All Things Private Practice Podcast Episode 67: What Therapists Should Know When Creating Online Courses [featuring Melvin Varghese]
Even though you may love being a therapist, do you ever feel burnt out and tired of trading 60-minute increments of time for money?
Have you ever thought it would be nice to have some passive income or just another revenue stream, in general, to take some of the pressure off of always wondering if you’ll have enough clients this month to foot the bills?
Do you want a way to scale your income and stop trading dollars for hours?
Well, this episode is for you!
In this episode, I talk with Melvin Varghese, psychologist, founder and host of the Selling The Couch podcast, and online course creator.
Top 3 reasons to listen to the entire episode:
- Learn how to take your existing knowledge and skills and create a scalable online course.
- Understand what common pitfalls and obstacles arise in course creation and how to overcome them.
- Learn different ways to set up your courses for monetization and how these worked (or didn’t) for 2 successful online course creators sharing their personal experiences.
So, if you are starting to feel like just doing therapy is starting to lead to burnout and you need another source of income to help you relax and invest in more self-care, or if you just feel like you have the drive to put your knowledge and skills out into the world on a larger scale and help tons of people at the same time, online course creation might be the way to go.
Check out this episode packed full of some of the most helpful tips and perspectives about online course creation.
More about Melvin:
Melvin Varghese, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in Philadelphia, PA.
In 2015, Dr. Varghese also founded Selling The Couch, a podcast to help private practitioners grow their impact and income in and beyond the therapy room.
On the podcast, he interviews successful practitioners about how they've built their businesses, and social media/marketing experts to help us learn the lessons we didn't in grad school.
Mel also shares lessons as he uses our clinical skillset to create an online business powered by podcasting + online courses.
The podcast is one of the top Career podcasts in Apple Podcasts, has been downloaded over 1.4 million times, and is heard in over 125 countries.
Mel also founded several resources for therapists transitioning from the therapist chair to online income including:
The Healthcasters-A podcasting community for therapists (https://sellingthecouch.com/jointhehealthcasters)
STC Elite- A mastermind for therapist course creators (https://sellingthecouch.com/mastermind)
Selling The Couch: sellingthecouch.com
DOWNLOAD THE FREE ONLINE COURSE GUIDE FOR THERAPISTS: sellingthecouch.com/onlinecourseguide
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