What's Next: Our Plans for 2024!
With 2023 officially behind us and 2024 an open road ahead, we wanted to share some exciting upcoming plans with you! If you didn’t get the chance, check out our blog ‘A Look Back at 2023’ to see what we got up to last year. As for what lies ahead, buckle up, buttercup!
Last year, Amy had an idea that felt like a long shot at the time but began to grow into an idea that the Always Wellness team couldn’t let go of without giving it our all. As Amy approached the homestretch for licensure, the thoughts floating around in her head culminated to: How can my business have a bigger impact? How can I help more people?
As of this month, Always Wellness is shifting from being solely a therapy private practice business into becoming a grassroots organization whose goal is to help more people, always.
There are a lot of moving parts, but we’ll let you in on what we know now. Always Wellness will, for the time being, remain a for-profit Limited Liability Company in order to make sure we can provide our wellness staff with the pay they deserve and continue to accept insurance plans for our clients. While a majority of the money made by our wellness team from providing therapy services will go to paying those counselors, we are also adding in an additional layer of giving back and paying it forward.
Always Wellness has developed a plan to make charitable donations throughout the year. Last year, we launched an online store where we sell mental health themed merchandise and accessories to raise awareness. A portion of our profits from these sales gets put into our fund to make annual charitable donations. We’re always looking to create items that you want to proudly represent, so if you have any ideas or designs for our store, please send them our way at store@alwayswellness.org.
We have officially begun the process of seeking funding to be able to provide no-cost and low-cost sessions to clients in need. We have identified a non-profit organization that we think would be a perfect fit for what we want to accomplish, and we have reached out to them to start the process. We are hoping that this non-profit will be able to help us in the next steps of increasing our impact and helping more people, so send the good vibes our way that we hear back soon.
We are aware that it takes community to make a positive impact on a community. For this reason, after much thought and consideration, Always Wellness has decided to begin publicly accepting donations. If you choose to donate to Always Wellness, your money will go directly towards funding low-cost and no-cost sessions for people in need. This will help us launch our new initiative of Pay-What-You-Can sessions. In full transparency, this means you’ll be funding sessions for clients in need while also helping to offset the business expenses and income impact counselors that offer pro-bono or sliding scale sessions incur. We are hoping that people who believe in affordable mental health care for all will join us in our push to increase these services. Help us to help people, always.
Last but not least, we are looking to begin adding to our team! We’ll primarily be looking to add members to our wellness team but we don’t like to limit ourselves to opportunities. If you are a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and find that our mission speaks to you and you want to join us, check out our job postings. If you are not an LPC or LCSW but think you could be a good fit for our team either in a role we already have established or a role you are interested in creating, we encourage you to reach out and start a conversation with us.
We are so excited to see where 2024 takes us. It means a lot to us that word travels by mouth, so if you’re sharing our mission and work with your family and friends, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. If you haven’t yet, you can sign up for our newsletters to stay in the loop!
Happy 2024, y’all! Let’s make the world a better place, always.