences in these two situations; the impacts of certain T&Cs; steps to evaluate services for meeting needs as well as trust and transparency; the difference between HIPAA compliance and HIPAA consistency; healthcare companies using customer data to train AI models; Simple Practice providing untrue information about what is and isn't PHI; liability after agreeing to new T&Cs; BetterHelp's fines from the FTC; how professional organizations are responding; green and red flags to consider for service providers; informed consent for clients; short and long term EHR considerations for practice owners; voting with your dollars; recommended EHRs; Open Notes and client access to records; and backing up data. Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/ For more, visit our website. Resources EHR/Practice Management Reviews by Rob Rienhardt LPCS, M.Ed., NCC at Tame Your Practice PCT Resources Group Practice Care Premium for weekly (live & recorded) direct support & consultation service with PCT consulting team + monthly session co-facilitated by Eric Ström, JD PhD LMHC + assignable staff HIPAA Security Awareness: Remote Workspaces training for all team members + access to Remote Workspace Center with step-by-step tutorials & registration forms for securing documenting Remote Workspaces (for *all* team members at no per-person cost) + assignable staff HIPAA Security Awareness: Bring Your Own Device training + access to Device Security Center with step-by-step device-specific tutorials & registration forms for securing documenting personal & practice-provided devices(for *all* team members at no per-person cost) + more   PCT's Group Practice Service Selection Workbook & Worksheets (free!! Step 1 of the PCT Way) -- support for selecting HIPAA-secure, effective, and economical phone, video, and communication platforms (and your other practice functionality needs, too!)   PCT's HIPAA Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Planning service for mental health group practices -- care for your practice using our supportive, shame-free risk analysis and mitigation planning service. You'll have your Risk Analysis done within 2 hours, performed by a PCT consultant, using a tool built specifically for mental health group practice, and a mitigation checklist to help you reduce your risks.   PCT CE Training: The “Open Notes” Rule and Your EHR Choice: Legal Compliance and Client Safety Now and in The Future presented by Rob Rienhardt, LPCS M.Ed., NCC, Eric Ström, JD PhD LMHC, and Roy Huggins, LPC NCC

Is the cost of living crisis making you feel insecure in your private practice? Maybe you worry no one will be able to afford therapy? Or clients are asking to come less frequently?Perhaps you need to increase your fee in order to manage your own rising expenses, but worry about putting people off?If so, you are not alone. However, today I have the amazing Miranda Palmer with me talking about thriving, not just surviving: navigating the cost of living crisis in private practice. We discuss:The importance of fully recognising and valuing what you doLooking at the bigger picture within your practice so you grow and maintain a business to meet your needsManaging feelings of guiltKeeping yourself emotionally well to avoid burnoutThe benefits for you personally and professionally of self-development workAnd a reminder that after the last few years, the reality is that there are more people today that need mental healthcare than ever before.About Miranda PalmerMiranda Palmer, LMFT, loves helping therapists bridge the gap between what it takes to be a great therapist who gets great clinical outcomes and what it takes to run a successful therapy practice. She has helped thousands of therapists from around the world make the mindset shifts that allow a more effortless application of marketing strategies that grow a private practice that is not just financially sustainable, but that gets great clinical outcomes.Miranda and her business partner Kelly Higdon, also a licenced therapist founded ZynnyMe, to empower private practice owners to serve at their highest and best, improve clinical outcomes through business planning, and to break the statistic that mental health clinicians are the worst paid Masters' degree. Kelly and Miranda provide coaching and training through their Private Practice Community, the Business School Bootcamp for Therapists, and educational webinars, and have helped thousands of clinicians from around the world. LINKS TO FOLLOWLearn more about Business School for Therapists: news.zynnyme.com/business-school/Website: zynnyme.comBlog: zynnyme.com/blogFacebook: facebook.com/kellyandmirandaInstagram: instagram.com/zynnyme/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/2456942/Check out more episodes of the Starting a Counseling Practice Success Stories podcast on these platforms:Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyBook: Therapist Burnout: Your Guide to Recovery and a Joyful, Sustainable Private Practice

Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Elizabeth Guthrie, author of "The Trauma Informed Herbalist," about how we can use herbs and nature to improve self connection and self care. Elizabeth Guthrie is a board certified wellness practitioner who holds a PhD in Natural Medicine with a focus in Naturopathic Psychology and a Master's of Public Health in Functional Nutrition. She has helped create research for University of Alabama Birmingham's Integrative Medicine clinic, teaches practitioners online, and works as a wellness practitioner and yoga instructor in Birmingham, Alabama.   Visit Elizabeth's website.   Purchase Elizabeth's book, The Trauma Informed Herbalist, on Amazon here. Thank you to Kelly + Miranda for sponsoring this week's episode! Therapists - Make More Profits & Work Less in Private Practice from Kelly + Miranda of ZynnyMe begins 2/6/23! Therapists - Attend a free webinar presented by Dr. Janina Fisher. In this recorded webinar, Healing the Shame of our Fragmented Selves, Janina will address helping clients who struggle with shame and self-loathing.  As a special gift, when you register for the free webinar, you'll also get access to two one-hour trainings from Dr. Fisher so you can learn the foundation of her Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment model right away. Therapists - get free trainings on Energy Work and Spirituality with trauma survivors from Dr. Frank Anderson and save on his training when you register here! Have you heard about Psychotherapy Networker Symposium? This annual conference is held in Washington DC and features all of the well known and most loved names in the psychotherapy world, including several previous Therapy Chat guests. You can attend virtually or online and hear from recent guests Dr. Stacey Freedenthal, Dr. Mona Delahooke, Dr. Janina Fisher, Lori Gottleib, Dr. Dick Schwartz, Dr. Leslie Korn, Dr. Jamie Marich, Lisa Ferentz, Deb Dana....along with many other teachers I deeply admire and hope to interview in the future! Register here and get a discount! Find Laura's most frequently recommended resources for learning about trauma here - includes recommended books and trainings.   Love Therapy Chat? Leave a rating and review on Apple podcasts to help more people find the show! Get our free PDF download to learn about the 5 mistakes most people make when searching for a trauma therapist here!   This episode is sponsored by Trauma Therapist Network. Learn about trauma, connect with resources and find a trauma therapist near you at www.traumatherapistnetwork.com ! We believe that trauma is real, healing is possible and help is available.   Therapists, registration opens in March 2023 for Trauma Therapist Network membership. We now have new membership levels and options for Group Practice Owners and Canadian therapists! Get the details and join the waiting list for early access and a special offer when registration goes live at: https://go.traumatherapistnetwork.com/join !   Thank you to TherapyNotes for sponsoring this week's episode! TherapyNotes makes billing, scheduling, notetaking, and telehealth incredibly easy. And now, for all you prescribers out there, TherapyNotes is proudly introducing E-prescribe! Try it today with no strings attached, and see why everyone is switching to TherapyNotes. Now featuring E-prescribe. Use promo code "chat" at www.therapynotes.com to receive 2 FREE months of TherapyNotes! Podcast produced by Pete Bailey - https://petebailey.net/audio

  Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Alicia Barmon, LCPC, a Baltimore area yoga therapist and psychotherapist, about breath work. Alicia combines Somatic Experiencing with breathwork to build a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind - the implicit and the explicit... allowing trauma energy to emerge and be supported, held and felt in a new way - in relationship with the loving witness.  Her work emerges from the intersection of science and spirituality as she weaves modern science with ancient practices to create 30 minute daily practices that draw from quantum physics, Vedic philosophy, Chinese medicine, Buddhism and her deep reverence for trees and fungi.    She offers a breathwork class that has been running daily for 2 years. She also teaches the "Therapeutic Applications of the Breath' to practitioners, and she provides somatic based therapy and individualized breathwork sessions to harness the breath for personal and collective liberation. She has a breathwork handbook that will be released later this year - stay tuned...   In this week's episode you'll hear Alicia explain what breathwork is, give some examples of types of breaths, and talk about how trauma affects our breath. She explains overbreathing, why it's a problem and what can be done about it, and much more.   Alicia's website is ahimsatherapy.com Thank you to Kelly + Miranda for sponsoring this week's episode! Therapists - Make More Profits & Work Less in Private Practice from Kelly + Miranda of ZynnyMe begins 2/6/23! Therapists - Attend a free webinar presented by Dr. Janina Fisher. In this recorded webinar, Healing the Shame of our Fragmented Selves, Janina will address helping clients who struggle with shame and self-loathing.  As a special gift, when you register for the free webinar, you'll also get access to two one-hour trainings from Dr. Fisher so you can learn the foundation of her Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment model right away. Therapists - get free trainings on Energy Work and Spirituality with trauma survivors from Dr. Frank Anderson and save on his training when you register here! Find Laura's most frequently recommended resources for learning about trauma here - includes recommended books and trainings.   Love Therapy Chat? Leave a rating and review on Apple podcasts to help more people find the show! Get our free PDF download to learn about the 5 mistakes most people make when searching for a trauma therapist here!   This episode is sponsored by Trauma Therapist Network. Learn about trauma, connect with resources and find a trauma therapist near you at www.traumatherapistnetwork.com ! We believe that trauma is real, healing is possible and help is available.   Therapists, registration opens in March 2023 for Trauma Therapist Network membership. We now have new membership levels and options for Group Practice Owners and Canadian therapists! Get the details and join the waiting list for early access and a special offer when registration goes live at: https://go.traumatherapistnetwork.com/join !   Thank you to TherapyNotes for sponsoring this week's episode! TherapyNotes makes billing, scheduling, notetaking, and telehealth incredibly easy. And now, for all you prescribers out there, TherapyNotes is proudly introducing E-prescribe! Try it today with no strings attached, and see why everyone is switching to TherapyNotes. Now featuring E-prescribe. Use promo code "chat" at www.therapynotes.com to receive 2 FREE months of TherapyNotes! Podcast produced by Pete Bailey - https://petebailey.net/audio

Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews an esteemed guest, Dr. Stacey Freedenthal on the important subject of how to support someone who shares with you that they're considering suicide. In this episode you'll hear Stacey normalizing the common experience of having suicidal thoughts and clarify what happens when people tell mental health professionals they're having suicidal thoughts.  Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW, is recognized for her expertise in helping people who have suicidal thoughts. She authored the books Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals (Routledge; 2018) and Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and Do (New Harbinger Publications; scheduled to be published Jan. 2, 2023). Dr. Freedenthal created and maintains the website Speaking of Suicide, which has had more than six million views in ten years. She has authored or co-authored two dozen peer- reviewed articles and book chapters about suicidal intent, youth suicidality, and other topics related to suicide. Find Stacey's Speaking of Suicide website here   Visit Stacey's website staceyfreedenthal.com here Stacey shared the "Cats As Anti-Depressants" meme, which she found as a sticker available for purchase. She paraphrased this quote during our conversation and shared the exact words and source: From the Walker Percy novel, "The Moviegoer." “Suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself – ah, then, I would.” When Therapists Struggle With Suicidality from Psychotherapy Networker by Stacey Freedenthal A Suicide Therapist's Secret Past from the New York Times by Stacey Freedenthal Find Stacey Freedenthal's newest book, Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and Do on Amazon Find Stacey's first book, "Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques forProfessionals" on Amazon here Other resources: Thank you to Kelly + Miranda for sponsoring this week's episode! Therapists - Make More Profits & Work Less in Private Practice from Kelly + Miranda of ZynnyMe begins 2/6/23! Therapists - get free trainings on Energy Work and Spirituality with trauma survivors from Dr. Frank Anderson and save on his training when you register here! Find Laura's most frequently recommended resources for learning about trauma here   Love Therapy Chat? Leave a rating and review on Apple podcasts to help more people find the show! Get our free PDF download to learn about the 5 mistakes most people make when searching for a trauma therapist here!   This episode is sponsored by Trauma Therapist Network. Learn about trauma, connect with resources and find a trauma therapist near you at www.trauma therapist network.com. We believe that trauma is real, healing is possible and help is available. Therapists, registration opens in March 2023 for Trauma Therapist Network membership. We now have new membership levels and options for Group Practice Owners and Canadian therapists! Get the details and join the waiting list for early access next time registration goes live at: https://go.traumatherapistnetwork.com/join ! Thank you to TherapyNotes for sponsoring this week's episode! TherapyNotes makes billing, scheduling, notetaking, and telehealth incredibly easy. And now, for all you prescribers out there, TherapyNotes is proudly introducing E-prescribe! Try it today with no strings attached, and see why everyone is switching to TherapyNotes. Now featuring E-prescribe. Use promo code "chat" at www.therapynotes.com to receive 2 FREE months of TherapyNotes! Podcast produced by Pete Bailey - https://petebailey.net/audio

Are you striving to have a private practice that really works for you and helps you live a fulfilling, balanced life? In today's episode, Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer of ZynnyMe join Linzy to discuss strategies therapists in private practice can start implementing today to help them reach financial and personal goals. Linzy, Kelly, and Miranda dig into the connection between truly understanding your finances and having a more balanced, fulfilling life. Kelly and Miranda share common obstacles they see therapists face, and they give suggestions for practical steps we can take today to move toward a more balanced life.Connect with ZynnyMeZynnyMe, founded by Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer, was born from two licensed therapists coming together to empower private practice owners to serve at their highest and best, improve clinical outcomes through business planning, and to break the statistic that mental health clinicians are the worst paid Masters' degree.  Kelly and Miranda provide coaching and training through their Business School for Therapists program, and educational webinars, and have helped thousands of clinicians from around the world.Find their freebies at: https://www.zynnyme.com/freeWant to work with Linzy?Check out the FREE masterclass, The 4 Step Framework to Getting Your Business Finances Totally in Order, where you'll learn the framework that has helped hundreds of therapists go from money confusion and shame to calm and confidence, as well as the three biggest financial mistakes that therapists make. At the end, you'll be invited to join Money Skills for Therapists and get Linzy's support in getting your finances finally working for you. Click here to find a masterclass time that works for you! For a full transcript of the episode and much more, check out the blog post on our website!

Have you ever told yourself that you, as a therapist, can't make money and help people? Often therapists don't know where to begin when building a business, so they get stuck before they can even really get started. That's why business training for therapists makes such a difference in their success. In this episode of the All Things Private Practice Podcast, I speak with Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer, the co-founders of ZynnyMe, one of the pioneers in the private practice coaching world. We talk about: how it is more than possible to build a private practice that will sustain you so that you can stop "selling Tupperware door to door." the correlation between "burnout" and "bleeding hearts" and why you DO need to actually be paid for the work you do the need for conversations about money and therapy the need for a collective effort from therapists to heal their money trauma how a side hustles aren't always the answer to burnout why a business partner is like a marriage (and harder to get out of) the possibilities that come when you leave the door open for change... planned or not the courage to walk away and "detox" from agency work More about Kelly Higdon, LMFT: Kelly Higdon, LMFT, believes that private practice is one of the solutions to increasing access to quality mental health in our communities. Her passion lies in empowering private practice owners to serve at their highest and best, improving clinical outcomes through their business planning, and breaking the statistic that mental health clinicians are the worst paid Masters' degree. She has helped thousands through training, education, and coaching. More about Miranda Palmer, LMFT: Miranda Palmer, LMFT, loves helping therapists bridge the gap between what it takes to be a great therapist who gets great clinical outcomes and what it takes to run a successful therapy practice. She has helped thousands of therapists from around the world make the mindset shifts that allow a more effortless application of marketing strategies that grow a private practice that is not just financially sustainable, but that gets great clinical outcomes. Kelly and Miranda have over 10 hours of free training, including some that are CE eligible here: https://www.zynnyme.com/free (zynnyme.com/free) Website: https://www.zynnyme.com/ (zynnyme.com) Join the https://bit.ly/PrivatePracticeCommunityATPP (waitlist for the Zynnyme Business School) here. -------------------------------------------------------

Hey Group Practice listeners! The new podcast episode is out today! I'm talking with Kelly Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer of Zynnyme about therapist burnout, both for the employer and the employees.        In this episode we cover:     In my role as a group practice owner, what other ways can I take to support or help reduce burnout How to balance reduction of caseload when salary is sort of based on expectations If you step back or slow down, will your business thrive Are you rewarding behaviors that contribute to and impact burnout What is the point of enough when it comes to growth     Links mentioned in the episode:     Zynnyme private practice experts     This episode is sponsored by TherapyNotes. TherapyNotes is an EHR software that helps behavioral health professionals manage their practice with confidence and efficiency. I use TherapyNotes in my own group practice and love its amazing support team, billing features, and scheduling capabilities. It serves us well as a large group practice owner.   Do you ever wish for a financial therapist who could relieve you from the last few months' bookkeeping, talk you off the edge when you're running into issues with Quickbooks, or help you work through a profit plan for growth? GreenOak Accounting does just that! GreenOak Accounting is an accounting firm that specializes in working with group practices. Their value goes WAY beyond bookkeeping; they can help you get on track for financial success. Schedule a free consultation by going to http://greenoakaccounting.com/tgpe

Karen,https://kpcarlsonphd.com ( a clinical psychologist in Cape Cod), had worked in the public sector for years and loved every second of it. She loved the predictability and the regular paycheck but this would change abruptly.  Her health began to deteriorate to the point she could no longer hold a regular 9-5 position or work under fluorescent lighting. She began to lose self-confidence as she was forced to live off of disability for two years. But, Karen didn't lose hope and still felt she had work to do. With uncertainty, she made the jump into private practice After joining Zynnyme's boot camp, Karen was able to overcome her fears, work around her illness, and trust the process. She is now coaching, running her own clinic, and evaluating for a school district while managing her chronic illness.  Don't miss Karen's story about how she moved forward with unpredictability. Interested in joining Business School for Therapists? https://news.zynnyme.com/bootcamp/?utm_campaign=bootcamp&utm_medium=nav&utm_source=website (Click here) to see when we open our waitlist!  If you'd like to join us on Starting A Counseling Practice, https://www.zynnyme.com/podcast-request (request to be a guest here)!

Have you ever thought this?: “I know what I'll do! I'll create a course and I'll bring in passive income.” You are not alone. And before you go and try that, please listen to this episode. It's a master class in how to start a course the right way, how to improve a course over time, and how to grow the capacity of your course and business as you continue to iterate that process. Introducing Miranda Palmer and Kelly Higdon, the founders of ZynnyMe. They are two licensed therapists coming together to empower private practice owners to serve at their highest and best, improve clinical outcomes through business planning, and to break the statistic that mental health clinicians are the worst paid Masters' degree. In this conversation, they let me get extremely nosy about how things work behind the scenes with their very successful and popular flagship offer. Here's some of what we talked about: Making changes and improvements to their program regularly based on feedback How they started with a live one-week experience and built a robust program from there Scaling back their hours without losing quality in their program How they make decisions about pricing using both intuition and data Steps they take to make their course accessible for folks with vision or hearing impairment Some of the healing and self-care rituals that help them get and stay grounded Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/171

John sits down with Miranda Palmer from Zynnyme to talk burnout: how it happens and what we can do to prevent it from happening in the future.  Join Business Made Human now: https://go.privatepracticeworkshop.com/join-business-made-human Miranda's website: zynnyme.com

Having those financial conversations with your clients can be difficult if you aren't sure where to start! It's important to have an open conversation with your clients, rather than shift your values, in order to offer them the best care possible. Your services can be effective, affordable, AND profitable – we're here to teach you how!Miranda Palmer and Kelly Higdon are the founds of ZynnyMe, a company that is dedicated to teaching therapists to build valuable businesses while living a healthy, happy, and sustainable life. Their team is passionate about the mental health field, and enjoy serving the private practice community to help increase incomes and improve outcomes.Episode Highlights:How are money and clinical outcomes tied together?Money is a part of the therapeutic relationship! It can be an opportunity to deepen trust and to model how to have financial conversations moving forward.Money is a resource and how you personally interact with it can be the bigger issue - your money story can greatly affect your decisions to set your fee or offer discounted rates. It is important for you to place a value on the resource you are offering.What are some ways to respond to the question, "Is this the best fee you can offer?"Respond with a question to get a bigger picture of the client's situation and gauge what the client is able to handle - "This is my fee, but tell me more about what you are able to do knowing we will be meeting once a week."The frequency you meet with a client can greatly affect the clinical outcome, so it's important to factor that into the finances of your business.Links & Resources:GreenOak AccountingTherapy For Your Money PodcastZynnyMe - Private Practice Experts

