A therapist argues that charging premium rates doesn't compromise your integrity or care for clients. The idea that good helpers must choose between earning money and helping people is false, she says. Therapists can build successful, high-earning practices while genuinely prioritizing client needs.
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literally to put our clients' needs first always. We were in programs where the message, spoken or unspoken, was doing this work is a calling, which I do believe it is. Not everybody gets this calling, and people who have callings, they're just supposed to heal and don't charge premium rates. Callings don't market themselves. Callings certainly don't build 7-figure businesses. And it's all a load of BS. I don't use brainwashed lightly, but I believe that we were taught that somehow making money is bad. Somehow wanting to make money means we're not a good helper. We're trying to capitalize on people's pains. There could be nothing further from the truth. It's like This either or that it has to be you either care about people or you care about making a profit, but not both. Gosh, you couldn't care about both at the same time. Like BS, both can exist at the same time.