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	<title>Trix of the Trade</title>
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	<description>Journey Through the World of a Clinical Psychologist</description>
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		<title>Incorporating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of months I&#8217;ve moved forward with incorporating by business. There is some debate whether or not a sole proprietorship or an LLC is preferred when starting a psychotherapy practice. Because I am only working for myself (not a group or with partners), sole proprietorship seemed to be the way to go. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Malpractice insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back at my &#8220;First things First&#8221; post of a few months back, I realize that I failed to motivate myself to follow my own strategic advice and go through these things in a strategic order. Writing about them here while in the process would have been helpful to processes the decision making process and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=33</link>
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		<title>opportunities and excuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while and that&#8217;s due to a combination of factors, from getting distracted away from my focus on professional development to spending time celebrating getting married. But those are really just excuses. A lot of my lack of communication is due to feeling stagnant and not wanting to admit any responsibility for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Downsized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But I&#8217;m licensed! So the recession is officially making its way into San Francisco community mental health. Once receiving my professional license, I figured that employment would be easy to find and secure, while developing my private practice on the side. As a result, I&#8217;ve exercised patience over the past few months in seeking employment, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Business Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[above: the back of my new business cards!] So today my new business cards arrived! I&#8217;m really excited. They say &#8220;Licensed Psychologist&#8221; on them, how could I not be. I&#8217;m not the most traditional psychologist out there, so in putting together my business cards, I decided to take some risks and show that off in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=23</link>
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		<title>First things first</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below are the first things (well, at least profession-oriented) things that I officially became a License Psychologist. Who knows if this is the best order or if I&#8217;m missing anything. During some professional transition phases mentorship is highly valuable. This seems to be one of those phases. 1) Get new business cards 2) Learn about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being in the club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve never been in a fraternity (and to clarify, nor have I ever wanted to be in one) but as a friend has pointed out, going through the licensing process is largely like being hazed into the greek system back in college. I guess this isn&#8217;t only for psychologists/therapists, but for most professionals who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=21</link>
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		<title>CPSE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After one month of constant studying (thanks to Quia for its help with its good study guide, practice exams, lessons on cd, etc) and feeling really confident I scheduled my CPSE last week for today, Friday Aug 29, 2008. This morning, I woke up at 6am and drove down to Santa Clara. For some unknown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=20</link>
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		<title>How to become a psychologist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled on a website created by Dr. Raymond Lloyd Richmond, a fellow psychologist here in the Bay Area. It&#8217;s pretty comprehensive, and seems good for both clinicians and clients. I think the most noteworthy section is on how to become a psychologist.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Next up CPSE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got my letter from the EPPP and I passed! Wa-hoo! Now that I passed, I&#8217;m comfortable writing about it. It was really challenging and I didn&#8217;t confident that I passed either while i was taking the exam or when I left. Many of the questions I had never seen before and I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trixofthetrade.net/?p=18</link>
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