The Money Sessions – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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In today’s episode, Tiffany talks about how you can identify if your friends and colleagues are helping or hurting when it comes to achieving your private practice goals.  

We talk to a lot of therapists, and we’ve been noticing a pattern: therapists who have been wanting to leave insurance panels or raise fees for months or years, but haven’t yet taken the plunge. 

Our question: why? What’s keeping these therapists in a situation that doesn’t work for them, that they don’t ultimately want? Why not change? 

There are lots of answers to this question, but here’s one that keeps popping up: an important person (or people) discouraging the therapist from taking action. 

Let’s talk about it.

In this episode, Tiffany shares: 

How to distinguish between advice that’s meant to further your private practice goals versus advice that’s meant to deter you; 

How to keep your respected colleagues and loved ones close without falling prey to their limiting beliefs about what’s possible for you; 

The real reason your peers are discouraging you from leaving insurance panels or raising your fees; 

The number one thing you need to do to make your next big professional leap. 

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In this episode, we're speaking with Lauren Pass Erickson, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist out of Colorado. After receiving a financial wake-up call, she was left with no choice but to get crystal clear about her financial situation and reevaluate her fee structure. By becoming very honest about her financial needs, Lauren not only improved her therapy practice but also set better boundaries in her clinical work and personal relationships. 

Stay until the end because Lauren and Tiffany stumbled upon an insight that gave both of them goosebumps.

In this episode, Lauren will share:

How she went from charging as low as $30 per session to $260 per session;

Getting hit with an unexpected $10,000 tax penalty forced her to take a reality based look at her fee structure;

How it felt to charge premium fees for the first time;

Her clinical work becoming exponentially better as she addressed her own  money mindset;

Three pieces of strategic advice that will help you go from struggling to set your fees to confidently charging premium fees.

Resources mentioned:

The Lean In. MAKE BANK. Academy

The Fun with Fees Calculator

Lauren's Website: www.naturalembodiment.org 

More about Lauren: 

Lauren Pass Erickson MA, LPC, R-DMT (she/her) is a somatic and dance/movement therapist who has been in private practice in Boulder, CO since 2020. Specializing in Complex PTSD and Queer Identity, Lauren helps LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse adults reconnect with their bodies after trauma, and embrace their most authentic selves with joy and confidence. 

   In this episode, we're speaking with Audrey Schoen, a California based License Marriage and Family Therapist. Audrey specializes in working with the spouses of Law Enforcement Officers in private practice. Within her practice, Audrey’s goal is to help her clients achieve a sense of steadiness and confidence in the face of life's ups and downs, both within themselves and their relationships. 

    As the wife of a Law Enforcement officer herself, she will talk about the triad of reality checks that led her to absolutely raise her fees. 

In this episode, Audrey will share:

How being the wife of a Law Enforcement Officer forced her to get real about how much she needed to make in private practice;

How charging Premium Fees allowed her to be a better therapist for her clients;

Her current anxiety about charging more, despite making leaps and bounds from where she started;

3 mindset shifts to consider if you are currently struggling to raise fees.

Resources mentioned:

Fun with Fees 

Lean In. Make Bank.

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More about Audrey: 

Audrey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Northern CA with an exclusively online practice working with adults and couples seeking to create a more connected and congruent life. As a police wife herself, She especially enjoys supporting partners and spouses of law enforcement and first responders. She brings a real-life, even-keeled approach to counseling, coming alongside her clients as they shine light into the dark and challenging places in life. To Contact: https://www.audreylmft.com/

In this episode, we are speaking with Erica Thomas, a Texas based Clinical Social Worker and Therapist. Erica focuses her practice on mother and daughter relationship as a way of helping shape future generations of women. Erica will be discussing how a very expensive reality check led her to drop insurance panels and pursue private practice. 

In this episode, Erica will share:

Why she chose to start out on insurance panels; 

How the “security blanket” of insurance panels cost her $15,000 dollars;

How being a Latinx woman from a working class family shaped her view on money;

One thing you can do to get off insurance panels now. 

