About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of the intake process on client and supervisee expectations and common mistakes therapists make.

Your intake process is doing a lot more than collecting signatures. It is shaping the expectations your clients and supervisees will carry into every interaction that follows. In this episode, I unpack some of the most common intake mistakes I see therapists and supervisors make. The surprising part is that these mistakes rarely become obvious during the first meeting. Instead, they show up weeks or even months later when a client pushes back on a cancellation fee, a supervisee questions a po...

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Host: Dr. Kate Walker

Topics covered

• intake process
• client expectations
• therapist mistakes
• supervision
• cancellation fees

Keywords

• intake process
• client expectations
• therapist mistakes
• supervision
• cancellation fees
• therapy practices
• business growth

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