Compassionate Climb

Julia shares the trends she is seeing in the mental health profession and her own group practice and shares the following reasons clinicians still want to join a group practice:

1. Collaborative learning environment

2. Reduced administrative tasks

3. Support network

4. Financial stability

5. Stable income and benefits

6. Continuing education opportunities

Learn more about her practice Compassionate Counseling Company.

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Meet Kristen Acciari, owner of the group practice Holistic Heart in Rhode Island. She discusses the network events she hosts along with the owner of ME Psychotherapy that came out of their own desire to connect and collaborate with helping professionals that get it. She discusses the evolution of her practice that started in 2014 and has grown to 15 clinicians explaining her start in a behaviorally oriented nonprofit and the wall she hit providing talk therapy alone. After building a reputation and turning clients away she decided to expand and describes how she strives to provide a whole-person experience through integrative and holistic approaches. She shares her efforts to intentionally foster learning experiences for her team and the way she helps them succeed. She also shares her decision to return to school for her PhD and the trainings she provides on neurodiversity affirming care.

Key Takeaways:

-It can be fun to not know what you don’t know

-Take action and see what happens

-Don’t over-prepare

-Set intentional time for planning and execution

-There is no lack of people who need support

-Everyone has something unique to offer

-In order to be  good therapists you have to know your stuff

-See each person on your team for who and how they are

-Get to know the members of your team as people

Kristen's Links:

Website

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Meet Jennifer Vincent, a therapist specializing in trauma and business coach. She discusses the private practice she started in Indiana in 2016, expanded to group, and sold last year. She shares the steps involved in selling a practice and her move to Florida as well as the process of starting another group practice called Therapy for Cycle Breakers. She also describes the consulting she provides to therapists on hiring, streamlining systems, and increasing revenue.

Key Takeaways:

-social media is helpful to get your name out there

-interview staff multiple times

-systems are essential to sell your practice

-if you are doing a great job, no one can take anything away from you

-be sure to ask about learning style

Jennifer's Links:

Website

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Meet Jennifer Crawford and Meredith Eaton, co-CEOs of Move Forward Virtual Assistants. Through their company they offer comprehensive mental health virtual assistants, mental health receptionists, and administrative support for mental health practices. They strive to help clinicians build their businesses and take some of the administrative weight off their shoulders. Their focus on feminist leadership, a work-life balance for their employees, and their dedication to high quality VAs for their clients has helped them build a thriving company. Together they have worked to form a certification process for their VAs and receptionists to ensure that every client gets the same high value service from each employee of the company.

Key Takeaways:

-Many clinicians do not learn how to build a business and become overwhelmed from the administrative side of their business.

-Employee well-being is a top priority resulting in a 30-hour work week as well as a comprehensive training and onboarding process

-When they found themselves burning out from adjustment to having contracted workers to employees, they hired an HR person.

-They built a comprehensive certification process for their employees that involves several weeks of training. This ensures that not only everyone is held to the same high standards but also keeps their employees from becoming overwhelmed once they take on clients. 

-Like true entrepreneurs, they have constant ideas of how to improve their company and the services they offer. Make sure to keep up with them and their socials!

Their Links:

⁠Website⁠

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Facebook

Meet Kim Snyder who has been a therapist for 16 years working primarily with parents involved with the legal system who recently closed her private practice and opened EPIC Parenting Academy. She currently provides workshops, courses, coaching, and groups. She shares how her experience with 4 adult children and 6 grandchildren has influenced her work, describes her process of closing her practice and starting and marketing this new business, and her process helping mothers of multiples ages 4-10.