This episode reviews themes covered in the Practice of Therapy from 2021. A few topics have come up from the last fifty episodes or so. I dive into those subjects, including community, preparing for a worst-case scenario, updating your private practice, diversifying income, and using mindfulness in your business. Tune in as I talk about some of my favorite episodes from these topics and the most significant lessons learned from my guests this year. Looking At The Worst-Case Scenario During Covid, many of us had to think about preparing for the worst-case scenario. Most likely, you, your family members, or your clients have come into contact with Covid. So, many private practice owners started to think about what would happen to their practice if something happened to them. That's why I spoke with Judd Carlton; he is a financial advisor serving families, individuals, and businesses in Morristown, NJ, and beyond. We talked about why the sooner you start planning for retirement, the better off you're going to be in the long run. Even if it's just a tiny bit that you save towards your retirement, it's going to make a big difference! Judd Carlton | Retirement Planning In Private Practice | TPOT 179 Update and Refresh Your Private Practice One way to update and refresh your private practice is through your private practice website. My good friend and website guru Daniel Fava helped with my private practice website. He is from Private Practice Elevation, and I am so grateful for all of his assistance! This year we chatted all about the website redesign project that I have started, and we walked through the nuts and bolts of what needs to get done to take your private practice website to the next level. If you want to see the final product, check out Kingsport Counseling here: https://kingsportcounseling.com/. Daniel Fava | Redesigning Your Private Practice Website – Part One | TPOT 169 Daniel Fava | Redesigning Your Private Practice Website – Part Two | TPOT 170 How To Diversify Your Income In Private Practice One of the things about being in practice, particularly if you're a solo practitioner, is that you can quickly reach a glass ceiling with your practice. You can expand your practice and create more income by starting a group practice. If you want to learn more about starting a group practice, then you need to check out this webinar: Solo to Group Practice: Adding More Therapists to Grow Your Time & Income. This is a pre-recorded webinar with selected automated times. Please choose a time/date in the calendar above that works in your schedule for the one-hour-long presentation. Another way you can increase your private practice income is through a side hustle. You can create a course or develop new products for other therapists or your clients. I did an episode with Chris Swenson about Self-Publishing For Therapists, Coaches, and Consultants. Chris dives deep into the self-publishing process, including the importance of an outline, an editor, and how to navigate imposter syndrome. Chris Swenson | Self-Publishing For Therapists, Coaches, and Consultants | TPOT 189 Dr. Lani Chin joined the show to talk about the process of creating an app in order to increase private practice income. CE Hub is a tool for mental health professionals to store their continuing education certificates and track their units earned toward licensure. You can upload your certificates, and CE Hub will take care of the rest. We talk about diversifying your income, the importance of outsourcing, and the nuts and bolts of creating your very own application. Dr. Lani Chin | Creating An App To Diversify Private Practice Income | TPOT 196 Using Mindfulness In Private Practice Brett Hill, mindfulness guru, joined the show this year. Mindfulness is the awareness that arises from paying attention to the present moment. When you can harness the awareness that occurs, you can respond to reality in a new light. Brett explains the power of incremental growth and how it can change your private practice. Plus, Brett dives deep into how mindfulness can be a powerful tool for not only your personal life but also for your private practice. Brett Hill | The Power of Mindfulness In Private Practice | TPOT 203 The Importance of Having Community In Private Practice Community is critical during Covid, so I wanted to talk to experts about the subject. The Therapist in the Attic is a way for therapists to get honest with each other. Leah talks about how she created a way to connect with others in complex, uncertain, and stressful times. When you think about it, we are all somewhat "stuck in the attic." Leah chats about the varied experiences many of us have faced in these uncertain times. Leah Leynor | The Therapist In The Attic | TPOT 188 Plus, I talked with Ernesto Segismundo about having a community. Also, I chatted with Kelly and Miranda from ZynnyMe about incorporating an online community into the mix with a side hustle. You can check out those episodes here: Ernesto Segismundo | Finding Creative Solutions In Private Practice | TPOT 207 Kelly & Miranda | Following Your Passion Through Online Community | TPOT 208 Being transparent… Some of the resources below use affiliate links which simply means we receive a commission if you purchase using the links, at no extra cost to you. Thanks for using the links! Resources Use the promo code "GORDON" to get 2 months of Therapy Notes free. Blueprint Health: First month free with promo code TPOTPODCAST Kindness and Compassion Podcast Solo to Group Practice: Adding More Therapists to Grow Your Time & Income COOL RESOURCES! Get the FREE Private Practice Start-Up Guide    Apply For My Focus Group [Starts January 2022] Using Google Workspace As A Practice Platform Course Get Your Copy of The Full Focus Planner   Join the Google Workspace for Therapists Users Group Follow @PracticeofTherapy on Instagram Meet Gordon Brewer, MEd, LMFT Gordon is the person behind The Practice of Therapy Podcast & Blog. He is also President and Founder of Kingsport Counseling Associates, PLLC. He is a therapist, consultant, business mentor, trainer, and writer. PLEASE Subscribe to The Practice of Therapy Podcast wherever you listen to it. Follow us on Twitter @therapistlearn, and Pinterest, “Like” us on Facebook.

In this episode, Kelly and Miranda are back for a spirited conversation covering many topics. First, we discuss the importance of following your passion, especially when creating a side hustle. Whatever problems are coming up in your private practice will follow in your second business; so, ensure you have those problems addressed ahead of time. Later, we talk about how big tech companies are taking advantage of therapists and why you need to know your numbers if you're considering joining one of these sites. Tune in as we chat about naming your business and what you can expect from ZynnyMe in the future. Meet Kelly Higdon, LMFT Kelly Higdon, LMFT is the co-founder of ZynnyMe and co-creator of The Business School Bootcamp for Therapists, a flagship course that helps therapists in all parts of their private practice journey solidify their business foundation and growth. When she isn't coaching or hosting retreats for her clients, you can find her playing roller derby or spending time with her family. To learn more about Kelly check out kellyhigdon.com and zynnyme.com On any given day you will find her writing, meeting with her psychotherapy or coaching clients, running a webinar for therapists, providing consultation with private practice owners, and making lots of room for playtime with her family. Kelly's hair constantly changes. She cares about the people that she works with. AND her most FAVORITE THING is to push, educate and inspire in the Business School Bootcamp. Meet Miranda Palmer, LMFT Miranda Palmer built a cash-based private practice during the recession. But, she is most proud that she did it to take care of her family and created a work-life balance that allowed her to avoid the all too common burn-out a lot of therapists experience. As the co-creator of ZynnyMe.com, she provides how-to articles, free monthly webinars, and co-leads the Business School Bootcamp for Therapists. Today her primary business is inspiring and teaching therapists private practice marketing. Miranda teaches them business skills, and not because she is all about money. Miranda sees how clinical outcomes, burnout rate, and overall passion can be impacted positively or negatively by how our businesses run. Follow Your Passion and Success Will Follow If anyone in the private practice world wants to do a side gig, you better make sure it is something you're passionate about. Without passion, you will be miserable doing it. Whatever things you haven't taken care of in your main gig, you will replicate it in your side gig. For instance, if you got burnt out in your main gig, you will get burnt out in your side gig as well. If mindset, money, and boundaries issues aren't addressed, you won't be able to escape them. It would help if you dream bigger and bigger; your passion project can quickly become something you do full-time with the right tools and resources. Building An Online Community If you want to start a side hustle, consider incorporating an online community into the mix. There are safe and lovely ways to have virtual conversations with people from all over the world through community building. Kelly and Miranda have focused on creating a space where people can own their values as a person. Once you have your values and vision narrowed down, you can find people who think and feel similarly. It's critical to build a community where we lift each other up. As therapists, we can keep the field alive and thriving via these communities. Choose The Best Name For Your Business Zynny was a name that Kelly came up with when first making her Yahoo email account. Kelly and Miranda both liked the idea of using it for their business name. However, Kelly says that you should avoid making up a name with unconventional spelling. She spends a lot of time spelling out ZynnyMe over the phone, and it's something that she needs to explain constantly. Know Your Numbers In Private Practice Therapists are afraid of their numbers. Once you know your numbers, you will be empowered to make the right decisions for your private practice. Many tech companies are reaching out to therapists; however, they don't have your client's best interests in mind. These companies sell client info to target ads based on their mental health issues. Plus, these tech companies aren't correctly paying their therapists. ZynnyMe wants to educate therapists on how these tech companies are exploiting their clients. The Tech World Collides With Mental Health Tech companies are counting the words that are being said to our clients. Therapists will get paid for talking to their clients up to a certain number of words. After that word limit, they are working for free, or their clients are not getting the services they need. Virtual therapy is essential. However, big tech shouldn't be the one who is helping our clients. One tech company was even offering unlimited therapy to clients for $99 a month. How does that even work? It's exploiting therapists, and we shouldn't stand for it. What To Look Forward To From ZynnyMe ZynnyMe has free pieces of training for their community. They are also paying excellent speakers to come in and talk about issues in the therapist world. For instance, they have people come in and speak about how couples therapy works in the private practice world. They are talking about how insurance impacts the care you give and what you need to know about it. Plus, they are chatting about the issues of burnout and trauma in the profession. Being transparent… Some of the resources below use affiliate links which simply means we receive a commission if you purchase using the links, at no extra cost to you. Thanks for using the links! Kelly & Miranda's Resources ZynnyMe ZynnyMe's Amazing Free Trainings ZynnyMe on Instagram Resources Use the promo code "GORDON" to get 2 months of Therapy Notes free. Blueprint Health: First month free with promo code TPOTPODCAST COOL RESOURCES! Get the FREE Private Practice Start-Up Guide    Apply For My Focus Group [Starts January 2022] Using Google Workspace As A Practice Platform Course Get Your Copy of The Full Focus Planner   Join the Google Workspace for Therapists Users Group Follow @PracticeofTherapy on Instagram Meet Gordon Brewer, MEd, LMFT Gordon is the person behind The Practice of Therapy Podcast & Blog. He is also President and Founder of Kingsport Counseling Associates, PLLC. He is a therapist, consultant, business mentor, trainer, and writer. PLEASE Subscribe to The Practice of Therapy Podcast wherever you listen to it. Follow us on Twitter @therapistlearn, and Pinterest, “Like” us on Facebook.

