The Model You Inherited

A live 75-minute workshop

Untangling the hidden assumptions shaping your helping business, your capacity, and your next move.

I'm coming!

I talk with a lot of practitioners.

In office hours. In coaching sessions. On calls that are supposed to be about pricing, websites, or whether to call it a group, a course, or something else entirely.

And underneath almost every conversation, I hear the same questions running quietly in the background. Not logistical questions. Questions closer to the bone.

Some of it is personal.

The feeling that you're not ready yet. The fear that once people really see your work, they'll see the messy, unfinished parts too. The quiet suspicion that wanting to be paid well for meaningful work somehow makes you less caring.

But some of it isn't personal at all.

It's structural.

It's the fee-for-service model our profession inherited—a model designed for procedures more than relationships. It's the expectation that a "full caseload" is the measure of a successful practice, even when it asks more of us than is sustainable. It's a business model most of us absorbed without ever being invited to question it.

The problem is that we've rarely been taught to tell the difference between what belongs to our own growth and what belongs to the model we've inherited.

When everything feels like a personal shortcoming, we end up trying to solve structural problems with more effort, more self-improvement, or better productivity.

This 75-minute workshop is about making those hidden assumptions visible.

Together, we'll untangle what's yours to work on, what's never been yours to carry alone, and what it might look like to build a practice that actually fits the work you're trying to do.

You'll leave with more than an insight. You'll leave with a clearer way of seeing your practice—and a practical next move.

In this live workshop, you'll walk away with:

A new lens for understanding why building a helping practice can feel so difficult—and why it isn't just about confidence or discipline.
An introduction to the EMBER framework you'll use to identify the hidden assumptions shaping your business and imagine a more sustainable alternative.
Language for separating personal fears from structural realities.
A completed reflection worksheet to help you map where you are now, what's no longer serving you, and what you're actually trying to create.
One clear next move so you leave with direction, not just inspiration.

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The Conversation Beneath the Conversation

Your Season

Professional development is developmental, not deficient. We'll name the actual stage your practice-self is in right now.

The System

Before we talk about your story, we name what's structural: the fee-for-service model care work was folded into, and why burnout often isn't the right word for what you're carrying.

The Story

The personal narrative sitting on top of that structure: not ready, permission, visibility, capacity.

Money, Reframed

Commerce versus capitalism. Pricing from fear versus pricing from what the work actually costs to do well.

Your C+ Move

The smallest honest, imperfect next step, dated 30 days out.

You'll fill out a working one-page tool live during the call so you leave with something in hand, not just something in your head. Then, live Q&A, and a clear look at EMBER if it's relevant to you.

This workshop is an introduction to the work we do inside EMBER.

"Before EMBER, I was DIY-ing my marketing and hoping things would eventually fall into place. I often felt unsure of my next steps and overwhelmed by the idea of seeking business support—even though I knew I needed it.

EMBER gave me the structure, encouragement, and community I didn't know I was missing. I did meaningful healing work around visibility and self-promotion while making tangible progress in my business.

During the program, I raised my rates, welcomed wonderful new clients, restarted marketing my group program, established a consistent newsletter, and launched a new consultation service.

If you're a helping professional who loves your work but struggles with the business side, I can't recommend EMBER enough. It helped me feel more grounded, confident, and at peace with growing my practice in a way that feels authentic."

— Liah Rozenman, MA, RDT, LCAT, PCC
Psychotherapist & Professional Coach

This workshop is for you if…

You have a vision for your work that's bigger than your current practice—but every time you try to move toward it, something seems to pull you back.

You're ready to stop asking "What's wrong with me?" and start asking "What model have I been trying to build inside?"

You won't love this if:

You're looking for someone to teach you how to hustle harder, optimize every minute, or fit yourself into the existing business model.

This workshop is for people who want to build something different - not simply become more efficient at doing what has never fit in the first place.

Why This Workshop Is $37

One of the ideas we'll explore together is that relational labor has value.

The listening, witnessing, teaching, creating, facilitating, and caring that helping professionals do is real work. It changes lives. And it deserves to be valued in ways that make it sustainable.

One of the quiet costs of the model many of us inherited is the expectation that generosity should come at our own expense. That if we care deeply enough, we'll give a little more, charge a little less, and somehow make it work.

I don't believe that's the future most of us are trying to build.

Generousity is something I love and I don't believe that money is the only place generosity can live. Generosity can show up in how we welcome people, how we listen, how we create access, how we share what we know, how we care for our communities, and how we build relationships over time.

When we expect generosity to come primarily through discounting our own labor, we shrink our options—and too often, our capacity to keep doing the work we love.

I'd rather see generosity expressed in ways that sustain both the people receiving the work and the people offering it.

It's also an investment in the part of you that's been trying to figure this out for a long time—the part that's deeply committed to your work and equally weary of trying to make a business fit a life of relational care.

My hope is that your work is valued in ways that allow you to stay in it for the long haul. That you build a practice capable of supporting both the people you serve and the person doing the serving.

And if you decide EMBER is your next step, your $37 will be credited toward your tuition when you enroll during the September 2026 registration period (August 1–31).