Are you interested in starting a private practice? I’m going to be honest and say I think most people can, and should. Even if it is just your one-night-a-week, four-hour-side-hustle. Why should you start a business, or grow the one you have? Here are just a few reasons:

• Firstly, it’s fun. It’s so fun owning and developing a business. It’s an empowering and creative challenge. You can create a business that is trauma-informed and anti-oppressive, that directly challenges and changes the culture of business in our world. The positive experience of building a business translates directly into the positive energy you have for your clients.

• Secondly, because you can. I have not yet met a clinician who didn’t have a very specific niche that I knew they could excel in, and that was very greatly needed in the community.

• Thirdly, it’s financially wise. You can choose to diversify your income, and put a bit more of the income-earning directly into your own hands. It increases your financial health, personal satisfaction and most importantly your connection to community.

• Fourthly, your clinical skillset will improve significantly.

• Fifthly, you can show up for the people you most want to serve in the way you think is best. You write the rule book. (You know, the ethics-based rule book.)

I now provide all business services, including the 8-week private practice program, over at Lloyd Collective, LLC. Come find me!