Christina Page: Transitioning From Agency to Private Practice | Ep 128

Fearless Practice

With private practice, Christina, our guest today, went through a challenging experience and found it difficult herself to find the therapy that she needed.

When she registered as a social worker and later as a perinatal therapist, she knew that she wanted to fill the niche in the market by serving the families in her community.

Today, we discuss her journey into social work, her time working at a hospital, and how she started her thriving, mostly virtual Canadian group practice, and how she incorporated her own values and passions into building a successful practice that meets her client’s needs!

MEET CHRISTINA

Christina Page is a Registered Social Worker, Certified Perinatal Therapist and the owner of Whole Family Psychotherapy, a primarily virtual Ontario based group practice specializing in perinatal mental health. Christina and her team of RSW’s are also parents themselves, and believe supporting parents in all stages of their journey allows for family systems to thrive.

Learn more about Christina on her practice website, Psychology Today, and LinkedIn profiles.

In this episode:

• How Christina became a social worker

• Opening up a private practice

• Developing the solo practice into a group practice

• A client login for Jane App

How Christina became a social worker

Initially in school, Christina really wanted to be an actor!

Upon coming to this life changing realization, Christina dropped out of acting school and spent a couple of years getting to know herself while working different jobs here and there. She went to therapy herself, and discovered that it was something that she felt a natural calling to do too.

Opening up a private practice

Christina spent a while working in the hospital system as a social worker, however she knew that there was something else that she wanted to try. While Christina was still on maternity leave, she decided that she wanted to move out of working in the hospital system and to open up her own practice.

Christina wanted to gain more expertise, and found some Canadian perinatal mental health trainings in Toronto that she loved, and where she completed a bunch of certificates with course work and supervision which helped her to feel competent and ready to market herself in her new practice.

Developing the solo practice into a group practice

In 2022, once Christina’s children were in school and daycare, she really committed to networking in her area and meeting every midwife and doctor that she felt fit with her niche and approach.

Once 2023 came around, Christina felt the need to expand her solo practice into a group practice.

Even though Christina didn’t initially want to be a boss, she found herself warming up to the idea. Now, it’s been a year since Christina has been running her group practice.

Christina was motivated to lay a strong foundation for her practice that wasn’t only solid on operation, skill sets, expertise, and student services for affordable therapy, but also on ethics. She hired an attorney to make sure that everything was done by the book.

A client login for Jane App

Having a client login option for your practice website so that your existing clients can have access to their receipts or other documentation is a great way to keep the client journey piece in mind within your business operations.

It shows your clients that you are considering their needs too, and that you are incorporating their experience into how you structure your services to serve their needs.

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Resources mentioned and useful links:

Ep 127: Being Intentional when Starting a Group Private Practice | EP 127

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Learn more about Christina on her practice website, Psychology Today, and LinkedIn profiles.

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