The No Hype Marketing Mentor
About Deah
Client Attraction for Solopreneurs
Extra Challenges for Life Coaches
Special Notes for Naturopaths
Get Clients Now! with a Licensed Mentor-Coach
Reality Check for Solutions That Work
Fine Tune Your Marketing Efforts: Free Tips
Useful Tools for the DIY Marketer
Getting Started with Grace & Ease
The What If FAQS
When You Get Scared, Try This
Help with Going to the Next Level
Self-Paced Self-Help
About Deah
The Smart Beginner's Marketing Start Kit

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Being in business for myself has always been part of my personal vision.  And yet, like so many of my therapist and naturopath friends, my training was in the healing arts, and before that in whole systems design, and before that, in communication arts -- not in business skills!
 
One of the first things I've discovered is that most people in private practice are either scared to market themselves, or they are trying to follow really bad or inappropriate advice.  No wonder most small businesses fail in the first 3-5 years.
 
Even though I was determined that wouldn't happen to me, I sure have my own story to tell about going through my own period of feeling scared and desperate before I learned the secrets of marketing a healing arts practice.  
 
But I had to become a self-directed learner in the best ways to get clients in my door so I could survive as a business owner because no one had the answers that applied to my unique combination of personality, business model, and professional needs.

Now, being a self-directed learner is right up my alley, given my master's in Whole Systems Design (health & healing systems and organization transformation) from Antioch University Seattle and my doctorate in Psychology (Consciousness and Spirituality) from Saybrook.  Both degrees required me to design my own curriculum, which meant determining what I really needed and wanted, then weaving it into a functional, practical, and enjoyable approach achieving my goals.
 
As a marketing mentor, I bring a systems design mindset and a grounded psychological understanding to the energy, spirit, art, and mechanics of attracting enough clients to make a private practice thrive.
 
As a private practice, fee for service clinician myself, I know the challenges faced by independent business owners in the healing arts.  I've had to face and solve them myself, and I believe we have to work with the emotional side of marketing as part of the solution. 
 
Getting to this point has definitely been a winding road, with some pretty big potholes along the way. If it helps to know that I can most definitely relate to your struggles, the story of my journey is here.

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Deah's Credentials
 
 
Certified Professional Coach
International Coach Academy
 
 
Certified Corporate Coach
EQMentor.com
 
 
Peer Consultant
Psychology Today Forum
for member therapists
 
 
Former Adjunct Faculty
for Naturopathic Medicine students
Bastyr University
 
 
Published Author
 of many self help articles
books, ebooks, & websites
 
 
PhD in Psychology
Saybrook Graduate School
and Research Center
 
 
Jourard Award
for special achievement
in humanistic research
 
 
MA in Whole Systems Design
emphasis in psychology
adult education and
organizational transformation
Antioch University Seattle
 
 
Private Practice Therapist
since 1990
specializing in anxiety
self sabotage
and spiritual development
 
 
BA in Communication Arts
emphasis in public relations
University of West Florida
 
 
GS-12 Public Affairs Officer
USAF (Civil Service) in
Germany and Utah

Tele-coaching hours are:
 
Tuesday, Wednesday &  Thursday 10 am - 5 pm Pacific time
Monday & Friday 10 am - 12 pm Pacific time
 

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