When I was a little girl I want to change the world. I didn’t know how, I didn't really know why - all I knew was that I wanted to make an impact in a world where people were hurting. I studied Rehabilitation Counselling and graduated from the University of Sydney in 1994. I didn’t understand that having this undergraduate degree would provide me a foundation for helping people to take back control of their lives following injury, illness and trauma. I’ve been practicing as a clinician for 20 years. I smile as I remember some of the client’s who have overcome insurmountable odds to be alive, to walk again, to return to their families; to manage their pain; to represent their country at the Olympics; who can’t walk but learn to fly a plane….. people are amazing.

I passionately believe that private practice is the change we need in health care. Private Practice is good for the client, its good for the community, it’s good for the clinician.

Every time we as a clinician empower someone – to heal; to accept; to grieve; to build; to trust we are doing so much more than just influencing 1 person. . We are influencing a family. And when we influence families we influence communities. When we influence communities we influence cities. When we influence cites we influence the state – when we influence states we will change NATIONS.

Marla is a lifelong horse lover who had the dream to combine horses and therapy. She is an accomplished presenter in experiential therapies, including art, play, sandtray and equine assisted psychotherapy; speaking at local and national conferences. Her private practice, Berger Counseling Services, seeks to support children, teens and adults dealing with difficult issues through "doing" instead of talking.

The Private Practice Startup is co-owned by Kate Campbell, PhD, LMFT and Katie Lemieux, LMFT. They’re two therapists with entrepreneurial spirits who live, work and play in South Florida. Kate and Katie both built their 6-Figure private practices from the ground up and love inspiring ambitious mental health professionals to brand themselves and grow their dream private practices! They provide free podcasts, webinars, online courses, private practice coaching, and customizable private practice paperwork for therapists across the globe. They look forward to inspiring you from startup to mastery!

Marissa Lawton is a licensed counselor, National Board-Certified COunselor, and a member of the American Counseling Association. She is also an avid content marketer that lights up partnering with female therapists to build on-brand private practices through strategic, tailored online marketing.

Marissa is the creator of Cathartic Marketing, a six-week group exercise that helps clinicians discover the emotional scheduling process of their ideal clients so they can hone their online content and convert potential leads to paid sessions.

Since the tender age of 8, Samantha has expressed an innate and sincere desire to ease suffering of others and leave the world a better place. Most of her ideas and childhood "projects" were built upon the foundation of making others "feel better" or fostering hope in tragic situations. Samantha's natural character strengths made counseling an ideal professional match, which she honors with integrity and passion. During her many years of education, Samantha also developed, accidentally, a love for entrepreneurship. She has had several ideas that were explored but not executed for various reasons until she, with her husband, dreamt up KhoSpace - the first boutique co-working space designed just for mental health and helping professionals! 
In addition to helping others, Samantha has a few other "in another life" identities. Before pursuing counseling, Samantha obtained a masters in public relations and wanted to be the next Today Show host! She briefly lived in Los Angeles and was into the Hollywood and PR scene for a while, but realized it didn't feel authentic. She loves sugar and sweets and wanted to spread her love through baking, but realized while she may have the talent, she didn't have the drive to wake up at 3 am every day! Lastly, Samantha absolutely loves dogs! Her mini goldendoodle, Georgie, is the apple of her eye and "totally has me wrapped around his paw... I think when I have kids one day, I'll be in trouble!"

Maureen Werrbach is a Chicago group practice owner with multiple locations and over 20 staff including therapists, psychologists, a nurse practitioner, and admin staff. She also coaches group practice owners through her business The Group Practice Exchange and does countrywide traveling group practice trainings through Practice Builders.

Jessica Richards, LMHC owner of The Center of Life Counseling and Administrator of The Beginning Counselor's of Florida. During my last year of grad school, in 2013, I knew I wanted to be in private practice and work with college age students struggling with anxiety and depression. It was the very reason I began my degree in psychology and counseling in the first place.

Little did I know that the journey would be met with many hurdles and struggles that I was not prepared for. I now take my experience and journey and share it with new grads and registered interns providing tips and tools to have a successful internship to licensure journey.

A few fun facts about my experience:

1. My licensure experience lasted from 2013-2017, approximately 4 years. More than the 2 year's many assume it takes. 
2. I had over 4 qualified supervisors throughout this period, most at the same time. 
3. I was in private practice the entire journey along with agency and group contract work. 
4. I took 4 months off from the field altogether after a "post-grad existential crisis" 
5. I took the NCMHCE 3 times. 
6. I taught CEU courses for licensed clinicians during internship. 

A few fun personal facts about myself are I freaking love love adventures, traveling, fishing is a new hobby I've started within the last year or so, painting, and animals. I'm trying to learn how to golf but, have no idea what I'm doing just seems like a Floridian thing to do.

