What happened when I stopped seeing clients for therapy? How to evolve a business in adversity 

Welcome to the Business of Psychology podcast. Today is a bit of a different episode for me because I wanted to be honest with you about some decisions that I've made recently that are really personal, but that resonate a lot with decisions that I help some of my coaching clients to make, because it's rare that we go into private practice without some complicating factors happening in our lives.

Full show notes for this episode are available at The Business of Psychology

Episode Links:

Episode 19: How psychologists and therapists can use an ideal client avatar to co create and market their services

Episode 103: Why you should specialise – old gold that is still important

Episode 128: Who are you helping? Three ways to specialise your psychology or therapy practice

Episode 152: Thinking differently about your practice: A tool to put the client first

Links for Rosie:

Substack: substack.com/@drrosie

Rosie on Instagram:

@rosiegilderthorp

@thepregnancypsychologist

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What happened when I stopped seeing clients for therapy? How to evolve a business in adversity

I've spoken a bit here, and a lot more on my substack, about how I originally went into independent practice really because my children have additional needs. I wasn't aware of that at the time; all I knew was that nursery didn't work and that we didn't have other childcare options available to us. But looking back, nursery didn't work for the same reasons that school is very challenging now. And that was the beginning of me having to learn to evolve and adapt and be a clinical psychologist in a different way, and that's been very much the purpose of my business and what I love to help other people do too. So it