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The Private Practice Startup

The Private Practice Startup was co-founded by Kate Campbell, PhD, LMFT & Katie Lemieux, LMFT, two therapists who built their 6-figure private practices from the ground up. We're passionate about inspiring mental health professionals to grow their businesses and live lives they love! On our podcast, we interview entrepreneurs, experts in the mental health and business arenas and successful private practitioners to provide a wealth of information for our listeners! We LOVE interviewing all of our guests and most importantly we have fun doing it. For more info, visit our website www.PrivatePracticeStartup.com.
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Dec 24, 2023

Christine is the founder and CEO of Mentaya. Her background is in computer science.

She is a strong advocate for mental health and left her job as a Google Product Manager to start Mentaya.

Mentaya is a company that helps private practice therapists collect their full cash rate by taking advantage of out-of-network (OON) benefits.

Dec 3, 2023

Andrew Riesen is a mission-driven entrepreneur, financial accountant, and CEO of Heard, the financial back office for therapists in private practice. Prior to Heard, Andrew worked at PwC, where he worked as a financial accountant, helped build an internal software incubator, and co-founded an affordable sales tax solution for small to medium-sized businesses.

Nov 18, 2023

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

 

Kate and Katie both built their 6-Figure private practices in less than 2 years 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 across the globe from startup to mastery. They have helped therapists increase working with the clients they love the most, profit more, increase their rates, have more time off and enjoy a true lifestyle business.

 

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, Love Your Practice 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.

Nov 5, 2023

Prompted by a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2019, Dr. Omolara transitioned from her career as a professor, researcher & pediatrician to co-founder of Strong Children Wellness — a multi-practice healthcare network that partners with communities to provide tech-enabled physical health, mental health, and social care for Medicaid-eligible & uninsured children and families, including those impacted by poverty, trauma and immigration inequities. As a social entrepreneur, she has secured over $1,000,000 in funding in less than 2 years, without loans or investors. This prompted her to create Melanin & Medicine, a healthcare consulting firm that supports mission-driven healthcare organizations serving communities of color to secure grants, contracts & alternative payments to help them scale and make greater impact.

 

Dr. Uwemedimo is a noted speaker on social entrepreneurship, funding strategies in healthcare, community-based healthcare for under-resourced communities and clinical & advocacy approaches to supporting anti-poverty health policies, including access to safety net programs, such as Medicaid, SNAP & TANF. She has been an invited speaker for several conferences & organizations including American Academy of Pediatrics, American Women’s Medical Association, Health Tech 4 Medicaid, Center for Law and Social Policy, Immigration Advocates Network, United Hospital Fund & Greater NY Hospital Association.

Oct 22, 2023

Ajita is a first-generation poverty and trauma survivor, she became who she needed.

Whether she is seeing clients or helping therapists walk fully in their purpose, she is a servant leader.

She leverages her background as a corporate revenue strategist to help mental health professionals build purposeful & profitable living legacies.

 French fries are her love language :)

Oct 7, 2023

Maureen Werrbach, LCPC, is a visionary entrepreneur in the mental health field. As the owner of Urban Wellness – a multi-location group practice in the Chicago area, she knows first-hand the focus healthcare providers put on making a positive impact in the world. She also knows that many healthcare professionals put business second to boots-on-the-ground helping in the community. That’s where she comes in. shares her expertise in group practice leadership by coaching, educating and training social service professionals in a variety of ways. She is the founder of The Group Practice Exchange, host of The Group Practice Exchange Podcast, co-host of the Group Practice Owners Summit, and certified Fix This Next advisor.

Maureen also continues to show up as a leader in the mental health field as a guest on podcasts, live events, and featured articles. Maureen’s ultimate goal is to help group practice owners learn how to successfully start and scale their businesses, so that they can have a larger impact on their communities.

Sep 30, 2023

Maureen Werrbach, LCPC, is a visionary entrepreneur in the mental health field. As the owner of Urban Wellness – a multi-location group practice in the Chicago area, she knows first-hand the focus healthcare providers put on making a positive impact in the world. She also knows that many healthcare professionals put business second to boots-on-the-ground helping in the community. That’s where she comes in. shares her expertise in group practice leadership by coaching, educating and training social service professionals in a variety of ways. She is the founder of The Group Practice Exchange, host of The Group Practice Exchange Podcast, co-host of the Group Practice Owners Summit, and certified Fix This Next advisor.

Maureen also continues to show up as a leader in the mental health field as a guest on podcasts, live events, and featured articles. Maureen’s ultimate goal is to help group practice owners learn how to successfully start and scale their businesses, so that they can have a larger impact on their communities.

Sep 29, 2023

For the past four years, Amanda Gurgel a LMCH and the owner of the community group practice named Beyond-Counseling, has dedicated herself to improving mental health in the community through a supportive counseling environment. Originally from Brazil, she is a kid at heart that’s passionate about traveling, scuba diving, and changing lives. By traveling many different countries, it has given her the experience of diverse ways of living, thinking, and expanding her intuition. Her biggest accomplishment is one of building an empire that not only aids in community healing but also offers growth and opportunity for mental health interns and providers.

Sep 28, 2023

Kati has been practicing as a therapist in Missouri since 2009. Throughout her journey, she has learned what kind of therapy suits her best, as well as how to make her work as a therapist enrich her personal life outside the office. I’m her spare time she enjoys camping with her husband and 3 kids as well as growing her hobby farm.

Sep 27, 2023

Dr. Danielle Graddick is a Clinical Psychologist who is licensed in New Jersey and New York. She earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Forensic Psychology at Wright State University University's School of Professional Psychology in 2019. Dr. Graddick currently maintains a private practice in Montclair, NJ where she conducts individual therapy and psychological testing. In her free time, she is cooking, playing with her two cats (Charlie and Darwin), hiking, or binge-watching a new series.

