Radical Practice Podcast

We'll take a few months off, then return in late January/early February 2024. Looking forward to seeing you then! 

It's been such an honor to record 20 episodes to share with you! Thank you for being here, thank you for listening, and thank you for all of the great feedback. We love recording Radical Practice. 

In this episode, we discuss your business mindset, and the following: 

• How your values can disrupt business culture
• How to get the word out about your business
• The value of re-visiting your vision
• The importance of having people to hold our vision for us
• Writing a future letter to yourself
• Power in our businesses
• How to utilize the elevator pitch

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

We loved this conversation with Fara Tucker!

In this episode, you'll hear us discuss: 

• How Fara got into the social work field
• The decision to take insurance or do private pay
• How to build generosity and accessibility into your private practice
• The difficult decision Fara had to make in her private practice
• What came *after* private practice

Resources: 

Fara's touching Instagram account.

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this episode, we talk about: 

• Healing through business ownership
• The importance of finding a business mentor
• Trusting your gut
• How perfectionism shows up
• How to motivate yourself
• What to do when you're stuck
• What white supremacy culture has to do with business development
• How we downplay our skills

Resources: 

SCORE Mentors through the Small Business Administration

Gretchen Rubin and the Four Tendencies

Anna Caitlin photography

Lisa Congdon

Meenadchi and Meenadchi's website

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this episode we talk about: 

• The blueprint of your business
• Knowing your business ecosystem (and what we mean by that)
• Why you should do a dress rehearsal of your business before opening up shop
• How your values show up in your business processes and procedures
• How we create safety and a trauma-informed business system
• Why you need an owner's manual
• How an intentional business = a more anti-oppressive business
• How to solidly screen in/out clients

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

Thank you to David Frank for joining us! 

In this episode, we talk about: 

• Why therapists need financial planners
• The typical financial challenges therapists have
• The importance of not replicating financial systems of oppression
• 3 things to do with your money in the first few years of private practice
• How to create community with money
• What the financial essentials are for therapists

Resources: 

Klontz Money Scripts Assessment

The Private Practice 101 Resource

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this episode, we talk: 

• Having a business bank account
• Keeping business expesnes separate from personal expenses
• Money tracking methods
• How to set aside money for taxes
• How to handle tax preparation
• Which deductions to make sure you capture
• The importance of paying attention to money wounds/trauma

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

So much fun talking about money and setting fees. In this episode, we discuss: 

• values around money
• how to set fees
• when to increase your rates
• taking insurance vs. private pay
• how to set a sliding scale (and do you need one?)
• what resentment tells us about money
• the option of running groups to increase your hourly rate
• the importance of paying your rent

Resources: 

Open Path Collective

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

We loved this interview with Makinie Fortino, which included: 

• The advice Makinie's mother gave her
• How she views imposter syndrome
• An overview of Deconstructing the Mental Health System
• How Makinie has figured out how to provide services and address systemic change
• The importance of addressing inequities through community
• How Makinie started a non-profit

Resources: 

Watch the video of this episode here. 

Learn more about Makinie Fortino!

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this episode we talk about your about page on your website, and self-disclosure in general. Specifically, we look at self-disclosure through the lens of the radical practice model, which involves the elements of vision, community, systemic change and embodied relationships.

Our conversation includes: 

• how to share about your privileged and marginalized identities
• whether or not to disclose your political leanings
• the value of a land acknowledgement
• making your about page about your clients
• which personal things to share
• what *not* to share
• how to do repairs around self-disclosure
• what power-sharing can look like

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this episode we cover: 

• The paperwork you need for your private practice
• The hardware and software you need 
• Some *basics* around HIPAA
• What needs to go in your informed consent
• How white supremacy culture can show up in your paperwork and therapy
• Creating transparency in your paperwork

Resources: 

Me & White Supremacy by Layla Saad

Dee Watts-Jones and locations of self. 

Person-Centered Tech

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

We loved this conversation with Kat! 

