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Handling Conference Stress with Confidence

Conferences are a great place for networking and staying up to date with research. They are also a prime time to have your schema patterns fire up. Being surrounded by other therapists at various stages of development can activate feelings of inadequacy and failure. Mixing with many people you don’t know can be challenging, especially if you have social anxiety or memories of not fitting in. As someone who works solo, I find it a lot of people and the noise levels take some getting used to.

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Things I’m not doing in 2025 to take my business to the next level

Things I’m not doing in 2025 to take my business to the next level (based on strategy coaches have tried to sell me in 2024). * Manifesting. Sounds effortless to think myself to success. But it doesn’t work and also blames people in difficult circumstances for their situation. * Going into debt to pay for

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Marketing but not enough referrals coming through the door? This could be why.

A lot of therapists I’m talking to say that their Number 1 concern right now is that not enough referrals are coming into their business. This is making them anxious about their income. We can blame the economy or funding decisions changes, but some practices are not having this problem. These practices continue to have

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Harrassment and stalking by clients: therapist risk factors you need to know

Many of you will have watched Baby Reindeer on Netflix and know that the intense stalking portrayed began with an act of kindness. This act of kindness was followed by constant accommodations made for behaviours that fell outside of normal social boundaries. Instead of implementing a boundary, instead of saying no the behaviours were permitted.

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