Supporting Secondary Income Streams for Mental Health Therapists & Financial Therapists Against Burnout
Croswaite Counseling, PLLC is a consultation practice in Lafayette, CO serving mental health therapists and financial therapists. Khara Croswaite Brindle, as the owner of Croswaite Counseling, PLLC, is proud to be an NBCC Approved Continued Education Provider (ACEP), clinical supervisor, Financial Therapist Supervisor, Professional Consultant, 2x Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, and Certified Financial Therapist (CFT).
Why secondary income?
The modern therapist doesn’t want to see 20-25 clients a week for the rest of their career. I have 14 income streams adding drops in the financial bucket myself!
So let’s normalize PIVOTS and multiple income streams. With the average clinician remaining in the field seven years, we can do more to ignite our creativity, various passions, and build income streams that support financial stability AND prevent burnout in the mental health field!
Secondary income can be almost anything that generates funds, related to mental health (think supervision, consultation, teaching, webinars, books) or unrelated to our field (upcycle, ride shares, a startup, brick and mortar small business, etc).
Why work with me as your consultant?
As a mental health professional with multiple income streams myself, folks choose me because of the income streams experience I hold. Income streams of courses, course royalties, book sales, workshops, retreats, supervision, consultation, groups, and more. I am a consultant full of entrepreneurial spirit and compassion for the therapist’s desire for financial steadiness. We all want and deserve financial stability and secondary income is how we make it happen! After all, we can’t always predict high or low seasons of therapy work, our own burnout timeline, or the potential for a crisis where we can’t work the way we want to with our clients. Secondary income allows spaciousness, peace of mind, and a plan for the highs and lows of business.
Income Streams I’ve helped colleagues build and launch over the years:
-Public Speaker/Trainer
-Consultant
-Clinical Supervisor
-On-Demand Courses
-Published Books
-Digital Downloads
-Financial Therapy
The investment behind secondary income consultation
Passive income is what we all dream about. To create something and make money from the sales of it with minimal effort. To work SMARTER not harder. To work less and still make money! Passive income can be things like digital downloads, on-demand courses, book sales, and even mental health swag!
With this dream in mind, it takes active effort to build passive income. Not to mention time. So let’s get started with a brainstorm and build your plan from there. After all, if it’s not scheduled, it doesn’t happen. Consultation with me can happen on a biweekly, monthly, or every other month basis. The investment is $185 per meeting which includes tools and resources on top of the consultation hour. You schedule meetings as you need them through my online calendar.
My consultation style serves to empower you and hold you accountable to tasks or “homework” between our secondary income meetings for momentum on your income stream timeline. Mind you, the tasks are collaboratively identified and bite-sized so you see progress without feeling overwhelmed. After all, you are a busy business owner wanting to avoid burnout and we aim to make this work amidst other business and life commitments you hold.
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One of my greatest joys is helping colleagues explore their interests and passions and the intersection with their mental health expertise to launch a successful secondary income stream! Truly, I get as much joy helping someone build something they are passionate about as building my own thing!! Next steps include finding a slot in my online calendar for a brief chat on your goals, the opportunity to ask me any questions you have, and to explore fit in a free 20-minute call. I can’t wait to meet you to learn more about your secondary income goals!
Testimonials: What Other Colleagues Have to Say
“Consultation with Khara at Croswaite Counseling has been tremendously helpful for me as a solo mental health private practice owner! Through consultation services with Khara, I developed the confidence and clarity needed to set up secondary income streams that align with my passions. Secondary income has significantly reduced my stress and burnout. I highly recommend Croswaite Counseling if you are looking for support and best practices to achieve your goals for creating secondary income streams.”
Hannah Rose, LCSW
“Working with Khara encouraged me to think outside the box in order to build my career outside of being a therapist and identify new income streams. She helped me see the value of books and other creative avenues for professional growth. With her support, I’ve built greater confidence in my expertise and expanded the way I approach my work. ”
Ashley Charbonneau, LCSW, LAC, ACS
Croswaite upcoming Events
What am I up to in 2026 as a serial entrepreneur? Connect with me in these upcoming events and offerings!
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Check out all our passion projects that address therapist pain points below!
