S2E27 | Your Genius Is Already There | Groups, Private Pay & Building a Practice That Lights You Up | Melissa Guttman, MT-BC, LCAT

S2E27 | Your Genius Is Already There | Groups, Private Pay & Building a Practice That Lights You Up | Melissa Guttman, MT-BC, LCAT

I sat down with Melissa Guttman, a licensed creative arts therapist, music therapist, and founder of IFS Witch in New York. Melissa specializes in trauma therapy for highly sensitive women in midlife recovering from narcissistic abuse. She uses IFS, Brainspotting, music therapy, and spiritual modalities including astrology and intuitive development. But what made this conversation so rich is what Melissa has built beyond her clinical practice. She runs multiple consultation and support groups for therapists, teaches a training called Designing Your Unique Group Offering, and has built an entire coaching and consultation wing of her business by simply listening to what people kept asking her for. We talked about how she filled her first groups using local listservs that most therapists overlook, why you do not need three certifications to start adding value, what it looks like to leave insurance panels when you have no safety net, the difference between coaching and therapy containers and why it matters, and why your genius is already inside you waiting to be unlocked. She also said something that stopped me. Leaving the insurance panels felt like leaving an abusive relationship. Every panel she drops, her self-respect goes up. If this episode got you thinking about what you are sitting on and where to start, let's talk. Book a 90-minute strategy session at privatepaypractitioners.com [https://privatepaypractitioners.com]. Melissa Guttman: ifswitch.com [https://ifswitch.com] Email: melissaguttman@protonmail.com [melissaguttman@protonmail.com] Podcast: No Bad Charts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube Instagram and TikTok: @fallengoldenchild

S2E28 | We Be Feeling It | EMDR for the Culture, Black Trauma & Building While Healing | Natalie Milom, LCSW

Natalie is back. And this one went somewhere I did not expect. Natalie Milom is a licensed clinical social worker, EMDRIA certified EMDR trainer, ICEEFT certified EFT therapist, the first Black EFT supervisor in Georgia, and the CEO of Potential Realized. She also just got approved to offer her own EMDR basic training, EMDR for the Culture, which centers anti-Black racism and what it actually looks like to do EMDR with Black clients safely. We talked about all of that. And then we talked about a whole lot more. We got into the ancestral trauma that lives in our bodies, allostatic load and why Black people are carrying chronic illness that the medical system keeps dismissing, the superhumanization bias and how it shows up in clinical settings, what it means to code switch even within the Black community, and why doing the most is not a personality trait. It is a survival response. I also shared some things I have not said on this show before. About the office I lost. About the loans I took out to pay my staff while I went without. About the divorce. About growing up in the projects queer and light skinned and being told I talked too white. About the fibromyalgia diagnosis that took decades to get. This episode is personal. It is clinical. And it is necessary. If you want to get trained in EMDR and do it in a way that actually works for Black clients, Natalie's basic training runs July 29 through August 2nd, virtual and in person in Atlanta. Register here: https://www.nataliemilom.com/emdr-basic-training [https://www.nataliemilom.com/emdr-basic-training] Refresher course available on demand at dopetraumatherapist.com [https://dopetraumatherapist.com] for $197. EFT Supervision: dopetraumatherapist.com/eft-supervision [https://dopetraumatherapist.com/eft-supervision] EMDR Consultation: dopetraumatherapist.com/emdr-consultations [https://dopetraumatherapist.com/emdr-consultations]

[PREVIEW] S2 | Minisode | Your Photo Matters

Your headshot is doing something on your website and your directories right now. The question is whether it is doing something good. In this one I am getting into why your photo is part of your marketing, what it communicates before anyone reads a single word, and what to do if it is not working for you. SMILE

S2 | Minisode | What to Say When A Client Says They Can't Afford That

Most therapists freeze when a client pushes back on the rate. In this one I am getting into why that moment does not have to derail you, what is actually happening when a client says they cannot afford it, and what to say that is honest, boundaried, and does not send you into a spiral. Enjoy!

S2E24 | When You Know the Number, Everything Changes | Money, Private Pay & Profit for Keeps | Amber Dugger & Maren Londahl-Smidt

This week I had two guests at the table and we went deep on the one topic most therapists avoid until it becomes a crisis. Money. Amber Dugger is the founder of Profit for Keeps, a system that combines personal finance and business cash flow strategies using Profit First and YNAB to help entrepreneurs become permanently profitable. Maren Londahl-Smidt is a licensed clinical social worker, Profit for Keeps certified coach, and private pay therapist who built her practice around her ADHD instead of fighting it. We talked about money trauma and why most of us are carrying someone else's money story, what Profit for Keeps actually looks like day to day and why it takes less than ten minutes, how to reverse engineer your revenue goal so you finally have a number that means something, why the personal side of money is the foundation for everything else, what YNAB and Profit First do differently and why combining them fills the gap neither one solves alone, and what it means to build a practice around your capacity instead of around what everyone else is doing. Amber also shared a story about a psychologist in New York who had 33 clients a week, $80,000 in debt, and a dream of a house in Santa Fe. She now lives in Santa Fe with six clients a week. That is what this system made possible. And yes, they are doing something new together. More details coming very soon. If this episode got you thinking about your own numbers and what your practice actually needs to sustain you, let's talk. Book a 90-minute strategy session at privatepaypractitioners.com [https://privatepaypractitioners.com]. Amber Dugger: amberdugger.com [https://amberdugger.com] Free calculator: amberdugger.com/calculator [https://amberdugger.com/calculator] Instagram: @profit.with.amber YouTube: Amber Dugger Maren Londahl-Smidt: balanceandbeyondcoaching.com [https://balanceandbeyondcoaching.com] Facebook group: Profit for Keeps for Therapists Instagram: @moneycoachMaren