Cherilyn Schutze is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional, EMDR trained and Mother of 4 daughters and 2 dogs.
She was widowed almost 8 years ago, shortly after starting her licensure hours.
She recently went into private practice with one of her best friends since 7th grade. It has been her lifelong dream. (started the process in 2008 and finally attained her goal in 2021)
Mary Mannhardt, LPC is the owner at Grace Counseling Center. At age 18, she was a world-class runner with the hope of competing in the first women's Olympic Marathon.
In 1982, she survived a suicide attempt leaving me paralyzed from the chest down. She is the author of two books detailing her recovery journey, Dark Marathon, and Client to Clinician, which will be published in August 2021.
Luna Medina Wolf has a Group Practice for the past five years. She is a qualified supervisor and offer an internship location for mental health graduate students.
Through her work volunteering with Professionals United for Parkland, she received two professional awards in 2018. Trauma work is her passion and life calling.
She is currently pursuing her path as a volunteer with EMDR Humanitarian assistance program to become an EMDR facilitator.
Fun fact: Luna loves dancing and if you drive next to her you might catch her jamming in her car singing out loud.
Kelly Smyth-Dent is the founder of Scaling Up, a place where mental health therapists can receive accessible and affordable trainings and community support to scale up their impact in the field and humanitarian workers can access partnerships, interventions and support for themselves, their staff and their clients.
Aline-Vanya was born in Haiti and raised in Miami, FL. She's an only child of a single mother who passed away in August of 2018.
She originally wanted to be an attorney and changed her course of profession after becoming a volunteer with the Guardian ad litem.
Aline loves homemade chocolate chip cookies and she's currently binging on Greys Anatomy.
Marla grew up loving art, playing and working with horses. It’s no wonder she became an experiential therapist!
Marla works alongside two wonderful equines in Parkland.
She enjoys teaching others how to incorporate art, play, games and horses into their therapy sessions in her spare time.
Nicole Iacovoni is a Financial Therapist & Licensed Psychotherapist with 17 years experience who teaches entrepreneurs, coaches, and therapists how to make tending to their finances feel fun and flirty instead of boring and overwhelming.
Through her trademarked program "Money Therapy" she helps people heal their relationship with money, make more profits, and manage money with confidence.
Nicole has been featured by CNBC, Business Insider, Up Journey, and Hello Giggles.
When she's not empowering people to take an active role in their financial lives, you'll find her hanging out with her chickens at her little "farmette", devouring self help books, and guzzling coffee.
Dr. Dani is a licensed marriage and family therapist, speaker, cultural empowerment coach, and social justice advocate.
She has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, NBC, The Today Show, and Bustle.
Dr. Dani passionately uses her platform to foster safe spaces of racial trauma healing, for the community and therapists of color.
In her leisure time she enjoys connecting with others and discovering new places.
Shelby Sanderford is the founder of DOCPACE, a Virtual Waiting Room Solution that is disrupting the traditional doctor’s appointment process for both patients and medical staff.
Driven by her desire to create system-wide change in the healthcare industry, Shelby is passionate about creating a world where healthcare is something everyone is able to prioritize.
Her background in Applied Physiology and Healthcare Administration combined with her Masters in Business Administration and her natural love for problem solving and helping others led her to start DOCPACE.
DOCPACE is the recipient of the IdeaPitch competition and Shelby is an extremely hands-on leader who ensures that both practitioners and patients are satisfied with the appointment journey.
Colleen Hilton has been a practicing clinician for 15 years. Founder & CEO of 3 companies including Thrivelution.
Most importantly, she's a proud Mom of two fierce young women!
Amber is a single mother of 3 energetic, compassionate and wonderful boys. Amber is the owner of True You Brevard and is the founder of Adel's Hope. Amber is also the Space Coast NASW Chapter president.
Roberta specializes in helping her clients overcome anxiety and kick migraines in the butt. She opened her practice in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, in 2013.
Fun facts about her, she was born in Sydney, Australia, and her entire family is from Brazil.
Danielle Swimm is a private practice owner in Annapolis, MD. She's also known as the entrepreneurialtherapist. You can find her most on Instagram where she provides coaching and courses that teach therapists how to build and scale their dream businesses.
She's a mama of a 1 year old baby girl and loves to push therapists to think outside the box and dream big.
Mike is the Co-Founder and CEO of FreshBooks, the #1 accounting software in the cloud, designed exclusively for freelancers and growing service based business owners.
Built out of frustration after accidentally saving over an invoice, Mike spent 3.5 years growing FreshBooks from his parents’ basement.
Since launching in 2003, over 24 million people have used FreshBooks to save time billing and collect billions of dollars.
Tiffany McLain, MFT is a therapist & consultant whose mantra is, “Full fees are the new black.” Via her program, The Lean In. MAKE BANK. Academy, she helps therapists in private practice overcome their shame about making bank so they can help the clients they are truly passionate about serving without sacrificing their own wellbeing.
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.
Beth is the President and Founder of Clearly Clinical, an affordable national podcast-based Continuing Ed company that highlights women and minority clinicians.
Called the 'Utilization Review Guru', Beth trains clinical teams across the country about Clinical Documentation, Utilization Review, and Law & Ethics... she's one of few people who believes documentation trainings can be fun!
She also operates a private practice north of Los Angeles where she works with young adults and members of the LGBTQIA population.
Since 2016, Jarred Bolen has been helping healthcare practitioners connect with their patients and colleagues through Hushmail.