The Private Practice Startup is co-owned by Kate Campbell, PhD, LMFT and Katie Lemieux, LMFT. They’re two therapists with entrepreneurial spirits who live, work and play in South Florida.

Kate and Katie both built their 6-Figure private practices from the ground up and love inspiring ambitious mental health professionals to brand themselves and grow their dream private practices! They have a hunger for business, branding and marketing. They love sharing their expertise and inspiring private private practitioners from startup to mastery.

Connor McClenahan is the co-owner of Cúpla Media with his twin brother Brendan. He created Cúpla Media after seeing how well his own videos did for his practice in Los Angeles. Connor has a doctorate in psychology from Fuller School of Psychology, and also loves cycling and camping with his wife and 3 boys.

Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award winning author. Since 2005, Phil has owned and operated a digital agency based in Kansas City. In 2016, Phil and John Jantsch, of Duct Tape Marketing, co-wrote, SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. SEO for Growth is an Amazon bestseller and has been listed as a top marketing book by Mashable, Oracle and The Huffington Post. It’s also been featured on MSNBC, Entrepreneur and Search Engine Journal, and was named by Forbes as the #1 SEO book on its list of "Essential SEO Books for Every Startup to Read in 2017". Phil and John are currently entering the next phase of their partnership by offering a training and SEO certification program to marketers and web designers, and creating a national network of certified SEO consultants.

My gift is to help and encourage others!
For over 30 years I have been doing this in the world of business as well.
Being a Certified Professional Coach and the CEO of MSS allows me the opportunity - along with my expertise, skills and 13 years of experience in Mental Health - to come alongside therapists and help them manage, grow, maintain and thrive in their private practice. 
Understanding the importance of the business component (which is everything on the outside of the therapy room) to private practice and to be successful, I specialize and provide customized and valuable services and results. THIS is what allows the clinician to shine in their areas of there strengths, to get back to doing what they are called to do and to help them once again enjoy their dream!
I don't do this on my own and neither should you!

Sarah Leitschuh is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Eagan, Minnesota. In addition to seeing therapy clients, Sarah also provides clinical supervision and coaching for other therapists. Sarah is passionate about working with parents, caregivers and helping professionals who are attempting to figure out the best way to attend to their own needs while caring for others. She works with therapists who find themselves exhausted and overwhelmed trying to balance their therapy practice with the obligations of having a family. Sarah is a wife and mother of two young children. She enjoys spending time outdoors and reading. Sarah's goal for 2018 is to make more time for her love of reading; and get through her huge stack of partially read "fun" and professional books.

The Private Practice Startup is co-owned by Kate Campbell, PhD, LMFT and Katie Lemieux, LMFT. They’re two therapists with entrepreneurial spirits who live, work and play in South Florida. Kate and Katie both built their 6-Figure private practices from the ground up and love inspiring ambitious mental health professionals to brand themselves and grow their dream private practices! They have a hunger for business, branding and marketing and share their knowledge and expertise so others can also achieve the success they desire. 

Together, they have been featured as guest experts on GoodTherapy.org, Therapy Sites, Your BadAss Therapy Practice, Abundance Practice Building podcast, Selling the Couch podcast, Practice of the Practice podcast, Brighter Vision’s podcast, Taboo Talk Time podcast, Marketing Workshop podcast and Become a Group Guru. 

They provide free podcasts, webinars, online courses, private practice coaching, INSPIRE Networking, and customizable attorney approved private practice paperwork for therapists. They look forward to inspiring you from startup to mastery! Visit PrivatePracticeStartup.com for more info!

Dr. Jessica Dolgan, Psy.D. is the Founder and CEO of Therapy Partner, a proprietary, industry specific, comprehensive practice management solution. Dr. Dolgan is also a Psychologist with a thriving clinical practice in Denver, CO, a national consultant for clinicians, and is a registered CE provider offering varying courses related to the Business of Practice. Dr. Dolgan is passionate about creating powerful industry based technology, education and support services for mental health professionals. She provides consulting services throughout the industry, working with progressive organizations to globally improve the business of practice for clinicians, ultimately impacting the quality of care professionals provide to patients. 

