Changing My Mindset in Private Practice : Year 8 | Ep 144

Fearless Practice

This year has been characterized by personal changes in mindset and approach to my practice, and professional development within my Canadian private practice and podcast.

Today’s episode will be a deep dive into my personal story, in celebration and reflection of year eight in private practice!

In this Episode:

• November 2023

• The beginning of 2024

• Spring and summer of 2024

• Towards the end of this year

• The struggles of year eight

• Cultivating a “maintain mindset” over a capitalist-growth mindset

• The future of the Fearless Practice podcast

November 2023

Eight years ago, I started my Canadian private practice in November. Now, every November, I reflect on how far I've come.

A lot of my time and energy at the beginning of this year was focused on finalizing that website. Unfortunately around this time, along with the struggle of the website situation, I had to hire a new admin staff, which added a lot more work to my plate.

The beginning of 2024

I sunk deeper and deeper into a work hibernation for the first few months of this new year. I just focused on the basics which allowed my creativity and urge to work harder to slowly appear again in the Spring, instead of forcing myself to keep pushing when I was feeling burned out.

Spring and summer of 2024

One of the biggest changes was that therapy for registered counselling therapists and psychotherapists became tax-free in the spring of 2024!

Going into the summer of 2024, I began to feel the burnout creeping up on me again, so I decided to switch things up and pursue a solo project, which was to get involved in the SEO of the backend of my website.

Towards the end of this year

As you may know from episode 141, I took up the project of adding direct billing in the private practice, which so far has been going really well!

And to end it off, a wonderful twist this year was that my first admin - who had been with me since the beginning - came back!

It’s been great to have the three of us back together again, working in private practice as a close-knit and content team.

The struggles of year eight

Even though this year has been lovely on many levels, there have been some tough moments. One of them is that Jane, my associate, and I have yet to complete a second season of our private practice’s podcast.

Managing stress has also been another hurdle. Specifically, financial stress has been a concern.

Running a podcast is expensive! And it got even tougher when the usual financial pattern of the year was different.

Cultivating a “maintain mindset” over a capitalist-growth mindset

Due to money stress, I focused on ways to grow my practice and income but that mindset ended up not being helpful. What this experience has taught me is that adopting a perpetual-money-growth mindset can cause you even more anxiety.

Now, I’m approaching my work as maintenance of my professional and personal dream life that is based on satisfaction and peace.

The future of the Fearless Practice podcast

We're thrilled that Jane App is sponsoring the podcast for another year!

This means there will be a whole other year of the Fearless Practice podcast! Thank you to my podcast editing team along with Joel, Niam, Brittany, Claire, and you, our audience! We look forward to another year of sharing stories and knowledge about Canadian private practice.

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EP 143: Jillian Bagan: Growing a Queer-Informed Practice | EP 143

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