ZynnyMe's founders Kelly Higdon & Miranda Palmer join Allison to discuss how we can use clinical outcome conversations to not only improve our clinical outcome data but to also positively affect our marketing. Sponsored by: Brighter Vision TherapyNotes™ Read more about today's episode here: https://abundancepracticebuilding.com/podcast/clinical-outcomes-help-build-your-business/

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Today's topic is one that many clinicians have navigated, are navigating, or will navigate in the future. It's the idea of increasing fees with existing clients. I've seen this topic come up repeatedly in online groups for therapists, and I know it brings anxiety and confusion. Let's dig into it together! Our Featured Guests Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer are therapists, private practice owners, and the founders of ZynnyMe, where they teach and train therapists to build valuable and gratifying businesses. Their year-long training program, Business School Bootcamp, is a super-powerful system that teaches therapists everything they wish they had learned in grad school about running a successful private practice. In this episode, Kelly and Miranda will discuss the idea that we are betraying our client if we increase fees, along with ways to work through that mindset. We will cover the nitty-gritty of how to communicate fee increases to clients with all the logistical nuances. Our conversation wraps up with simple scripts you can use during sessions to stay on track, be clear, and affirm your clients without causing feelings of abandonment. http://www.zynnyme.com/ (www.zynnyme.com)  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starting-a-counseling-practice-with-kelly-miranda/id1398391639 (Starting a Counseling Practice Podcast) You'll Learn: ● Why the idea of increasing fees is intimidating even though many therapists are leaving a lot of money on the table ● Why increasing fees ties into mixed messages in our minds about our self worth and value ● How the cumulative effect of a sliding scale adds up to significant amounts over time and reflects bias that we usually guard against ● How automation in today's world allows us to avoid those difficult conversations ● Why the recommendation is to create a letter but have the conversation with the client in session; give them the letter after the conversation (or email virtual clients) ● Why the letter is a transitional object and shouldn't make excuses for the fee increase ● Ideas for scripting the notification letter and stating the fee increase ● The need for us to be honest with our clients to be able to continue providing great care ● The misconception that schedules and fees should always stay the same; these are unrealistic expectations! ● How to present workable options to clients without feeling like you're abandoning them ● Why clinicians have to do what it takes to care for themselves before they can care for their clients ● Highlights in the conversation with clients about increasing fees: ○ Own your emotions about it. ○ Let the client know the relationship with them is valuable to you. ○ Check in with the client's feelings and options moving forward. ● Why the window of notice should be long enough to prepare for termination or referral One of the questions I get asked all the time as a podcaster is “what podcasts do you listen or subscribe to?” This might surprise you, but there's really only one show that I absolutely have to listen to . . . every week. Actually, every day. Like, I'll literally drop what I'm doing (unless I'm with the family of course) and listen to each episode when it drops. The show is Tesla Daily, which is why I couldn't be more thrilled to have its host Rob Maurer on the show today! If you want a behind-the-curtain peek at how someone with over 100,000 YouTube subscribers produces a hard-hitting podcast every day, you're in the right place. Rob built this show from the ground up and incredibly, launched his first episode from concept to publish in just 48 – 72 hours. Even more impressive is how Rob's built a trust-worthy brand in such a crowded space. What does it take to keep up production with a daily show like this? Why does Rob do what he does and how did he get started? How do you combine an audio-first podcast with the power of YouTube? And what does Rob do... Support this podcast

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Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs, coaches, and leaders who want to double your business, increase profits, and make a positive impact! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Today's featured episode... Kelly Higdon: Organize Your Business for Ultimate Success Kelly Higdon is the co-founder of ZynnyMe, a consultation company for therapists as well as a business and life strategist for entrepreneurs. She believes that her entire purpose is to leave the world better than how she found it. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 2,500 episodes and millions of listeners in 190 countries. Join us as a regular listener to get money-making secrets on how you can grow your business and profits faster! 

Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs, coaches, and leaders who want to double your business, increase profits, and make a positive impact! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Today's featured episode... Kelly Higdon: Organize Your Business for Ultimate Success Kelly Higdon is the co-founder of ZynnyMe, a consultation company for therapists as well as a business and life strategist for entrepreneurs. She believes that her entire purpose is to leave the world better than how she found it. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 2,500 episodes and millions of listeners in 190 countries. Join us as a regular listener to get money-making secrets on how you can grow your business and profits faster! 

It's totally normal to feel cautious when branching beyond the therapy room. Nerves and uncertainty are part of the journey. But, if your heart is set on having a side hustle, you deserve the opportunity to succeed - even when it's a little scary sometimes. My guest this week talk all about this in a very special episode. Kelly Higdon of the dynamic Kelly and Miranda duo shares her own encounters with risk and failure and how both have led to her massive success today. Did you know the founders of Zynnyme weren’t actually friends before they partnered?  Kelly had to be convinced to join a business partnership with her former coach, but I for one am so glad she did, because her wisdom is PURE GOLD. And together, she and Miranda have built a truly impactful business for therapeutic entreprenuers. We dive deep and talk about some very specific issues that affect every therapist transitioning to the side hustle life, including the dreaded fear of failure, figuring out when to partner up and when to fly solo, and how data beats opinion.  If you want more resources and show notes, check out http://marissalawton.com/podcast 

I am grateful to be joined by two private practice rock stars, Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer, in The Practice of Therapy's latest episode. Our conversation revolves around the money mindset that we should have as therapists and as private practice owners. The one silver lining that has come out of Covid is that people are finally starting to understand mental health services' true value. So, join me, Kelly, and Miranda as we talk about what you should be charging, why you should consider outsourcing, and the reason therapists should never compare fees. Meet Kelly Higdon, LMFT Kelly Higdon, LMFT is the co-founder of ZynnyMe and co-creator of The Business School Bootcamp for Therapists, a flagship course that helps therapists in all parts of their private practice journey solidify their business foundation and growth. When she isn't coaching or hosting retreats for her clients, you can find her playing roller derby or spending time with her family. To learn more about Kelly check out kellyhigdon.com and zynnyme.com On any given day you will find her writing, meeting with her psychotherapy or coaching clients, running a webinar for therapists, providing consultation with private practice owners, and making lots of room for playtime with her family. Kelly's hair constantly changes. She cares about the people that she works with. AND her most FAVORITE THING is to push, educate and inspire in the Business School Bootcamp. Meet Miranda Palmer, LMFT Miranda Palmer built a cash-based private practice during the recession. But, she is most proud that she did it to take care of her family and created a work-life balance that allowed her to avoid the all too common burn-out a lot of therapists experience. As the co-creator of ZynnyMe.com, she provides how-to articles, free monthly webinars, and co-leads the Business School Bootcamp for Therapists. Today her primary business is inspiring and teaching therapists private practice marketing. Miranda teaches them business skills, and not because she is all about money. Miranda sees how clinical outcomes, burnout rate, and overall passion can be impacted positively or negatively by how our businesses run.  How Much Is Therapy Worth? How much is therapy worth? Most of us know that it's a silly question! Well, people are priceless, and you cannot put a value on a therapy. How are you going to monetize transgenerational trauma and healing? So then that brings us back to, well, how do we know what to charge? What do we need to do good work and to live the life we teach our clients? Money is a resource; that is part of the outcome that we are working towards. We're working towards an outcome with our clients, a clinical outcome, and we want them to have a great experience. We want to be able to be present to provide that outcome. So we need to look at our outcome; money is just one resource that we need to get there. Time and energy are also resources that we require as therapists. Now, we start to calculate, what does that number really come out to? When you take all of this into account, then you no longer feel shame or guilt about how much you charge for your services. When you think about running a business, you need sick time; you need to pay your rent, you need to pay your mortgage, health insurance, vacation, technology, and utilities. All of these things that are part of being a business owner we need to consider. Most of us did not learn how to be business owners in graduate school, we have nonprofit training, and we have this nonprofit mindset. Nonprofit organizations will get grants for millions of dollars; then, they can use that money to pay for their positions. You never really get to see where all of the other money goes. Stop Comparing Fees The mental healthcare system is not doing well. Access is challenging. As therapists, we are one part of that system. In order for that system to exist, to be sustainable, we all have to operate from that place of our highest and best. Then, we can raise the bar for these other systems, maybe to change with us. We should not be looking at our peers and saying, "you charge too much; why are you doing that?" Because at the end of the day, you don't know someone else's situation. You don't know what that therapist needs to run their business. It can be totally different than what you need to run your business. A lot of us live paycheck to paycheck. Would you want your clients to live paycheck to paycheck? No! So, you shouldn't have to live paycheck to paycheck either. Private Practice During Covid Our relationship to money has a lot to do with self-care. Many private practice owners are starting to see their phones ring off the hook because of Covid. However, the clinician will not be able to see everyone that calls their practice. It wouldn't be fair to the patients or fair to the clinician. The pandemic has only highlighted the issues we have had as a system. Now, we see the cracks in mental healthcare widen. We will be treating anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, medical trauma, and all sorts of things in the next years to come. As therapists, we feel like we have a duty to do extra work during these times because it is such a crisis. However, don't forget about self-care! The Importance of Outsourcing When we get into private practice, we have to look at the bookkeeping, answering the phones, maintaining the website, and dealing with loans. If you are the business owner, you have to budget for those things that you're outsourcing, or you have to have time for those things that should be outsourcing. Clinicians think private practice will be great because they are only going to see thirty clients a week. However, they find themselves working sixty or seventy hours a week because of all the extra tasks they have taken on. Unfortunately, Clinicians are a lot of times too slow to outsource stuff. When you don't outsource things, you'll be saving money. However, when you do outsource things, it will allow you to enjoy your life. Make outsourcing part of your business plan and charge a fee that covers that instead of stressing out about small things that don't necessarily matter. Reevaluate What You Charge During Covid One silver lining that has happened through Covid that a lot of the stigma around mental health and mental wellbeing is starting to lower. So many of us have experienced anxiety on different levels. More than ever, people are beginning to understand the value of therapy, and they need to pay for what the services are truly worth. We hope that therapists are really looking at those numbers and reevaluating what to charge. For instance, it's time that therapists start saying no to insurance contracts that are paying $25 or $35 for a session. It's appalling that those contracts are still out there, and therapists are still signing them. Therapists need to do the math - we have to do the math for ourselves and figure out what works. Being transparent… Some of the resources below use affiliate links which simply means we receive a commission if you purchase using the links, at no extra cost to you. Thanks for using the links! Kelly & Miranda's Resources ZynnyMe ZynnyMe's Worksheet on Setting Your Fees ZynnyMe's Amazing Free Trainings Business School Bootcamp Resources  Use the promo code "GORDON" to get 2 months of Therapy Notes free. Listen to Kelly Higdon on Episode 16 of The Practice of Therapy Podcast Join my Focus Groups Google Workspace for Therapists | The E-Course Session Note Helper 3.0 70. Your Successful Therapy Website Redesign: Understanding When & Why Kingsport Counseling Money Matters in Private Practice | The Course Join the Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite) for Therapists Users Group Cool Resources Follow @PracticeofTherapy on Instagram Meet Gordon Brewer, MEd, LMFT Gordon is the person behind The Practice of Therapy Podcast & Blog. He is also President and Founder of Kingsport Counseling Associates, PLLC. He is a therapist, consultant, business mentor, trainer, and writer. PLEASE Subscribe to The Practice of Therapy Podcast wherever you listen to it. Follow us on Twitter @therapistlearn, and Pinterest, “Like” us on Facebook.  

