Compassionate Climb

Meet Layci Nelson, president of the Transcend Leadership Collective, a leadership and communication consultancy. One of the stops on her career climb was as a director of youth services for a major nonprofit; at the age of 26 she was leading a team of 18 plus and managing a multi-million dollar budget, but didn’t feel as though she had the leadership skills necessary for a healthy team. Layci was driven to become a better leader fo...

Meet Matthew Joseph, creator of Noveltor, a therapy tool designed for therapists to easily engage clients between sessions. Matt has always had a desire to intersect the overlap between entrepreneurship and mental health. As he interviewed therapists to determine some of the biggest challenges they faced, he found that therapeutic homework was an area that often wasn’t quite hitting its mark; from there, Noveltor was born.

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Meet Amy Dover, a group practice owner and business consultant in Alabama. Throughout her 20 years in the field, Amy has worked in a variety of mental health settings; as she faithfully stepped through the doors that were opened to her, she began in private practice which has now grown to a group practice with 15 providers. While walking through the good, bad, and ugly of owning a group practice, Amy has allowed her Christian faith...

Meet Christy Pennison, owner of Be Inspired Counseling and Consulting, co-owner of Practice Collab, and host of the Inspiring Possible podcast. Christy began her career climb as a forensic interviewer, but found herself with a desire to do more. As she began working in the counseling field, Christy noticed the lack of mental health support in her hometown and made the decision to move back and open her own private practice. As she ...

Meet Clara Capano, a professional speaker and corporate trainer. The path to where she is now took some trial and error, but she began to see the pieces fall into place once she was in a management position overseeing multiple offices and teaching others how to run the business. As soon as she entered the training and coaching space, she knew that that was where she was meant to be. Do not miss her Halftime Huddle Masterclass! Use...

Meet Megan Tavares, a private practice therapist in Massachusetts. In her practice, Peace and Pearl Wellness and Counseling, Megan primarily works with perinatal mental health disorders. As a mom to two boys, and having dealt with her own postpartum anxiety and depression, she is able to share her own experiences and connect on a deeper level with her clients. 

Key Takeaways:

-Put time and effort into your website - reflect wh...

Meet Paula Montgomery, the Women United Director for United Way of Greater New Bedford, in New Bedford Massachusetts. Paula started career climb in broadcast journalism, but soon found herself wanting a career that spoke more to her heart. A conversation with someone she was interviewing led to her first position in the nonprofit sector working with the American Cancer Society. In her role today, Paula has helped to facilitate a pa...

Meet Maggie Song, a leadership coach. Upon entering the workforce post college, Maggie found herself quickly climbing the corporate ladder. After just five years she was in a management position, but knew very little about being an effective leader. She has since taken what she has learned about her unique leadership style and created a program for new leaders to bridge that gap from me to we.

Key Takeaways:

-Never stop workin...

Meet Brenda Cadman, a Canva Verified Expert. She has spent much of her professional life working with small businesses in a variety of areas. Having used and learned the ins and outs of Canva since 2014, she now teaches coaches, course creators and service providers how to use the program more effectively and efficiently for their business, saving time, energy, and frustration.

Key Takeaways:

-Using templates made by designers...

Meet Sarah Rivera, owner of the group practice La Luz Counseling in San Antonio, Texas. After working in the nonprofit and agency worlds for nearly a decade, Sarah made the jump to solo private practice in 2017 where she began to learn the business side of counseling, and in 2020 expanded into a group practice. Sarah now takes what she has learned along the way and hosts mastermind groups that focus on the business component of men...

Meet Christina Kantzavelos, a mental health professional working with individuals with chronic illnesses. Living with various chronic illnesses of her own, Christina struggled to find a therapist that had an understanding of what she was going through, where the burden of education was not put on her as the client; but when she did, a whole new world opened up that led her to where she is today. Along with working primarily with in...

Meet Mandy Wannarka, owner of Mindful Wellbeing, a group practice in Minnesota. While building her group practice one of the challenges she faced was figuring out payroll and how to move it from slow and tedious to automated and efficient. With a background in coding, Mandy’s husband, Weston, was able to create a program that streamlined the process and eliminated the potential for human error. From there, Mindful Solutions was cre...

Meet MacKenzie Bradke, a mother to an adopted daughter, private practice therapist, and founder of Theramama Haven, a community that focuses on helping therapist moms discover and practice self-care. She talks real talk about parenting and our profession and the experiences in her life that contributed to the development of her niche: therapists mothers who are doing all the things for everyone else. Do not miss the Radiant Resilie...

Meet Tyler, a private practice clinician in Tennessee and creator of Constructed Awareness Therapy. Following an initial career in the music industry and a personal experience in therapy, Tyler returned to school to pursue a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Quickly, he realized that traditional models of therapy, like CBT, were not a good fit for him or his clients which led him to EMDR. While practicing EMDR and trai...

In this episode, I share the group coaching options I will providing for both solo and group practice owners. I review the benefits of participating including meeting with like-minded professionals, connection, support, accountability, information, resources, goal identification and achievement, and feedback. We will be meeting virtually twice a month for six months. Register here: https://forms.gle/cMgQcVWZCbGSiaqg7

Meet Audrey Schoen, a private practice clinician in California who explains how she is able to charge premium fees while maintaining integrity. When Audrey first made the switch to private practice after giving birth to twins, she was charging $100 per session and was thrilled about it. She shares how life circumstances and coaching resulted in a mindset shift that has allowed her to increase her fee to $375 confidently and sustain...