Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC is available to speak to your groups

6 Hours
Our signature practice-building workshop covers mindset, marketing, money, and more.

Whether you are new to private practice or an experienced clinician, you deserve to have an ideal practice—one that provides you with personal satisfaction and profitability. Success in private practice is not just based on what you do, it also relies upon who you are—including your values and your vision as a business owner. To promote your values and vision, you need to boost your entrepreneurial mindset. Lynn’s holistic, clear, and articulate ideas about practice building can help all therapists exhibit more confidence, not just competence as they go further on their business journey.

• Utilize a basic, 3-step business model to clarify business challenges
• Reconcile the opposing concepts of service and profit to allow more comfort in charging full fees
• Generate more referrals with strategies within your comfort zone
• Identify and reduce limiting beliefs that sabotage financial business success
• Learn to love both the craft and the business of therapy in equal measure

6 Hours

Many therapists admit to using a coaching style in their sessions, for good reasons: a coaching approach can appeal to clients who want a more transparent relationship with a therapist, and in doing so, foster client readiness for action. But while some coaching elements fit into therapy easily, others challenge therapeutic norms and need modification. Our workshop will help you to understand and apply the skills and structure to allow clients to set clear goals and see the progress they make, even in a single session. Learn some coaching skills that have been modified specifically for therapy and see how to boost client satisfaction and retention. You’ll explore:

• The best way to structure a single therapy session to identify goals and generate results each time
• The value of adopting a partnership position–a collaborative coaching stance that encourages action steps
• Specific coaching skills, including how to ask powerful questions and set the stage for readiness
• The steps to using a “coaching edge” – the compassionate confrontation that boosts motivation and keeps clients on track

6 Hours

Do you feel uncertain when faced with a difficult case? Studies show that clients get the best results when their therapist appears self-assured—so what can you do when you feel confused or in doubt about your effectiveness? Come and learn how to advance your clinical confidence, to understand what counts (and what doesn’t) when it comes to getting results and being a successful clinician.

• Learn to quickly and effectively organize, assess, and summarize each session
• Adopt a session setup that offers tangible progress for clients—to promote results in every session
• Apply your “secret weapon”—your use of self—to build the therapeutic alliance
• Discuss the best methods for tracking and measuring client progress
• Encourage better client retention from the first contact through a full course of treatment

3 Hours

Social workers often face complex ethical problems that are specific to those who own and operate a private practice. For example, how do you reconcile the ideal of social work selflessness with the very real self-interest of running a business? Which 5 billing mistakes commonly result in malpractice violations? When can offering a sliding scale be considered unethical?

With the right information, learning to survive and thrive in a private practice aligns with applying the highest standards of ethical principles. In this workshop, we will explore the best solutions for some common concerns, including:

• The best business practices for setting, raising, and discounting fees to protect your clients, your licensure, and your income
• How to set boundaries to avoid tricky dual relationships that can sabotage therapy and trigger ethical issues
• What to do when the need to refer a client out conflicts with your desire to keep your client count high
• How to ease feelings of resentment for the necessary but often unpaid and unbilled work in private practice, such as note-taking, client phone calls, and conferring with other professionals

With over 60,000 therapists nearing retirement age each year, you may be asking yourself: When is the right time to close my practice? How can I prepare my clients for this inevitable transition? Will ending their therapy mid-process cause harm? And how do I cope with my own anxiety, guilt, and overwhelming concerns about letting go?

Whether your ending is planned or unplanned, therapists are bound by strict ethical codes that prohibit abandoning clients. Retirement isn’t as simple as walking away—it requires careful planning, precise timing, and transparent communication. For therapists in leadership roles—managing group practices, clinics, or agencies—the complexity deepens with the added responsibility of those they lead.

Workshops given by Lynn Grodzki and Margaret Wehrenberg, based on their newest book: "Letting Go of the Work You Love: A Workbook for Therapists to Prepare for Retirement, Close a Practice and End a Career with Integrity" (Aug 2025, PESI)