In this episode we talk to Zynnyme Co-Founder, Kelly Higdon. Kelly will talk about her journey from working for county mental health to becoming a therapist in her own private practice to creating one of the most popular marketing programs for therapists in private practice, the Business School Bootcamp.  And here’s the deal, folks. Kelly almost left the world of mental health altogether because she was so burnt out, she didn’t see a path forward. Not only did she find a way to stay, but she was able to build a practice as the primary breadwinner. Her next big vision: Living abroad with her family while continuing to run a sustainable, passion-filled business.  In this episode, Kelly will share:   How she went from burnt out and broke to successful primary breadwinner;   How to cope with the fear and anxiety about losing all that you’ve worked so hard for;   The family messages she heard about money in her family of origin and how those messages impacted her business growth;   How healthcare challenges have led Kelly to take her financial security seriously;   How she was able to experiment with a 5 week family trip to Spain as she works towards creating a vacation home abroad;   3 Strategies YOU can use to move from stress and overwhelm in your practice to building a full fee, cash pay business that serves you. Resources mentioned: 4 Steps to Raise Your Fee (Guilt Free) Workshop  Zynnyme Business Bootcamp More about Kelly:  Kelly Higdon is a LMFT in CA and the Co-founder of ZynnyMe.com where she helps private practice owners serve their communities through positive client outcomes while improving the life and income of the clinician. She is also the co-creator of Business School Bootcamp, the largest online business training system for therapists.

Rage and Client Self-Harm An interview with Angela Caldwell, LMFT on cutting and non-suicidal self-injury. Curt and Katie talk with Angela about the causes of self-harm, the mistakes therapists make in addressing self-harm as well as how to identify reasons behind this harmful coping mechanism and how to identify when suicidality is a risk. We also look at how rage within nice families can lead to self-injury. It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. Interview with Angela Caldwell, LMFT Angela Caldwell is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Family Coach. She is the Founder and Director of the Self-Injury Institute, where her practice focuses on the treatment of self-injury from a family systems perspective, as well as the Caldwell Family Institute, where she offers out-of-the-box coaching for families that are looking for something other than therapy to help them reach their growth potential. Angela is currently on the adjunct faculty for the MFT graduate program at California State University Northridge, where she teaches family systems theories and couples therapy. She has been teaching graduate students for over a decade at four different universities, and previously taught assessment for a large majority of her teaching career. She was selected by Antioch University to design a curriculum for a new Counselor Assessment class, and has offered consultation on assessments for the last eight years. Angela has served in MFT leadership for much of her career, including holding executive offices in CAMFT and AAMFT. She has worked side by side with Ben Caldwell and other leaders on various advocacy efforts in California, most notably on the passage of SB 1172, which banned reparative therapy for minors in 2012. In this episode we talk about: Angela’s perspective on family systems and champions of families and dinner tables The mistakes in treatment planning and way of being related to self-injury What not to do when clients disclose self-harm The intrusive nature of liability-focused treatment planning and interventions in the room The need to render cutting irrelevant The role of the family treatment for addressing self-injury Non-suicidal self-injury versus suicidal self-injury (the difference is intent) “It’s important for therapists to be able to talk about suicide – to use the word suicide with the same emphasis that we use the word hamburger.” Angela Caldwell, LMFT It’s important to be direct in asking about intent “I’m cautious to link self-injury with suicide in such a short, abrupt way.” Angela Caldwell, LMFT Rage in families who are too nice leading to self-injury The profiles in non-suicidal self-injury: peer-based and rage-based Social media self-injury and mental illness competitions How rage is often misunderstood – looking at how rage and anger are very different Rage is animalistic and limbic Self-injury is rage (when anger is not useful) when you do not want to be a burden Rage comes with tactile stimulus seeking, seeking destruction Discovery is mortifying The problem with group treatment for cutting The contagion factor – Barent Walsh Co-rumination – looking at adolescent female relationships Family Therapy as the most effective treatment for non- Rewrite the family constitution around anger and anger expression Family assertiveness training, teaching families how to disagree and hurt each other’s feelings Angela’s strategy to provoke fights within the families that she sees and conducts repair Our Generous Sponsors: Hushmail Hushmail and Hush Secure Forms take the guesswork out of secure communications by providing encrypted email, web forms, and e-signatures all in one package. During a time when limiting contact is necessary to protect our clients’ health, using secure email and web forms to communicate is more important than ever. Now’s the perfect time to move your paper forms and PDFs to HIPAA-compliant, digital forms that your clients can easily fill out. You can send them through secure email or put them on your website. Hush Secure Forms makes emailing securely with your clients and using HIPAA-compliant web forms very easy. You can start with one of their form templates and customize it to reflect your practice or use their drag-and-drop form builder to build beautiful forms from scratch. No need for extra services to get your forms signed; Hushmail provides email, web forms, and e-signatures that work seamlessly together in one package to get the job done. Great for contact forms, health histories, client experience surveys, referrals, and screenings. Among other popular forms, Hushmail’s template directory includes a COVID-19 screening questionnaire and several screening forms such as the PHQ-9 depression screening and the GAD-7 anxiety screening, which calculate a score upon completion. And as a Modern Therapist Survival Guide Listener, you get a 10 percent lifetime discount. Just go to hushmail.com/therapyreimagined and sign up for the Hushmail for Healthcare plan that suits your practice. Hushmail has a plan for everyone! Kelly & Miranda – ZynnyMe Do you ever wish there was someone who could really tell you what the right path is for YOU in private practice so you could avoid wasting time and energy and get to what you love- helping clients? Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe are two therapists who just that!  They don't get you cookie-cutter solutions that work for some people- instead they teach you a process that works for everybody.  Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe have been helping therapists from across the country and around the world grow, revamp, and launch profitable private practices that really help people- while also making sure therapists' lives stay in balance. Their award-winning and multiple time sell-out Business School Bootcamp for Therapists is the largest private practice resource on the planet and will transform your life and business whether you are 20+ years in, or you are starting from scratch. They have the largest collection of free private practice resources for therapists - go to ZynnyMe.com today and sign up for their free Marketing Masterclass COVID edition and get access to 10+ hours of free training AND a free community for therapists that is NOT on Facebook!  Resources mentioned: We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Please note that some of the links below may be affiliate links, so if you purchase after clicking below, we may get a little bit of cash in our pockets. We thank you in advance! Self-injury Institute Caldwell Family Institute Barent Walsh, PhD  Relevant Episodes: Preventing Client Suicide When Clients Die Connect with us! Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group Get Notified About Therapy Reimagined Conferences  Our consultation services: The Fifty-Minute Hour Who we are: Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is the cofounder of the Therapy Reimagined conference, the CFO of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, a former Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant supporting leaders, visionaries, executives, and helping professionals to create sustainable careers. Katie, with Curt, has developed workshops and a conference, Therapy Reimagined, to support therapists navigating through the modern challenges of this profession. Katie is also Past President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.   Stay in Touch: www.mtsgpodcast.com www.therapyreimagined.com Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapist’s Group https://www.facebook.com/therapyreimagined/ https://twitter.com/therapymovement https://www.instagram.com/therapyreimagined/   Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/