Resources mentioned:

Lean In. Make Bank.

Fun with Fees 

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More About Erica: 

Erica Thomas is a therapist with her own private practice in Liberty Hill, TX. She currently niches in  mother-daughter relationships, as a way of helping shape future generations of great, empowered  women. She draws experience through her 18+ years of being a clinician, seeing thousands of women  who have been impacted by their own relationships with their mothers and through her own personal  journey as a daughter and a mother. Erica gets to be the super proud mother of 3 amazing children (2  sons and 1 daughter) and the super lucky spouse of a husband who is her best friend and biggest  cheerleader. 

To Contact: (512) 777-0899, ​​https://vnclh.com/

In this episode, we are speaking with Harry Au, a Licensed Therapist and Registered Social Worker based in Ontario. Harry focuses his work on helping Asian and BIPOC individuals in a private practice setting. Harry will be discussing how he went from an activist with anxiety, guilt, shame, and judgement around the desire to have money, to a Premium Fee therapist with more money and resources for activism. 

In this episode, Harry will share:

How his identity as 1.5 generation Chinese Immigrant and family conflict around money, led him to be money avoidant;

3 signs that led him to leave agency work and move into private practice;

The big leap he took allowing him to charge premium fees and return to activism with more intention, capacity, and resources;

How he went from burnout and overwhelmed, to an activist that charges $180+  per session.

Resources mentioned:

Lean In. Make Bank.

Fun with Fees 

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More About Harry:

Harry (he/him) is a therapist in Toronto, Canada, who works specifically with Asian clients. He’s a quirky weirdo who is learning to embrace all of those parts of him, and is passionate about working with other quirky weirdos who want to do the same.

To Contact: 647-201-6610, [email protected]

In this episode, we are speaking with Vanessa Solis, a California based Licensed Clinical Social Worker.  Vanessa has over a decade of experience working to create a space where people can tell their story. She offers traditional talk therapy as well as EMDR for women and teens. Vanessa is currently in the process of creating a group practice that supports the development of EMDR and Brainspotting for clinicians of color.

In this episode, Vanessa will share:

Her journey from community health to premium fees;

How race and class shaped her fee setting strategy;

What fears she battled with making the change;

How changing her fees and upleveling allowed her to show up differently as a mother, spouse, and clinician.

Resources mentioned:

Lean In. Make Bank.

Fun with Fees 

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More About Vanessa:

Vanessa Solis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the Bay Area, CA. She helps women understand how previous trauma is connected to anxiety, depression. and low self esteem, and how that all works in the brain. She specializes in working with women of color in brain based therapy techniques, such as EMDR and Brainspotting, allowing clients to experience the brain's power in healing itself.  Vanessa is in the process of creating a group practice that supports the development of EMDR and Brainspotting clinicians of color, in order to create an exponential impact in her community and beyond. 

 To contact  - (925) 257-0205,  Vanessasolislcsw.com,  [email protected]

In this episode, we're speaking with Susannah Horwitz, a Colorado based License Mental Health Counselor. Susannah works with women and adolescents to heal trauma. She takes on a trauma-informed, nature based, expressive arts approach to help her clients get “off the couch” and into the outdoors to facilitate healing. 

Susannah now works in Private Practice, charging premium fees, and is the primary breadwinner for her family. Taking what she learned with LIMB and applying it to her practice, she is able to set her family up for success and show up more fully for her clients. 

In this episode, Susannah will share:

What three signs led her to charging premium fees and her fears around increasing her fees; 

How she built her private practice without a website presence;

Why she did not want to be a therapist with 30+ clients; 

What it’s like to be the primary breadwinner, and how she is still managing a work-life balance.

Resources mentioned:

Fun with Fees 

Lean In. Make Bank.

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More about Susanna: 

Susannah Horwitz is a trauma-informed, nature based expressive arts therapist and licensed professional counselor, with dual licensure in Massachusetts and Colorado. She loves to bring therapy clients "off the couch" and into the outdoors to help them connect with the multifaceted powers of imagination, sense of humor, playfulness, and creativity to heal trauma and thrive.

