Lonely at the Top with Laura Long, LMFT-S | Ep77

Laura Long is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and clinical supervisor based in Greenville, South Carolina. She is also a business coach, speaker, and the lead badass at http://YourBadAssTherapyPractice.com where she helps ambitious, Type-A therapists push through their fears and unleash their inner badass.

Laura is best known for her off-the-cuff coaching style which includes colorful language, an irreverent sense of humor, and an uncanny ability to keep it real. Through her coaching programs and in-person retreats, she helps entrepreneurial therapists to feel more aligned, connected, and intentional with their practices.

In this episode, Laura Long and Dawn Gabriel discuss how group practice owners may experience isolation as they grow and expand. With the balancing of multiple roles for group practice owners, it is important to identify and increase awareness of the intersection of all the responsibilities that one may hold at any time.

Laura shares the significance of focusing on building a sustainable business that aligns with your values and passion and how she discerns people’s intention towards group practice.

Take care of yourself and seek out a high-quality support circle to effectively manage the challenges of running a group practice. Listen now!

Episode Highlights:

  • How group practice owners may experience isolation and a lack of support
  • Balancing multiple roles for group practice owners
  • Identifying hats that a group practice owner might wear at any given time
  • How to find the emotional bandwidth to support her in a way that is most helpful and appropriate.
  • The Infinite Game book by Simon Sinek
  • About focusing on building a sustainable business that aligns with your values and passion
  • How seeking advice from other therapists in their social circle
  • How to discern people’s intention
  • Suggestions for group practice owners on how can they create the most high quality circle around them to help support them as they are leveling up
  • Importance of being intentional and discerning about who you surround yourself with in your professional circle

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