201. Life as a Traveling Therapist with Chronic Illness with Dr. Sally Riggs

Chronic Illness can completely change how you work, travel, and live, especially when your career depends on showing up for others. In this episode of The Traveling Therapist Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Sally Riggs to talk about what it really looks like to build a traveling therapist lifestyle while living with chronic illness and long COVID. We talk honestly about burnout, restructuring your business, creating flexibility through telehealth, and how Sally built a travel advising side hustle that supports both her health and her love of travel.

In This Episode, We Explore…

• How Sally transitioned from traditional therapy roles to a fully remote private practice.
• Living and traveling with chronic illness and long COVID while running a business.
• Why restructuring her practice was essential for protecting her nervous system and health.
• How becoming a travel advisor created a portable income stream outside one-to-one therapy.
• What accessible and chronic-illness-aware travel planning actually looks like in real life.

Connect with Dr. Sally:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.sallyriggs/
If you have any psychosis patients to refer: https://www.nyccbtp.com
Free Webinar: What You Don't Know You Don't Know About Psychosis: https://event.webinarjam.com/0oxmo/register/8m05miy
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sallyriggs
Travel advisor profile: https://www.foratravel.com/advisor/sally-riggs

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