>> My name is Krystal Stanley,
and I am a licensed psychologist, and I am in private practice.
So that means I meet with individuals and couples in an office by myself.
I am not associated with any other company or organization.
I work a lot with people or couples dealing with depression or anxiety and also people
who are going through transitions.
So either starting or ending a new job or relationship, a new move, that sort of thing.
I usually see my first client at 9 AM, and on a typical day,
I will see between 5 and 8 people a day.
The nice thing about living in Washington DC is that there's a lot going on here
in the form of trainings and workshops.
So I don't usually have to go very far, but it's nice to be able to travel.
One thing that -- I've never taken a business class and, you know,
we don't really take a class or learn about how to be a business person,
and so I've had to develop skills that are apart from the skills I have
as a psychologist, to run the business.
So it takes a lot of -- it's a balancing act, and it takes a lot of thoughtfulness
and flexibility, but also the ability to have really strong boundaries, I guess, if you will,
in being able to be firm about, you know, payments and make sure you're on top
of scheduling, make sure that I'm keeping my notes,
because that's part of my business as well.
So it's a very interesting process.