A colleague of mine has an idea she returns to often.
Her own private practice she believes would bring back a sense of energy when she heads out the door in the morning.
She has the vision.
A small, leased space already picked out.
A name and logo she designed, with just a little help from AI.
⏳ That was 18 months ago.
Today, she is still in the same role.
The job is pretty stable. The income is good enough. The schedule is predictable.
But she is restless and feels “stale”.
There is no growth.
No room to shape her practice style.
Her current ideas are met with indifference, while the job expectations remain fixed: 20+ encounters, day after day after day.
It feels like clinical Groundhog Day.
I didn’t tell her what to do.
Partly because that goes against how we are trained.
Partly because I didn’t want to carry the weight of her outcome.
Instead, I offered her a different idea.