Do You Have Trouble Saying “No” to Yourself and Others as a Business Owner?
Are you a business owner who has a hard time saying “no” to anyone let alone yourself? If you are, then fear no more. …
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Specialization: Is it Necessary?
I remember the first time I saw the letters ABPP after the Ph.D. of one of my supervisor’s names in graduate school. When I…
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Hiring Your First Clinician, Part 2
This is the second blog in the Hiring Your First Clinician series, for Part 1 Click Here. By now you’ve set up a timeline…
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How To Be More Productive By Working Less
So you want to be more productive and work fewer hours. That’s awesome! Let’s figure out how to do this. I’m going to share…
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How to Tell Your Boss You Want to Work Less Hours
So how do you tell your boss you want to work less hours? Well, it might just be that you want to work less…
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Why We Should Work Less
When you are working hard, maybe getting into a flow state, or even under stress many of these feel good chemicals are released. So…
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How to Work From Home
Do you ever wonder how people successfully work from home? Whether it’s a pandemic or you just want to work from home. How do…
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Why Haven’t You Started Your Private Practice?
There are some of you who have held close the dream of one day having your own private practice. For some, the dream has…
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Hiring Your First Clinician, Part 1
All right! You’re ready to get moving on hiring your first clinician! But, how do you start? If you’ve never hired anyone before, this…
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3 Friday Myths, Debunked in 3 Minutes
I’m going to get down to it right away, there are some myths about Friday that we have to undo. To save you time,…
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The Podcast Network Monthly Roundup: July 2020
Did you know that we have a podcast network? This is a family of podcasts that will change the world! We’ve round up our…
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Monthly Roundup Of Posts: July 2020
The summer months are nearing an end and it seems states are beginning to reopen. Sadly, Slow Down School was canceled, but we hope…
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“What Is Required To Call Myself a Christian Counselor?”
“What is required to call myself a Christian counselor?” is one of the most common questions I hear as a consultant. People often wonder…
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The Podcast Network Monthly Roundup: June 2020
Did you know that we have a podcast network? This is a family of podcasts that will change the world! We’ve round up our…
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Monthly Roundup Of Posts: June 2020
There is so much going on in the world right now and we are hopeful that wherever you are, you are safe, healthy, and…
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Why Boundaries Help You Get More Done
Imagine on Monday you have a list of 20 things to get done this week. You get 10 done and 15 more get added…
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When Do I Work Best?
Have you ever asked yourself when do I work best? Take a moment and think about it. When do you get into a flow, …
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How Much Do Therapists Make?
Private practice therapist salary To earn six figures in private practice, your gross revenue should be at least 30% more than your goal. Divide…
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Monthly Roundup Of Posts: May 2020
And just like that, we have hit the halfway mark to 2020! Its definitely been the most unpredictable, life-changing year and we have had…
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The Podcast Network Monthly Roundup: May 2020
Did you know that we have a podcast network? This is a family of podcasts that will change the world! We’ve round up our…
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5 Ways I Have Kept A Full Caseload During The COVID-19 Pandemic
The idea of maintaining a practice during a pandemic may seem like an oxymoron right? COVID-19 has been a deathblow to many businesses, but…
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Monthly Roundup Of Posts: April 2020
The world as we know it has changed and with that, so have our businesses. We hope that you are finding some inspiration during…
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The Podcast Network Monthly Roundup: April 2020
Did you know that we have a podcast network? This is a family of podcasts that will change the world! We’ve round up our…
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Search Engine Optimization: The First 3 Steps
Here we will cover the first 3 steps that you should be taking if you want to get your website found by more potential…
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What’s Working in Private Practice?
