Clinicians Creating Impact

We're clinicians, and this is a service-based industry, so it's no surprise if you have a people pleasing tendency at heart. You want to help people, and this can be a natural gift. But if it's leadi…

Hiring and talking to new grads have got me thinking about who I was at the beginning of my clinical career and what advice I would give myself now that I’m in my third decade as a clinician.

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I'm providing practical tips and strategies to help you feel amazing about your compensation as a clinician. I'm using Abilities as a template and giving you examples of how to apply today's concepts…

How do you get paid what you're worth as a clinician? Clinicians tend to avoid conversations about compensation, so if this sounds familiar, this episode is for you.

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We're seeing more neurodiversity in the workplace these days. As a society, we're more aware of the differences that brains can have. And as clinicians, we're specifically trained to recognize neurod…

Most of your time, energy, and resources have been wrapped up in the goal of becoming a clinician. With time, being a good clinician isn't enough to make us truly happy. We tend to think of happiness…

Getting negative feedback always hurts, but especially so when it’s from our clients. We went to school as clinicians because we want to help people, but when our client tells us we aren’t actually h…

Summer is just around the corner and vacation season is here. How do you truly enjoy your time away from work? Sometimes, taking time off from work actually feels stressful. We feel pressure to get a…

It’s okay to not feel okay at work. However, no matter where you work, you have far more influence over your happiness than you might expect. In this episode, I’m exploring the difference it makes to…

For myself, and probably many others, documentation is the least favorite thing about being a clinician. Even now that I have stopped doing so much direct clinical work, documentation is still necess…

When you think about failure as a clinician, whether it’s on a micro or macro level, how do you feel? Failure often feels awful, as if it limits our growth, and we often try to avoid it at all costs.…

Things may have been different in past generations, but these days, nobody trains in their chosen clinical career with the intention of working in one place for the rest of their working life. There …

I’ve noticed that there seem to be some common trends around how we, as clinicians, tend to think about money. My intention today is to start a clinician-focused conversation about money and begin no…

What is the right thing to do when you get injured by a client? Unfortunately, it happens. Physical injuries are more obvious and hopefully easily managed, but emotional injuries can be inflicted dur…

As a clinician, especially in public practice, it can be difficult to deliver a service that is client-directed or client-centered when what the client wants is different from what you want as the th…

A common problem for clinicians is most of us don’t have an actual plan for what we want our clinical career to look like. If we do have a plan, it’s normally what the next steps are, but not looking…

Have you ever had a client come to you, and either they or a member of their family are telling you some version of how they want to be fixed? This could be them saying they want to gain or regain a …

When people don’t do what we want them to do, especially co-workers, it can make our work feel harder, and accomplishing everything we intend to becomes more difficult.

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Have you ever felt like you weren’t good enough as a clinician? This is a super-common problem for clinicians. Outside of our profession it’s called imposter syndrome, feeling like you don’t know eno…

Prioritizing work is something that, as clinicians, we’ve done throughout our careers. However, I’ve noticed that we don’t always think the most helpful thoughts when it comes to everything we need t…