Braving Private Practice

For therapists building practice on purpose.

Six weeks of clinical, relational, and ethical work- anchored in Brené Brown's BRAVING and shame resilience research, Simon Sinek's Why, Yalom's interpersonal process, and the Multicultural Orientation framework. Co-facilitated by Dr. Erica Tatum-Sheade and Ryan M. Sheade

Graduate training prepared you for the room.
It did not prepare you for the clinician inside it.

Most therapists step into private practice with a license, a theoretical orientation, and a quiet question they don't quite say out loud: What kind of clinician am I going to be when no one is watching?

For some, it's the just-graduated panic, a caseload that arrived faster than the confidence to hold it, a fee schedule built on a guess, the slow realization that the supervisor you trusted at the agency isn't on the other end of the phone anymore. For others, it's the ten-year drift, the practice you built around the clinician you were three jobs ago, the cases you keep taking even though something in you knows you shouldn't, the tiredness that doesn't sleep off because it isn't actually tired.

Both doors lead to the same room. The clinical self that runs the practice, the use of self, the scope decisions, the countertransference that hits different when there's no agency between you and the chair, the choices that get made on Tuesday because they didn't get named on Monday, was never something graduate school taught. It's the work underneath the work, and most therapists are figuring it out alone.

Braving Private Practice is the training for that work. Six weeks of clinical content — therapist identity, use of self, ethical decision-making under uncertainty, congruence between what you say you do and what you actually do, and the relational scaffolding that lets the practice stay honest as you change. Not the business of practice. The clinician inside it.

Format

CE Hours

Delivery

Cost

6 Weeks 90min sessions

9 NBCC CE Hours

Live Cohort

$425 Early Bird*

Six weeks.
One integrated clinical self.

Each week pairs an organizing frame from established theory with clinical content grounded in Adlerian, CBT, interpersonal process, shame resilience, and Multicultural Orientation research. Specific tools, worksheets, and applied frameworks are provided to enrolled participants in the course workbook.

Clinical identity & the foundation of practice.

Sinek's Golden Circle and Adlerian lifestyle assessment applied to the clinician's pull toward independent work. Examination of motivation, scope of competence, and the ethical implications of practicing without clarity of purpose.

Therapeutic use of self & the noise we carry into the room.

Brené Brown's Arena framework and Yalom's interpersonal process applied to the relational dynamics of independent practice. Examination of the messages clinicians carry into the room and how they shape therapeutic alliance.

Naming the barriers to clinical effectiveness.

Brown's framework on rumbling combined with CBT cognitive restructuring of therapist beliefs that distort clinical decision-making. Identification of avoidance patterns, imposter dynamics, and the somatic, emotional, and cognitive responses that signal rupture in clinical work.

Congruence in Treatment

Rogers' congruence and Brown's authenticity work applied to alignment between stated and actual practice. Examination of practice representation, scope claims, and the ethics of how clinicians present themselves publicly and privately.

Culturally Responsive Practice

The Multicultural Orientation framework — cultural humility, cultural opportunities, cultural comfort — held alongside the relational ecosystem that sustains independent practice. Examination of who is in your room, who is not, and the constellation of professional networks that shape both.

Clinical Integration & Sustainability

Brown's BRAVING framework as the integrative anchor for six weeks of clinical-identity work. Development of a sustainability plan, including the supervision and consultation infrastructure that protects both clinician and client over a career.

Learning Objectives

Apply Adlerian and CBT frameworks to clinical decision-making within private practice settings.
Analyze the impact of therapist identity and use of self on the therapeutic relationship and treatment outcomes.
Identify and address ethical considerations in private practice, including boundaries, dual relationships, and scope of competence.
Integrate culturally responsive practices beyond competency into treatment planning and client engagement.
Evaluate personal and systemic barriers- avoidance, imposter beliefs, burnout- and their impact on clinical effectiveness.
Develop a clinically coherent and ethically aligned framework for independent practice that supports client care and professional sustainability.

6 in-person sessions

Starts July 26th · Held at IMHA in North Scottsdale

FAQs

Is this a clinical training or a business training?

Clinical. The CE accreditation requires it, and the clinical content is what makes the practice-building work hold. Business decisions get clearer once the clinical self running them is clear. We treat them as one integrated decision frame.

Do I need to be licensed to enroll?

Master's-level licensure or current pre-licensure status under clinical supervision. Open to LPC, LCSW, LMFT, psychologists, and master's-level associates and interns.

What's the time commitment?

Six in-person sessions, plus approximately 30–60 minutes of pre-work per week (workbook reflections, brief readings, caseload review)

What if I'm already in private practice?

Many of the most engaged participants are established clinicians ready to rebuild a practice that no longer fits — most often a pivot toward private pay, a niche refinement, or a clinical-identity reset after years of agency work.

Brave the practice
you actually want.

Be Brave