Many of us are wondering what our careers are going to look like in 2021 and beyond. We know the therapy model of 2019 as we knew it is not coming back. How do we pivot and move forward? We are answering this question in today’s show.
Our Featured Guest
Brant Thompson
Brant Thompson is a therapist in private practice in the twin cities area of MN. He has an interesting life and career because he became a social worker after training at a music school in high-level piano performance. He is now making the move into less therapy and more coaching. Through interesting and unexpected circumstances, Brant was forced to make a quick transition to telehealth during the early days of the 2020 pandemic. He’s here to share what he considered and what he encountered, along with three lessons learned during the transition.
Connect with Brant: http://www.onlinepracticebuilder.com/ (Online Practice Builder)  
You’ll Learn:
●     How 2020 played out for Brant when he was abruptly quarantined because of a client’s positive exposure
●     How Brant transitioned smoothly to telehealth in 48 hours’ time
●     What it was like to quarantine in his room for two weeks, and why Brant calls it a focused, peaceful, almost monastic experience that brought increased connection with clients and colleagues
●     How Brant’s diverse range of careers helped prepare him mentally for his transition
●     How Brant navigated the struggle to be authentic in his online presence and realize what he can give to others
●     Three life lessons learned in Brant’s transition to online therapy:
○     “I realized how much passion, focus, and readiness I have in supporting other therapists in a coaching role.”
○     “I realized the importance of staying connected to the natural environment around me.”
○     “I realized the lack of permanence in our lives and that what we give each other is temporary.”
●     How Brant is handling the day-to-day stress of the pandemic
Resources:
Show sponsor: http://www.sellingthecouch.com/hushmail (Selling The Couch)
Transcript:

Melvin:
Hello, welcome to
session 265 of Selling the Couch, I hope that you are having a wonderful day
I'm actually recording this at the very tail end of December; December 30. I
know how difficult Well, I don't know, the individual stories, but on the collective
whole, I know how hard of a year 2020 has been for so many of us. And I know
that many of us are ready to make this transition into 2021. So I hope that
when this session airs that you are doing well, that you are making this
transition and we have more clarity with regard to vaccines and all of those
different things.
Today’s conversation
is with Brant Thompson from onlinepracticebuilder.com. Brant is actually a
therapist in private practice in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. And Brant has a
pretty interesting life career. So he's a social worker, but his original major
in college was high level like piano performance, and so he actually went to a
music school and was going to become a professional musician and then decided
to make this transition into social work and has done some pretty amazing stuff
throughout his career.
But I wanted to
have Brant on the podcast, we've been friends for a number of years and Brant
decided as for many of us who have made this transition this past year to Telehealth,
Brant had a pretty crazy situation, which you'll hear on the podcast about just
how real this became. In short, he had to make a really quick transition into
telehealth.
And here in
today's session where we're planning on just talking about that, what are some
of the things that he had to consider? What are the struggles that he had? And
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