Earth imbalance: I am not good enough, therefore I must exhaust myself in the endless effort to give patients what they need. I think I want to see more patients but, although I hate to admit it, I am pretty fried seeing the few patients I have. I attract a lot of needy, high maintenance patients. 
 
Metal imbalance: I am not worthy of success and abundance, therefore I never attract the kind of money that I’d like and my practice always feels unstable. Even though I undercharge for my services, it is hard for me to fill my books. My patients seem to cancel a lot and don’t value my policies. Sometimes I feel invisible, like no one even knows or cares that I am here. I attract patients who either can’t afford me or have a hard time seeing the value in what I offer.
 
Water imbalance: I either put money first or pretend that it doesn’t matter at all. Either way, I am run by fear. My treatments don’t feel as powerful as I’d like them to and my patients don’t refer others to me as much as I’d like. I have been in a low grade state of fight or flight and can’t stop thinking about how to make this work financially, which I know is blocking me from my true potential. I attract patients who don’t offer enough of themselves in the treatment process. While I want to treat them at a deeper level, they just don’t seem to understand or be interested in this.
 
Wood imbalance: It is me against the world. There is a lot of competition in my area, so I have to try really hard to be successful. Usually I feel angry that it’s not happening as quickly as I’d like. Even though I put so much effort into it, my practice often feels stagnant, like it’s not moving forward. The harder I try, the more hopeless I feel. I attract really challenging patients who like to argue with me much of the time. 
 
Fire imbalance: I am either really into my practice and totally in love with it or I have the urge to flee it as quickly as possible. My commitment wavers, which keeps the whole thing feeling superficial. Sometimes I wonder if the main reason I have done OK in my practice is because I am so friendly and I know how to connect with people. I attract patients who want to be my friend; they talk a lot and make me lose track of my schedule. Although they seem to love me, my patients can be flighty. They tend to disappear without notice. The whole thing can feel chaotic.

Be honest with yourself. If you are not at the place you’d like to be in your practice, it is almost certain that one of these imbalances is the weak link for you. Can you see how this is not only holding you back in your practice, but is preventing you from offering your very best to your patients? 
The great thing about DPC is we can diagnose and treat you and your practice just like you do for your patients. Just as you bring your patients to a state of increased balance, energy, and awareness, DPC can do this for you. 

With coaching, you can go from:

• Feeling like you’re not enough to enjoying a practice with healthy boundaries and a lot of integrity

• Having no self-worth to enjoying a lucrative and meaningful practice that fills you and your patients with inspiration

• Being run by fear to offering a potent resource of healing to your community

• Banging your head against the wall in frustration to being a true visionary and leader 

• Dwelling in a surface relationship with your practice to plunging into your depths and bringing forth your highest commitment to help others

When this happens, everything improves: Your income, treatment results, patient volume and, most importantly, the love you have for your craft.

When the inner blocks are cleared, every single thing you do to promote your practice will be so much more effective. DPC will ensure that this happens by:

• Helping you create and generate traffic to a website that serves as a powerful marketing tool, not just an online brochure (about 5% of the acupuncture sites out there do this right). 

• Getting systems in place that generate and maintain high exposure to your target market

• Refining your promotional materials so they are benefit oriented and addressing the real needs/problems of your patients, not just giving them the same boring spiel about what acupuncture is and how it works (once again, about 5% are doing this right).

• Easily implementing a referral system for you even if you hate asking for referrals!
   

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Now, we have the ultimate success formula: 
Freedom from limiting beliefs + Effective marketing and education = Thriving practice and Fulfilled practitioner 

DPC is the creation of Kevin Doherty, L.Ac. one of the only licensed acupuncturists in North America who coaches other acupuncturists. Kevin is a business and life coach, acupuncturist, author, and entrepreneur who has enjoyed a highly successful acupuncture practice since 2001. His mission is to take the profession of acupuncture to an entirely new level of credibility and professionalism. He has helped numerous acupuncturists throughout North America catapult their practices to their fullest potential. See for yourself by clicking here