What the frack am I talking about, right?! A few months back my therapist gently placed her chin on her fist, leaned back in her chair and observed, “You make everything harder than it has to be.” BWHA HA HA! WHAT?! Oh my gosh. She hit the nail on the head. Up until she made [...]
When was the last time you sat down with your calculator to figure out how many clients you need this year to make X amount of money? Or maybe you even started with, “Okay, my fee is $125. If I want to make 6-figures, that means I need…(desperately doing the math) at least 15* clients [...]
As part of our ongoing money series, I am answering YOUR questions about money and private practice. This week I’m diving into a question from Therapist Mia who writes in and says, “So good to see you in my inbox, albeit in emoji form. You crack me up-- I'm dying to know if you really [...]
As part of our ongoing money series, I am answering YOUR questions about money and private practice. This week I’m diving into a question from Therapist Heather who wrote in and said: “How long to full fee clients tend to stay in treatment? Have there been any studies on that? I am able to get [...]
I remember the first time I went to a schmancy holiday happy hour. It was for the psychoanalytic organization that I was a member of and, boy oh boy, I had never seen anything like it! The party was in an expensive part of town and San Francisco prices are already through the roof, so [...]
Deeeyamn! Prepared to have your socks rocked. A few months ago, I had the good fortune to see Emma Schmidt’s post about raising her fees to $250/session in the Abundance Practice Builders FB group. I know that this is a struggle for so many therapists, so I asked Emma if she would be willing to [...]
This week's episode comes from therapist Rachael. She wrote in and asked: How do we balance serving community and meeting social expectations around making beau-coup dollars when we actually are meeting our goals? I make enough money for me. I can afford my needs, and fun stuff too. But my scale slides real low, especially in my [...]
Earlier this year, I stumbled on this mind-blowing analysis Post Mortem: A Conversation Gone Wrong by writer and hippie, Tad Hargrave. In this article, Tad goes through, line by line, and breaks down how a Facebook conversation about race goes terribly, terribly wrong. I was on a road trip with my parents at the time and as they were pointing out the quaint houses [...]
In this week's episode of Ask Tiffany: The Money Series for Therapreneurs - one of my long time subscribers asked a question that is SO near and dear to my heart and likely something YOU deal with, too. She says: "I continue to love your stuff about money. I actually realized recently that my whole identity is [...]
This week, you are STOKED to know that we have a special guest - Katie K. May from www.becomeagroupguru.com. Katie was all like, "WHAT?!" and hijacked this weeks episode of Ask Tiffany to answer Therapist Ellen's question. Therapist Ellen wrote in and asked: "How do I set fees for groups?!" Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course [...]
