Melody is a licensed social worker and coach. She helps female executives and entrepreneurs master the mental and emotional aspects of having a successful career and a balanced life. Her clients are managers and leaders at places like Google, Facebook, HP, and Deloitte. She also helps entrepreneurs take bold steps to grow their businesses, like double their monthly income goal in a few weeks of coaching. Melody is also the creator of The Media Darling Method, an online course that shows therapists how to reach more clients using PR and publicity.

Buck Joffrey, MD, is a surgeon turned serial entrepreneur, asset manager, and podcaster. Dr. Joffrey finished his surgical training in 2008. Since then, he has started multiple seven- and eight-figure businesses and has amassed a substantial portfolio of investments in the real estate, energy, internet, and health sectors. Dr. Joffrey is also a financial educator. He is the host of the Wealth Formula Podcast and international #1 best selling author of 7 Secrets of Eternal Wealth. His mission is to provide financial education for
high paid professionals.

Christy Westerfeld, Esq. is an attorney and legal resource for online entrepreneurs and coaches. She helps savvy, badass business women cut through the confusion and overwhelm of legal, and create an easy and affordable plan of action to legally protect their websites and businesses.

Christy provides legal training, templates drafted specifically for online coaches, and is the host of “The Legal Lounge,” a weekly legal Q & A show. When she isn’t working, you’ll find Christy chasing after her 11 month old son, binge-watching “Suits,” or trying out new recipes.

Cindy Nicholson is a former teacher and corporate trainer who helps entrepreneurs design and develop online courses that get real results. She calls herself the Course Whisperer for her keen ability to turn the incredible knowledge of her clients into effective and engaging learning material.

After years of creating training programs in the corporate world, Cindy wants to help entrepreneurs level up their online courses so that they can scale their business and create loyal, raving fans.

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. Visit PrivatePracticeStartup.com for more info! Join our Startup Nation Superheroes in Facebook.

Carol is an licensed professional counselor and a certified eating disorder registered dietitian who is passionate about the work that she does helping others. She has worked in the field of eating disorders for over 30 years and believes in the hope and healing that comes out of the recovery process. She wholeheartedly believes that connection matters and, out of her work with clients, she co-founded thera-LINK in order to bridge distance and see her clients through secure video, as needed. She is certified in Brene' Brown's work as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator and continues to practice the same principles she teaches about in her own life. When Carol is not in the office, you will likely find her hanging out with friends and family, digging in the dirt or tending to her beautiful plants.

Pia Arrendell, LMFT has been a marriage and family therapist in Asheville, NC for the past 10 years. She specializes in working with couple facing the aftermath of infidelity, lack of intimacy and trial separations. In addition, she is certified in EMDR and treats the effects of trauma in people's lives.

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. Visit PrivatePracticeStartup.com for more info! Join our Startup Nation Superheroes in Facebook.

Becky DeGrossa spent many years in the corporate world before becoming a therapist. Once she opened her private practice, she, just like everyone else, struggled with marketing. Figuring out the marketing puzzle was such fun for her, that she decided she liked marketing therapists more than being one, so she launched Counselingwise.

Since 2012, CounselingWise has helped over 200 therapists achieve 1000's of page 1 rankings in Google. This experience has allowed them to refine a 9-step roadmap for successfully marketing private therapy practices. Becky teaches this roadmap in Private Practice University, and Counselingwise still does this work for therapists who want to fast-track the process.

In his 2017 book, “Private Practice Essentials”, published by PESI, Inc., author Howard Baumgarten said that Becky DeGrossa has "revolutionized the online therapy website building process” with her method.

A few fun facts about Becky:
-She has traveled to 25 countries (and wants to travel to 25 more!)
- She was once trapped in a car with a 100-pound baboon — the scariest experience in her life
- She has mastered the art of “Op” language (demo available), and still speaks “Op" with her 91-year old friend during their weekly phone calls.