Dr. Dolgan’s practice management company, Therapy Partner, features progressive “Book-Bill-Document” technology, allowing clinicians to seamlessly manage all business of practice tasks online. Therapy Partner’s intuitive technology allows clinicians to manage all business of practice tasks, including scheduling, billing, progress notes, statements, revenue tracking and more all from one system! Clinicians utilizing Therapy Partner increase revenue by 20% within the first year of adoption. Therapy Partner is the national industry leader in providing single device, single solution practice management technology and has won an award for being among the top 10 practice management solutions in the healthcare industry. www.therapypartner.com

Roy Huggins, LPC, NCC, is one of mental health's top experts on technology and ethics. Roy is the Director of Person Centered Tech, an organization that provides continuing education, consulting and support services for mental health professionals around utilization of tech in their practices in an ethical and HIPAA compliant manner. Roy also has a private practice in which he specializes in providing counseling services to tech workers, "geeks" and startups. Roy was himself an independent web developer for many years before making the transition to a therapy private practice. He quickly found that the mental health profession needed expert guidance on technology topics. Roy founded Person Centered Tech in 2010 after helping answer a colleague’s questions about legal and ethical use of email. His research to answer that first question exposed him to the industry’s difficulties applying the HIPAA-mandated risk assessment perspective to issues of technology.

Since 2010, Roy has continuously worked to expand his understanding of his colleagues’ needs and stay up-to-date with the ever-evolving digital world. He’s also found the time to teach ethics at Portland State University, serve on the board of the Oregon Counseling Association and the Zur Institute Advisory Committee, consult with counselor licensing boards and individual therapists on issues relating to technology in therapy practice, as well as co-authoring or authoring 2 book chapters and contributing to numerous publications.

Roy's combination of experience as a techie web developer and private practitioner give him a unique understanding from which to provide accessible and actionable guidance to mental health professionals seeking knowledge and direction on how to use tech in a legal and ethical way.

A few fun facts about Roy: he speaks Japanese and has an online therapy practice with clients in Japan; he loves "kittehs"; and fully embraces the use of emojis in text-based communications ;-).

Roy Huggins, LPC, NCC, is one of mental health's top experts on technology and ethics. Roy is the Director of Person Centered Tech, an organization that provides continuing education, consulting and support services for mental health professionals around utilization of tech in their practices in an ethical and HIPAA compliant manner. Roy also has a private practice in which he specializes in providing counseling services to tech workers, "geeks" and startups. Roy was himself an independent web developer for many years before making the transition to a therapy private practice. He quickly found that the mental health profession needed expert guidance on technology topics. Roy founded Person Centered Tech in 2010 after helping answer a colleague’s questions about legal and ethical use of email. His research to answer that first question exposed him to the industry’s difficulties applying the HIPAA-mandated risk assessment perspective to issues of technology.

Since 2010, Roy has continuously worked to expand his understanding of his colleagues’ needs and stay up-to-date with the ever-evolving digital world. He’s also found the time to teach ethics at Portland State University, serve on the board of the Oregon Counseling Association and the Zur Institute Advisory Committee, consult with counselor licensing boards and individual therapists on issues relating to technology in therapy practice, as well as co-authoring or authoring 2 book chapters and contributing to numerous publications.

Roy's combination of experience as a techie web developer and private practitioner give him a unique understanding from which to provide accessible and actionable guidance to mental health professionals seeking knowledge and direction on how to use tech in a legal and ethical way.

A few fun facts about Roy: he speaks Japanese and has an online therapy practice with clients in Japan; he loves "kittehs"; and fully embraces the use of emojis in text-based communications ;-).

Miranda Palmer is a therapist who started business coaching at the request of friends and colleagues who saw her flourish in building a cash-pay private practice during the recession in one of the top 3 worst cities in the country. She has been named as Best Private Practice Consultant in the past, and the Business School Bootcamp she co-created with Kelly gets rave reviews! In her off time she loves to challenge herself and you might find her doing AcroYoga, running an ultra trail marathon, or getting muddy during a Spartan Race!

Kelly Higdon is a psychotherapist turned business coach who loves helping people create businesses with ease and in a way that makes for a happier life. She is the co-founder of ZynnyMe and the co-creator of the Business School Bootcamp for Therapists, one of the largest online business training programs for mental health professionals. When she isn't working, you can find her playing roller derby, rocking out at concerts or playing a fierce game of tag with her kiddo and husband.

Amy Crane is a Facebook Advertising Consultant and the founder of Social Lab Marketing. Frustrated with spending thousands of dollars on traditional marketing for her retail business and seeing little results, Amy decided turned to Facebook Advertising. She quickly realized the power of Facebook Advertising and her overall sales jumped 30% in just a few short weeks. 

Today she manages over $4 million in ad spend on Facebook and Instagram. And loves helping other entrepreneurs and business owners reach more of their customers and clients with the power of Facebook Ads.

My name is Alex Molek. I am recently married and have a dog. I have been working at TherapySites for over 3 years now. I started as a website specialist and have become the sales manager over time. I really enjoy working with Mental Health Professionals and improving their practices and online footprint. What impacts me the most is that the website we assist our customers to build, these mental health professionals, help people that are in need and looking for help.

