From $55 Shame to $225 Sovereignty: Julianna on Leaving Martyrdom Behind.
Release Date: 06/09/2025
Why You Keep Yourself Broke â Being Broke Is Not Your Problem (Itâs Your Solution)
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, weâll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator đđ˝ You say you want to make more money. You say you want freedom. You say you want to stop taking insurance and finally charge what youâre worth. But you donât. You keep yourself broke. In this raw and deeply honest episode, Tiffany unpacks the truth most therapists never want to face: being broke isnât your problemâitâs your solution. When your bank account is empty, you donât have to take risks. You donât have to be visible. You donât have to disappoint anyone....
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Committing to $185 â Peer Counselor Jessica Scalzo is Creating a Movement
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, weâll do the math. đ Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator đđ˝ https://www.leaninmakebank.com/free What happens when someone without a therapy license decides to build a premium-fee practice anyway? Meet Jessica Scalzo, a professional Peer Counselor and retired competitive runner who turned her lived experience with overtraining and eating disorders into a thriving private practice charging $185 per session. Jessica was charging $45 when she joined LIMB. Today, sheâs a pioneer â redefining whatâs possible for peer counselors,...
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Your Low Fees Are Out of Integrity â Why You Canât Build an Honest Practice on a Lie
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, weâll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator đđ˝ This is your unpopular opinion alertâbut someone needs to say it. If youâre taking insurance or charging low fees that donât allow you to pay your bills, take care of your kids, and save for retirement, your practice is out of integrity. Youâre modeling a lieâboth to your clients and to yourself. In this fiery, no-fluff episode, Tiffany dismantles the illusion that therapists can do high-quality, transformative work while chronically undercharging. She shows you...
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From Nonprofit Burnout to $275 Sessions â Angelina Miceli on Finally Choosing Herself
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, weâll do the math. đ Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator đđ˝ After helping build a 12-clinician nonprofit from the ground up, Angelina Miceli, LCSW, realized sheâd built everything â except her own joy. She was burnt out, resentful, and quietly crumbling. In 2024, she joined LIMB, left her director role, and went all in on private practice. Today, sheâs charging $275 per session and $300 per intake â and loving every minute of it. If youâre scared to leave your âsecureâ job, Angelinaâs story is your...
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Your 2026 Income Will Be Decided Today
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we'll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator đđ˝ Therapists love to tell themselves: âIâll figure it out in January.â Raise my fees in January. Do my marketing in January. Finally get serious about my business in January. Hereâs the truth: by January, itâs already too late. In this urgent episode, Tiffany dismantles the myth of the ânew year resetâ and shows you why the moves you make this fall will determine your income, stability, and freedom in 2026. If youâre waiting until the calendar flips, youâre not...
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I Was Spinning, Not Marketing: Katie Gilbertson on Mental Hustle, Sliding Scales & Financial Wake-Up Calls.
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we'll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator here đđ˝ In this episode, weâre speaking with Katie Gilbertson, a Washington-based therapist who was working three days a weekâbut still couldnât take a vacation or contribute to retirement. She thought she had created a dream schedule. What she hadnât created was financial freedom. Katie walks us through what it took to finally stop tweaking her website at 10PM and start building a premium-fee practice rooted in clarity, ownership, and ease. In...
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Can You Really Fill a Practice at $350 Per Session?
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we'll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator đđ˝ âSure, Tiffanyâthat all sounds great. But is it actually possible? Can any therapist really charge $350 a session and stay full?â Thatâs the question Tiffany hears over and over again from therapists who are burned out, underpaid, and deeply skeptical that freedom is even possible for them. And in this fiery episode, Tiffany answers the question directly: YES. Itâs possible. But only if youâre willing to think bigger than the average therapist. In this episode,...
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From 30 Clients at $30 to Premium Cash Pay: Maggie Evansâ Journey as a Sensitive Single Mom.
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we'll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator here đđ˝ In this episode, weâre speaking with Maggie Evans, an art therapist, highly sensitive person, and single mom who broke free from the burnout of BetterHelp and built a premium-fee private practice that supports both her nervous system and her child. If you think your personality, parenting status, or sensitivity disqualifies you from making bank as a therapistâMaggieâs story will prove otherwise. In this episode, Maggie shares: How she went from 30...
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Good Enough Is Where Practices Go To Die
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we'll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator đđ˝ Youâre fullâor close to it. Youâre managing. Paying the bills. Picking up your kid. Logging back on after dinner for that one âflexibleâ client. Itâs not suffering. But itâs sure as hell not success. In this episode, Tiffany lays bare the trap so many therapists fall into: âgood enough.â The caseload is fine. The fee is okay. The marriage is stable. The roof mostly holds. But when life hitsâan aging parent, a sick child, a partner out of workâgood...
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This Canât Be My Life: Natasha Deen on Raising Her Fee & Reclaiming Her Future.
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Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we'll do the math. Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator here đđ˝ In this episode, weâre speaking with Natasha Deenâa DC-area therapist specialized in working with Muslim daughters of immigrantsâwho went from âokay enoughâ to powerful, unapologetic fee ownership. Natasha joined LIMB thinking she might raise her fee. Instead, she transformed her mindset, boundaries, and belief in whatâs possibleâfor her clients, her practice, and her life. Natashaâs story is a masterclass in rejecting the slow death of...
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In this episode, weâre speaking with Julianna Vermeys, a Portland-based somatic therapist and LIMB grad who took a long, brave road from burnout and martyrdom to freedom and clarity in her practice.
Julianna opens up about the chaos of running a full-time private practice, teaching, supervising, parenting two kids, and secretly sliding her fees all the way down to $50/sessionâall while living in a body that never got to rest.
If youâve ever felt like your nervous system is boiling from the inside out, or that youâre doing more for your clients than you can offer your own children, this episode will crack you wide open.
In this episode, Julianna shares:
What it felt like to supervise, teach, parent, and see 25+ clients a weekâwhile secretly charging as little as $55;
How pandemic stress, somatic signals, and a deep moment in childâs pose forced her to confront the unsustainable cost of her giving;
The impact of growing up around fame and wealthâbut without access to itâand how that fueled a martyr mindset;
What she had to face in herself in order to stop sliding her fees and finally charge $225 with full integrity;
Her insights on intergenerational trauma, agency shame, and the oppressive therapist training models that keep us small.
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Julianna is a somatic therapist and clinical supervisor in Portland, Oregon. For nearly twenty years she has been dedicated to exploring the integration of human experience with clients and colleagues who are willing to understand themselves, their trauma, grief and suffering beyond the realm of problem solving. She recently integrated her work as an educator, therapist and supervisor into a three day embodiment retreat for other therapists (stay tuned for more!) She is also a writer completing her memoir using therapeutic insight to tell her story; a mom to two amazing children, a dedicated daughter and friend.