Visibility And Vulnerability With José Aleman
Rebel Therapist
Pivoting to work beyond private practice usually means getting more visible. And getting more visible can bring up a lot of vulnerability for people, especially people who are therapists. Today’s guest is putting himself out there in new ways, and finding that while he grows his audience, he also finds there’s a way it is contributing to his own healing. Jose Aleman is a therapist-turned-coach with over 20 years of experience. As the creator of Loving Your Awkward Self, Jose offers confidence-boosting content tailored to queer, first-generation, and BIPOC individuals, while welcoming all....
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Create Your Program AND Write Your Book | Dr. Christen Mullane
Rebel Therapist
Here’s a really cool idea: create a program that helps your write your book. When you create a program you get to take your best ideas, turn them into a clear process, AND help a group of people in real time. You get feedback and make adjustments along the way so that your process gets even better. Then you write your book knowing that you’re writing something that really helps people. Both your program and your book allow you to help more people and get known for your work. That’s what today’s guest, Dr. Christen Mullane has been up to. She’s a clinical psychologist and certified...
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Numbers to track and ignore
Rebel Therapist
We’re out of balance with how much of our brain energy we give to certain numbers. Like when this happens in my brain: “How many likes did I get for that post?” A few minutes later…”How about now?” Not useful. I want the numbers I track and encourage my clients and listeners to track to be highly meaningful and helpful in making real business decisions. I never want those numbers to make us feel bad or to help us assess our worthiness. Fuck that. Useful numbers help us make decisions and pay attention to what we care about. Less useful numbers stress us out and distract us from...
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A Program About Women’s Desire | Dr. Jenn Kennedy
Rebel Therapist
Today’s guest is a grad of CYP. If you want this to be the year you finally launch your course or make a pivot to coaching, do what she did. Get my support in a step-by-step process to create and launch it. Head over to . Don’t know what your topic will be? No idea where to start? You’ll be in good company. You do have a program in you. As this is going live, you can still get into the cohort that’s about to start. You’ll be launching your course by a few months from now. If you’re too late, get on the notification list for next time. That’s Now to today’s conversation: Dr....
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How To Get Ready For A Project That Matters
Rebel Therapist
I met recently with a group of therapsits and healers who are getting ready to create high quality and life changing courses, workshops and programs. Each of them has a beautiful and unique glimmer of what they will create and they’ve got so much love for the people they’re creating for. Each creator has great personal reasons for creating their offerings: preventing their own burnout, making money without more sessions, having an outlet for their creativity, and creating a body of work that can be shared beyond the privacy of therapy sessions. I talked to them about how to get ready for...
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Creating The Program You Needed
Rebel Therapist
Join me for my annual free planning workshop: Plan Your Aligned Year. December 10th 11 am to 12:30 pm PT I take therapists and healers through a process to create their own courses and programs. That’s my whole job. When I recently got inspired to create a program that’s totally about healing and personal growth I took myself through my own process. I want to share that experience with you as a case study. In this episode, I share my process with you, both what steps I took and also what came up for me emotionally in that process. I’m sharing this to make it easier for you to create and...
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Real Advice About Making Money With Your Own Course Or Program: Open Coaching Call Replay
Rebel Therapist
Wednesday, November 20th is the last day to sign up for early access to create your program. Do you have a sense of what having your own course or program could do for your career? If you’ve been sitting on an idea for a while, I want to invite you to create your program with me. This is the process where you take your incredible strengths as a therapist or healer and you create a signature program so that you can serve more people, make more money, and get your best ideas out of your head and into a unique container you’ll be able to offer over and over. We go through an 11 week process...
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How Can I Run Great Group Calls?
Rebel Therapist
Today I’m talking about how to run engaging and effective group calls in your signature program, rather than calls that leave people bored or frustrated or just not showing up. When I say PROGRAM, I’m talking about a niched, outcome oriented, structured container. Your program might be a workshop, retreat, group coaching program, course, or some hybrid of different formats. These are the kinds of programs that are always in demand because they actually help people make significant transformations. I’m not talking about flimsy self-led courses here. I’m talking about programs where your...
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Ask Annie: Are People Just Looking For A Quick Fix? I Don’t Offer That!
