Clinicians Creating Impact

Last week , Leah Davidson shared her framework for befriending your nervous system at work. This week, we're diving deeper into this topic, discussing how to implement this framework in your work as a clinician so you can be there for yourself and your clients, even in the face of challenges.   Discover the practical side of how to befriend your nervous system in your work as a clinician. Leah is...

Leah Davidson is a speech pathologist in private practice in Toronto, as well as a professional resilience coach and consultant through the Forward-Facing Institute. She's spent over two decades working in the area of traumatic brain injuries and she's also certified in pain reprocessing therapy, emotional freedom technique, and breathwork.    Tune in this week to discover how to befriend your ner...

How can you easily leverage the power of AI in your work as a clinician? Technology has the ability to make our work as clinicians easier and more efficient. This week, I'm showing you how to start using ChatGPT to your advantage in your clinical workplace.   Tune in this week to discover how to start using ChatGPT in your clinical workplace. I'm sharing three specific ways to use AI in your pract...

There are some topics that most clinicians seem to agree are difficult to candidly communicate to clients, like hygiene, attendance, contradicting another clinician's advice, and collecting payment. Whatever your own definition of a hard conversation that comes up regularly in your work as a clinician is, substitute that for the topics I'm discussing today.   Tune in this week to discover the art...

Therapeutic intuition is an important clinical skill. The ability to perceive and understand the subtle, non-verbal cues our clients give us helps us make informed and empathetic decisions in the assessment, treatment, and care of our patients. We develop this intuition through our work as clinicians, but that isn't the full story.   Discover what using your therapeutic intuition looks like in pra...

Our mission as clinicians is to create an outstanding experience for our clients, empowering their recovery. As a clinician owner, I've directly seen the positive client impact of having happy clinicians. One of the ways we do this at Abilities is by giving our clinicians some control over how they deliver results to our clients. This autonomy has made a huge difference.   Discover the secret to k...

How can you intentionally design your schedule for success so that you don't have to take your work home or sacrifice your personal time as the days get shorter? Designing a clinical schedule that really works doesn't have to be difficult. What currently seems like it takes hours of preparation can take 30 minutes or less, and will save you hours throughout the week as a result.   Discover how to...

Many of us, as clinicians, have gotten into this work because we want to relieve the suffering experienced by others. But what about the suffering you experience as a clinician? How can we heal the healers and eliminate suffering for clinicians?   I witnessed a talk recently positing the idea that suffering is the avoidance or resistance of a feeling. So this week, I'm showing you how to identify...

You may think it's unusual to go down the path of coaching when I'm already running a successful practice. However, the art of coaching has allowed me to be a better leader here at Abilities. This week, I'm sharing how coaching has made me a more effective clinician and business owner.   Discover five lessons I've learned from coaching. I'm sharing the truth about our human insecurities, the amazi...

Gabriel Wong is back to share his advice for potential clinic owners, telling us why you don't need to be the best clinician to start a successful practice and sharing some aspects of owning a clinic that you may never have considered before. He is a physiotherapist, and the knowledge he has to share as the founder and operator of Westcoast SCI Physiotherapy will be incredibly useful for any clini...

I'm joined by my very first podcast guest, Gabriel Wong. He is a physiotherapist and the founder and operator of Westcoast SCI Physiotherapy. If you're operating your own business as a clinician or you're looking at your options for starting your own clinical business, this episode is for you.   Discover the reality of operating your own business as a clinician. Gabriel Wong is sharing his experie...

We all want to create the best results possible, both in our work as clinicians and in our lives in general. To help you get the results you're looking for as fast and easily as possible, for yourself and the people you're serving, I've created this episode for you.   Tune in this week to start creating the results you want to see, whether it's a goal you have for yourself or for one of your patie...

People pleasing has a bad reputation, but as clinicians, we desire to be of service to others. It is important to remember that it is not inherently good or bad, but it is essential to assess our thoughts and habits. This allows us to avoid burnout and ensure that we are working within our personal boundaries.   Discover the definition of people pleasing and how it may be impacting your practice....

How do you feel about your work? Are you motivated to push a bit harder, try new things, and see what works? Or do you feel a bit stuck? If you're feeling stuck or have ever gone through a period of stagnation in your career as a clinician, this episode is for you.   Discover what to do when you feel stuck at work. I'm discussing why, as clinicians, we sometimes feel stuck, what changes when you d...

As a clinician, you may encounter times when you lack motivation. There will also be occasions when your client isn't feeling motivated while you work with them in a clinical setting. What can you do when either you or your client lacks motivation?   Discover the secret to overcoming a lack of motivation. I'm discussing what's really going on when you or your client is lacking motivation in formin...

As professionals, some people think we shouldn't bring our outside lives to work. Of course, that sounds ideal, but there are times when outside circumstances in your life really will make your work as a clinician more difficult than it would normally be.    Discover what's going on for you when a circumstance outside of your work is making your job as a clinician harder. I'm discussing my own exp...

We're clinicians, and this is a service-based industry, so it's no surprise if you have a people pleasing tendency at heart. You want to help people, and this can be a natural gift. But if it's leading to difficulty in advocating for yourself, self-sacrifice, and self-neglect, then we need to take another look.   Discover why people pleasing as a clinician is lying, or at least has you thinking th...

Hiring and talking to new grads have got me thinking about who I was at the beginning of my clinical career and what advice I would give myself now that I'm in my third decade as a clinician.   Hear what I would tell my past self as a new graduate looking for my first clinical role. I'm discussing all the things I was worried about when I first started out, what I've learned over 26 years of clini...

I'm providing practical tips and strategies to help you feel amazing about your compensation as a clinician. I'm using Abilities as a template and giving you examples of how to apply today's concepts in any environment you're working in.   Discover how to get paid what you actually want as a clinician. I'm sharing some of the unhelpful ways you might be thinking in your compensation negotiations a...

How do you get paid what you're worth as a clinician? Clinicians tend to avoid conversations about compensation, so if this sounds familiar, this episode is for you.   Discover how to get paid what you're worth as a clinician. I'm sharing why it makes sense that we'd avoid talking about money in this way, how my own thoughts about compensation conversations have changed over the years, and how you...

We're seeing more neurodiversity in the workplace these days. As a society, we're more aware of the differences that brains can have. And as clinicians, we're specifically trained to recognize neurodiversity when others may not see it.   Discover everything you need to know about being (or working with) a clinician who is neurodivergent. I'm discussing how to manage your expectations of yourself a...

Most of your time, energy, and resources have been wrapped up in the goal of becoming a clinician. With time, being a good clinician isn't enough to make us truly happy. We tend to think of happiness and success as an either/or situation. However, it's time to start expanding your definitions of success so you can create happiness simultaneously, instead of choosing between the two.   Discover the...

Getting negative feedback always hurts, but especially so when it's from our clients. We went to school as clinicians because we want to help people, but when our client tells us we aren't actually helping them, it can feel awful. What do you do when your client doesn't like you?   Discover what to do when your client doesn't like you. I'm discussing how to deal with the thoughts and emotions that...

Summer is just around the corner and vacation season is here. How do you truly enjoy your time away from work? Sometimes, taking time off from work actually feels stressful. We feel pressure to get all our projects done before we go, we're anxious about what will happen while we're away, and we may even feel guilty about taking time away.   I'm showing you how to prepare before you leave so you ca...

It's okay to not feel okay at work. However, no matter where you work, you have far more influence over your happiness than you might expect. In this episode, I'm exploring the difference it makes to be happy at work, and I'm giving you three things you can start doing to keep yourself happy at work.   Discover three things that can keep you happy at work. These are things I've seen as a clinician...