Paige Abbott: Taking Private Practice at Your Own Pace | Ep 131

Fearless Practice

It can be easy to get caught up in looking at everyone else’s journey when instead it’s important to focus on your own. When you take private practice at your own pace, and when you incorporate your talents and passions and allow yourself to be guided from one spot to the next, you can more easily find your way in private practice instead of trying to do what everyone else has done with theirs.

In this podcast episode, Paige and I discuss her journey into private practice, how she overcame impostor syndrome, and how she’s bringing in her personal passions into her Canadian practice.

MEET PAIGE

Paige Abbott is a Registered Psychologist and founder of Sana Psychological in Alberta. Paige has been a Psychologist since 2009 and running her private practice since 2019. Paige expanded from solo to group practice in 2023.

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

In this episode:

• Paige’s interest in and pursuit for psychology

• Heading towards private practice

• Overcoming impostor syndrome

• Marketing authentically and successfully

• Paige’s goals for the future

• Advice for listeners

Paige’s interest in and pursuit for psychology

For Paige, becoming a psychologist was a collection of different circumstances that stretched over a few years. Initially, she wanted to be a writer, and was passionate about the written word and she knew that it was something she wanted to take forward into a future career.

In her undergrad, Paige took psychology and really enjoyed it, and it came to feel like “a match made in Heaven”. Afterward, Paige got her Masters in Psychology and began her career as a psychologist in Alberta.

After the assistance program, Paige worked as an outpatient psychologist for almost a decade and after that she began to dip her toes into private practice in 2020, where she is now, with her own fully established private practice!

Heading towards private practice

Even though Paige always wanted to work for herself, she got caught up working in agencies for many years before finally listening to the inner call to open up her own practice.

Once she committed to being her own boss and working on her private practice, she found that she enjoyed the daily tasks and inner workings of managing and taking care of a business.

Paige also uses Jane App, and it allows her to streamline her practice with more efficiency as well as allowing her that sense of creativity and ownership to set things up as she likes!

Overcoming impostor syndrome

Paige initially held back from expanding her solo practice into a group practice because she felt unsure.

Often with impostor syndrome, it helps to remind yourself of all the times you have succeeded in the past.

Marketing authentically and successfully

Paige prioritizes digital marketing since for her it’s the thing that works. It’s more than having the profile on Psychology Today, it’s about showcasing your business truly in an effort to find the best-fit clients.

Paige’s goals for the future

In the upcoming months, Paige is looking to scale down on the amount of hours she spends in session so that she can find a more holistic work/ life balance.

Paige wants to move from more direct client work to more mentorship, as both a change in her hourly work and as a progress that she wants to experiment with in her career.

Advice for listeners

Do it! Get into private practice. There’s never going to be a perfect moment, so if you hear the call, honor it and get started.

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

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