Mentoring
With over 17 years of industry experience, our mentoring provides sports massage therapists, sports therapists, and physiotherapists, like you, with the guidance and support you need to overcome the challenges you face to get the results you deserve.
Benefits of a Mentor
A mentor is someone who teaches, helps and advises a less experienced person. A mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee in order to achieve their goals and aspirations.
Having a mentor enables focus on career progression, skills development, and overcoming challenges with someone more experienced than the mentee. It's also a safe confidential space to gain impartial advice, an alternative perspective and a non-judgemental sounding board for ideas or thoughts.
Our mentoring offers support and guidance by sharing our experience and knowledge of the sector to therapists who are new to the profession, want to set up a business or second income stream to build the solid foundations for sustainability and flexibility.
Therapists will learn how to:
- Understand the 'Why' in what they're doing
- Implement systems, structure, and strategies
- Work smarter, not harder
- Be their own boss
- Regain their work-life balance
I remember when I qualified over 17 years ago, how excited I was, raring to go, and my head buzzing full of ideas. I also remember how nervous I was. I lacked in confidence, self-belief, not knowing where to start, and convincing myself that I wouldn’t do a good job – enter imposter syndrome. It’s highly likely you’ll experience some of these feelings too, but that’s normal, healthy and is why I created this.
Whether you’re embarking on a new career or setting up a second income stream, having a mentor who’s been where you are now provides numerous benefits including guidance, accountability, motivation, and expertise. A mentor can help pave the way forward by providing invaluable support and a tailored approach to help you overcome obstacles and excel personally and professionally.
The purpose of our mentoring membership is to help student and newly qualified physiotherapists, sports therapists, and sports massage therapists like you to overcome specific challenges you face at the start of your therapy career that prevent you from achieving the client results, second income or career you deserve.
The Challenges
Despite studying for your qualification at university or with a training provider, the time you put into studying, on placement or attending workshops is significant but feel underprepared for what is needed once you enter the real world of working with real clients that are paying for real results.
The feelings of being overwhelmed are inevitable whether you choose to work on an employed or self-employed basis.
Learn how to ask the right subjective questions and conduct an objective assessment that supports you in identifying the correct diagnosis and design a management plan that consists of the right treatment techniques and rehab exercises for each and every client.
When I look back, the biggest problems I had when starting out were:
- Not knowing what to charge, how to approach the topic of payment with clients and whether I should get a card machine, if so, which one?
- How long should a session be and what’s the best system to use to help manage my time and diary effectively
- Not knowing how to manage my client’s expectations or have the confidence to say no to people
- Not knowing how to start and hold a conversation with my clients, making me feel on edge and sounding inexperienced
- Feeling like I’d rushed through my subjective and objective assessment and not really understanding what the answers or findings were telling me just so I could get to the treatment as I worried about the client’s expectations
- Not really knowing how to explain the client’s problem or how long it will take to rectify as this wasn’t something covered on the course
- Having no structure to my sessions and like I was winging it from one session to the next and prescribing random aftercare advice or exercises without any logic
- Not having any sort of authority with my clients and feeling like they were just being polite when I gave them advice but didn’t really have any trust in me to be able to help them
- Spending nearly the whole session doing hands-on treatment then rushing to squeeze in rehab exercises before the end
- Drifting from one exercise to another without any rehab framework to support progression or exacerbation
- Paying too much attention to the latest fad or misinformation from social media rather than thinking logically about what I was doing and the evidence to support it
Take away the feeling of imposter syndrome or being unprepared and start enjoying your job by expanding on the skills they taught you on your course, and learn the ones they didn’t.
Start Up
Are you currently employed and considering a change of career or thinking about setting up another income stream to give you greater autonomy to support a better work-life balance in something you enjoy? Realised that getting things moving is harder than you thought? Feel like you don’t where to go, what to do or who to ask? Have you already started but feel like you’re adrift and its not quite working as expected? This is where I can help.
Think how it would feel to…
- know someone who isn’t biased or emotionally connected has your back
- know exactly what you needed to do to start up and start earning money straight away with clients that value you and your work
- work towards a business that’s built around you, your family, and lifestyle
- have clients with a crystal-clear understanding of what problems you can solve and how you can help them
Our mentoring service shares the essentials and more with you, of setting up a business or second income stream and having solid foundations for sustainability and flexibility.
Our aim is to provide you with the tips tricks we discovered and used along the way, all of which have led us to operating a successful sports massage and private physiotherapy practice.
Experience
17+ years
One-to-One
Tailored to your needs
Unlimited Support
Via text, phone and email
Actionable Advice
Sustainable results
What's Included
The relationship between you and your mentor is confidential and tailored to your needs and aspirations.
With our 'Go-To Therapist' mentorship, you'll receive:
- impartial and experienced advice
- the resources and materials you need - systems, documents, strategies
- unlimited text, phone and email support you need, when you need it
- weekly one-to-one online focus sessions to continue your development and take action
In addition, if you already have a business, we can cast our eyes over it to help you take the next step forward or make recommendations on adding a new string to your professional bow.
Here's to no more scrolling through social media, google or YouTube videos looking for the 'magic answer' when all you need to do is be consistent.
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22 George Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 1PJ
