Blackcy Placidass: Developing a Value-Based Practice | Ep 140

Fearless Practice

One of the great benefits of building a value-based practice is that it makes it easier for you to return to work each day, remembering why you do the work that you do. It also allows your clients to know exactly what you stand for, and how they can best connect with you and your mission.

Join us for today’s podcast episode, where Blackcy and I discuss why we both came into the helper’s profession, how to curb burnout when managing workloads, and why incorporating our values into our practices is a good idea for anyone to consider!

MEET BLACKCY

Blackcy Placidass is a registered social worker and psychotherapist with 14 years of experience. She has served a multitude of populations across the GTA in Ontario. Currently, Blackcy is a care coordinator with Ontario Health atHome and has been running a part-time private practice for the past seven years. Her specialties include addictions, trauma, and grief and loss.

Learn more about Blackcy on her Psychology Today and Instagram pages, or her website.

In this episode:

• Why Blackcy decided to become a social worker

• Opening a private practice

• Avoiding burnout

• Developing a value’s based practice

• Blackcy’s advice to listeners

Why Blackcy decided to become a social worker

For Blackcy, she always had volunteering and helping people as something at the back of her mind when she started thinking about going to university.

When she completed her undergraduate degree for Psychology, she discovered how competitive it is to be accepted into a Master’s degree and further studies for Clinical Psychology. Therefore, she decided to try a different route, and in 2010 she started studying addiction and completed her certificates.

She decided to complete her Master’s in Social Work to see where it would take her.

She made the transition to become a care-coordinator, and in this field she saw that this type of work had a lot more to do with the social worker skills that she felt she innately had, and could bring to the table.

Opening a private practice

In 2017, Blackcy opened up her Canadian private practice. She learned early on about the importance of networking, and so has become proficient in it.

Blackcy made sure to connect with other therapists who were running private practices and asked them about their experience, and for any advice or tips.

By working with universities, other therapists, and even medical practices, Blackcy is able to welcome in many new clients and keep her Canadian private practice full and well.

Avoiding burnout

Blackcy is working full-time while building up her private practice on the side, and managing both work loads can be challenging, as most private practitioners will know.

For her, Blackcy has been in communication with her husband to plan their homelife better a week in advance when she knows that the upcoming week is going to be full of clients.

Developing a value’s based practice

Much of Blackcy’s private practice is built up from the metaphor of an oak tree, and the values that you can learn from it, such as remaining strong with deep roots, how the wind may blow you at different times, how there are seasons to life, and so forth.

Using this imagery allows you to express values in a way that connects you with your clients, and makes the work that you do more easily understood.

Blackcy’s advice to listeners

If you are considering starting your own Canadian private practice, take the leap!

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