Cultural Humility and White Fatigue An interview with Dr. Sonya Lott about a multicultural orientation to therapy and the work to understand yourself, how you’re perceived, and who the client is in front of you. Curt and Katie talk with Sonya about cultural humility in particular as well as the fatigue (including the concept of “white fatigue”) that can come with this work. We look at self-compassion and education as promising steps for improvement.   It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. Interview with Dr. Sonya Lott, Ph.D. Sonya Lott earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Temple University and has been licensed as a psychologist in Pennsylvania since 1991. She is also a registered in Florida as out-of-state telehealth provider. She is the founder and CEO of CEMPSYCH, LLC (Continuing Education in Multicultural Psychology), which offers continuing education that supports mental health professionals in cultivating a multicultural orientation, and is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Whites Confronting Racism, an organization in Philadelphia that works with White people who desire to challenge the racism within and around them and who are searching for a way to strengthen their work for racial justice. In addition to this work, she maintains a private practice devoted to helping individuals transform their experience of acute and prolonged grief. She is an associate of the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University's School of Social Work, where she completed advanced training in Complicated Grief Therapy (CGT). You can learn more about her work at cempsych.com and drsonyalott.com. In this episode we talk about: Multicultural approach – looking at all elements of cultural identity Dominance, privilege, and bias The importance of seeing beyond their lived The multicultural orientation is a way of being Cultural Humility – organizing virtue Recognizing cultural opportunities Invitation for discussion Microaggressions in the therapy room Comfort in making repairs Being aware of who you are and where you sit with marginalization and with privilege “Every experience is a multicultural experience” – Dr. Sonya Lott Know who you are to yourself and to others – it is important to understand how you are perceived by others The difference between white fragility and white fatigue With privilege you have an opt-out card The work of healing marginalization is a felt process “It’s more than ‘what’s a good book to read?’” – Dr. Sonya Lott Self-compassion and self-care needed for doing this work Seeing ourselves as human and recognizing that we don’t have all of the answers Recognizing what is relevant in the room Self-Compassion: shared humanity, mindfulness, and loving kindness “It’s not just for your clients, it’s not just to make a living, it’s to transform your way of being – period – that benefits you and everybody you’re in relationship with.” Why the therapy profession doesn’t get this right – because they don’t have to. The fifty years of literature on this topic that is often ignored due to people not being informed, not comfortable, and not having done their own work Our Generous Sponsors: Kelly & Miranda – ZynnyMe Do you ever wish there was someone who could really tell you what the right path is for YOU in private practice so you could avoid wasting time and energy and get to what you love- helping clients? Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe are two therapists who just that!  They don't get you cookie-cutter solutions that work for some people- instead they teach you a process that works for everybody.  Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe have been helping therapists from across the country and around the world grow, revamp, and launch profitable private practices that really help people- while also making sure therapists' lives stay in balance. Their award-winning and multiple time sell-out Business School Bootcamp for Therapists is the largest private practice resource on the planet and will transform your life and business whether you are 20+ years in, or you are starting from scratch. They have the largest collection of free private practice resources for therapists - go to ZynnyMe.com today and sign up for their free Marketing Masterclass COVID edition and get access to 10+ hours of free training AND a free community for therapists that is NOT on Facebook!  Hushmail Hushmail and Hush Secure Forms take the guesswork out of secure communications by providing encrypted email, web forms, and e-signatures all in one package. During a time when limiting contact is necessary to protect our clients’ health, using secure email and web forms to communicate is more important than ever. Now’s the perfect time to move your paper forms and PDFs to HIPAA-compliant, digital forms that your clients can easily fill out. You can send them through secure email or put them on your website. Hush Secure Forms makes emailing securely with your clients and using HIPAA-compliant web forms very easy. You can start with one of their form templates and customize it to reflect your practice or use their drag-and-drop form builder to build beautiful forms from scratch. No need for extra services to get your forms signed; Hushmail provides email, web forms, and e-signatures that work seamlessly together in one package to get the job done. Great for contact forms, health histories, client experience surveys, referrals, and screenings. Among other popular forms, Hushmail’s template directory includes a COVID-19 screening questionnaire and several screening forms such as the PHQ-9 depression screening and the GAD-7 anxiety screening, which calculate a score upon completion. And as a Modern Therapist Survival Guide Listener, you get a 10 percent lifetime discount. Just go to hushmail.com/therapyreimagined and sign up for the Hushmail for Healthcare plan that suits your practice. Hushmail has a plan for everyone!  Resources mentioned: We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Please note that some of the links below may be affiliate links, so if you purchase after clicking below, we may get a little bit of cash in our pockets. We thank you in advance! CEM Psych website: cempsych.com Special Offer from Dr. Sonya Lott for one of her courses – coupon code for 10% off at checkout: tenmtsg Dr. Sonya Lott’s website: drsonyalott.com Multicultural Orientation Article Cultural Humility An Article on White Fatigue Self-Compassion - Kristen Neff Relevant Episodes: Ally is a Verb Dr. Daryl Chow: Reigniting Therapy Connect with us! Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group Get Notified About Therapy Reimagined Conferences  Our consultation services: The Fifty-Minute Hour Who we are: Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is the cofounder of the Therapy Reimagined conference, the CFO of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, a former Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant supporting leaders, visionaries, executives, and helping professionals to create sustainable careers. Katie, with Curt, has developed workshops and a conference, Therapy Reimagined, to support therapists navigating through the modern challenges of this profession. Katie is also Past President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.   Stay in Touch: www.mtsgpodcast.com www.therapyreimagined.com Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapist’s Group https://www.facebook.com/therapyreimagined/ https://twitter.com/therapymovement https://www.instagram.com/therapyreimagined/   Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/

“Wear a Mask” as a Therapy Directive Curt and Katie chat about COVID, science, and critical thinking in an anti-intellectual, post-truth era. We look at what therapists’ responsibilities are to the greater good, whether we should tell our clients to wear masks, and how to help clients navigate very challenging decisions that must balance mental versus physical health as well as individual versus societal needs. It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. In this episode we talk about: Should we tell our clients to wear masks? How do we help our clients navigate the complex decisions related to risk Client autonomy, transparency of goals, decreasing therapist bias How science and the greater good come into the equation Is there a duty to warn? Or duty to protect? Imminence, privacy issues Should we try to change behavior around wearing masks in public? How we address risky behavior with clients The impact of the presenting problem on deciding what we do Our responsibility to society, to our communities versus our clients Psychoeducation and alternate facts The process of making decisions around health and safety Sorting through and gaining agreement on what is truth Therapists needing to be informed and be able to sort through expert information The importance of critical thinking and the scientific method Anti-science, anti-intellectualism, and cognitive dissonance How to meet your client where they are while also not colluding with unhealthy beliefs Helping our clients to navigate the current challenges to balance physical vs mental health needs, individual vs societal needs The responsibility to bring up healthy decisions for our clients through psychoeducation The complexity of decision-making during these times Our Generous Sponsors: Hushmail Hushmail and Hush Secure Forms take the guesswork out of secure communications by providing encrypted email, web forms, and e-signatures all in one package. During a time when limiting contact is necessary to protect our clients’ health, using secure email and web forms to communicate is more important than ever. Now’s the perfect time to move your paper forms and PDFs to HIPAA-compliant, digital forms that your clients can easily fill out. You can send them through secure email or put them on your website. Hush Secure Forms makes emailing securely with your clients and using HIPAA-compliant web forms very easy. You can start with one of their form templates and customize it to reflect your practice or use their drag-and-drop form builder to build beautiful forms from scratch. No need for extra services to get your forms signed; Hushmail provides email, web forms, and e-signatures that work seamlessly together in one package to get the job done. Great for contact forms, health histories, client experience surveys, referrals, and screenings. Among other popular forms, Hushmail’s template directory includes a COVID-19 screening questionnaire and several screening forms such as the PHQ-9 depression screening and the GAD-7 anxiety screening, which calculate a score upon completion. And as a Modern Therapist Survival Guide Listener, you get a 10 percent lifetime discount. Just go to hushmail.com/therapyreimagined and sign up for the Hushmail for Healthcare plan that suits your practice. Hushmail has a plan for everyone!   Kelly & Miranda – ZynnyMe Do you ever wish there was someone who could really tell you what the right path is for YOU in private practice so you could avoid wasting time and energy and get to what you love- helping clients? Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe are two therapists who just that!  They don't get you cookie-cutter solutions that work for some people- instead they teach you a process that works for everybody.  Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe have been helping therapists from across the country and around the world grow, revamp, and launch profitable private practices that really help people- while also making sure therapists' lives stay in balance. Their award-winning and multiple time sell-out Business School Bootcamp for Therapists is the largest private practice resource on the planet and will transform your life and business whether you are 20+ years in, or you are starting from scratch. They have the largest collection of free private practice resources for therapists - go to ZynnyMe.com today and sign up for their free Marketing Masterclass COVID edition and get access to 10+ hours of free training AND a free community for therapists that is NOT on Facebook!    Resources mentioned: We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Please note that some of the links below might be affiliate links, so if you purchase after clicking below, we may get a little bit of cash in our pockets. We thank you in advance! Dr. Ben Caldwell – friend of the show WHO - World Health Organization - COVID-19 information CDC - Centers for Disease Control - COVID-19 Information Article: Wearing of face masks can trigger trauma for some   Therapy Reimagined 2020: Therapy Reimagined 2020 Conference Therapy Reimagined 2020 Call for Sponsors   Relevant Episodes: Returning to the Office Is Therapy an Opiate of the Masses?   Connect with us! Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group Get Notified About Therapy Reimagined 2020 (and TR2019 Virtual Conference)   Our consultation services: The Fifty-Minute Hour   Who we are: Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is the cofounder of the Therapy Reimagined conference, the CFO of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, a former Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant supporting leaders, visionaries, executives, and helping professionals to create sustainable careers. Katie, with Curt, has developed workshops and a conference, Therapy Reimagined, to support therapists navigating through the modern challenges of this profession. Katie is also President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.   Stay in Touch: www.mtsgpodcast.com www.therapyreimagined.com Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapist’s Group https://www.facebook.com/therapyreimagined/ https://twitter.com/therapymovement https://www.instagram.com/therapyreimagined/   Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/

