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May 7, 2018

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. We are human beings who can now present ourselves as whole people, with authenticity, purpose, and connection. Especially now, when therapists must develop a personal brand to market their practices.

To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

Interview with Uriah Guilford, MFT

Uriah Guilford is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, the owner of Guilford Family Counseling and the mastermind behind The Productive Therapist, a business that provides virtual assistants to therapy practice owners. He is a technology enthusiast, productivity nerd and a pretty rad drummer. Uriah is always searching for creative ways to provide counseling to youth and families as well as help therapists to get more done, while working less.

You can learn more about Uriah’s businesses here: www.productivetherapist.com and www.guilfordfamilycounseling.com

In this episode we talk about:

  • Improving efficiency through automation, delegation, and elimination
  • Differences between an in-person versus a virtual assistant
  • Managing Virtual Assistants (VAs) using technology
  • What therapists should delegate first
  • What to look for in a VA (qualities of successful VAs)
  • What skills to require and what you can train on
  • How to make the transition into delegating to a VA
  • The productivity dip that can happen when you hire someone
  • The issues and the best practices in adding a team member
  • Becoming efficient with templates and processes
  • Getting really good at delegating
  • What we should be doing – working on the business, CEO strategic thinking, client care

Resources mentioned:

We’ve pulled together any resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.

Uriah’s new Virtual Assistant company: The Productive Therapist – mention the podcast to get 2 hours of free VA services

Zoom Video Conferencing

SimplePractice

todoist

Quip.com

Trello

Asana

Google Docs

Useloom.com

Alexa/Amazon Echo

 

Our events:

The Brand Called “You”: Legal and Ethical Issues in Developing Your Personal Brand

The Therapy Reimagined Conference in Los Angeles in October 2018!!

Who we are:

Curt Widhalm is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is a Board Member at Large for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, a Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Faculty at Pepperdine University, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more about Curt at www.curtwidhalm.com.

Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant. As a helping professional for two decades, she’s navigated the ups and downs of our unique line of work. She’s run her own solo therapy practice, designed innovative clinical programs, built and managed large, thriving teams of service providers, and consulted hundreds of helping professionals on how to build meaningful AND sustainable practices. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more about Katie at www.katievernoy.com.

A Quick Note:

Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it.

Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.

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Credits:

Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/

Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/