Create Your Private Practice

Use Color and Imagery to Make the Business of Practice

Enjoyable

Right & Left Brain Concept: Overly simplistic but visually interesting

Most therapists lack confidence about business skills

This is what the left side of my brain probably looks like- and many therapists feel the same way.

“Right Brain” Thinking

The idea of dividing the brain into halves is rather simplistic, but fun to consider visually. This exercise can help us envision our strengths and the ways we need to stretch our skills.

Depict your ideal client

This visual exercise really helps define the purpose of your practice, so you’re not trying to do everything for everyone.

Getting a focusWe sometimes experience unexpected insights when working visually, rather than trying to figure things out intellectually.

This is not about making Art.• These visual exercises allow you to think

about practice-building in a new way.• This type of activity also gives you a chance to

do what we routinely ask clients to do: try something different, even if you feel uncertain about it.

• This method also tends to dissolve doubts and fears about owning your own practice.

Did you just notice how long it took to read a page?

Our brains are much better equipped to interpret images than to comprehend the written word. We’ve been seeing things for MUCH longer than we have been reading.

Another Ideal Client exercise

In the process of using images, the therapist was able to identify specifics about who she wanted to work with and also where to find referrals for this type of client.

Therapists need to get better at telling people exactly what we do.

We can assist very capably with many common life problems.

We can also develop skills for making strategic plans.

You can learn about business without feeling like this.

Getting acquainted with marketing concepts and other ideas from the world of business is not necessarily difficult, just not familiar to you yet.

The clients you like to see are looking for help.

They don’t know how to tell you’re the right fit for them. You can make yourself visible when you achieve clarity.

The Create Your Private Practice class helps you make a road map, to get to the practice you want.

With new understanding about learning and the brain, we can identify the exact steps you need to succeed.

Picturing your actions step-by-step propels you along, so you get things done.

A lot of success as a business owner is about knowing how to use your time and energy effectively.

Wishing you could get both “sides of your brain” to work together on your business?

Free association isn’t just for Freudians

Let your hand move the pen. Your hand contains a great deal of intelligence and is sending feedback signals to your mind as it moves along the page.New realizations occur as you view images and freely write.

If you’re imaginative and love color…

this class will even help you make sense of spreadsheets.

Using the visual part of your brain allows you to see how the pieces fit together.

The brain is constructed to perceive patterns

You will find that practice with visual material enriches your clinical work and improves your ability to arrive at surprising associations.

Using our entire brain lets us see symmetry and the underlying structure of things.

Please let me know how I can help you

Create Your private practice