June LMT Support Group

LMT Support Group

This month, join us in welcoming presenter Steven Seiller, educator, advocate, and communications specialist.

Your Therapeutic Journey: Purpose, Practice, and Fulfillment in the Career You're Actually Building You got into this work for a reason. That reason is the compass your career has been navigating by, whether or not you've named it. But somewhere between licensure and a full practice schedule, the business of running a practice has complicated the practice of the clinical work. Scheduling, policies, pricing, positioning, digital presence can feel like obstacles between you and delivering the hands-on care you want to be known for. What the research shows, and what practitioners rarely get told, is that every one of those obstacles is a client touchpoint already communicating your care standard. Your intake form, your website, how you follow up after a session are all experienced by clients the way your hands-on care is: as evidence of how much you're paying attention, and whether they matter to you.

Your Therapeutic Journey maps the full arc of your professional life in seven stages, from the Purpose that brought you here to the Fulfillment that keeps calling you forward, despite the strains. It shows how aligning each stage doesn't just improve your practice. It helps resolve the business decisions that feel most complicated.

In this session, we'll explore:

• How practitioners at every stage of their career can use this arc to see both what they've built and what's still possible.
• What constitutes "therapeutic success" and how to know where you are on that arc right now.
• How clarity across the stages creates coherence, so the clinical work and the business work together flow as smoothly as your hands.
• The single strongest predictor of client outcomes you can actually control, and how it improves client attendance, treatment adherence, and referrals.
• How connecting purpose to practice protects against the profession's 50–88% attrition rate where the average career lasts 3-5 years.

How we'll spend the time:

• A mix of brief framing, self-guided inventory, and small-group conversation with fellow practitioners. The focus is shared reflection, not instruction. You'll leave with a self-assessment tool and a clearer sense of where your journey is now.

1.5 CEs available for WSMTA members. Registration without attendance is noted and receives no CE.