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Sincerely, Your Small Business
You’ve always wanted to get to know your favorite local business owners. But with everyone’s busy schedules, it can be hard to actually sit down and chat with each other and learn about the dreams, setbacks, successes, failures, and everything in between! All of which help shape us into the humans we are today.The Sincerely, Your Small Business podcast is your window into the lives and identities of small business owners that you support year-round. What inspires them, what makes them tick, and what has helped them grow as business owners, parents, community members, and friends.It’s a way to get to know them, so that when you DO run into one another at the grocery store, park, or place of business, you’ll know that at the end of the day, we can all build relationships and connect with one another through shared experiences.
Sincerely, Your Small Business
Rebecca Tedford of Strength & Ease Psychotherapy
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In this episode, Rebecca shares her journey of building a private therapy practice in Charlottesville, focusing on her specialty, EFT, and how she maintains her well-being while managing things like boundaries and the ebbs and flows of business.
Big takeaways:
- The challenges of starting and managing a small private practice
- Importance of niching down to gain confidence and clarity
- The duality of feelings in business ownership: love for the work vs. the realities of running a business
- Self-care practices, including movement and intentional separation from work
Rebecca Tedford, founder of Strength & Ease Psychotherapy, brings more than 20 years of experience in the therapy world. Before creating Strength & Ease, she worked with individuals and families in public agencies and has experienced therapy from both sides of the couch.
Rebecca is passionate about giving Charlottesville couples access to the gold standard in couple therapy—Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)—and about supporting other therapists as they learn this model. She also provides consultation to supervisors of other therapy practices and leads trainings for therapists who want to deepen their understanding of what they bring into the therapy room.
Rebecca maintains firm boundaries around her work hours so she can be fully present with clients. Outside the office, you’ll find her walking her two dogs, hiking local trails, sampling new restaurants, strength training, or planning a vacation with her family.
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