Starting a Therapist Podcast An interview with Joe Sanok, host of the Practice of the Practice podcast, on why, how, and when to start a podcast. Curt and Katie talk with Joe about what to consider when you’re a therapist with a bigger message. We get into some practical steps for podcasting. We also look at how you can create space for creativity, making a bigger impact, and slowing down. It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. Interview with Joe Sanok Joe Sanok is a thought leader, productivity researcher, and speaker. As a TEDx speaker, HarperCollin author, business consultant, and podcaster Joe helps people to slow down to spark more innovation. Joe has the #1 podcast for counselors, The Practice of the Practice Podcast. With interviews with Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, and Jaime Masters, Joe is a rising star in the speaking world! Joe is a writer for PsychCentral, has been featured on the Huffington Post, Forbes, GOOD Magazine, Reader's Digest, Entrepreneur on Fire, and Yahoo News. He is author of five books and has been named the Therapist Resource top podcast, consultant, and blogger. In this episode we talk about: The mistakes that Joe made that informs his work The need to listen to their audience prior to launching products How to listen to your audience “Fall in love with the pain and the people before you ever pitch a product.” Identifying pain points and the transformation Applying the therapeutic process to content creation Building your audience to the point that you can ask what the pain points are Why it would be a good idea to start a podcast Pod-fading - most podcasts stop releasing episodes within 12 episodes How to choose your topic The importance of being yourself Understanding the goals of your podcast The surprising things that happen when you have a podcast Visibility and connection that comes from podcasting Figuring out your next step and jumping before you’re ready The importance of setting limits around your time – how that impacts your performance The problem with over-thinking The benefit of delegating tasks and dramatically decreasing your time at work The process of refining your business to better support you and the problem of perfectionism Our Generous Sponsors: Kelly & Miranda – ZynnyMe Do you ever wish there was someone who could really tell you what the right path is for YOU in private practice so you could avoid wasting time and energy and get to what you love- helping clients? Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe are two therapists who just that!  They don't get you cookie-cutter solutions that work for some people- instead they teach you a process that works for everybody.  Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe have been helping therapists from across the country and around the world grow, revamp, and launch profitable private practices that really help people- while also making sure therapists' lives stay in balance. Their award-winning and multiple time sell-out Business School Bootcamp for Therapists is the largest private practice resource on the planet and will transform your life and business whether you are 20+ years in, or you are starting from scratch. They have the largest collection of free private practice resources for therapists - go to ZynnyMe.com today and sign up for their free Marketing Masterclass COVID edition and get access to 10+ hours of free training AND a free community for therapists that is NOT on Facebook!  Hushmail Hushmail and Hush Secure Forms take the guesswork out of secure communications by providing encrypted email, web forms, and e-signatures all in one package. During a time when limiting contact is necessary to protect our clients’ health, using secure email and web forms to communicate is more important than ever. Now’s the perfect time to move your paper forms and PDFs to HIPAA-compliant, digital forms that your clients can easily fill out. You can send them through secure email or put them on your website. Hush Secure Forms makes emailing securely with your clients and using HIPAA-compliant web forms very easy. You can start with one of their form templates and customize it to reflect your practice or use their drag-and-drop form builder to build beautiful forms from scratch. No need for extra services to get your forms signed; Hushmail provides email, web forms, and e-signatures that work seamlessly together in one package to get the job done. Great for contact forms, health histories, client experience surveys, referrals, and screenings. Among other popular forms, Hushmail’s template directory includes a COVID-19 screening questionnaire and several screening forms such as the PHQ-9 depression screening and the GAD-7 anxiety screening, which calculate a score upon completion. And as a Modern Therapist Survival Guide Listener, you get a 10 percent lifetime discount. Just go to hushmail.com/therapyreimagined and sign up for the Hushmail for Healthcare plan that suits your practice. Hushmail has a plan for everyone!  Resources mentioned: We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Please note that some of the links below may be affiliate links, so if you purchase after clicking below, we may get a little bit of cash in our pockets. We thank you in advance! Joe Sanok’s Practice of the Practice Podcast Special offer from Joe: Free e-course podcastlaunchschool.com practiceofthepractice.com Apply to work with Joe Relevant Episodes: Beyond Selling the Couch Delegating Virtually Anything Connect with us! Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group Get Notified About Therapy Reimagined Conferences  Our consultation services: The Fifty-Minute Hour Who we are: Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is the cofounder of the Therapy Reimagined conference, the CFO of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, a former Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant supporting leaders, visionaries, executives, and helping professionals to create sustainable careers. Katie, with Curt, has developed workshops and a conference, Therapy Reimagined, to support therapists navigating through the modern challenges of this profession. Katie is also Past President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.   Stay in Touch: www.mtsgpodcast.com www.therapyreimagined.com Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapist’s Group https://www.facebook.com/therapyreimagined/ https://twitter.com/therapymovement https://www.instagram.com/therapyreimagined/   Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/

Financial Therapy An interview with Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, LMSW, about therapists talking about money with their clients. Curt and Katie talk with Lindsay about what therapists miss if they don’t bring money into the room. We look at the importance of financial therapy both for clients who are struggling financially as well as for clients who might be making more than you (and everyone in between).   It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. Interview with Lindsay Bryan Podvin, LMSW, Financial Therapist Lindsay Bryan-Podvin is a biracial financial therapist, speaker, and author. As the first financial therapist in Michigan, she combines financial literacy with the emotional and psychological side of money. She's passionate about helping couples and individuals learn how to have a healthy relationship with money by removing shame from it. She helps her clients navigate financial wellness in a way that works for them. In this episode we talk about: Talking about money in the therapy room beyond budgeting How frequently therapists avoid talking about money Bias that therapists bring into the room around money The challenge therapists face when money becomes an issue in session How money issues come up for people who have money (not just people who have a lack of money) The irony of therapists being told we shouldn’t make money Myths surrounding financial therapy Therapists already have the skills they need to do this work The Four Financial Archetypes that Lindsay adapted from Dr. Brad Klontz’s work The work needed to address your Financial Archetype The types of conversations that can happen when you open up money as a topic of conversation in therapy Looking at cultural and gender roles within the money conversation The intervention of “money dates” The importance of recognizing limitations in talking about money Our Generous Sponsors: Hushmail Hushmail and Hush Secure Forms take the guesswork out of secure communications by providing encrypted email, web forms, and e-signatures all in one package. During a time when limiting contact is necessary to protect our clients’ health, using secure email and web forms to communicate is more important than ever. Now’s the perfect time to move your paper forms and PDFs to HIPAA-compliant, digital forms that your clients can easily fill out. You can send them through secure email or put them on your website. Hush Secure Forms makes emailing securely with your clients and using HIPAA-compliant web forms very easy. You can start with one of their form templates and customize it to reflect your practice or use their drag-and-drop form builder to build beautiful forms from scratch. No need for extra services to get your forms signed; Hushmail provides email, web forms, and e-signatures that work seamlessly together in one package to get the job done. Great for contact forms, health histories, client experience surveys, referrals, and screenings. Among other popular forms, Hushmail’s template directory includes a COVID-19 screening questionnaire and several screening forms such as the PHQ-9 depression screening and the GAD-7 anxiety screening, which calculate a score upon completion. And as a Modern Therapist Survival Guide Listener, you get a 10 percent lifetime discount. Just go to hushmail.com/therapyreimagined and sign up for the Hushmail for Healthcare plan that suits your practice. Hushmail has a plan for everyone!   Kelly & Miranda – ZynnyMe Do you ever wish there was someone who could really tell you what the right path is for YOU in private practice so you could avoid wasting time and energy and get to what you love- helping clients? Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe are two therapists who just that!  They don't get you cookie-cutter solutions that work for some people- instead they teach you a process that works for everybody.  Kelly & Miranda of ZynnyMe have been helping therapists from across the country and around the world grow, revamp, and launch profitable private practices that really help people- while also making sure therapists' lives stay in balance. Their award-winning and multiple time sell-out Business School Bootcamp for Therapists is the largest private practice resource on the planet and will transform your life and business whether you are 20+ years in, or you are starting from scratch. They have the largest collection of free private practice resources for therapists - go to ZynnyMe.com today and sign up for their free Marketing Masterclass COVID edition and get access to 10+ hours of free training AND a free community for therapists that is NOT on Facebook!      Resources mentioned: We’ve pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Please note that some of the links below may be affiliate links, so if you purchase after clicking below, we may get a little bit of cash in our pockets. We thank you in advance! Lindsay’s Website: https://www.mindmoneybalance.com/ Lindsay’s Course: https://mindmoneybalance.com/podcast Lindsay’s Book: The Financial Anxiety Solution Dr. Brad Klontz – Financial Therapy   Relevant Episodes: Making Bank as a Therapist In it for the Money Asking for Money The 4-1-1 on Your 401K   Connect with us! Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group Get Notified About Therapy Reimagined Conferences  Our consultation services: The Fifty-Minute Hour Who we are: Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is the cofounder of the Therapy Reimagined conference, the CFO of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, a former Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant supporting leaders, visionaries, executives, and helping professionals to create sustainable careers. Katie, with Curt, has developed workshops and a conference, Therapy Reimagined, to support therapists navigating through the modern challenges of this profession. Katie is also Past President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.   Stay in Touch: www.mtsgpodcast.com www.therapyreimagined.com Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapist’s Group https://www.facebook.com/therapyreimagined/ https://twitter.com/therapymovement https://www.instagram.com/therapyreimagined/   Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/

Today’s topic is a new one in the STC community. Have you ever thought about renting or subleasing extra office space? Whether you might be a prospective owner or renter, today’s show has great wisdom about how that extra office space can be put to good use in serving other clinicians and your community. Elena Clemente has a practice in North Tampa. She has learned many lessons through renting out parts of her four-person office suite. In today’s show, Elena shares how she found this office space and what kinds of contracts she uses with colleagues who are interested in leasing the space. She’ll also share lessons learned along the way, specifically about features of the office and managing busy schedules. If you’ve thought about sharing office space in this way, then this podcast might be helpful for you. A Special Thank You to Today's Sponsor: To check out the brand new FREE 4 Part Masterclass offered for therapists by ZynnyMe, go to sellingthecouch.com/zynnyme www.sellingthecouch.com/session230  

Kelly Higdon of Zynnyme joins the show to talk about how to design your business around your life, how to take more time off, and being “truly” busy. Also included in this episode: How to prepare for maternity leave How to talk to other therapists about your fees Our limiting narratives around money Why you need a budget How much money is enough? www.kellyhigdon.com www.zynnyme.com www.thejohnclarke.com/strategysession

People have a lot of misconceptions about what a practice niche is. Do you lose out on potential clients & cash by going too narrow, or going too broad? Get all the answers you could ever want about picking a cash-boosting niche from Miranda from ZynnyMe in this week's special Fall Into Cash podcast episode. The post Fall Into Cash 6: Picking a Practice Niche to Net You More Cash appeared first on BrighterVision.com.

