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Pursuing Hope Counseling, LLC

✨ Therapist & Human
🌈 Neuro-affirming, Judgment-Free
🕊️ Helping to Heal Religious Trauma & Harm
🧠 Certified LENS Practitioner
📚 Bookworms always welcome!

09/01/2026

🐉✨ RIDERS, YOUR NEXT ASSIGNMENT HAS ARRIVED. ✨🐉

Gilded & Bound is officially kicking off fall with our first themed book bedazzling morning:

✨ DRAGON EDITION ✨

We’re celebrating a certain highly anticipated dragon-filled new release the best way we know how…

With books and an unreasonable amount of rhinestones. 💎📚🐉

Bring your favorite fantasy read from home (or grab a new one at The Wicked Press!) and spend the morning bedazzling, creating, sipping something delicious, and hanging out with fellow book lovers.

🐉 Friday, September 18th
⏰ 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
📍 The Wicked Press • South Windsor
✨ $35 • Limited to 15 spots

Your ticket includes everything you need to bedazzle one book - you just bring the book, and we’ll bring the sparkle.

AND 👀 this one has something new…

✨ Gilded & Bound DIY Book Bedazzling Kits will be available to purchase and take home for the first time, including a limited Black + Gold Dragon Edition. 🖤🐉💛

No artistic experience. No perfect finished product. No have-to’s.

Just books, dragons, rhinestones, creativity, connection, and a little bit of magic. ✨

🎟️ Registration is officially OPEN: https://www.pursuing-hope.com/event-list

08/31/2026

✨ Once Upon a Friday was only the beginning…

This summer, I started hosting book bedazzling mornings because I wanted to create something that felt a little different: a space to gather, make something, talk about books, and spend a couple of hours doing something simply because it was fun.

Turns out… I wasn’t ready for it to end. 💜

So book bedazzling is getting a name of its own at Pursuing Hope.

✨📖 Meet Gilded & Bound 📖✨

The new home for our book bedazzling pop-ups, creative events, DIY kits (👀), and whatever other sparkly bookish ideas we come up with along the way.

Same rhinestones.
Same creativity.
Same no have-to’s energy.

Just a little more magic. ✨

Gilded & Bound is a creative offering by Pursuing Hope Counseling, LLC.

And our first fall gathering?

Let’s just say you may want to start stretching those wings. 🐉

9.18.26

More soon. ✨

08/14/2026

✨ That’s a wrap on our final summer Book Bedazzling! ✨

Thank you SO much to everyone who came out today to bedazzle, hang out, talk books, and make a little magic with me. 💎📚✨ We SOLD OUT, and I seriously couldn’t have asked for a better way to close out the summer events. 🥹🫶

And if you missed this one - don’t worry. Book Bedazzling will be back this fall! 🍂📖

📅 SAVE THE DATE: 9/18

I’m already working on the inspiration for our next one, and let’s just say…

You may want to start training. 🐉⚔️👀

And how about these covers for books by:
Devney Perry
Callie Hart
ava reid
Madeline Miller
Jenny Han
Laura Nowlin
Sarah Penner
Adrienne Young

08/12/2026

⚖️ Because a whole lot of therapists have been asking about this lately…

On Monday, I presented:

Subpoenas in Therapy: Understanding Your Obligations & How to Respond

And apparently, the timing was pretty good…

There has been A LOT of conversation lately around therapists, subpoenas, records, and testimony - and with that has come a lot of very understandable “Wait…what am I actually supposed to do if this happens to me?!”

So, because several people have asked:

🎥 YES — the recording of Monday’s 2-hour workshop is available for purchase!

We cover:

✨ What to do when a subpoena lands in your hands
✨ Why a subpoena doesn’t automatically mean “hand over the record”
✨ Records requests vs. testimony
✨ Preparing to testify & reviewing your record
✨ Treating therapist vs. expert witness
✨ Staying within your clinical role
✨ Documentation considerations
✨ How to slow down and determine what you’re actually being asked to do before responding

If recent conversations have made you realize, “Huh. I should probably know what I would do…” This is exactly what we spent two hours talking about. ⚖️

🎥 Recording available for purchase now!

