>> 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'm 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 9:00 a.m.
and on a typical day I will see between 5 and 8 people a day.
The nice thing about living in Washington, D.C. 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 and so it take 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.
And being able to be firm about, you know, payment 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.