Build a Practice That Works—For Your Clients, Your Team, and You.
Building a mental health practice takes more than being a great clinician.
Practice owners quickly find themselves navigating business decisions they were never trained to make—insurance, credentialing, billing, hiring, compensation, documentation, policies, systems, leadership, profitability, and growth—all while trying to continue providing quality care.
Whether you’re preparing to open your first private practice, trying to strengthen an existing one, adding clinicians, or scaling a growing group practice, Docere Consulting provides practical guidance grounded in the realities of actually building and operating a mental health practice.
You don’t need a generic business formula. You need strategies that make sense for the realities of behavioral healthcare.
Where Are You in Your Practice Journey?
Every practice has different challenges depending on where it is in its development. You may be starting with an idea, managing a practice that’s growing faster than expected, or wondering how the business you built became so complicated.
Wherever you are, we’ll start there.
STARTING
I’m Ready to Build
You’re considering private practice or have recently started and want to build the right foundation from the beginning.
Structure • Systems • Policies • Pricing • Insurance • Operations
STRENGTHENING
I Need My Practice to Work Better
Your practice is established, but inefficient systems, administrative challenges, financial concerns, or day-to-day problems are getting in the way.
Workflows • Billing • Documentation • Profitability • Policies • Efficiency
GROWING
I’m Ready to Add a Team
You’re moving beyond solo practice and need help navigating hiring, compensation, onboarding, leadership, and the systems required to support additional clinicians.
Hiring • Compensation • Onboarding • Credentialing • Leadership • Team Systems
SCALING
I’ve Grown—Now What?
You have an established group practice, but growth has created new challenges. You’re ready to strengthen operations, improve profitability, delegate effectively, and build something sustainable.
Leadership • Delegation • Financial Performance • Systems • Culture • Sustainability
What Can We Help You With?
Private practice ownership involves far more than providing excellent clinical care. Behind every session is a business that needs effective systems, sound financial decisions, clear policies, strong leadership, and processes that actually work.
We can help you strengthen the business behind the practice.
Practice Foundation & Operations
Build or strengthen the systems, policies, workflows, and day-to-day operations that keep your practice running effectively.
Policies • Procedures • EHR • Workflows • Documentation • Administrative Systems
Insurance, Billing & Revenue Cycle
Better understand and manage the processes that turn the care you provide into revenue your practice actually collects.
Credentialing • Claims • Denials • Collections • Payment Processes • Revenue Cycle
Hiring & Team Development
Move from doing everything yourself to building a team with intentional hiring, onboarding, expectations, and support.
Recruiting • Hiring • Onboarding • Roles • Accountability • Team Development
Compensation & Financial Performance
Understand what your practice can afford, what your services actually generate, and how compensation decisions affect profitability.
Compensation • Benefits • Overhead • Profitability • Pricing • Financial Performance
Leadership & Practice Culture
Develop the leadership skills and organizational structure needed as your role changes from clinician to practice owner and leader.
Leadership • Delegation • Communication • Supervision • Culture • Accountability
Growth Without the Chaos
Prepare your practice for growth with systems and strategies designed to support expansion without sacrificing quality, profitability, or your own well-being.
Scaling • Capacity • Systems • Delegation • Sustainability • Owner Burnout
Advice From Someone Who Has Actually Built the Practice
Because there’s a difference between knowing the theory and living the reality.
Dr. Mandy Bass didn’t learn private practice development from a textbook alone. She built and operates her own group mental health practice and understands firsthand what happens when a clinician becomes a business owner.
That means navigating insurance companies and credentialing. Hiring clinicians and administrative staff. Developing compensation and benefits. Managing billing and revenue cycle challenges. Creating policies and procedures. Implementing EHR systems. Leading a team. Watching the numbers. Making mistakes. Fixing systems that don’t work. And learning when growth is actually helping the business—and when it isn’t.
Private practice consulting at Docere brings that real-world experience to the table. The goal isn’t to tell you how your practice should work in theory. It’s to help you build systems and strategies that can actually work in the day-to-day reality of your practice.
You don’t need someone who has all the answers. You need someone who understands the questions practice owners actually face.
Need financial or accounting expertise too?
Through Docere’s collaborative approach, additional financial and accounting expertise is available through CPA Melanie Terrien when appropriate to your consulting needs.
What Does Working Together Look Like?
You don’t need another course sitting in your inbox or a binder full of ideas you’ll never implement. Consulting is designed around your practice, your challenges, and what you actually need to accomplish.
1. IDENTIFY
Figure Out What’s Really Going On
We’ll start with where your practice is today. What’s working? What’s creating frustration? Where are you losing time, money, or energy? And what do you want the practice to look like instead?
2. STRATEGIZE
Build a Practical Plan
We’ll identify priorities and develop strategies that make sense for your practice. Rather than trying to change everything at once, we’ll focus on the areas most likely to create meaningful improvement.
3. IMPLEMENT
Turn the Plan Into Action
Knowing what to change isn’t enough. We’ll help you translate the strategy into concrete next steps, work through obstacles as they arise, and adjust the plan based on what actually happens in your practice.
Less theory. More clarity. Practical next steps.
The goal isn’t to build someone else’s version of a successful practice. It’s to help you build one that works for your clients, your team, your finances—and your life.
Support That Fits Where You Are
Sometimes you need another experienced practice owner to help you think through one decision. Other times, you’re working through growth, restructuring, or bigger changes that require support over time.
Private practice consulting can be tailored to the level of support you need.
FOCUSED CONSULTATION
Work Through a Specific Challenge
Have one issue keeping you stuck? A focused consultation gives us time to dig into the problem, explore your options, and develop clear next steps you can put into action.
Great for: hiring decisions, compensation questions, workflow problems, billing concerns, policies, systems, or a business decision you need help thinking through.
ONGOING CONSULTING
Support as Your Practice Evolves
When you’re navigating growth, major changes, or several interconnected challenges, ongoing consulting gives you continued strategy and support as you implement changes in the real world.
Great for: adding clinicians, restructuring operations, improving profitability, developing leadership systems, or scaling a group practice.
PRACTICE INTENSIVES
Take a Deeper Look at the Business
Sometimes you need to get out of the day-to-day and look at the practice as a whole. An intensive allows us to examine multiple areas of the business, identify priorities, and develop a focused action plan.
Great for: practices that feel stuck, overwhelmed, inefficient, or ready for significant change.
Not sure which option makes sense? You don’t need to know before you contact us.