08/11/2026

✨ REMINDER: Open Office Hours are TOMORROW! ✨

Have a private practice question you’ve been overthinking? A new idea you want to talk through? Stuck on the business side of being a therapist? 🧠💻

Come hang out at Open Office Hours! ☕️

📅 Tomorrow — Wednesday, August 12
⏰ 10:00–11:00 AM
💻 Virtual
💰 $45
👥 Limited to 12 therapists

Bring your questions, ideas, “is this a terrible idea?” moments, or whatever you’re currently trying to figure out in your practice. 😂

No formal presentation. No slides. Just real-time support, brainstorming, problem-solving, and conversation with other therapists building their practices too. ✨

There’s still time to grab a spot! 💕

www.Pursuing-Hope.com

07/28/2026

✨ One more magical morning before summer comes to an end… ✨📚💎

Our final Summer Book Bedazzling event is almost here! Join us at The Wicked Press on Friday, August 14 | 10:00 AM–12:00 PM for a cozy morning of creativity, books, sparkles, and good company. 💖

Bring your favorite book (or grab one while you’re there!), and we’ll provide everything you need to make it shine. No artistic experience required…just come as you are!✨

📍 The Wicked Press
🗓️ Friday, August 14
⏰ 10:00 AM–12:00 PM

Whether this is your first time or you’ve joined us before, we’d love to see you for one last bedazzling adventure this summer. 🌿📚💎

✨ Spots are limited, so be sure to reserve yours!

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07/11/2026

☀️ Your Summer Private Practice Workshop Lineup is starting Monday ✨

Some of your favorite business + private practice workshops are coming back this July & August…with manuals, practical resources, and space to ask the questions we all wish someone answered when building a practice.

(👀 Subpoenas got a whole extra hour added because…well…therapists had questions 😅)

For most of us, practice move a little slower in the summer 🌿

So why not use the season to invest in yourself, your practice, and knock out some CE hours along the way??

🎤 Upcoming workshops:

🧠 July 14 @ 10 AM EST
Neurodivergent-Friendly Business Hacks for Therapists

📋 July 20 @ 9:30 AM EST
Getting Credentialed: A Therapist’s Guide to Insurance Paneling

📝 July 27 @ 10 AM EST
Assessments in Practice: Meeting Medical Necessity

💰 August 3 @ 9:30 AM EST
Dollars & Sense: Tracking Expenses & Income in a Solo Private Practice

⚖️ August 10 @ 10 AM EST
Subpoenas in Therapy: Understanding Your Obligations & How to Respond

Whether you’re building your practice, trying to make systems feel less overwhelming, or wanting to feel more confident navigating the behind-the-scenes parts of being a therapist - these workshops were created for you 🫶

✨ CE credits available
✨ Practical, real-world tools
✨ No “one right way” to run a practice here

Grab your coffee, get comfy, bring your questions, and join from wherever you are ☕💻🌱

Pick the workshop(s) that support where you are right now.

Registration is open! ✨
DrGrechko.com/trainings

07/10/2026

✨📚 A little sparkle & a whole lot of bookish joy ✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us for July’s Once Upon a Friday: Book Bedazzling Event at The Wicked Press 🫶💎

Watching everyone create, chat, laugh, and turn their favorite reads into something uniquely theirs was the best kind of magic 🪄📖

No rules. No “right way.” Just books, creativity, and a little sparkle ✨

We’ll see you again in August 👀☀️

📚✨ Bring your book. Bring your creativity. Come hang out 💕

07/05/2026

✨ Did you know Once Upon a Friday is happening during Summerween?! 🎃📚✨

The Wicked Press is bringing the spooky summer vibes this Friday, so naturally…we had to add a little extra magic👻

Bring a book you love (or find your next favorite while you’re there) and spend the morning bedazzling, creating, sipping, chatting, and embracing a little cozy chaos. 🖤✨

No rules. No pressure. No “have-to’s.”

Just books, creativity, connection…and maybe a few spooky little surprises ☕️🕸️📖

📅 Friday, July 10
⏰ 10 AM–12 PM
📍 The Wicked Press

Come get witchy with us ✨🧙‍♀️

07/01/2026

✨ Private Practice Office Hours
📅 Tuesday, July 8 | 🕙 10:00–11:00 AM | 💻 Virtual

Have a question about private practice? Let’s talk.

Whether you’re navigating insurance, documentation, business systems, marketing, clinical questions, or simply feeling stuck, this hour is designed for you.

✔️ Send your questions ahead of time.
✔️ Join live and ask as we go.
✔️ Or simply listen, learn, and connect with other therapists.

Small group (12 participants max) so everyone has an opportunity to participate.

💲$45

I’d love to have you there! Feel free to message me with any questions or grab your spot today. 🤍

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