Save Lives from Suicide
Known for our passion to save more lives from suicide, we have both free and affordable tools for mental health and helping professionals including our ALERT training and the CACS Suicide Risk Tool.
Start with free videos, resource lists, and templates for safety planning. Want to embrace technology to streamline your process? The CACS Tool is for you!
Engage in Empowered Supervision
Seeking clinical supervision as a therapist or supervisor pursuing the Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) credential? Read more about Khara’s work supporting the development of the next generation of supervisor professionals!
Check out The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision, inspired by community mental health and applicable to the professional growth of both supervisors and supervisees! Grab a workbook, or access our on-demand courses! Don’t forget to grab the book, available at Amazon.com!
Find Freedom in Financial Therapy
Do you want to improve your relationship with money? Is the stress of finances impacting your work, home-life and well-being? Do you find yourself shutting down when conversations about money come up? It doesn’t have to be this way! Financial Therapy offers an opportunity to heal your money story, improving your mental health, work-life balance, and relationships for the better!
Pursue Professional Consultation
Seeking supervision of your supervision? Looking to develop your mental health leadership? Fighting burnout and not sure how to create work-life balance as a helping professional?
Connect with Khara for professional consultation on a variety of topics including Medicaid Mastery, clinical supervision skills, private practice growth, secondary income streams, and burnout prevention and recovery.
Create Continued Education Opportunities
As professionals, we need opportunities to learn and grow! Do you desire more confidence in assessing suicidal clients? Ready to explore private insurance as a growth plan in your practice? Seeking skills to help you fight burnout? We offer options for on-demand, online courses as well as face-to-face trainings and live webinars.
Croswaite Counseling, PLLC is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) for select live events! Learn more and reach out to schedule your custom event in person or via webinar today!
Hire Khara as a Professional Speaker
Khara loves inspiring ahas and goosebumps in audiences of all sizes that lead to powerful action. She enjoys speaking at conferences, lunch and learns, and professional development days with the ability to customize content that resonates with diverse audiences. Check out her client list to see the diversity and reach with various audiences through speaking!
To support an interactive learning experience, Khara is happy to chat further to create a meaningful, customized presentation and experience for your audience.
Gain Work-Life Balance as a Driven Professional or Perfectioneur
Can you relate? Perfectionist entrepreneurs are struggling with work-life balance. Overwhelmed, overworked, and burning out, we struggle with self-care and making time for relationships in wearing the badge of busyness.
Khara helps entrepreneurs unlock their full potential where they can pursue powerful purpose and find meaningful balance. Learn more about the book, workbook, and Perfectioneur masterclass!
Explore Enneagram Types with a Typing Interview
The Enneagram is a tool of self-discovery, self-reflection, and growth. It gives language to our core motivations, the beliefs deep down that drive our behaviors. Why wouldn’t we want to better understand that part of ourselves?
Engage in an hour Typing Interview to uncover the roadmap to relationships, both with self and others!
Catalyze Change with Our Blog
Are you a therapist in private practice? A mental health professional looking to make shifts in your business? Check out our “Catalysts in Counseling” blog for dozens of tips and tools for working with client struggles, business challenges, suicide assessment, and burnout recovery.
Want to know more about a particular topic or have something you want to share? Contact us to suggest an important topic that’s relevant to mental health professionals!
Check Out Khara’s Published Books
Khara is a 2x Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author helping other therapists write their books! Seeking answers on quality supervision? Want work-life balance strategies that fit your busy lifestyle? Are you suffering from a thyroid condition or choose to go gluten-free for a healthy life? Do you specialize in working with adult daughters and estrangement? Want to transform your relationship with your money through the Enneagram?
Khara’s passion for writing about pain points for therapists shines through in this book lineup. Grab all of them on Amazon!
Start Secondary Income Streams
If you’ve been thinking about adding trainings, speaking opportunities, or course creation to your workload to battle burnout and diversify your income, check out our online store!
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Heal from Client Suicide as a Clinician
1 in 4 therapists will have a client die by suicide during their career and yet we don’t talk about it because of confidential grief. Confidential grief describes the secrecy of mental health professionals’ pain and grief when losing a client to suicide because we feel we cannot talk about it.
You are not alone. I am part of the statistic and as a compassionate consultant, speaker, trainer, and published author, I want to help more clinicians heal.