Have you started or are thinking about starting your own private practice? Are you looking to be surrounded by like-minded people who you can…
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5 Myths That Are Keeping You From Innovation in Your Private Practice with Daniel Fava | PoP 440
Do you really have to wear all the hats in your business? When do you get more done? What can you do to ensure…
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Start a Group Practice with Alison Pidgeon and Whitney Owens | PoP 439
Are you wondering whether to start a group practice? What does it entail and does it fit into the vision you have for your…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: January 2020
It’s 2020, welcome! Can you believe that we are already at the end of the first month of the year! We hope that your…
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LaToya Smith Started a Group Practice and a Big Idea | PoP 428
Are you sitting on a big idea but are not sure how to get started? How can you go from starting a private practice…
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Book Of The Month For Your Private Practice
If you’re looking for recommended books on private practice there is one that is a game-changer for private practice. It’s ‘The One Thing’ by Gary Keller.
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Fraud, Audits and Not Screwing Over Your Business 3 of 5 with Jeremy Zug | PoP 404
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks with Jeremy Zug all about fraud, audits and what to do to prepare and be equipped to meet the legal requirements.
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Contacting old clients – yes or no?
Contacting old clients, or to clients who may have canceed at the last minute and not rescheduled, really is a great idea, here’s why.
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How to Attract Ideal Clients & Build Your Online Counseling Caseload
In this article, we share 3 marketing strategies for online couseling that will help you stop worrying and start doing what you love; helping others.
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Jonathan Levi Wants You to Be Super Human and to Launch More Courses | PoP 400
Can you enhance your memory? What are some of the basics of understanding online learning? How do you launch a course?
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Finding a Home: Five things to Look for When Choosing a Practice Location
Private practice owners must consider having the optimal location that’s suited for both their needs and the populations they serve.
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Month Three: Trending Upward After the First Quarter
What does it look like three months into owning your own practice? There’s a lot of wins and you’re tasked with turning advancements into positive outcomes.
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Be a Game Changer in Your Town
You can call it marketing, advertising, the perception of it is clear: you’re a professional providing “ah-ha” moments of your work for others to digest.
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Colleagues not Competitors: Building Professional Relationships with Your Peers
Being in private practice often means you miss colleague relationships. Networking and establishing relationships with those in your field is important too.
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Setting up expectations for when you hire a biller
If your business is growing, it’s time to get some help. It’s a good problem to have, but it’s okay to feel scared about trusting someone else with your billing.
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How to Start a Private Practice in One Day (almost $200)
UPDATE (06/28/18): When we created this video, Grasshopper was $12/month but now their cheapest plan is $29. Also, Grasshopper will not sign a BAA…
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3 Key Tips to Up Your Game as an Online Therapist
Being an online therapist can be a very rewarding career. With this freedom comes the responsibility of continually looking for ways to up our game.
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The Secret About Your Ideal Caseload
How Many Clients Should You See Per Day In Private Practice? Are you trying to figure out how many people you need to see…
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Q&A: How to Generate Leads, Business Location, & Marketing Events Ideas
What’s the fastest way to generate leads for a new clinician? 1099 is only being contracted for work Your goal is for the community…
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Q&A: Business Location, Student Loan Debt, & Marketing Management
How to choose the right location for your practice Proximity to competitors, corner to be seen from multiple directions, stand-alone is the best Private…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: July 2019
We hope your July was filled with some amazing progress, that you reached some goals but that you also managed to take some time…
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5 Common Challenges to Growing Clinically as a Therapist in Private Practice
“Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water” Jean-Baptiste de La Salle As…
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Ask Kelly Higdon: What are Some Marketing Ideas for Private Practice?
Where does content creation fit in? When you’re first starting out, focus on your website and blogging (minimum of twice a month) Social media…
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Ask Kelly Higdon: How do You Master Client Profiling and Client Acquisition?
Focusing on getting ideal client versus the pressure of needing to fill up your schedule Better to attract your ideal client from the beginning,…
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Ask Kelly Higdon: What are the Mistakes/Successes when Starting a Counseling Practice?
