Individual and Small Group Professional Consultation

What gets you rattled? What brings you joy in your work-life? Where do you find yourself surprised at being stuck? And how do you want to grow as a person and a clinician? These are some of the questions I have helped people explore. We also can address challenges related to business logistics, and work-life balance. I provide ongoing clinical support as well as a broader lens towards deepening your connection with your strengths and motivators, to avoid the pitfalls of burnout.

Ongoing collaboration and structural support are vital for new and seasoned therapists. This work shouldn’t be done in isolation. Professional support can take many forms, including individual consultation, group consultation, and peer supports. I offer individual and small group(2-4) consultation, which can include help identifying and setting up other community connections.

My goal is to help you grow as a therapist. Our discussions may include:

  • Individual clinical case consultation

  • Recognizing growing edges and building skills as a therapist

  • Combining different philosophical frameworks, modalities, and skills

  • Noticing where the personal intersects with the professional and how this can both aid and hinder different aspects of the work

  • Developing professional identity, including identifying specialties in topics, modalities for building skills, and populations that fit particularly well with who you are, then thinking about how to best reach these groups

  • Support in thinking through and implementing the business and administrative end of therapy

  • Building a sustainable relationship with your work as a therapist

My style is conversational and reflective. I bring my skills in internal family systems (IFS) and sensorimotor psychotherapy to the consultation process, to help you connect mind and body in the professional sphere.

I wouldn’t be here today without the mentoring I have had and continue to receive. I enjoy being part of this web of knowledge and interconnection and want all working therapists to feel supported in this way.

Sessions are 55 minutes long. Rate is $200/hour, with a sliding scale of $175/hour for those in the first 2 years after graduate school or in the first year of private practice.

Contact me to schedule a brief introductory call to get a sense of fit.

Five conversations I wish I’d had: A Private Practice Development Group

ABOUT

How do you want your life to look and feel as a therapist, and as a person who lives in the world? This brief group will help you build a work-life that feels aligned with what you want for and from your career, and your values as a person.

This will be a somatically informed space to talk about what makes the business end of a therapy practice daunting for many professionals in this field. For some it’s struggling to set fees, make a budget, or identify how many clients to see on a weekly basis, among many other questions. I'm not advising on taxes, electronic health records, or legal regulations for business. I am offering a place to organize questions and share resources for answers, to identify and address the logistical and philosophical hurdles that may seem larger than they need to be.

In this group we will:

  • Make room to envision and begin planning a financially and emotionally thriving and sustainable practice

  • Hold space for a conversation about the way practical demands of living in the world meet your value system

  • Get more clarity on your definition of success and how to build your business towards that

  • Look at the hurdles to getting there, get clarity on them, and start to plan a way through

  • Provide a non-judgmental space to wrap your head around the financial aspects of this endeavor, including providing a template for budgeting for your private practice, and walking through how to use it

  • Explore how the first 3 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year in private practice can look and feel

PRACTICALITIES

  • 5 weeks, consisting of 4 weekly group sessions at 1.5h each, with one individual (optional) session in the middle at 1h

  • 4 people

  • $85 each per group session, and $190 for the individual session

    (Individual session is recommended, and optional for those on a tight budget)

  • Every Other Tuesday 6:30 - 8:00pm, OR Thursday evenings, 7:00 - 8:30 pm, other times TDB- contact to discuss

  • Groups start on a rolling basis

  • Group meets virtually using zoom