Private Practice Startup Podcast

Dr. Jo has been a psychologist for 14 years and living with chronic illnesses since she was 15. She's worked in community mental health, university counseling centers, multiple Veterans Affairs hospitals, nursing homes, and now private practice. Since she's a recovering overachiever, she's also an author, an editor, a registered yoga teacher and trained as a death & mourning doula. She has been known to dress as a unicorn--repeatedly--and has been kissed by a giant Amazonian river otter.

Katie K. May is a licensed therapist and online course creator. She helps therapists market and fill groups and online group programs so that they can scale their impact and increase their income, without adding more hours in the office.     To learn more and gain access to free trainings and resources to generate new clients like magic, visit www.becomeagroupguru.com

Maureen Werrbach, LCPC, is a multi-business entrepreneur in the mental health field. She owns Urban Wellness, a large counseling group practice in Chicago, The Group Practice Exchange, a business coaching firm, and co-owns Group Practice Builders, a business focused conference for group practice owners.   Her aim in life is helping the helpers. As a helping professional herself, 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. She helps healthcare owners learn how to successfully start and scale their businesses, so that they can have a larger impact on their communities.

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.

Jo is all about connecting people to purpose through inspiration and innovation. Author of The Entrepreneurial Clinician and creator of The Book Of Evidence she is also the Founder and CEO of PurpleCo - a team of specialist allied health consultants dedicated to helping people who experience injury illness and trauma reclaim their lives through work.   Jo graduated from the University  of Sydney with a Bachelor of Health Science, Rehabilitation Counselling in 1994.   Jo is passionate about the health benefits of work and truly believes that everyone has the right to meaningful and rewarding employment.   Purple Co grew out of this belief as a truncated form of PURpose for peoPLE.

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!

Kasey is a spirited entrepreneur who has embraced many challenges and now finds satisfaction in designing new businesses. She’s always had an entrepreneurial mind and knew that becoming a business owner was always in the cards. Kasey turned her mental health private practice into a thriving group practice, going from 1-12 clinicians in year one, and continued to multiply from there. Her and her team took this business from zero to three million in less than four years. Today, Mindsight Behavioral Group employs over  80 professionals and is on track to have over 100 employees and five million in revenue by 2022.   Kasey’s super power is helping others develop the strategic systems needed to scale and stabilize their practice. She now works as a Small Business Consultant , kc consulting, where she helps people do just that! Additionally she runs an Expert-Led Membership Community, Mindsight Partners, for practice owners to get the comprehensive support they need. She’s an advocate of Profit First and recommends it to everyone she knows. She lights up talking about and analyzing numbers, creating formulas and metrics to determine the direction a business should go. She’s skilled at helping others look at their financials and create growth plans from a financially-informed perspective, making sure not to lose sight of purpose.

Laura Long is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Greenville, South Carolina. She is also the owner and lead badass over at YourBadassTherapyPractice.com, where she helps therapists in private practice organize their business systems, streamline their marketing strategies, and fill their practices with loyal clients who are happy to pay their full fee.   Laura offers free practice-building tools (and hilariously inappropriate emails) through her mailing list. She is best known for her off-the-cuff coaching style that includes colorful language, a sarcastic sense of humor, and an uncanny ability to keep it real.   She shows therapists how to grow their practices...without losing their minds. Because building your private practice should be fun!   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.

Kym Tolson was a brick and mortar therapist for 10 years and she used an insurance biller. Over a 6 month time period, she was fired by her billers (long story) AND decided to take her practice all online. She had to scramble and decided to be her own biller all at the same time. Through these changes, she decided to develop a course to help other therapists accomplish the same goals. Currently, she is a telehealth therapist living as a digital nomad & billing insurance companies.

Amy Morgan is the Director of Academy Hour, a provider of mental health training for first responders. She has a Master's in Counseling and is earning a PhD specializing in Trauma & Disaster Relief. She is a regular presenter at law enforcement conferences and provides training for justice & first responder organizations nationwide. She is the developer & director of the Certified First Responder Counselor program, teaching therapists how to work specifically with first responders.