Get Good Enough to Charge $600/Session
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? What does it actually mean to be good enough to charge $600 per session? More certifications? Another modality? A better niche? A prettier website? Most therapists assume that charging premium fees is simply a reflection of clinical expertise. But in this episode, Tiffany challenges that assumption and asks a much deeper question: What if the thing that allows someone to charge $600 per session has less to do with what...
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$600/Session: A Mystery Guest You Cannot Miss
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? What happens when a therapist charges $600 per session and becomes the target of criticism, projection, outrage, and endless commentary from other therapists? In this powerful and provocative episode, Tiffany sits down with a mystery guest we'll call Maverick—a Canadian trauma therapist who built a thriving premium fee practice and now charges $600 per session for deeply relational trauma work. Maverick shares the...
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The Myth of the Insurance Boogeyman
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? Therapists are afraid of a lot of things. Raising their fees. Leaving insurance panels. Being visible. Being judged. Failing publicly. But according to Tiffany, one of the biggest obstacles standing between therapists and the lives they actually want isn't reality. It's a story. A story that says: Insurance is the only safe option. The market is too competitive. Clients won't pay. The economy won't support it. ...
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Danielle’s Journey to $255 & Full: A Journey through the VERY Messy Middle
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? What if the “messy middle” isn’t proof you’re failing… but proof you’re growing? In this deeply honest episode, Tiffany sits down with Danielle Robbins, an LMHC in New York, who went from opening a private practice with one client at a $200 fee to charging $255/session, nearly full, and preparing to leave group practice for good. But this is not a shiny overnight success story. This is the story of fear....
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Come to the Hamptons With Me
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? What if the thing standing between you and your Life First Practice isn’t strategy? What if it’s the story you tell yourself about who you’re allowed to be? In this deeply personal episode, Tiffany shares a surprising encounter that sparked a profound realization about wealth, self-concept, and the invisible limits therapists place on themselves. A simple conversation about the Hamptons uncovered something many...
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From $6K Months to $10K+ Months… and Having WAY Fewer Sessions with Hillary Pilotto
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? What happens when the practice you built starts feeling like a trap? In this deeply honest Money Sessions episode, Tiffany sits down with therapist Hillary Pilotto to unpack the emotional, financial, and identity-level shifts that helped them go from exhausting $6K months to consistent $10K+ months… while seeing WAY fewer clients. And here’s the thing: Hillary already had what many therapists think they want. A...
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The Travesty of the Cupcake Shop
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? There is a reason so many therapists are exhausted, resentful, financially anxious, and quietly fantasizing about leaving the profession altogether. And it’s not because they “aren’t good at business.” It’s because most therapists are trying to run their private practice like a cupcake shop. In this sharp, disruptive, and deeply clarifying episode, Tiffany unpacks one of the biggest misunderstandings...
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From $5K months to $17K months with 15 sessions: Canadian-based therapist Amelia Sloan leans all the way in
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math. 🎁 Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? Think therapists in Canada can’t charge premium fees? Think again. In this episode of The Money Sessions, Tiffany sits down with Amelia Sloan, a Canadian-based therapist whose journey challenges the belief that geography, culture, or the therapy industry determines what you can earn. Before making changes in their practice, Amelia was seeing 15–18 clients a week, charging roughly $80–$140 per session, and bringing in about $5K–$6K...
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Modalities That Offer Rapid Results
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Life First Fees Private Practice Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? Therapists are asking the wrong question. The question is not: “How do I get more clients?” The real question is: “How do I become a therapist whose work creates powerful, noticeable transformation?” Because in 2026, clients are no longer simply looking for weekly emotional maintenance. They are looking for results. And therapists who can confidently help clients experience meaningful movement—without...
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Half the Income & Happier Than Ever with Krissy Johnson, LMFT
The Money Sessions
Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we’ll do the math. 🎁 Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator 👉🏽 Ready to charge Life First Fees? What happens when you cut your income in half… and feel more free than ever? In this unforgettable episode of The Money Sessions, Tiffany sits down with Krissy Johnson, LMFT, whose path into private practice is anything but traditional. Before becoming a therapist, Krissy toured the country as a performer. When COVID shut down the industry, she finally used the therapy degree she had earned years earlier—quickly building a full...
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There’s a reason your practice feels capped.
There’s a reason $300 per session feels theoretical instead of inevitable.
And it has nothing to do with your clinical skill, your niche, or “this economy.”
It’s this: you are not in the room.
In this episode, Tiffany builds on her conversation with Sarayu and names the uncomfortable truth most therapists avoid: if you are not consistently putting yourself in spaces with people who have the resources to pay your Life First Fee, you are unconsciously choosing to stay stuck.
Not because you’re lazy.
Not because you’re bad at business.
But because fear, shame, and old class conditioning are quietly running the show.
In this episode, Tiffany breaks down:
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Why therapists instinctively avoid rooms where people can easily pay $300–$400 per session
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The real emotions that surface when you imagine being around wealth, power, and influence (imposter syndrome, envy, shame, fear)
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How “networking with struggling therapists” and outdated marketing tactics protect you from discomfort—but sabotage your income
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Why this is not a moral failure, but is a strategic problem
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The two things required to do the unimaginable (leave insurance, raise fees, step into authority):
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a container for regulation and integration
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clear, strategic steps so you know what you’re doing and why
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Why staying out of the room doesn’t just hurt your business—it harms the future of therapy itself
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How therapists excluding themselves from power has opened the door for AI, tech companies, and non-clinicians to define the field
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Why agency in your business is the gateway to real cultural impact
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How booking your first Life First Fee client fundamentally changes how clients experience you
This episode isn’t about marketing tactics.
It’s about agency.
If therapists are not in the rooms where decisions are being made, we will be replaced, undercut, and erased.
And the way back starts in your private practice.
If you’re ready to stop hiding, stop circling scarcity, and finally be in the room where it happens, email Tiffany at tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the word “Room.”
Because your clients are not just paying for therapy.
They’re paying to experience agency—and it starts with you embodying it first.