Nadene van der Linden

05/09/2025

She tripled her pre-sale figures for the course she’s selling in just 2 days by using this 1 suggestion from me.

Here’s how this therapist did it.

My coaching client, a therapist I’ve worked with before to take two webinars from unsellable to sold out is currently writing an online course that I know should sell like hot cakes and is not limited by seat numbers.

But…

When we spoke in coaching pre-sales were much less than I had predicted, at only 14.

This is an offer that should be able to sell in the hundreds so we had to act quick.

Here’s what I suggested….

We knew the sales copy was good and the offer was desirable to the IC, in fact it's super hot.

The problem was, I told her, she wasn’t getting enough eyes on her offer.

You can’t sell things to people if they don’t see them.

So we created a visibility plan to get her offer in front of her ideal clients.

This plan involved posting in her platforms every day and talking about her offer.

(I told you it was one tip strategy).

Two days of posting and she tripled her sales from 14 to 42.

Two days.

Two posts.

That’s all it took to triple the initial sales.

If you’re offer isn’t selling as much as you want it to, just like my coaching client, you’re probably not talking about it enough.

I can’t wait to hear what the sales figures are for my coaching client are when we next meet!

If she stays consistent with her visibility plan the sales figures should be ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Ready to work with a coach who supports you with the mindset & strategy to sell as much of your offer as you can?

I’m here to help.

04/09/2025

You're tired of problematic third-party payers causing admin headaches for you and your therapy clients.

You're stuck in a cycle of doing therapy work you don't want - it's understimulating and uninspiring.

You're afraid to do less of the things you don't like because, like a lot of therapists I coach, you're worried you'll lose income.

Or you're afraid that doing the work you love and saying no to what you don't want makes you selfish.

What if I told you, that you can get your passion back and make the same or money by learning how to call in exactly the type of client work you want.

And that, it's not selfish to do the work you love. It's better for clients to work with therapists who enjoy working with their issues and don't resent the funding model.

How do you create a therapy practice like this?

By using marketing messages that attract your ideal clients. People who can't wait to book in and pay you, not just any old therapist.

Good marketing messages also repel the kind of work you don't want to do.

As you attract the work you love doing that clients happily pay you for, you start saying no to the work you don't want to do with confidence.

You'll find yourself filling your diary with work that invigorates you and pays well.

This is exactly what I teach in Marketing Magic, my instant access training.

With these strategies, you'll be able to build a business you love working in and make more money.

Link to purchase in the comments below and in my bio.

03/09/2025

“I just can’t get a meeting with GPs. I can’t even get in the door.”

Can't get past the gatekeepers to make connections with GPs?

Don't panic. You can still grow your therapy practice and there is even a silver lining to this problem.

Find out how via my latest blog.

It’s frustrating when you can’t make connections with GPs due to gatekeepers. Here’s what you’re going to grow your private practice instead (& why there’s a silver lining).You’re going to create a brand so strong that clients want to work with you, not who their GP recommends. Inste...

02/09/2025

Some therapists want you to see out your career sitting in your therapy chair.

That might be ok for them.

But, some of us have potential to impact many more people than we can ever do through therapy.

If that’s you & you’re feeling pressured by other therapists who want you to stay the same, hear this.

It’s a disservice to humanity when you don’t share your gifts & help more people if you can.

Ready to amplify your expertise so you can help more people & need support? I’m here to help. ⬇️

My coaching program Thrive Amplified is an 8 week coaching intensive featuring
* 5 modules of learning content that guides you to amplifu your expertise & create profit.
* 2 x 1:1 sessions
* 8 weeks of daily Vioxer support

It’s perfect for therapists wanting to create additional income streams so they can reduce 1:1 therapy.

02/09/2025

This is how you’re going to sell out the offer you’ve spent months creating behind the scenes as a therapist turned online creator trying to create more income:

A lot of therapists make the mistake of spending all the time creating & no time building their brand as expert & creating an audience to sell too.

Here’s what you need to do instead.

You’re going to build into the launch of your offer with with content that builds your brand with your ideal clients.

You’ll do that by:

Socials & an email list, you’ll be speaking to them in a way that leaves no doubt that you’re the one that can solve their problem.

So that when you launch your offer they know & trust you.

And they can’t wait to buy from you.

I help therapists do this for their specific ideal client every day of the week. Ready for this kind of support? I’m here to help.

01/09/2025

Forget about hustle culture: Fun and rest are under-rated tools for business success.

In this episode of Thriving Therapist Talk: Business & Marketing Tips for Therapists I share how rest and fun are vital ingredients in my business success. In fact many of my most profitable ideas happen when I'm not working on the business.

To hear how you can make rest and fun work for your business. Tune in via my website or wherever you listen to podcasts.

31/08/2025

More than once in recent months, I've had to warn therapists I coach about surrendering their voice and their expertise to ChatGPT.

I've said "This doesn't sound like you."

If it reads like AI, it doesn't sound like you and YOU are your brand.

