An Expert in the Field
Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, is one of the leading business coaches in the US for small business owners. She specializes in working with change agents—therapists, coaches, healers, consultants and other helping professionals. She has been a licensed therapist in private practice since 1988 and a coach since 1996. Lynn is certified by the International Coach Federation as a Master Certified Coach, the highest level of certification that is awarded.
Education and Early Career
After receiving an undergraduate degree in Design, Lynn worked as an executive in the family business. She left to get a Master's in Social Work in 1988 from the University of Maryland and after licensure, quickly launched a psychotherapy private practice, where she worked with individuals, couples and families in a fee-for-service setting.
She learned that although 60% of all therapists work in private practice during their careers, few have training or education in areas of practice management or business development. Lynn combined her earlier career in entrepreneurship with her love of psychotherapy and became a business coach for therapists and healing professionals.
Lynn is trained in a variety of methods of psychotherapy, including psychodynamic therapy, CBT, EMDR, and methods of body-based psychotherapy.
Published Works
Lynn is the author of six books, all published by W.W. Norton. Her focus has been on the business of therapy and the business of coaching. She writes for "reluctant entrepreneurs" -- therapists, healers, counselors, coaches and consultants who are in private practice as a way to deliver services with autonomy and creativity, but need someone who can translate business strategy in a way that respects a healing mindset.
Her articles on practice-building appear in national magazines, including the Psychotherapy Networker, the Naturopath, and Social Work Today.
Over the years, Lynn has continued to break new ground with her published works. Her latest book -- Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session (W.W. Norton, 2018) offers a paradigm-changing model for today’s therapists: how to add the leverage and action of a coaching approach to the wisdom and goals of psychotherapy.
Affiliations
Lynn is a long-standing member of the National Association of Social Work and was the Vice-President of the NASW Metro Chapter from 2011 to 2013. She is also affiliated with the Greater Washington Society of Clinical Social Workers and was the President of GWSCSW for 2020-22. Lynn is a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC, nominated as a distinguished social worker.
Volunteering
Co-founder, “Healing with Basketball”
George Washington University Cancer Institute, Office of Survivorship, 2007-2012. This multi-year program was designed and delivered by Lynn Grodzki and Andrew Weiss to encourage emotional support and physical exercise for breast cancer survivors. The popular program, sponsored by GWUCI, was free for inner city women in Washington, D.C, with Lynn Grodzki, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Andrew Weiss, Certified Personal Trainer, on site to lead the monthly clinics. Women survivors shared thoughts and feelings and then got up to play! They learned a set of carefully modified basketballs drills and skills specifically designed to provide a sense of stretching unused muscles, extending their upper body range of motion and fostering a sense of fun and body confidence. The program was mentioned in the Washington Post and supported by the Washington DC Mystics Basketball Team as well as promoted by other basketball teams and organizations. Lynn Grodzki received the Mighty Oak Community Award from the Fashion for the Cure Foundation for the program (2012.)
