Establishing your own firm or practice is an incredibly daunting task. From myriad of legal and regulatory hurdles to the financial and career related risks, professionals who choose to start their own firm have to overcome so much and so we wanted to reach out to those who’ve done it successfully for advice, insight and stories.

Andre Davis

After spending more than 25 years working in some of the top salons in New York City, traveling around the world, and collaborating with fashion and beauty professionals in the industry, I felt it was finally the right time to create something of my own. Read More>>

Lindsey Jonin

I started my mental health private practice, Lily Counseling and Art Therapy, LLC in the summer of 2023. It seems like it’s been so much longer than 2023 due to how much I’ve grown since then. Owning my practice was definitely not on my mind when I was a newbie therapist. Read More>>

Nicole Taylor

I started my practice from a place of both passion and misalignment. Early in my career, I noticed that many traditional mental health settings and clinical approaches felt rigid and disconnected from what I had personally and culturally known to be healing, supportive, and grounding for mental health and connection. Read More>>

Abbey Jones

After 18 years of working within the health care system at that time, I realized I was burning out. My true vision was to provide a different kind of care: a highly personalized, intuitive approach where I could dedicate more time and attention to each individual. Read More>>

Kelly Rae Kerwin

Honestly, I never set out to build a business in the traditional sense. I didn’t wake up one day with a polished business plan, a five-year strategy, or some big entrepreneurial vision. What happened was much more organic and, in many ways, deeply personal. People started showing up. Read More>>

Joy Elliot, LMFT-S

I didn’t begin my career as a therapist. In my early twenties, I earned my bachelor’s degree in counseling, but life temporarily led me in a different direction. For a couple of decades, I raised my children and worked in the childbirth field, eventually starting a small doula agency with one other birth doula. Read More>>

Stephanie Randle

I spent years as a C-Suite executive. From the outside, I had everything: the title, the influence, the seat at the table that so many women work their entire careers to reach. But from the inside, I was quietly unraveling. I felt completely alone at the top. I lacked confidence in ways that terrified me. Read More>>