Common Mistakes Counselors Make When Starting/Growing A Private Practice Not building your business around the life you want Not facing fears related to ideal…
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How to Market Your Private Practice
You’re getting trained in the Gottman Method, maybe you’ve completed Level 1 or Level 2. You’re excited about getting more clients, but the phone…
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Creating Your Ideal Client Avatar
You want to work with more of your ideal clients, right? That’s awesome, but who are they? Who is your ideal client? What is…
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Where to Spend Your Time in Your Counseling Practice
How do you spend your time in your private practice? Where do you put your time in? What is the most effective use of…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: May 2019
How is it possible that we are already halfway through the year?! Time sure does fly when you’re having fun. May was jam-packed with…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: April 2019
April has flown by in the blink of an eye. And as usual, it has been jam-packed. On the podcast, we had a series…
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Buying A Private Practice
Most people are not in the market to buy a private counseling practice. Most people are not having a casual conversation about the possibility…
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10 Ways to Get Your Name Out There
Over the course of watching some of the greats in private practice operate, I’ve concluded that they stick out because they aren’t following the…
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How to Master the Innovation Process
Why do you want to innovate? When people want to innovate, we want to look at the reason why. Why do you want to…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: February 2019
2019 is showing no sign of slowing down! February was jam-packed and we covered some great topics such as how to create recurring revenue…
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How to Spark Your Innovation and Creativity
If you really think about it, where and when do our big ideas start? It’s usually when we’ve slowed down. Maybe when you’re in…
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Stop Asking People to be Your Mentor and Try This Instead
I never considered myself having a mentor until I graduated from high school; I was part of a growing non-profit and this person I…
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How to Slow Down to Spark Innovation
In this 4 part series we’re going to talk all about: How to slow down How to make it a priority Why it matters…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: January 2019
And just like that January is wrapped up! 2019 certainly started off with a bang. Some phenomenal guests were featured on the podcast and…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: December 2018
In the month of December we looked at social media and blogging for your practice, how to handle sales negotiations and first steps to…
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Setting Up Systems For Your Practice – For Beginners
Something that has helped me in my practice is implementing a few systems for when a potential client calls or emails me for a…
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First Steps to Get a Website Up For Your Private Practice
Creating a well designed website for your private practice is very important in marketing your practice online. It is the business card and face…
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Allan Dib Has a One Page Marketing Plan for You | PoP 344
Struggling to identify your target market or craft the perfect marketing message? Maybe you’ve already done this but you’re not sure how to capture…
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A Formula for Success that Actually Works
You’ve heard the pitch before: “Do you want to be successful? Are you tired of living a mediocre life and are feeling stuck? Well,…
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Reflection and Growth
Where do you need to stretch? I was recently having a discussion with a group of people about what their “growth edge” was from…
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Self Doubt and Starting a Private Practice
The decision to start a private practice can be an anxiety ridden one for most therapists. Many therapists come to me saying things like,…
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Juggling Family Time and Building a Practice
As I have begun to build my practice this past year, something that is clear, and I’m sure resonates with everyone here, is the…
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The 4 Most Important Things I Learned While Starting My Private Practice
Truth be told, I never really considered opening up my own private practice. It was always an interest of mine to work in a…
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Jaime Masters is an Eventual Millionaire [reverse podcast] | PoP 342
Are you starting, growing or scaling your practice? Are you a specialist or a generalist? Do you know how important it is to slow…
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Busting Myths About Starting in a Private Practice While Pre-Licensed
In talking with numerous pre- and provisionally-licensed clinicians, I’ve found there are several misconceptions about getting into a private practice while being pre-licensed. These…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: November 2018
In the month of November we tackled topics such as how to market yourself as a consultant, how to run an online counseling practice…
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Richard Chapo is an Internet Lawyer and You’re Doing Some Things Wrong | PoP 340
Do you have an attorney who understands business law in your state? Do you have safeguards in place to protect yourself online? Have you…
