32: Does Scaling Your Therapy Private Practice Mean You're Selling Out?
Description
You finally start creating a business that feels good in your body.
A group program that works.
A bit more breathing space in your calendar.
Profit that doesn’t rely on you being constantly available.
And then the voice creeps in:
Am I abandoning the work?
Am I betraying my peers who are still in the trenches?
Is it okay to want more — when so many are just barely getting by?
In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on a question so many of us carry quietly:
Does building a business that gives me more time, more space, more freedom... mean I’m betraying the therapy industry?
We talk about:
- The hidden grief behind growing your practice in a crumbling system
- Why “depletion” has been confused with “dedication” — and what that’s really costing us
- What came up in our biggest-ever masterclass (300+ therapists!) and why so many resonated with this exact guilt
- My own experience launching Empowered Emotions, and the fear I had of making money without 1:1 therapy
- What therapists need now — not just to survive, but to stay
This one’s for the therapist who still loves the work… but knows something has to shift.
Reflection prompts inside the episode:
- Where have you confused depletion with dedication?
- Where are you still proving you care by staying at overcapacity?
- What version of your business would let you stay in this work longer?
Because wanting more isn’t betrayal.
It’s how you stay.
Resources & Links:
→ Replay the free masterclass: The Scalable Therapist Offer™
→ Join The Freedom Therapist Club: Enrolments are now open for the rest of 2025. This is where we rebuild your practice in a way that holds you too. Learn more + join we are currently 80% FULL for 2025
→ Come say hi or share what landed: @miapoko
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