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Letting Go of the Work You Love: Workshops and Groups
Letting Go of the Work You Love Do you know how to retire and close your practice without abandoning your clients? When it becomes necessary to stop working and close your caseload or career due to retirement, illness, or incapacity, learn how to prepare yourself and your clients ethically and compassionately. Below, see workshops, seminars…
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The Benefits of Therapists Opening a Side Business May/June 2025 https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/article/starting-a-coaching-practice By Lynn Grodzki Lately, I’ve been noticing an emerging trend—one that may be flying under your radar but reflects conversations I’m having each week with therapists. More and more colleagues are expressing a desire to move beyond the constraints of insurance and geographic limitations,…
Read MoreHow Do Therapists Know When It’s Time to Retire? Saying Goodbye to the Work You Love.
by Lynn Grodzki and Margaret Wehrenberg, Psychotherapy Networker Magazine, Jan 2024 To read this at the magazine: https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/article/saying-goodbye-to-work-you-love/ Jenna, a clinical social worker in private practice, was 65, the average age of those who retire in the US, but she found herself inwardly cringing every time her husband raised the dreaded R-word. He, happily retired…
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Making Peace with Making Money
Making Peace with Making Money
Making Peace with Making Money Making Peace with Making Money by Lynn Grodzki, 2023 About two thousand years ago Socrates asked the question, “What is the good life?” For many of us in private practice, a good life means work that is satisfying, while earning enough to provide for ourselves and our loved ones.…
Read MoreManaging Your Waitlist: How to Tackle the Ethical Dilemmas
By Lynn Grodzki Published in the Psychotherapy Networker Magazine, July/August 2022 Q: Since my caseload is full, I’ve started a waitlist. What’s the best way to manage this list? And is it even ethical to ask potential clients in need of care to wait until I have an opening? A: As we all know, people seeking psychotherapy are…
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Blog Blog Postings from Lynn for Your Post-pandemic Practice Description
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During much of 2020 and the first half of 2021, I wrote about private practice during a time of Covid: How to protect your practice in an uncertain economy; some marketing ideas for working at a distance and in relative isolation; and using one of four business models I identified in an earlier book that…
Read MoreShopping For Therapy
Yesterday’s Patients Are Today’s Educated Consumers By Lynn Grodzki, Psychotherapy Networker Magazine September/October 2013 When I first became a therapist, 25 years ago, long before I became a business coach to other therapists, the field was still at the tail end of the Golden Age of Therapy—or maybe it’d be more accurate to call it the…
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