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It’s Never Too Early to Begin Private Practice
Graduate school, a place I never thought I’d end up in my lifetime. But here I am in the last 6 months of my…
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Get Exposure for Your Practice Through In-Person Networking Events
A great way to increase the visibility of your practice and increase your clients is by networking. This can be carried out either in-person…
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It’s All About Relationships: Networking Locally to Build a Client Referral Base
Starting a private practice is exciting! It can also be daunting, overwhelming and exhausting. The concept is simple: rent a space, hold therapy sessions…
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How To Promote Your Business On A Small Budget
One of the greatest challenges that startups and small business owners face is a low marketing budget. Even when you don’t have funds for…
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5 Things to Accomplish Before Beginning Your Online Counseling Practice
Are you thinking about starting your own online private practice? Are you feeling nervous or uncertain about how best to get started? Not sure…
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A Step-by-Step Guide Through The Consulting Process
Assuming you have an email list, you have some sort of inbound marketing, you’ve grown a specialty and an audience, now it’s time to…
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What Manufacturing Companies Can Teach Private Practice Owners
I became accustomed to living in gray, both in my worldview and in my professional life. Then I was hired as an independent contractor…
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Katie Englert Started Practikat | PoP 337
Are you starting or growing your private practice? Struggling to find resources for your practice all over the web? Have you ever heard of…
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How To Set Your Consulting Fees
One of the biggest questions that I get asked is ‘how do I set my fees for consulting?’ What Are You Already Making? If…
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Christopher Lochhead On Living A Legendary Life | PoP 336
Are you living a legendary life? What sort of entrepreneur are you? Are you designing your own life? In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok…
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Caring And Compassion Fatigue
There I was, having the same kinds of nightmares I ask my clients about. A week before, I had just witnessed my client in…
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Christopher Lochhead Wants You To Be a Small “E” Entrepreneur And He Hates Pickles | PoP 335
As an entrepreneur, do you focus on the problem or the solution? Do you think that being ‘different’ is a negative thing? What sets…
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Christopher Lochhead Wants Your Practice to Niche Down | PoP 334
How familiar are you with the term ‘niche’? How do you differentiate your business or the way you run it? Do you believe in…
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Instagram Stories And Highlights: How You Can Use Them To Showcase Your Practice
I love using Instagram stories to share information about my practice and my services. I want to share a small breakdown of how I…
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It’s A Marathon, Not A Sprint: The Reason Why Energy Conservation Is Important
Making the decision to go into private practice is an anxiety inducing endeavor. In my experience consulting with a number of therapists over the…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: October 2018
In the month of October we had a diversity of articles talking about how to decorate your office with purpose to using a virtual…
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How to Run an Online Counseling Practice
Are you wanting to get involved in online counseling? Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a…
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The Unplanned Day Of Networking
Some people may consider networking to be a necessary evil in the professional world. It doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Occasionally opportunities…
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Quick Tips For Networking
When I volunteered to write blog posts for another therapist’s page, I was excited. I like being able to connect with new people and…
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3 Ways To Get Paid More Without Working Harder
“How to I get paid more?” is a question that I am asked on a weekly basis by clinicians from all over the country….
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Why Linking Your Social Media Posts To Your Blog Is Important
We have all heard it before, the importance to blog! Blogging is a way to easily share your expertise and a way to help…
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How to Attract Adolescents as Your Ideal Client
Is your ideal client adolescents? Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video,…
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An Abundance Mentality And Your Ideal Client
Have you ever talked to your clients about the difference between a scarcity consciousness and an abundance mentality? Here’s the example that I use…
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Decorating Your Private Office With Purpose
First impressions are everything! This is important to remember when planning to decorate your office. You don’t have to have a degree in interior…
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6 Reasons To Add Online Counseling To Your Practice
Have you been thinking about adding online counseling to your in-person practice? Or are you looking to start your own practice and are thinking…
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