We were lucky to catch up with Brandy Porche recently and have shared our conversation below.
Brandy, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Naming anything – including a business – is so hard. Right? What’s the story behind how you came up with the name of your brand?
Due to my dysfunctional upbringing, I’ve always felt like an orphan even though I had a huge family. I felt like I didn’t match or belong. Because of this, even as a kid, I would often ask God where do I belong? Where do I fit? I felt like this was the question of my life. God would repeatedly answer my prayer with “You belong to me.” God showed me that I am His child. His Daughter. Born to follow Him and not my environment. This brought me relief and discomfort because following His path was not easy. While in my counseling program, one of my first classes was Introduction to Counseling with Dr. Fowler. During this class we set the foundation for many things. I can’t remember if I was following instruction or not, but it is during that class that God showed me the name to my private practice even though it would be many years away. God showed me that the name of my practice would be His Daughter Counseling The Heart. I wrote it in my bible. I didn’t know when or how I would accomplish my dream but having my company’s name confirmed motivated me.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
My name is Brandy Porche, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and the sole owner of His Daughter Counseling The Heart, PLLC. I help families, couples and individuals heal from dysfunction, trauma, and clinical symptoms that hinder healing and living a healthy life emotionally and mentally.
For family and couples counseling, my specialties include mother daughter relationships, parent child relationships, divorce counseling, infidelity, pre-marital and ongoing marriage counseling, healing attachment ruptures, adoption therapy, communication problems, healthy child-rearing, narcissistic abuse, dysfunctional families and more.
For individual counseling (ages 14 and up), some of my specialties include anger management, attachment issues, perfectionism, codependency, anxiety, depression, narcissistic abuse, shame, self-esteem and self image, trauma (childhood and current), and more.
Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?
I advertise on a few counseling directory platforms but most of my business is by referral. I think that if your service is good, your clients do the advertising for you. Your work speaks for itself. Also, I post meaningful things on my social media. My posts are relatable and new clients share with me that they are drawn by my website and social media material.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
I’ve always had perfectionistic tendencies and as a business owner I quickly learned that everything cannot be done in one day. I had to unlearn piling my to do list 10 miles high and then being disappointed about everything not being done. I’ve learned to implement balance in my daily goals so that I can last the long journey. If I take care of myself I am in a better position to serve my clients. I offer myself grace and mercy daily. No more perfectionism.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://hisdaughtercounseling.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/his_daughter_counseling
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hisdaughtercounselingtheheart
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/his-daughter-counseling-the-heart-pllc/
Image Credits
I took my own images.