Reverse engineering your practice

You’ve studied. You’ve interned. You’ve sat in hours of supervision. You have likely worked in agencies, hospitals, schools, and mental health clinics. You know who you are as a professional and how you can help. Yet it is easy to lose sight of this knowledge once you start your private practice. The clarity you once had about your work, your mission, and your limitations can easily get lost in your agenda to build a viable business. In the pursuit of financial security, you can find yourself saying “yes” to every client that is willing to work with you. Your original ideals can easily be replaced by a louder mentality that suggests that over...