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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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:
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Insurance is the only safe option.
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The market is too competitive.
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Clients won't pay.
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The economy won't support it.
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Someone out there is stopping you from succeeding.
In this episode, Tiffany challenges one of the most persistent myths in private practice:
The belief that there is a boogeyman standing between you and the business you want.
Because while insurance companies certainly create challenges, many therapists have unknowingly built entire careers around reacting to fear instead of responding to possibility.
And that fear comes at a cost.
A cost measured in exhausted evenings.
Financial anxiety.
Overloaded caseloads.
Missed time with family.
And years spent living far below your actual potential.
In this episode, Tiffany explores:
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Why therapists often give away their power to systems they believe control them
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The hidden emotional payoff of believing someone else is responsible for your limitations
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How fear-based thinking keeps therapists trapped in business models they no longer want
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Why insurance isn't the true obstacle for most therapists
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The difference between reacting to circumstances and creating a vision for your future
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How chronic financial stress quietly impacts your quality of life
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Why many therapists have stopped imagining what they actually want
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The invitation to stop building a practice around fear and start building one around possibility
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What it means to become the hero of your own story instead of waiting to be rescued
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How to begin imagining "you to the max" and building a practice that supports that vision
This episode is ultimately about reclaiming agency.
Because the question isn't whether insurance is frustrating.
The question is:
What are you going to do with the one life you have?
Will you continue organizing your business around fear?
Or will you finally give yourself permission to imagine something bigger?
A practice where you see fewer clients.
Charge fees that support your life.
Spend more time with your family.
And stop carrying the constant weight of financial anxiety.
As Tiffany asks in this episode:
Who are you at your fullest potential?
Who are you to the max?
Because the future you want won't be built by hiding from fear.
It will be built by deciding that fear no longer gets to make your decisions.
If you're ready to stop playing defense and start building a Life First Practice, fill out an application through this link
Or email tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the subject line:
"I'm Ready."
Because there is no insurance boogeyman powerful enough to stop a therapist who has finally decided to put their life first.