PRACTICE IDENTITY CONSULTATION THROUGH A RELATIONAL LENS
Niche Development Consultation for Therapists
For experienced therapists developing a niche that reflects their clinical identity, values, and strengths. A three-session consultation to clarify the direction of your work and how to describe it.
INTRODUCTION
Most therapists were trained to hold a caseload. Fewer were taught how to develop a niche: how to recognize the work they do best, decide whom it is for, and describe it clearly enough that clients and colleagues can recognize the fit.
This consultation offers three sessions for that work. We begin with what you already have, explore the directions open to you, and arrive at a more consolidated sense of where you stand and how to describe it.
PROCESS
Three 60-minute telehealth sessions over about eight weeks. The first two sit two weeks apart, with six weeks before the third, giving you time to live with a possible direction and notice what emerges.
How the Consultation Unfolds
Review
We begin with what you already have: experience, current work, referrals, and the language you use now.
Exploration
We consider possible directions against your values, clinical strengths, and professional identity.
Consolidation
We refine what has emerged into clearer language and a first step, with feedback in both directions.
FIT + LENS
Who This Is For
Licensed therapists with five or more years of clinical experience, counting from your first practicum.
You may have broad training and experience but no clear focus. Your referrals may not match the work you want to do. Or you may be choosing between more than one possible direction.
A Relational Lens
A niche is relational. It names the people you will sit with, helps colleagues understand whom to send your way, and can touch on loyalties to former settings, broad access, or an earlier version of your professional identity.
Underneath uncertainty about a niche, there may be a wish not to close a door, disappoint anyone, or be misunderstood. We can look at those pulls as they bear on the decision in front of you.
DETAILS
Fees and Scheduling
$250 per session, $750 total, paid in full before the first session. Full refund if you decide not to proceed before we begin. Once we have begun, held sessions are not refundable and unheld sessions are returned. Please give 48 hours’ notice to reschedule. A session canceled with less notice is counted as held.
What This Is, and What It Is Not
This is consultation. It is not therapy, and it is not supervision. It is a contained three-session process, not ongoing coaching. For ongoing support afterward, I can point you toward providers who offer that.
ABOUT
About
I’m Jennifer “Ajen” Busher, MBA-HCA, MA, LMFT, a relational therapist in virtual practice across California, and the founder of the Therapist Collaborative Community. My training is in health care administration as well as in the therapy room, and both are in the room for this consultation: the structure of a practice, and the human being building it.
TO BEGIN
This consultation will open in Fall 2027. If you would like to know more in the meantime, you are welcome to email me. If this sounds like the thinking space you have been looking for, write with a few words about the niche you are developing or reconsidering.