Kayleen Edwards: Private Practice Growth And Planning For Maternity Leave

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Kayleen Edwards: Private Practice Growth and Planning for Maternity Leave | Ep 174

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Are you currently building out your Canadian practice and unsure of how to grow? Or, are you growing your family and having children? How do you manage these two types of growth as a business partner and new parent?

In this episode, my guest Kayleen talks about how she places community above competition. We discuss how her value-driven approach to running her practice brought back most of her interns as associates, how she managed planning for maternity leave as a busy practice owner, and her tidbits of advice for listeners.

MEET KAYLEEN

Kayleen is an RP and cofounder of Roots in Wellness, a group therapy practice in Hamilton, Ontario. She is a validated clinical supervisor with the OAMHP and a council member for the CRPO. Kayleen is passionate about perinatal mental health and helping both clients and supervisees through the transition of parenthood. She is a mama of three littles herself, and a lover of all things nature!

Learn more about Kayleen on her practice website, LinkedIn, and Instagram profiles

In this episode:

What are the OAMHP and CRPO?
Managing a private practice while being a committee member
Growing a private practice
Planning a maternity leave?
Mistakes made and lessons learned
Advice for listeners

What are the OAMHP and CRPO?

The OAMHP stands for the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals, and the CRPO stands for the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario!

Kayleen has been a council member of the CRPO since 2024, but has been working for them since 2019.

Managing a private practice while being a committee member

Between her commitments to her roles within the CRPO and the OAMHP and running her own Canadian private practice, Kayleen definitely has a lot on her plate!

Before the beginning of her private practice journey, Kayleen graduated in 2014 and started working at an agency for a number of years. It was demanding work with a lot of travel and tough cases, and even though Kayleen learned a lot from that experience, she knew at the time that it wasn’t something she would do forever.

Growing a private practice

Kayleen jokes that the growth snuck up on them over time. Initially, in 2019, Kayleen started supervising and took on her first student.

This opened up a whole new world for her, as she loved being a supervisor and enjoyed the practice, because many of the interns ended up coming back to work at the practice full-time.

Kayleen still sees clients, although she spends more time networking and opening up her practice to the community in new ways - like with a book club!

Planning a maternity leave?

One of the many tips that Kayleen would give you when it comes to preparing for maternity leave is to give yourself a hefty dose of grace!

She also recommends being flexible. Understand that there are many ways of going about maternity leave, so you don’t have to do it the same way that other people in different jobs do.

Mistakes made and lessons learned

Along the way, some of the most prominent lessons that Kayleen learned include:

The importance of having boundaries around your notifications and not always being accessible or available.
Get admin help sooner than you think you need it!
To stop putting so much pressure on yourself to make it as big or successful as soon as possible. Put boundaries down with yourself, and allow yourself to rest as well.
Put some money away into an emergency savings fund.

Advice for listeners

Value your community over competing with them!

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