Rebel Therapist
The fact that you are providing a real and nuanced process rather than a quick fix is actually not a problem. It’s how you’re going to attract the right folks to your work. Therapists and healers work with me to create high quality, niched programs beyond private practice. The people I work with have a ton of integrity. What I mean by that is that the people I work with really give a shit about the work they do and the programs they create. They care deeply about the people they help. As they’re getting clear on their niches, I hear something like this from many of them: “I like to...
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Why It’s NOT Too Late To Create Your Program
Rebel Therapist
If you want to work in a different way, but you feel like maybe it’s too late to start your own signature program or you regret not starting sooner, this episode is for you. In the last couple of years I have done a LOT of things that I had thought maybe it was too late to do. So I feel you. One of those has been returning to roller skating. You know the proverb. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. For me, the best time to return to roller skate would have been 30 years ago. The next best time just happened. I went to roller discos as a kid in the early...
info_outlineMaybe you plan to double or significantly increase your income this year.
If you’re in private practice, you might look at the numbers and think you should double your sessions. And you totally could. People are out there looking for a therapist exactly like you.
You might feel like adding sessions is your ONLY option to increase your revenue.
That’s not true.
You’ve got other options.
Check in and be honest with yourself. Will adding to your client load exhaust you or head you towards burnout?
If you’re already seeing 12 clients or 15 clients and you’re starting to feel a bit of dread around sessions…do not double your sessions.
On the other hand, If your’e excited about filling up your private practice further, follow that excitement and do it. Like I said, there are plenty of people who need a therapist like you.
If you’re like SO many therapists I know, you might have the time in your schedule to add more sessions, but you don’t have the capacity in other ways.
You don’t have the energy, the self-care practices, attention or focus capacity to add even more sessions.
I want to invite you to take a step back and look at your business model.
Your business model is basically the way your business is set up to make you money. It’s the combination of the things you get paid for.
If your business model is built on 1:1 private practice sessions, and that isn’t sustainable for you…you are in good company!
There’s nothing wrong with you.
A full private practice might not be the right fit for your nervous system or your particular gifts.
There are other business models.
For years I thought I should be happy to have 25 or more therapy sessions a week. I had worked so hard to build that business. I was helping people and making good money so I thought I should just be grateful.
But that business model wasn’t right for me long-term.
Then I started helping therapists build their private practices and I talked to tons of therapists privately about what really works for them.
I discovered that LOTS of therapists don’t find it sustainable to have 25 or more sessions each week.
Like me, they built their private practices and then discovered it wasn’t right for them. And they felt guilt or shame like they SHOULD want the full private practice they worked so hard for.
They started to feel drained and overwhelmed. Either their work or their life outside of work or both began to suffer.
Therapists often don’t want to tell people they feel overwhelmed by a full private practice. So they think they’re alone.
If working in a different way at least some of the time would be a better fit for you and for your nervous system and your gifts, now is the time to start building a different business model.
I know that it’s really hard to carve out time and space to do something different. But it is SO important to start building a business you’ll be more fulfilled by.
The business model I help people create is based on running your own high-touch, niched, outcome-based signature program.
If you’re someone who loves teaching or facilitating and you’d love to really focus in on a topic you’re passionate about, a signature program might be a great fit for you.
If this resonates with you…but you’re feeling overwhelmed by the idea of getting started…mostly because you’re not even sure HOW to get started, do not let that stop you.
I end up hearing from grads of my program that they just wish they had realized sooner that it was possible to grow a signature program.
They are so relieved to have another income source and another place to direct their creative energy. They’re happy that they no longer have all their eggs in the private practice basket.
If you think you want to run a signature program, don’t wait.
Don’t set yourself up to stumble along exhausted trying to build something AFTER you’ve burnt out.
AND Don’t just make little tweaks to a business model that is showing itself to be unsustainable for you.
Start building your signature program.
If you want to make a lot LESS mistakes and get there a LOT faster, with a step-by-step process, join me in Create Your Program.
That’s where I help a small group of therapists and healers to create signature programs they’re really excited to run and then start selling them.
This is exactly the process I needed when I was ready to build a business beyond private practice.
Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/217