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STP 179 | Make Hard Conversations Easier: Games for Grief, Feelings, and Connection
Make Hard Conversations Easier: Games for Grief, Feelings, and Connection
What do you do when a child, teen, or client answers every question with “fine” or “okay”?
In this episode of the Scaling Therapist Podcast,...
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STP 178 | Big Dreams Need Small Steps
The Small-Step Strategy for Achieving Big Dreams
Maybe you have been thinking about a workshop, a course, or paid speaking.
Then you start trying to figure out the whole thing before you even take the first step.
I...
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STP 177 | How to Turn What You Know Into Paid Speaking
STP 177 | How to Turn What You Know Into Paid Speaking
Therapists explain useful ideas every day.
You teach clients how to understand anxiety, communicate better, set boundaries, work through conflict, and make sense...
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STP 176 | Ways to Stop Losing Time and Money to Insurance Billing
If you are a therapist, you know the feeling of opening an envelope or checking a portal, only to see another claim denied. It’s exhausting, it’s frustrating, and honestly, it’s one of the biggest reasons therapists...
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STP 175 | How Practice Owners Can Improve Hiring, Onboarding, and Retention
Hiring your first therapist feels like the next obvious step.
But this is where a lot of practice owners get tricked.
We spend so much time looking for the right person that we forget to ask why we're building a group...
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STP 174 | How Better Systems Reduce Decision Fatigue and Improve Client Care
How Better Systems Help You Stop Carrying Everything in Your Head with Brie Chrisman
Episode Description
Most therapists don't dream about building systems.
They dream about helping people.
But after a while, the...
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STP 173 | The Couch Trap: Locked to One Location
What if the biggest limitation in your practice isn't your schedule... but where your business is allowed to create value?
In this final episode of the Three Traps series, James explores what he calls The Couch Trap....
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STP 172 | Why Waiting on Compliance Could Put Your Practice at Risk w. Dr. Natasha Guess
STP 172 Show Notes
Why Waiting on Compliance Could Put Your Practice at Risk
No one starts a therapy practice because they're excited about policies and regulations. You start because you want to help people.
But...
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STP 171 | People, Process, and Proof: A Simple Formula to Help Clients Say Yes
Building a great course, coaching program, or service isn't enough by itself. If people don't understand how your work helps them, they'll move on.
In this episode, James sits down with returning guest Joshua Brummel,...
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STP 170 | The Calendar Trap: Overbooked, Overwhelmed, and Overrun
The Calendar Trap: Overbooked, Overwhelmed, and Overrun
If your calendar is full but your life is getting the leftovers, this episode is for you.
James talks about the calendar trap: the slow drift from overbooked, to...
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STP 169 | Fear, Failure, and First Steps: How Ira Hays Put His Mission in Motion
Fear, Failure, and First Steps: How Ira Hays Put His Mission in Motion
In this episode of The Scaling Therapist, James talks with Ira Hays, LCSW, about what happens when your mission gets bigger than the people you...
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STP 168 | 5 Website Bottlenecks Keeping Therapists From Clients
5 Website Bottlenecks Keeping Therapists From Clients
In this episode of The Scaling Therapist Podcast, James talks with Daniel Fava of Private Practice Elevation about why therapy websites often fail to convert....
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