Joining Your Association

Curt and Katie talk about why to join your professional organization, how to best take advantage of the benefits of your membership, and what associations actually do.  

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why to join your professional organization
• What your membership fees go to
• Advocacy efforts, legislation
• Finding the cultural fit for your professional organization
• Joining based on your license, the focus of the org, education
• The tools that professional organizations provide to their members
• The power of numbers in advocacy
• Networking and getting referrals within your local chapter
• Community building
• Learning and growing
• Relationship building
• How to assess return on investment on joining
• Opportunities for leadership, education, networking
• Creating friendships
• Differentiating yourself within your local community
• Decreasing isolation
• Gaining perspective on your work/business situation
• Continuing Education
• Making an impact on how your professional organization operates
• Communication about the current state of affairs
• Needed information for both pre-licensed and licensed individuals
• Magazines, Scholarly Journals
• How to get involved, show up consistently
• Committees, projects, volunteering
• How to approach the situation whether you’re an introvert, ambivert, or extrovert
• Benefits to your business, network and community, education, advocacy, and fun
• Vote for Curt Widhalm, LMFT for President-Elect of CAMFT