Thanks!!!

Thanks for the video – it is a great reminder that encourages all of us to explore off web marketing ideas.

I so agree that mixing it up with community presentations is a great way to broaden reff sources. Last year I created and copyrighted a workshop that I call “From Fairy tales to Face Lifts: Learning to Love the Image in the Mirror” I conduct this 2 hour workshop at local yoga studios, salons and spas in the Pasadena area. This was very effective in broadening my client base. So much so, that I began receiving requests from clients to start a women’s group! This led to my women’s weekly therapy group called H.E.A.R.T. [Heal, Encourage, Accept, Restore, Trust] for women whose spouse is addicted to sex and pornography [I am a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist as well as an LMFT]. From this group, I then formed a men’s therapy group called S.R.S [Sexual Recovery Support] that meets weekly. And from both of these groups, I formed a weekly couples therapy group [S.T.A.R. which is an acronym for Strengthen, Trust, Acknowledge, Repair] as a support for couples who are recovering from sex and love addiction. All of this ’sprouted’ from my workshops in the community. My income increased by $2,205 just from starting these 3 weekly groups.

This year, I created a new workshop that I copyrighted called, “From Tantrums to Tiaras: Talking Tools that will help Tame your Temper” This dovetails nicely into my other certification in Domestic Violence and anger mgt. Thus, I am gearing this toward women dealing with transition [young moms, burned out working women, divorcing women, and hormonal women dealing with menopause] and women with anger issues that are a result of unresolved trauma and grief. I am rolling this workshop out in March and anticipate good things to spring out of this idea.

I think the most validating thing for me beyond the additional income and clients, is seeing the growth and healing that occurs with my clients each week in my practice. That is extremely gratifying for me as a therapist.

Finally, the other really exciting validation is that from these two simple workshops that sprung out of my passion, I was recently approached about writing 2 books based on these copyrighted concepts! Whoo hooo! And, I have been asked to post on blogs, and participate in pod cast interviews…and so the story continues.

I truly encourage any therapist out there to create a workshop that comes directly from your passion, and then begin to shop it around. It can be a fun and interesting way to get out of the therapy room and into the community! Not only has my client base and reff sources increased 10 fold, my high fee is being met more and more. I am not someone who loves to speak in public, so I had to find a comfort zone and a topic that felt exciting and natural to me. And from one little idea that I loved, look at all that has developed

So good luck to everyone – if I can do it – so can you!

Thanks for all you do to support this discipline Casey – I sure appreciate you!

Kindly,
Mari A. Lee, MA, LMFT, CSAT
818-521-4370
marileetherapy@yahoo.com
http://www.marileetherapy.com

Congrats on getting out into the community with your program. I love it that you are telling everyone about it!