Sep 26, 2023

In 2011, one year after her divorce, Jianny founded Fearless Love to help individuals and couples create safe, intimate marriages and fearless loving relationships.


In 2018, Jianny authored an Amazon Best Seller- From Love Trauma To Fearless Love: 7 Tango Steps for Breaking Free from Narcissists and Predators. The book is recognized with the prestigious Kirkus Reviews Recommended Book Award and also received the 2020 New Author of the Year Award by Audiobook Reviewer.

Jianny’s articles and contributions on relationships and heartbreak appear in YourTango.com, Bride, MSN, Glamour, PsychCentral, Bustle, OnMogul, PopSugar, and eHarmony. In her free time, Jianny enjoys traveling and dancing Salsa and Argentine Tango.

Sep 25, 2023

Lauryn is the owner of Bloom Counseling Services, a practice that specializes in children, teens, and emerging adults. She loves her family, her team, and her clients.

Her favorite food is cheese and favorite movie is The Princess Bride.

Sep 24, 2023

Anne Hosey is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado who loves helping adults "level up their grow up" with individual therapy. Her specialities are self-confidence, neurodivergence, and early adulthood. Anne is also an amateur woodworker and has built or refurbished furniture for her office and home.

Sep 9, 2023

Whitney Owens is a licensed professional counselor, group practice owner, and faith-based private practice consultant.

She is located in Savannah, Georgia, where she manages a private pay group practice with 10 plus clinicians.

Along with running her practice, she consults practice owners around the country on how to start and grow a successful faith-based practice.

She hosts summits, a weekly podcast, and a membership community for faith-based practice owners called Wise Practice.

Aug 26, 2023

Kelley Sonnenberg started in 2017 as Practice Solutions’ first billing specialist, working hands on with providers to manage their billing before moving into her current role as Billing Director, where she manages teams of billers and supervises all billing work.

Her experience as a biller gave her the knowledge, skills and passion to help expand the company, resulting in helping hundreds of mental health providers. 

Kelley’s passion for travel led her to live her dream as a digital nomad for a year abroad while working for Practice Solutions. She traveled to 22 countries in 2019, gaining an array of cultural experiences, and a unique perspective on global healthcare.

She hopes to empower providers to gain the confidence and knowledge to take on insurance billing.

Aug 13, 2023

Gabrielle is a LCSW based in Sarasota, FL and former owner of a group practice in Denver, CO. After realizing her own burnout in 2021, she sold her practice and now helps other therapists and entrepreneurs scale and sell their business to live their dream life. Gabrielle also provides training and consulting on burnout prevention with a heavy emphasis on polyvagal theory, and is an executive coach for the SBA THRIVE program. When she isn't working, she's teaching Zumba, surfing, or traveling around the world

Jul 29, 2023

Samantha is an online therapist currently living outside of Charleston, SC.

She started her own online practice in 2021 and is licensed/ holds telehealth licenses in 6 states.

Samantha is passionate about slow living and all things French culture, especially the pastries and french wine.

Jul 15, 2023

Aaron and his team at Mental Health Marketing have been working with clinicians since 2012.

His team built the onlinecounseling.com directory, and since then they've worked on hundreds of clinician websites and marketing strategies.

Jul 1, 2023

Julie is the owner of GreenOak Accounting, a firm that exclusively serves private practice owners in the US.

Julie and her team have implemented Profit First with hundreds of clients and have seen the system transform practices from struggling to profitable.

Julie's goal is for every practice to be profitable, so she shares all her tips and tricks for implementing Profit First in mental health in her upcoming book: Profit First for Therapists.

Jun 17, 2023

Michael is the Director of Marketing at The Receptionist, a Denver-based, boostrapped software company.

He has led marketing teams large and small over the last decade, and before that, he was an award-winning sports writer for a daily newspaper in Kansas.

He lives in Colorado with his wife, two children, and two dogs, and he loves making pop culture movie references.

Jun 3, 2023

Jermaine Wall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over a decade of clinical experience with adolescents, young adults and adults for issues such as anxiety, depression and trauma from physical and sexual abuse.

Other focus areas including treating male victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse.

Jermaine has worked in a variety of settings such as hospitals, schools and residential facilities.

May 20, 2023

Christie Pearl is a Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDR Approved Consultant in private practice in Massachusetts and Virginia.

She specializes in EMDR Intensives for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families who are struggling with work stress to create a healthier relationship with work so that they can be who they want to be today, instead of who they had to be as children.

May 6, 2023

Monica is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas and California and is a trauma coach for audacious, high achieving, overworked and burned out therapists.

She helps her clients find their inner badass again with insight and connection.

She uses 21st century trauma informed, body based interventions to help healers break through their stuckness and achieve authentic alignment with their best self so that they can do their *best* work!

Apr 22, 2023

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

Kate and Katie both built their 6-Figure private practices in less than 2 years 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 across the globe from startup to mastery. They have helped therapists increase working with the clients they love the most, profit more, increase their rates, have more time off and enjoy a true lifestyle business.

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, Love Your Practice 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.

Apr 9, 2023

Danica is a coffee lover, drawn to the ocean, and a not-so-secret strategy nerd.

As COO of Simplified SEO Consulting, Danica gets to spend most of her time helping therapists and other mental health professionals build the business of their dreams with dream clients who are already searching for them!

As a birth business owner, former trauma advocate, University instructor, and single momma, Danica knows how important it is for busy business owners to get the info they need quickly with action steps to implement right away.

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