Key Takeaways:

-getting parents to admit they need help is the first step

-there is no greater job that any person could have than to be a parent

-all it takes is 15 minutes with your child

-acknowledge the differences between your children

-get a mentor if you want to be good at something and do not have the skills

-her 4 pillars of EPIC parenting are Engaged, Present, Intentional, and Consistent

-our window with children is so short and ages 4-10 are pivotal

Kim's Links:

Website

Community

Meet Melissa Henry, a brand strategist and owner of Helluva Brand that helps entrepreneurs build a powerful, visionary brand. After spending 20 years as an accountant and transitioning to brand photography, she had a client that ask if she would coach them on building their personal brand and the rest is history! She explains how she helps clients identify their unique selling proposition that is not only unique but also defensible and relevant. When networking, she encourages you to lean in and ask questions to find out if the person you are talking to has a problem and you someone you know can solve their problem. She recommends seeking out strategic partnerships that share your values. She explains how following her process will save time and money by avoiding on marketing tactics and prioritizing strategy. Check out her Brave Brand Success Guide: https://www.helluva-brand.com/brave-success-guide

Key Takeaways:

-start by asking yourself what it is that you want to do in the world

-from there develop your vision which your north star

-mission is what you are doing to make the vision happen

-consider your core values and how do you express them in marketing and with clients

-identify who the ideal clients are for you and what events going on in their lives

-your unique selling proposition is what makes you different that no one else can replicate

-everybody buys with emotion

Melissa's Links:

https://www.helluva-brand.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-demple-henry/

Meet Kelly Geagan, the Clinical Director at Compassionate Counseling Company. She shares her career climb from juvenile detention, to paraprofessional, to community mental health and promotions to risk manager and program director. She shares traits that contribute to quality leadership, how this position evolved and what it entails, and factors that contributed to success.

Key Takeaways:

-never stop learning if you want to be a leader

-observe first and see how you can integrate yourself

-come from a place of wanting to learn and understand rather than directing

-make it your goal to master yourself

-you cannot expect the world to change for you so learn to adapt

-develop the internal skill set to manage whatever comes your way

Learn more about Kelly here: https://www.compassionatecounselingcompany.com/kelly-geagan/

Meet Katesha Reid, an LPC who is also an identity coach for women, author, and speaker.  She has made a career of not just being a therapist but also helping women find out who they are outside of their socially prescribed roles as a wife, mother, or something to someone else. Katesha uses her own experiences struggling with her identity as an adult woman and how she found who she was to help other women do the same. When her eldest child was young, Katesha realized she was not as fulfilled or happy as society had told her she should be. By exploring her feelings and talking to other women, she saw that many women struggle with feelings of being lost but do so in silence and isolation.

Key Takeaways:

-Do not limit your dreams by your circumstances. “I can’t do this because” is thinking within your circumstances. 

-The people in our lives who truly love us and support us will want us to be happy, even if our dreams or happiness looks different from theirs. 

-You need to define what motherhood looks like for YOU, not what society or others have told you it looks like.

-Many times the older women in our lives have not made choices to have the lives they had. Many did not have the option to be a business owner, to travel, or to do many other things other than be traditional wives and mothers.

-Find out what you like by trying things out! Getting to know yourself in this process is important.

Katesha’s Links:

Website

Facebook

Instagram

Meet the newest addition to the Compassionate Consulting Company team, Lucita Clondas LICSW! She co-owns Connections in Counseling, a private practice that she started in 2021 with a business partner. She describes the journey that led her to pursue her own practice, what has contributed to her success, the benefits of working with a consultant, and her process with consulting clients.

Meet Dr. Anahita Lake-Khosravi, owner of the Empowered Living Collective, a group practice in Colorado who is currently on maternity leave and has been able to fully step away from the business and only run payroll! She began hiring May 2023 and by September she was already a group of 10 and is currently a group of 13. She offers 1:1 coaching and a Solo to Group Accelerator Course. Listen to learn how she automated her practice and empowered her team. Here is her live where she shares 4 automations to take time off and truly unplug.

Key Takeaways:

-consider the vibe of your practice and how you want to come across

-consider hiring pre-licensed therapists and interns

-empower your team and make yourself the last resort for questions

-anytime a therapist has a question, answer it and then document the answer

-create a centralized document that links to everything else

-consider who the "go to" is for each task

-do it scared because you will never feel ready

-there is no better time to start then now and it is possible

Anahita's Links:

Website

Facebook Group

Instagram