How clinician burnout, a broken mental health system, and a thousand cuts pushed a seven-figure owner to the edge and into selling a medical practice.

A raw breakdown of clinician burnout, scarcity mentality, and fear-based decisions behind a seven-figure practice collapse in a broken mental health system.

Join Gordon Brewer as we explore intentional growth, from burnout to balance, and how to know your why on the path to freedom in an aligned business.

From clinician burnout to freedom, guest Shalene Kite shares how a thriving DBT practice and a therapist business coach mindset create passive income for therapists.

Discover AI automation examples that help the modern therapist reclaim time using practical AI tech built for real AI for clinicians results.

Feeling financially drained? Join Lori Atwood for a candid talk on money anxiety, bookkeeping for therapists, and finding true financial empowerment.

After burnout and reinvention, healing begins. Refresh mental health, embrace identity burnout, and use revenue diversification with business sustainability strategies that last.

We share lessons on Leadership Reset, Hiring and firing, and protecting Team relations so Entrepreneurial therapists avoid burnout.

Stuck in therapist burnout? We share real talk on therapist fatigue, jobs for burned out counselors, and alternative careers for therapists.

Feeling fried, curious about therapist retreats, or secretly dreaming of side hustles for therapists that will actually restore you? We get it - and we made this episode for clinicians who want rest and revenue without the shame spiral.

When it comes to running a therapist business, nothing derails growth faster than the wrong hire. In this episode, we get real about the delegation problems, the bad hires, and the lessons that cost us time, money, and plenty of sleep.

We share practical ways a therapist mom can protect energy, use AI tools for therapists to reclaim time, practice real self care for therapists, and boost therapist productivity without losing humanity. If you’re in the messy middle, this one’s for you.

Being a mom therapist means wearing more hats than most people can imagine - and switching between them in the blink of an eye. 

In this raw and real episode, we talk candidly about balancing motherhood and career, and how we manage the mental load without completely burning out.

We unpack the deeply personal, strategic, and emotional decision every practice owner faces: whether to scale therapy, sell, or stay - and how aligned practice management can help you make the right call for your life and your business.

We get real about the emotional toll when you scale therapy practices, the identity shifts that come with leadership, and how to build a business that actually loves you back.

We pull back the curtain on our personal journeys through therapist burnout, the emotional toll of leadership, and the hard-earned lessons we’ve learned from building and breaking our therapy businesses.

In this first episode of Off the Chair, we share our personal stories of crashing, questioning, and rebuilding from the ground up.

We introduce our unfiltered mission: to talk about what really happens behind the scenes of building and sustaining a therapist business in today's broken mental health system.

Exploring this big wide world on your own.

Paying for a therapist when you’ve been kicked off your parents’ insurance…yikes.