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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 therapists do every day:
They automatically rule themselves out.
Not because they can’t.
Not because it’s impossible.
But because somewhere along the way they decided:
“That’s for those people. Not for me.”
Whether it's a trip to the Hamptons, charging $350 per session, making $20,000 a month in private practice, speaking on bigger stages, or simply taking up more space in the world—many therapists unconsciously reject opportunities before they ever give themselves permission to consider them.
And that's exactly what Tiffany challenges in this episode.
In this episode, Tiffany explores:
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Why therapists often disqualify themselves from the very lives they want before they even try
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The hidden psychological cost of choosing what's "comfortable" instead of what's actually aligned with your goals
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How self-concept—not marketing—is often the biggest barrier to charging Life First Fees
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Why therapists routinely shrink themselves around wealth, success, authority, and visibility
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The surprising ways Tiffany caught herself minimizing her own success in real time
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What your desired fee symbolizes psychologically, emotionally, and relationally
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Why therapists readily accept negative projections ("struggling therapist," "martyr," "burned out clinician") but resist positive ones like authority, expertise, and abundance
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How to begin expanding your capacity to hold more success, more visibility, and more ease without abandoning yourself
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The paradigm shift required to build a practice that generates both freedom and meaningful income
This episode isn't really about the Hamptons.
It's about the places, spaces, opportunities, and identities you've quietly decided aren't available to you.
It's about the part of you that wants more—and the part of you that immediately explains why you can't have it.
And it's about learning to stay present long enough to question whether those stories are actually true.
Because the therapists who build Life First Practices aren't necessarily smarter.
They're not better marketers.
They're simply willing to ask:
"Who would I have to become if this were actually possible for me?"
If you're ready to step into a new paradigm—one where $350 sessions, $20,000 months, spacious mornings, creative work, and financial ease are no longer things that happen to "other people"—this episode is for you.
Email tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the word "Paradigm."
Because the goal isn't the Hamptons.
The goal is becoming the version of yourself who no longer automatically assumes you don't belong there.