An interview with Kelly Higdon, LMFT of ZynnyMe – Curt and Katie talk with Kelly Higdon about taking ownership as a business owner, creating space and time for play and creativity, defining your own pace, and your own voice – all with the goal of becoming stronger clinicians and increasing mental health access. It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. We are human beings who can now present ourselves as whole people, with authenticity, purpose, and connection. Especially now, when therapists must develop a personal brand to market their practices. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. Interview with Kelly Higdon, LMFT Kelly Higdon is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and the other half of ZynnyMe with Miranda Palmer. Together they created the Business School Bootcamp, a lifetime access business program just for therapists who want to start, grow or retool their practices. She operates from the belief that eradicating mental health stigma and improving access to mental wellness starts with each of us. The better we are at business, the better we can be at serving our communities.  When Kelly isn't hanging out with bootcampers or coaching clients, you can find her spending time with husband and daughter or rolling on her skates with her roller derby family. In this episode we talk about: The reasons that Kelly joined together with Miranda Palmer, LMFT to create Zynnyme, Business School Bootcamp How the way you live your life is the way you do business How avoiding and “just trusting that everything will work out” can hurt your progress in private practice How therapists recognizing patterns can help us be better business owners The way that therapists have improved how they approach business over the last few years How to choose who you spend time with – people who have a business mindset The importance of accountability and being with people who challenge you Looking at how the business decisions impact your clinical work and training Deciding to grow or maintain your same level Celebrating success rather than constantly looking to grow Choices about eliminating, delegating, automating, prioritizing, and delaying You get to define your success and your pace Kelly’s parking lot method The fears and doubts, grief that can come up when you don’t take action in your business The plague of comparisonitis Finding your own uniqueness, how to avoid being influenced by someone else and entering your own heart space How business development is like childhood development How to be more creative and improve your business How to find your best coach to help you further your business development The integrity of referring out The changes in the profession over the last few years How you can be in private practice and innovate for the whole profession Breaking down barriers and increasing mental health access   Resources mentioned: We’ve pulled together any resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Business School Bootcamp ZynnyMe ZynnyMe Coaching and My Awesome Year Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne Our Generous Sponsor: Thanks again to our sponsor, Ben Caldwell Labs. They offer a whole suite of tools to help all of us be more successful therapists throughout our careers, including continuing education, California license exam prep, and the updated and essential reference book, Basics of California Law for LMFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs. Visit www.BenCaldwellLabs.com/Modern to get 20% off of Basics of California Law when you order by the end of 2018.  Our Next Event: The Therapy Reimagined Conference in Los Angeles in October 2018!! Our consultation services: The Fifty-Minute Hour Who we are: Curt Widhalm is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is a Board Member at Large for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, a Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Faculty at Pepperdine University, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more about Curt at www.curtwidhalm.com. Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant. As a helping professional for two decades, she’s navigated the ups and downs of our unique line of work. She’s run her own solo therapy practice, designed innovative clinical programs, built and managed large, thriving teams of service providers, and consulted hundreds of helping professionals on how to build meaningful AND sustainable practices. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more about Katie at www.katievernoy.com. A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey. Stay in Touch: www.mtsgpodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/therapyreimagined/ https://twitter.com/therapymovement https://www.instagram.com/therapyreimagined/ Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/  

Join me and my good friend Kelly Higdon of Zynnyme to learn how to figure out what really matters. More in this episode: Visioning your business and your life Looking at how you serve Identifying what gives you energy Identifying what pisses you off and drains you Figuring out what you’re avoiding Automating, delegating, and outsourcing How to deal with negativity How to take critical feedback Learn more about Kelly at: www.kellyhigdon.com www.zynnyme.com Get the free guide on How to Write Web Copy that Converts: http://privatepracticeworkshop.com/guide

John defines success in his own terms, and talks about how his definition has changed and evolved over time. John shares how he envisions and plans his businesses, and how he helps other business owners do the same. Shout out to Kelly Higdon of Zynnyme for teaching John about the 4-quadrant system. Private Practice Workshop on YouTube--subscribe for weekly videos

Have you been taught to believe that nonstop working is the only way to sustain and guarantee a successful business? When your creative energy starts to dwindle, how can you find your purpose and embody it again?   Licensed marriage and family therapist and ZynnyMe cofounder Kelly Higdon has established a business model that many of us don’t dare to dream of: she went from the kind of overwork that landed her in the hospital to taking up to four months off each year.   In this episode:   Kelly reveals how focusing on different aspects of her business during different seasons has completely transformed her work-life balance for the better. We explore how operating with a minimalist mentality can help “clear out the clutter” and be inspiration for taking the next step toward your greater goals We discuss the importance of knowing the difference between “good push and bad push” and how to know when to reevaluate your plan so it serves your higher purpose. We dive into how finding the connection between what you dream of and what you are doing today is the key to unleashing your ultimate creativity.   Learn more about Kelly’s coaching services for entrepreneurs: http://www.kellyhigdon.com/ And, if you’re a private practice therapist or your want to be, check out ZynnyMe and their  Business School Bootcamp, conferences, and retreats: https://www.zynnyme.com/     Thanks to this week’s sponsor: Being Seen   Being Seen is a new therapist directory service that is dedicated to helping new potential clients find your private practice. Yes, there are other directories out there, but Being Seen is different - their skilled marketing team is building a broad network that seekers can find easily, but they’re limiting the number of therapists in the directory. That means the people seeking help don’t get overwhelmed and you’re always near the top of the list.   When you join the Being Seen network you get access to exclusive trainings and discounts on CEUs. And they stand behind their promise to help you grow your practice - If you're not thrilled with their service inside of one year’s time, just send an email and they'll refund your money. Find them at www.beingseen.org   And please note that registration is open for the Practice of Being Seen Retreat for Therapist-Healers. Coming up August 13 - 16, 2017: (Re)Vision: Explore Your Stories, Shape Your Future at the Menla Mountain Retreat in New York’s gorgeous Catskill Mountains.      

Kelly Higdon is a psychotherapist, business coach, and active roller derby competitor. She helps therapists grow their businesses and experience authentic joy in their vocation through her company Zynnyme, her personal coaching and workshops at super cool events like Joe Sanok’s Slow Down School.  Kelly is bubbling with life and such a joy to talk to. We are certainly aligned philosophically. In this very candid interview, we discuss everything from culture, to conscious parenting, minimalism and fostering creativity. And also how she experiences Zen in the unlikely arena of the roller derby.

I love working with BLANK who BLANK. That's a specialty, or a niche. And when you have a niche, you are able to speak to the heart of the person you're trying to help. Miranda Palmer of ZynnyMe helps therapists create a work/life balance in private practice and she's our amazing guest today. Our topic: A deep dive into the importance of a specialty in a cash-based private practice. The post Private Pay 6: Should You Choose a Specialty in a Cash-Based Private Practice with Miranda Palmer appeared first on BrighterVision.com.

This is Episode 3 of The Therapist Experience Mini-Series on becoming a cash-based practice. Each episode is an interview with an industry leader and chock-full of advice and guidance on how to transition to a cash-based private practice. The post Private Pay 3: How to Drop an Insurance Panel with Kelly Higdon from ZynnyMe appeared first on BrighterVision.com.

Kelly is the co-founder of ZynnyMe, a consultation company for therapists as well as a business and life strategist for entrepreneurs. She believes that her entire purpose is to leave the world better than how she found it. Get the 5 proven steps to rapidly grow your business, make a bigger impact, and achieve your First Million. Attend the next LIVE First Million Webinar  with international business coach JV Crum III.  Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other business owners and entrepreneurs find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 500 episodes and 10 Million Listeners in 176 countries, this is the podcast for business owners and coaches who want to grow their businesses, make a bigger impact, and ultimately achieve their First Million! JV interviews the top entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and coaches on how to get the right mindset, develop your business systems, and execute to achieve bigger results, faster!  

Kelly is the co-founder of ZynnyMe, a consultation company for therapists as well as a business and life strategist for entrepreneurs. She believes that her entire purpose is to leave the world better than how she found it. Get the 5 proven steps to rapidly grow your business, make a bigger impact, and achieve your First Million. Attend the next LIVE First Million Webinar  with international business coach JV Crum III.  Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other business owners and entrepreneurs find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 500 episodes and 10 Million Listeners in 176 countries, this is the podcast for business owners and coaches who want to grow their businesses, make a bigger impact, and ultimately achieve their First Million! JV interviews the top entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and coaches on how to get the right mindset, develop your business systems, and execute to achieve bigger results, faster!  

Karina Melvin struggled with setting up and growing her private practice in Ireland. The biggest issue she encountered was valuing herself properly. After researching online, she decided to hire Lynn Grodzky. After seeing success from that, she hired Kelly & Miranda from ZynnyMe. And Miranda pushed her to charge more for her services, to properly value her time and her experience. And ironically, once Karina charged 50% more, her private practice filled up. The post TTE 33: Raise Your Rates 50% and Fill Your Private Practice: A Lesson in Valuing Yourself appeared first on BrighterVision.com.

Karina Melvin struggled with setting up and growing her private practice in Ireland. The biggest issue she encountered was valuing herself properly. After researching online, she decided to hire Lynn Grodzky. After seeing success from that, she hired Kelly & Miranda from ZynnyMe. And Miranda pushed her to charge more for her services, to properly value her time and her experience. And ironically, once Karina charged 50% more, her private practice filled up. The post TTE 33: Raise Your Rates 50% and Fill Your Private Practice: A Lesson in Valuing Yourself appeared first on BrighterVision.com.

Investing in your business is critical to helping you grow a thriving, successful private practice. And it wasn't until April invested in the Business School Bootcamp through ZynnyMe that she discovered her niche and her private practice exploded. The post TTE 16: How Business School Bootcamp Helped Ignite April Forella's Private Practice appeared first on BrighterVision.com.

Investing in your business is critical to helping you grow a thriving, successful private practice. And it wasn't until April invested in the Business School Bootcamp through ZynnyMe that she discovered her niche and her private practice exploded. The post TTE 16: How Business School Bootcamp Helped Ignite April Forella’s Private Practice appeared first on BrighterVision.com.

[coolcastplayer id="46"] Kelly Higdon is a private practitioner mental health coach. She helps her clients unlock past pains and hurts and uncover their true potential and purpose through a discovery process. Kelly also works with other mental health professionals by helping them with their practice through the platform she created with her business partner, ZynnyMe. Kelly is here to share some powerful stories of crossroads in her own life and how she got to where she is today. The post 083: Tricking Your Brain – Kelly Higdon appeared first on The Positivity Effect.

[coolcastplayer id="47"] Kelly Higdon is a private practitioner mental health coach. She helps her clients unlock past pains and hurts and uncover their true potential and purpose through a discovery process. Kelly also works with other mental health professionals by helping them with their practice through the platform she created with her business partner, ZynnyMe. Kelly is here to share some powerful stories of crossroads in her own life and how she got to where she is today. The post 082: The Crossroads Of Life – Kelly Higdon appeared first on The Positivity Effect.

In this podcast, I got to speak with Miranda Palmer and Kelly Higdon – co-founders of ZynnyMe.com. They bring the skills of the business world to realm of private practice. We look at the gap we therapists have: Grad school teaches us how to be great therapists but now how to run the business of private practice. We explore how online counseling can be so different that face to face therapy and how the industry is changing. Kelly and Miranda have a wealth of information and bring incredible joy and passion to their work as the help therapists all over the world get into alignment with their practice and develop a more professional approach to their business. Check out their Business School Bootcamp for therapists. www.zynnyme.com http://mostawesomeconference.com/  

Kelly Higdon, of Zynnyme.com, was kind enough to be my fist interview. During the episode, Kelly offers insights into her current endeavors that are helping other counselors grow their own business.