If your goal is to have more energy left over after a long week, have more time to focus on your role as a person (and not just your role as a therapist & private practice creator), have your practice look more like a dream than a nightmare, and feel more confident about your decision to leave behind your 9 to 5, and start a private practice, then pull up a seat & get comfy!
As medical social worker turned private practice creator, I took all the skills that I learned from years of rockin' & rollin' around hospital systems, seeing 100s of patients per week, effectively building rapport in 15-20 minutes, all while while providing them high-quality care, and applied those same clinical skills into my solo private practice to build a thriving private practice that nurtures me, as much as it nurtures others.
Once I started feeling the impact of career burnout, I set my sights towards having a lifestyle that aligned with what I was teaching my patients to do. At the time, I thought I was walking away from my career, but I soon realized that private practice was the answer, that to my amazement helped me not only recover from the impact that years of burnout and embrace a life that was filled with financial freedom, scheduling flexibility, and the ability to infuse my values into my work, just as I did before.