Security and Flexibility in Private Practice vs. Agency Work with Alicia

Alicia is a group practice owner specializing in couples counseling in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. She helps clients with relationship struggles such as infidelity, divorce, and postpartum anxiety and depression.

Your experience with Bootcamp in one sentence: An amazing experience — everything I needed to get where I wanted to be in business.

How were you feeling before you signed up for Bootcamp?: It's been a long time, but I know I remember feeling lost and like I really didn't know where to start and what to do to get my practice going the way I needed it to be. I didn't know how to get my phone ringing.

What did your private practice look like before Bootcamp started?: It was very small and part-time. I saw a couple of clients in an office that I subleased from another therapist in the evenings after my agency job.

How do you feel after Business School Bootcamp for Therapists?: Like the transformation is night and day. I've continued to stay plugged into Bootcamp and the community the last 5 years and have worked with Kelly 1:1, and it's made a huge difference. Now I have a clinician that works for me and I've consistently been able to keep my phone ringing and clients in the door.

How have your private practice and life changed after Bootcamp (processes, clinically, work-life balance, financially)?: My work-life balance is everything I wanted it to be. I have an amazing practice that I can do around my life — I don't have to fit my life around my business, and financially I am able to live comfortably and make double what I ever made working for agencies.

What would you say to someone else who is on the fence about joining Business School Bootcamp for Therapists?: The benefits completely outweigh the cost, and you'll make back your investment 100 times over if you just do the work!

What do you wish you had known about private practice before you started?: How fun it would be. I would have done it sooner!