For the past 24 years she traveled an eclectic career path that has included employment as a public school teacher in Baltimore, an Outdoor Experiential Educator in Michigan and Ohio, A museum arts educator in Ohio, A school counselor in Boston, the lead singer in a touring East coast band, an Expressive Arts therapist and Director of a College/Career Access program in Lynn, MA, a private practice therapist (and budding coach/retreat leader) in MA and CO, and most importantly a mother. 

To connect: [email protected] , SusannahHorwitz.com

In this episode, we're speaking with Shawny Sena, a Minnesota based License Marriage and Family Therapist. Shawny exclusively works with Transgender and Queer children and teens, helping them heal “deeper than language” through movement, art, stories, imagination, and music. 

Shawny has wrestled with the complexity of charging premium fees while continuing to work with clients who come from marginalized communities. Today she has leveled up from the burnout of group practice to living the life she wants without compromising her integrity, values, and the community she loves to serve. 

In this episode, Shawny will share:

- Three signs that led her to raise her fees;

- How her feelings towards participating in a racist and capitalist system, informed her decision around fees;

- How she went from underpaid and overworked in group practice to charging premium fees in private practice, without compromising her clientele; 

- How doing the work in LIMB allowed her to change her fees ethically and confidently.

Resources mentioned:

Fun with Fees 

Lean In. Make Bank.

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More about Shawny: 

Shawny Sena is a Marriage and Family Therapist based in Minneapolis, MN. She works with LGBTQIA kids, teens, and adults and specializes in reconnecting clients with their playful instincts and creativity, especially when they have been inhibited by developmental trauma. Her background in the arts, sex education, and play therapy guide her beliefs that pleasure and joy are the ultimate tools of healing.

To Contact: [email protected]

In this episode, we're speaking with Erin Collins, a therapist based out of Massachusetts. Erin focuses her work on teens and adults experiencing anxiety, as well as people healing from different types of loss. 

After the father of Erin’s sons passed away from Cancer, Erin had to step up and become the sole financial provider for her children. Along with this new role, Erin had to deal with her own grieving, and the grieving of her children. This difficult reality led Erin to rethink her views on private practice and premium fees. 

In this episode Erin will dive into:

What it means to look at your financial reality despite being terrified;

Fears and strategies to overcoming the “I can’t” mindset regarding charging premium fees;

How doing the work to overcome an empathetic nature led her to where she is now;

How she was able to craft out a new life for herself and her children, despite the challenges she faced.

Resources mentioned:

Fun with Fees 

Lean In. Make Bank.

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More About Erin:

Erin is a psychotherapist in the Boston area specializing in anxiety, grief and loss. She is the mother of two teenage sons who lost their father two years ago to colon cancer. Erin is currently in the process of starting a second business as a life coach for women struggling with momfectionism.

To contact: https://www.erinpcollinstherapy.com/

617-682-7376, [email protected]

In this episode, we're speaking with Samantha Osborne, a clinician located in Asheville, NC. Sam holds many titles: Board Certified Counselor, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, and Mental Health Integrative Medicine Certified Provider (MHIMCP). 

She became interested in mental health after struggling with her own anxiety and depression. She now centers her practice around helping others in similar mental spaces to “live with less anxiety and more joy”.

In this episode, Sam will share:

What it was like to come from an upwardly mobile, working-class family to owning her own business;

Three signs led her to make the change from insurance panels to private pay;

How she used a no-judgement, no-nonsense decision making approach to get off insurance panels;

How canceling insurance panels led her to having an upwardly mobile family and the impact it’s had on the well-being of her family.

Resources mentioned:

Fun with Fees 

Lean In. Make Bank.

4 Steps to Raise Your Fee Workshop

More about Sam: 

Samantha Osborne is a therapist for ambitious overachievers in Asheville, NC.  She's a "super fan" of the Money Sessions, and she has picked up several new hobbies since starting her private practice.  

To contact - www.SamanthaOsborneTherapy.com