Finding Potential in the Pivots for Mental Health Therapists & Financial Therapists
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), Approved Clinical Supervisor, Financial Therapist Supervisor, Professional Consultant, 2x Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, and Certified Financial Therapist (CFT).
So. Many. Pivots!
I’ve been known to call myself the queen of pivots! When I reflect on the last 17 years in the field, I notice a personal pattern of big shifts every two years or so. Building things. Ending things. Launching things. Sunsetting things. To a stranger, it may look restless or indecisive, but to me the pivots represent my entrepreneurial brain and signify the internal shifts happening as I do the work to remove workaholism and hyperproductivity from my life. Not to mention pivoting in response to the external shifts happening to the mental health industry. We’ve been thrown plenty of curve balls in the last twenty years with things like pay cuts, increased insurance audits, colleague losses, and third parties and/or AI trying to override the human connection within the therapeutic relationship to save a few dollars. I don’t use AI anywhere in my business. As you may have guessed, I’m not about any of that. Instead I feel called to help clinicians feel seen and supported in the pivots, navigating things like:
1) downsizing, pivoting, or closing their practice
2) grieving a client loss
3) overcoming financial scarcity
4) healing from leadership trauma
5) building secondary income against burnout
4 out of 5 would agree
Notice that four of the five things listed above aren’t talked about openly within the mental health industry. They are considered secretive, scary, shameful or come with judgement from our community. Where do we go to grieve as a clinician survivor of client suicide? How do we work with the identity shifts that happen when we close our practice or end something in order to launch something new? Who can we talk to about financial stress and noble poverty without judgement? When do we make time to process the leadership trauma that informed our people-pleasing and workaholic behaviors in this field?
I find meaning in creating spaces for all of it. Whether it be group or individual work, 4 of the 5 things feel heavy and I’m still ready to talk about them!
Why work with me?
Well the short answer is I’ve experienced all five things I want to help other therapists navigate. I downsized my group practice of 8 years back to solo in January 2024. I lost a client to suicide in Spring 2021. I ugly-cried through my own financial therapy work in early 2021 before pursuing certification. I’ve dedicated my 12 year clinical supervision role to NOT being a traumatic leader. And I’ve built out 14 income streams to avoid being a full-blown workaholic.
Colleagues choose to work with me because I’m:
A clinician survivor
A trainer and TEDx speaker
A published author of 12 books
A consultant
An Enneagram Professional
A professor
An entrepreneur
A mom
It’s a balancing act daily to do all the things we value and enjoy, and it comes with challenges and lessons along the way. My commitment to colleagues is to create welcoming spaces to do the hard work. The work of healing. Crying. Catharsis. The pivots. Because new things are possible when we pivot. Pruning out the old makes room for the new.
Productivity over Busyness
Part of my own journey has been to adjust my pace, slow down, and declare 2026 my anti-hustle year. 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! But an even more important goal is productivity over busyness. We live in a culture that is all about the busy, the go-go-go. So we need to ask ourselves, “is this productivity, or is this busyness?” Productivity leads to progress and feelings of satisfaction. Busyness leads to burnout.
The dream of doing less starts with a pivot.
Secondary income may feel the safest of the five things I can offer. Folks choose me because of the income streams I hold, including on-demand courses, course royalties, book sales, workshops, retreats, supervision, consultation, online 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 Course Creation
-Published Books
-Digital Downloads
-Financial Therapy Specialty
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 can 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 business owner wanting to avoid burnout and we aim to make this work well amidst other business and life commitments you hold.
Ready to start? Schedule a free consultation for fit
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!
Scheduled for TUESDAYS 9-10am MT starting Sept 29, 2026
Join me Dec 10th and 11th 2026!
Join us in Paris in April 2027! Affiliate link for me, payment plan for you!
Join our waitlist for the 2027 cohort dates!
Join us for another healing opportunity!
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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.