Your deep and nuanced perspective as an expert in your field disappears when you generate AI-heavy content.

Especially when you ask it for ideas instead of leaning into your expertise.

I know it's fast.

I know it sounds very savvy.

It's grammar and vocab is often better and it never makes a typo.

I know some coaches tell you to do it to save time.

But, and I cannot emphasise this enough, it's not your voice.

People want to be guided by an expert and they will not buy something that they know they could also get out of AI like ChatGPT. Or if they do buy it and get AI- heavy content, they'll feel duped.

More importantly, you will start to lose your belief in your own expertise as you increasingly default to an AI knows best mindset.

You will lose your voice because you bought into the belief that AI is better at communicating ideas than you.

If you use it to generate ideas, you run the risk of submitting to the belief that AI is more of an authority in your niche than you are.

Without your unique brand voice, you lose your authority as an expert.

What to do instead? Learn to grow your voice, imperfectly, organically and steadily.

Get better at writing your own content by learning brand and marketing strategy and incorporating it into your content.

30/08/2025

A therapist I coach whose developing an online coaching business was beyond confused & frustrated with lead magnet flow and I figured you may also not know the steps in lead magnet creation & why we do it the way we do.

Let’s start with lead magnet- it means a small usually free offering like a guide that’s job is to bring your ideal client towards you.

A good freebie results in new ICs finding you. The best kinds give your IC a quick win.

In exchange for this freebie, your IC submits their email address ⬇️

You now have their email & can grow the like, know, trust via your email community (your email list).

At some point, your IC is offered the opportunity to buy your paid offer.

In order to do this you’ll need to advertise your freebie like it’s a paid offer. Don’t make the mistake of thinking “free” will sell itself.

You’ll need a landing page where people sign up to get the freebie after seeing the ad.

You’ll need an email list automation that delivers the freebie to your IC’s inbox & adds them to your email list.

It’s more than ok to to get someone to set up the tech, if that’s not your thing & thats exactly what my coaching client did to save time & headaches once we nailed the steps of her lead magnet flow.

Any ?s

29/08/2025

Thrilled to see Angela Chadwick has been selected to present for EMDRAA's PD day. Angela is a graduate of Thrive Amplified coaching intensive and it's exciting to see her pursue her professional &business goals. Angela will also be featured on Thriving Therapist Talk: Business & Marketing Tips for Therapists which is scheduled for release in November.

We are delighted to welcome Angela Chadwick, who will be presenting “EMDR for the Silent Wounds of Reproductive Trauma" at the upcoming EMDRAA Professional Development Day, Saturday, 6 September 2025. Angela is a Perinatal Psychologist, Accredited EMDR Practitioner, Consultant in Training, and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor.

In this session, attendees will learn to:

✅ Conceptualise reproductive grief and loss within an EMDR case formulation.

✅ Apply grief-informed phase two strategies to address somatic distress associated with fertility trauma.

✅ Use flash-forward techniques to target anticipatory grief and future-focused anxiety.

✅ Validate and treat culturally invisible reproductive trauma through EMDR.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to listen to this presentation, plus many more. Register today! https://events.humanitix.com/emdraa-professional-development-day-2025/tickets

28/08/2025

I’m working with a therapist whose coaching business focuses on reigniting creativity in midlife women & she said to me: I don’t know why I find marketing & working in my private practice so much easier than marketing and working on the creativity business.

This is a common struggle for therapists in the transition between PP & online business.

Here’s what I told her: ⬇️

You know that the time you put into your pp will generate instant $ so it’s instant gratification.

You know how to market your PP, so it’s easy.

You’re still working on how to market the creativity business, so it feels harder & humans generally prefer the easier path.

A lot of therapists struggle to invest time into a future business when they can make $ now via service delivery, even if the goal is to make more $ in the future or make $ differently because PP is killing them.

You have to work with this reality to have a successful online business as a therapist.

Those who can, are the one’s who succeed. ⬇️

If you’re ready to get the kind of support to get you out of service delivery mindset so you can change the way your work, reduce private practice 1:1 & make more money, I’ve coached over 100+ therapists in 1:1 & had 2000+ students in my online programs. I’m here to help you reach your business goals.

28/08/2025

Excited to share that the September round of Thrive Amplified has sold out!!
That’s 7 SOLD OUT rounds of this incredible program.
As I wind up with my July cohort tomorrow, I’m looking forward to starting Monday with my September students 💚

27/08/2025

Some therapists like to subtly put down my interest in business & marketing.

They make statements like “it’s not the reason I got into this.”

Read: I have loftier goals than you, such as helping others or training people in xyz therapy.

Here’s the thing:

I started wanting to help people too & then I realised the best way to help people was through good marketing that reached people I can help & a successful business to make sure I could keep helping them.

Marketing is a tool to reach your goal. If you want to help:

More people who you're great at helping

More people through 1 to many

A different kind of ideal client than you used to

It's going to happen through marketing.

It doesn't make sense to hate it when it could be your friend.

My Tip: Lose the disdain and embrace it as vital part of your plan.