GreenpointMed was founded by Justin Gaines in 2016. Justin earned an MBA in Finance while studying in Manhattan and became a senior project manager, specializing in process implementation and improvements. In 2015, after relocating to South Fl from NYC, Justin founded GreenpointMed to help healthcare providers run more efficient practices.

Startup Nation, Justin was a blast to have on our podcast and totally rocked the mic while discussing a topic he is most passionate about: 3 Tips for Accepting Out of Network Benefits. For more info about our podcasts, webinars, online courses, private practice coaching, or attorney approved private practice paperwork, visit www.PrivatePracticeStartup.com.

Elvita Kondili is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC Supervisor and a Doctoral Candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision. For the past 7 years she has grown a thriving private practice business and the lifestyle she always wanted. Elvita is on a mission to help therapists do the same through one-on-one coaching, teaching simple and practical marketing and business tools while supporting them each step of the way. She is often called a technology whiz but she likes to think of her success as simply a discipline of doing. 

Elvita is from Albania and lives in Charlotte, NC with her boyfriend Charles who is a passionate environmental activist. They love to bike, hike, travel and get involved in social and environmental justice causes. Elvita attributes her happy demeanor and endless energy to her Buddhist meditation practice and dedicates all she does to the benefit of others.

Talking Points:

The three Ms that transform marketing into an elegant, artful and powerful self-promotion without sounding sale-sy or impersonal. 
1. Your mastery
2. Your message
3. The method

Startup Nation, you won't want to miss this episode! We had a blast discussing how to Make Your Private Practice "Profit First" with 4 practice building consultants. They are passionate about helping and inspiring therapists across the globe to build and grow their dream practices.

Kate and Katie are the owners of PrivatePracticeStartup.com. Kate owns BayviewTherapy.com and Katie owns LemieuxSolutionsUnlimited.com. 

Ernesto Segismundo is a LMFT in California and owner of CavFamilyTherapy.com & Fylmit.com

Laura Long is a LMFT in South Carolina and owner of LauraLongTherapy.com and YourBadassTherapyPractice.com

During this episode we discussed the following talking points: 

1. What is Profit First?
2. Core Principles of Profit First
3. The bank accounts...
4. Why is Profit First a Mindset Shift
5. Solo vs. Group Practices

Listen now for massive #ValueBombs and #NinjaTips! 

Nicole Liloia of www.nicoleliloia.com provides strategy + mentorship to women business owners who want to scale through multiple income streams. She founded her first business, which was a therapy private practice, in 2014 after suffering severe burnout in the non-profit world and refusing to ever return to a 9-5.

Nicole got her master's in Social Work at Columbia University and has written for Forbes, Huffington Post, and MindBodyGreen.

She's obsessed with entrepreneurship, women becoming wealthy, Apothic wine, and never misses a Taco Tuesday.

We discussed the following talking points with Nicole: 1) Have income foundation first; 2) Identify their problems; and 3) Create and test different products.

Startup Nation, Nicole was a blast to have on our podcast and totally rocked the mic while discussing a topic she is most passionate about: How to Scale Your Private Practice with Multiple Income Steams. For more info about our podcasts, webinars, online courses, private practice coaching, or attorney approved private practice paperwork, visit www.PrivatePracticeStartup.com.

Amanda Patterson, LMHC, CAP, NCC was awarded Florida Mental Health Counselor of the Year by FMHCA in 2017. She has a practice where she specializes in depression and anxiety in teens and young adults. She is super passionate about helping therapists develop a business plan to become successful in private practice. She facilitates Marriage and Relationship Retreats and is trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. She has two cats and enjoys reading all types of books!

On this podcast, Amanda discusses the following talking points: 

1. The importance of a solid plan to be successful
2. The components of a business plan
3. Resources on how to create a business plan

Startup Nation, Amanda was a blast to have on our podcast and totally rocked the mic while discussing a topic she is most passionate about: How to Create a Private Practice Business Plan. For more info about our podcasts, webinars, online courses, private practice coaching, or attorney approved private practice paperwork, visit www.PrivatePracticeStartup.com.

Craig S. Cody is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Tax Coach, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years experience on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 17 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. As a
Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain, certified. With this organization, Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life and recently authored 10 Biggest Tax Mistakes That Cost Business Owners Thousands.

Startup Nation, Craig was a blast to have on our podcast and totally rocked the mic while discussing a topic he is most passionate about: Tax Strategies To Help Private Practioners Lower Their Tax Bills. For more info about our podcasts, webinars, online courses, private practice coaching, or attorney approved private practice paperwork, visit www.PrivatePracticeStartup.com.