Thank you so much for this video! Im also setting my own schedule and even though I dont make as much right now because of having to complete the hours for the license, having the time to self care makes it ALL worth it. Im still struggling setting boundaries and making my schedule work but when you shared how long it took you to get used to your own schedule helped me because I graduated recently, so is that reminder to be kind to myself.💜
I feel the same way! Thank you so much for letting me know, I really hoped it’d be helpful to talk about. Setting healthy work boundaries is hard, especially if we’re being challenged and made to feel guilty or bad about them. Right there with you on continuing to be kind to ourselves as we adjust and explore what works for us. Thank you for watching and for all the support Milca!
Omg I too was a case worker after getting my undergrad degree. I graduated with my Masters degree a year ago and felt like I desperately needed a break from going to school and working. I will also be working at private practice hopefully this month 🤗 and I just wanted to say this information has been very comforting and helpful for me! I want to a have a schedule similar to yours when I start! I'm so nervous tho after taking a year off
In my current position I manage a retail store. I actually really enjoy my job. I'm salary, I create my own schedule.....usually I'm opening by 9:30 am and leaving store around 5 or 5:30..... I clearly don't take my work home, it's retail. I currently earn 55k with more earning potential if I really worked hard at opening up new accounts and approved business to used our products (safety footwear). I'm comfortable at my job, I am not finding challenging or I'm just getting lazy. Either way I'm in a masters program for my LPC......I'm worried that I'm going backwards and going to make less income as an associate. If I were your client, how would you direct me? I've always been attracted to counseling o just don't know if I should 100% commit. Thank you in advance.
Thank you for the gainful information. I’m about to start my internship in January, and I graduate in the fall. Studying for NCE for April! Everything is coming in nice! I’ve heard some practices pay 50% as an associate and others pay 25 an hour as well, I guess it just depends on the agency you work in. But opening up a practice is going to be a game changer!
Thank you! And congratulations on almost finishing ✨👏🏼🎉 Such a good point because yes it definitely depends on each practice and some offer insurance and others don’t as well. It’s so exciting, definitely keeping up with the updates.☺️
WOw that news is so exciting. Im hoping to graduate this spring in texas from my CMHC program. With this pandemic my grad school experience has been overwhelming sometimes wondering if all my challenges are going to pay off. As a first gen student, your information on this career path is extremely helpful for me. These laws in texas make the LPC-A to LPC roadmap very confusing . I wish my program spent more time on navigating career post graduation. In Intership rn and I realize how important a good Supervisor is. Any tips and insight I will love to hear from you in future videos as I am stressing what life will look like after I graduate xoxo chelsea
Also, I appreciate your insight on working private practice vs. community health setting. My professors are more supportive of woking in community mental health over private practice however, I have heard stories of burnout and feeling drained working in a community health setting.
Hi Chelsea! Congratulations on almost graduating! I know that it can feel so anticlimactic and stressful with the pandemic but I am so happy for you. I felt similar because my last semester there were almost no internship sites and I was worried I was going to get sick and wouldn’t be able to graduate, it was terrible. I’m so glad that my videos are helpful because as a first gen student myself I know how frustrating it can be to navigate this sometimes. And for sure our grad school programs are not built to prep us for running our own business and doing private practice. Some people love working community health and others don’t so I wish they would teach both. And if I would’ve known then what I know now, I would’ve tried to advocate for that with my professors or program director. I’ll definitely try to talk more about this in a future video, thank you so much for watching and sharing your thoughts!
I just passed my NCE and Jurisprudence exams today, and I am a little confused about what to do now. I was confused because I received the wrong information about NCE in Texas, which I could have had in 2014 if I had the correct information. I am also working on my doctorate in clinical psychology specializing in health. I believe that the only advantage I had was that I tried studying psychology regularly before I received the correct information. However, I am still in a loophole concerning action since I passed.
These videos are super helpful I am currently in my last year of graduate school and soon plan on applying to a job and NCE. Is there a way that you can show how you keep up with your direct and indirect hours?
Thank you so much for this and I'm going to look for the FB group you mentioned. Can you share an average percentage of the client's rate/pay, one might expect to get when working in a private practice setting? Is 50% of the client's rate normal for an LPC-A?
Hi! So it truly depends on each practice so even if you have a 50% split which I’ve never seen it’s usually lower (20-40%) the other important component is how much is being charged per session because if a client is being charged $70 a session and you get 40% of that it’s very different from a session costing $120 and you get a split from that. So I think that changes need to be made so that (unless an employee voluntarily wants to set a lower price because they can afford to) employers check in with their associates or prelicensed clinicians to agree to a price and percentage that works mutually with a caseload that works mutually, which sadly again I have not seen. Hopefully more of us are becoming that change though.🥹👏🏼
You can also get a clearer picture by going on psychologytoday.com or local practices for example and seeing what they have listed for their associates to get a better idea because in my area sadly it’s charging clients $70-80 (and putting pressure to do probono) with a split well bellow 50% which is completely exploitative. I hope this helps, thank you for asking.
I’m about to start grad school and I would much prefer to do cmhc, but I’m terrified because social work seems to be so much more praised… What type of places can LPC-A’s work to gain their hours outside of private practice?
