Any time I talk to someone currently working in public health, one of the main selling points is freedom. Working at a public health agency often means that you’re working demanding hours – 12 hours in a row, sometimes on weekends, often without a day off. Even those working during traditional 9 to 5 business hours are often working in oppressive conditions with limited to no days off.
Launching a therapy practice offers a very real alternative. It offers FREEDOM. It offers the ability to work at YOUR pace on YOUR schedule, so that you can have a better work/life balance – all while making more money in the process.
Still, many aspiring therapists make one mistake – they assume that freedom means a 9 to 5, Monday to Friday schedule. That may not be the case.
What is YOUR Dream?
Remember, the benefit of launching a practice is that you are able to set your own schedule. No one can overwork you, no one can set the schedule for you.
Since it’s your schedule, that also means that it can be a schedule that works for you. And that might not be 9 to 5.
Maybe you’re a morning person. Maybe you want to start your days at 7am so that you can be off at 3pm. You can do that. It’s your business.
Maybe you’re a night person. Maybe you want to start work at 11pm and finish at 7pm. That’s something you can do as a therapist.
But there’s more.
What if you want to have freedom during the day, when the kids are in school, to go hiking or spend time with a spouse? What if your spouse works weekends and you want to be able to spend their days off with them on weekdays?
As a therapist, your availability can eventually be anything you want:
- You can work Sundays, Tuesday, and Thursdays.
- You can work 9am to 12pm, then take a 5 hour break, then work 5pm to 8pm.
- You can work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, because right now money is more important than time.
Freedom doesn’t mean that you work a generic but less demanding schedule. It means that you’re working when you want to work – as little or as much as you like.
Freedom means setting your schedule to be what you want it to be, and while there may be some factors involved like when clients are awake/available, and/or how much money you need to manage your practice, you are otherwise unshackled from the burdens of a traditional schedule. Maybe you find that 9 to 5 is right for you, maybe you don’t, but what matters is that it’s your choice, and any schedule that you choose to have is your schedule to make.
Want to experience that freedom? Want to see what it’s like to be your own boss?
Schedule with me today.