In-Service Entrepreneurship
Amity Cooper
Wayshower | Mental Health Coach | I help seasoned Founders, Executives, & Entrepreneurs detach their self-worth from their net worth & emerge from a sudden moment of crisis perfectly poised | Free Clarity call ??
Subject: #1 Lesson for Anyone Hoping to Have a Successful Clinical Practice
When you imagine owning a mental health practice, does the word ‘entrepreneurship’ seem jarring? Let me give you a new word to replace it with: therapreneur.
The simple fact is that if you own your own practice, you are a business owner. For some reason, it is so easy for clinicians to imagine owning their own practice. Yet, for all the dreaming of a perfect practice, the control over being able to direct how you practice, and a strong desire to help so many people, the mental health provider struggles to call themselves entrepreneurial. They don’t like to look at people’s pain as something to capitalize on.
This is where people have it backwards. You don’t seek to make money off of the misfortune of others. You seek to stay in business to offer support to the people you can help. In order to do that, you need to recognize that without money, you have no vehicle to offer that help.?
The world needs you. The best way to be in-service is to be in business, and the best business I can think of is one of service.
Unfortunately, our exemplary education in how to treat clients never covered even the basics of business - at least for most of us.?
This is what I hope to change. After more than 15 years of being a successful entrepreneur in the world outside of mental health, I went back to get my Masters in counseling. As I sat in the classroom, the lack of education and awareness in this area was blinding.
That’s how and why I created C3. That’s how I went from entrepreneur to therapreneur.?
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In 2020, I celebrated the inaugural year of Virtually Unlimited: The Healing Entrepreneurship Summit. Hosting 16 guest experts on tips on incorporating technology into your practice, strategies to help grow and improve your practice, and understanding the client journey, it is exciting to see the changing landscape of the mental health frontier. We are all the pioneers of modern day, finding new ways to connect and serve.
We each bring our own unique flair. What will being a therapreneur look like in your life?
Never forget that with an open mind and an open heart, you are virtually unlimited.
To your clinical success,
Amity Cooper
Clinical Career Collective, Founder