In it you'll hear: 

• Why Kat is so passionate about working with therapists
• Kat's unconventional road to marketing and copywriting
• How to make the content on your website really connect with your clients
• How your skills around empathy make you a great copywriter
• What to do with internal blocks around writing
• How to show up as your authentic self as a copywriter
• What the heck are sales and do we have to do them?! 
• How to develop trust with your readers

Resources: 

Find Kat here, here and on Facebook here! 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

What are some concrete strategies for marketing? In this episode we talk about: 

• Choosing your marketing values
• Centering your marketing around authenticity
• Finding your voice in your marketing
• How to market for private pay
• Finding niche-specific directories
• Spending time on creating personable referral channels
• Which social media channels we use
• How to network
• Decolonizing your marketing
• How we've marketed our private practices

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

What gets in the way of spreading the word about your beautiful private practice? Let's talk about it here! We're also going to talk about how to work through mindset barriers, including some strategies like: 

• creating community
• self-compassion
• setting aside a marketing time
• tracking your progress
• authenticity in place of being "sales-y"

Resources: 

adrienne maree brown talks Emergent Strategy and an inch wide and a mile deep. 

Ira Glass on the creative process. 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

Welcome Dr. Lisette Sanchez to the Radical Practice Podcast!!

In this episode we discuss: 

• Why Dr. Sanchez started her practice
• Finding fulfillment within the work
• Taking risks as a business owner
• Building community in order to build a practice
• Power dynamics and how she addresses hierarchy
• Advice for starting a practice
• What to do with self doubt as a BIPOC 
• What to do with fear of failure

Find Dr. Sanchez on Instagram and via her website!

Resources: 

Want to be part of the community? Join us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here. 

In this episode we go over how to set up the legal foundation for your business. This episode includes a discussion of: 

• Registering as a sole proprietorship or an LLC
• Figuring out your registered agent
• How to get an EIN
• What *our* businesses are registered as
• Which services we've paid for vs. DIY'd 
• Advice from Silvana to Black Indigenous and People of Color on interacting with larger systems
• How to handle competition
• The importance of trusting yourself as you make big legal decisions 

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Find a business mentor at SCORE. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

Before you do anything on your private practice, we invite you to join us in brainstorming your vision! A solid vision can include your values (e.g. generosity, service, freedom, liberation, creativity, freshness, etc.), a mission, service within your community, clinical excellence, and some sort of solution that addresses systemic change. 

We also talk about whether or not to have a niche, and how to make that decision. You'll learn about whether or not you need a niche, and how to determine what yours is. What are the conversations that only you can be having, and with which clients? Let's explore this together! 

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this first episode of the Radical Practice podcast we decided it would be fun to do a shorter chat and have it be a simple get-to-know-you. In this episode you'll:

• Hear a bit more about our professional backgrounds
• Learn what we didn't know about each other
• Find out what we dislike about private practice
• And see what fun things we have going on in our lives. 

Resources: 

Join the community! Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

In this interview we talk to Dr. Jennie Wang-Hall (she/her) and learn more about her radical practice. Jennie is a radical eating disorder psychologist and we love the work she does on Instagram! 

Jennie talks about her transition from academia to private practice  and how she's built a private practice where the personal is also political. Jennie focuses on unlearning modalities rooted in patriarchy and hierarchy (therapist-as-expert) and relearning healing practices that are real and authentic.

Learn more about Dr. Jennie Wang-Hall at her website or on Instagram. Thank you Jennie!! 

Resources: 

Want to be part of the community? Join us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.

We want you to start a radical practice! But what is one, anyway? And what's wrong with the traditional private practice model? Co-hosts Silvana Espinoza Lau (she/her) and Ariana Lloyd (she/they) break-down the radical practice model in this introductory episode. You'll find the elements are: 

1. community
2. embodied relationships
3. vision
4. systemic change

Our hope is that by listening to this episode (and all future episodes, because we know you'll want to ;)) you will have the pieces you need to build your own private practice. Follow along as we guide you through both the theoretical and practical pieces of owning your own radical practice. 

Resources: 

Want to be part of the community? Join us on Facebook, Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 

Feeling ready to start a private practice with anti-oppressive values? You'll find an 8-week course by Ariana here.

Already settled into a practice and ready to deepen your values? Join Silvana's Decolonize Your Practice program here. 

Thank you for being here.