Private Practice Startup Podcast

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.

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.

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...

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 imp...

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 :)

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...

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...

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 t...

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.

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...

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 al...

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.

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.

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 pod...

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 menta...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 g...

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, Danic...