Melody Wilding is a licensed social worker who help high-achievers mentally and emotionally thrive in their careers. When Melody started her practice a few years ago, she had zero clients and no credibility. Today she has a client waitlist, has given a TEDx talk with over 15,000 views, and has been featured in dozens of top media publications from Inc, Forbes, and Fast Company to Cosmo, Shape, and Glamour. Melody is also the creator of The Media Darling Method, an online course that teaches therapists how to land major publicity that grows their private practice and personal brands. 

Fun facts: 
- Melody comes from a family of entrepreneurs. She got her name because her parents ran multiple businesses in the music and entertainment industries. 
- Melody is a Jersey girl born and raised. And she has the accent to prove it. 
- While Melody loves connecting, she is an INFJ and dedicated to helping other introverted and highly sensitive therapists do business in a way that fits their personal style.

Melissa is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Work-Life Balance (WLB) Business Coach who after crushing her three-year financial goals for NewVu Therapy in her first year of private practice (while working an ideal schedule) sought a new challenge and increasing levels of freedom, impact, and wealth. 

In the same month that Melissa began crushing five-figure months, she followed another calling and ultimately founded a non-profit, Professionals United for Parkland, to facilitate healing and growth in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting. 

She continues to expand the reality of her dream life through helping high-achieving entrepreneurs whose hustle is sabotaging their families to create work life balance so they can scale their businesses, enjoy their success with the ones they love most, and even have time for themselves. 

Through each of her endeavors (including starting a family!) Melissa has been blown away by the power of a clear, aligned intention and a heart of love and service in bringing more and more people into the achievement of a fulfilled life.

Dr. Lisa Herman is the founder of Synergy eTherapy and is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in MN, WI and NY. She started doing her own online work many years ago and has learned A LOT along the way. About a year and a half ago, she expanded her online private practice to include other licensed therapists to join in and "get handed" to them nearly everything needed to start online work within a group practice feel. Dr. Lisa lives in Mpls with her handsome hubby, adorable toddler and she loves karaoke (yep!), fishing, cooking and being with extended family.

John Clarke helps therapists fill the empty slots on their calendars and overcome their fears of digital marketing. 

He’s a licensed therapist, business coach, and wordsmith for therapists. John learned a lot of things the hard way in multiple practices from the ground up in highly competitive regions of the country and started writing about those lessons at PrivatePracticeWorkshop.com.

Today, John owns a thriving private pay group practice in Charlotte, NC and is the founder of Unconditional Media, the digital marketing team for therapists in private practice nation-wide.


Allison Puryear is an LCSW with a nearly diagnosable obsession with business development. She has started practices in three different cities and wants you to know that building a private practice is shockingly doable when you have a plan and support. 

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Perry Rosenbloom is the CEO & Founder of Brighter Vision, the worldwide leader in custom therapist website design. His connection to therapy and therapists runs deep: His mother-in-law owns a private practice in Jacksonville, FL, his father-in-law is in recovery and just received his 30 year chip, his Uncle (who he never met) died at a very young age due to drug use, and the heroin epidemic has hit his hometown very hard. With so many connections to therapy and therapists, he is immensely proud to be able to help support them in their work and enable them to be successful business owners.

Danielle Kepler, LCPC is the founder and “head insurance guru” at Be Your Own Biller, LLC, where she offers consultation to business owners, solo practitioners, and non-profits local to Chicago and across the nation.

Be Your Own Biller’s mission is to empower clinicians and demystify the insurance credentialing and billing world so they do not need to hire a long-term credentialing or billing service.She co-hosts a podcast dedicated to insurance credentialing and billing.

In addition to consulting, she is a clinical therapist and has a private practice in downtown Chicago. She is paneled with over 30 private insurance companies/EAPs and does her own credentialing and billing.

I am Greek (visit my country!), I have one mobile app under my belt called Addapp (also in the wellness space) which I grew to 100k downloads and 10k daily active users.

I am the Founder & CEO of Therachat, have been doing this one and a half year. My team is my biggest accomplishment. They are all much smarter and more competent than I am on so many fronts. I feel blessed to be working with them.

Fun fact: When I was a kid I was pretty unsocial. I started communicating with people when I started playing the guitar and sing. Music can do miracles!

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.