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Handling Conference Stress with Confidence

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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

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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.

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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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What I’d do differently if I started private practice now.

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2024 is my 12th year in sole private practice and it’s got me reflecting a little about what I’d do differently if I was starting now. Although I did a lot of great things like learning about business principles and marketing for private practice, nicheing and understanding the funding models before I started, there are

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Could this uncover the secret to your success?

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What is my number one secret of success as a therapist? I discovered it through feedback from one of my best referrers. He would tell his patients, “Nadene is great because she is genuinely interested.” I remember thinking “But aren’t all therapists genuinely interested?” And the truth is, I think many are. They are just not as good

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