Rebel Therapist

Before I share the replay of this open coaching call I want to tell you…

Wednesday, April 2nd is the last day to sign up for Create Your Program in 2025.

Do you have a sense of what having your own course or program could do for your career?

If you’ve been sitting on an idea for a while, I want to invite you to create your program with me.

This is the process where you take your incredible strengths as a therapist or healer and you create a signature program so that you can serve more people, make more money, and get your best ideas out of your head and into a unique container you’ll be able to offer over and over.

We go through an 11 week process together step by step so that you are actually launching your program during our time together with my support.

I ran a free and open coaching call recently for everyone in our audience, including clients and listeners.

We had such great questions that I decided to share the recording with you.

Here are some of the questions I answered and expanded on:

• Can I create my first program with minimal tech?
• How can I carve out time to work on my program when I’ve got a full private practice?
• I have a few ideas for programs. How can I choose one?
• Is it best to wait to do CYP until I have a fully formed program idea, or do plenty of people figure it out along the way?
• How do you support therapists like me who are constantly taking courses and never creating?
• How far in advance of my course should I start promoting it?
• I sometimes think “I have no good ideas.” How do I get past this and tap into an offer I feel clear and confident about?
• How do you support therapists in being visible. I’m worried how my therapy clients might react if I share more of my personal story in a newsletter.
• With the economy quickly changing, how do we factor that in as we choose which program to create?

Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/243

Got shame? When shame shows up, it’s overwhelming and contagious. My guest has created a process to help therapists transform shame with their clients.

You’re about to hear how she created her program, how her process works, and how she transformed her own shame in the process of building her business.

Tatra De La Rosa is a therapist and educator with a private practice in Northern California where she provides supervision and training to associate therapists, and teaches graduate students on the path to becoming therapists. She’s been working with clients in her private practice to heal shame at its source and is passionate about teaching other therapists how they can learn to do so as well.

She’s also a recent grad of Create Your Program.

Here's some of what we talked about:

• Why we get frustrated when we work with shame protectors
• How shame gets activated in the therapist, a.k.a. “I’m a terrible therapist!” or imposter syndrome
• Why shame is actually a misunderstanding
• The and modules of her program and how she teaches it
• Using a recorded session of her work as well as live group coaching to teach participants the method
• How she filled her pilot program

Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/242

Sometimes you have to unexpectedly step away from your business.

When you return, it’s really helpful to have a program you’ve created that you can dive back into.

Having your own program separate from your private practice gives you a way to serve people and make money from anywhere, and you don’t lose that branch of your business, even if you move to a different part of the world.

That’s the story of this week’s guest.

Kate Ahl is a therapist and coach with over 20 years' experience of working with writers, researchers and academics, in the UK and the US. For many years she was an in-house therapist for faculty and staff at Cambridge University and in her private practice she continues to serve people who live by their brains, struggling with perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and creative block.

She’s also a grad of Create Your Program and Rebel Therapist Marketing Intensive.

Here's some of what we talked about:

• Helping people with restless, problem solving minds
• The challenges and fun parts of working with extremely brainy humans
• Diving back into her program after months away because of life issues AND a transatlantic move
• Her feeling of relief that her program was ready for her to pick up and run again
• Returning to the container and structure she learned in Rebel Therapist programs so she could stay out of overwhelm in her business
• Dripping curriculum out little by little so that participants don’t get overwhelmed
• Offering asynchronous as well as live coaching during her program
• How she’s marketing her program using content and guesting on podcasts

Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/241

Pivoting to work beyond private practice usually means getting more visible. And getting more visible can bring up a lot of vulnerability for people, especially people who are therapists.

Today’s guest is putting himself out there in new ways, and finding that while he grows his audience, he also finds there’s a way it is contributing to his own healing.

Jose Aleman is a therapist-turned-coach with over 20 years of experience. As the creator of Loving Your Awkward Self, Jose offers confidence-boosting content tailored to queer, first-generation, and BIPOC individuals, while welcoming all. Passionate about authenticity and safe spaces, Jose is dedicated to helping people embrace their true selves and grow.

Here's some of what we talked about:

• Creating “Loving Your Awkward Self” Reels as a resource to reach people in an accessible way AND to work on his own healing by being seen
• Working with people who tend to shut down emotionally, particularly BIPoC, first gen and queer folks
• Creating a group for queer, BIPoC men about increasing confidence
• Jose’s step-by-step posting process
• Annie’s advice about repurposing content
• Honing the skill of grabbing people’s attention quickly (a necessity for social media)
• How he chooses his topics for posts
• Annie’s suggestions for growing his audience

Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/240

Here’s a really cool idea: create a program that helps your write your book.

When you create a program you get to take your best ideas, turn them into a clear process, AND help a group of people in real time. You get feedback and make adjustments along the way so that your process gets even better.

Then you write your book knowing that you’re writing something that really helps people.

Both your program and your book allow you to help more people and get known for your work.

That’s what today’s guest, Dr. Christen Mullane has been up to.

She’s a clinical psychologist and certified meditation teacher. She is the owner of Ginkgo Leaf Health Services, a psychotherapy practice aimed at providing services for those who have experienced medical stress and trauma. She offers a therapy program called RISE, which specifically focuses on trauma-informed mindfulness within this population.

She’s also the author of Medical Stress & Trauma.

I’m proud to say that she’s a grad of Create Your Program.

Here's some of what we talked about on this week’s podcast episode:

• The process Christen went through to publish her workbook and create her group program
• How running her program is different from her therapy sessions
• How she brought a trauma informed lens to her program and her book
• Annie and Christen’s young parts showing up when they get more visible
• How Christen finds safe spaces to get honest, actionable feedback
• The lightbulb moment when Christen realized she needed to work in a new way
• Finding the uniqueness of her message while giving credit to all of her sources
• How she got participants for her program through networking, list building and SEO

Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/239