How Do Therapists Know When It’s Time to Retire? Saying Goodbye to the Work You Love.

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by Lynn Grodzki and Margaret Wehrenberg, Psychotherapy Networker Magazine, Jan 2023 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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Private Practice Success with Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC

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…

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Shopping 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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Translating Coaching Into Therapy

The Benefits and the Boundaries as published in The Psychotherapy Networker Magazine July/August 2018 Imagine you’re learning to ride a bike and you’ve asked two people to help: a therapist and a coach. The therapist might stand off to the side, closely observing your attempt to stay upright. She’d be empathic, compassionate when you fall, and give…

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