When therapists branch out into owning a business, they typically create an individual private practice or a group private practice. In both models, an individual is at the center. In individual private practice it is common to experience professional isolation, whereas in group private practices it can be hard for business owners to juggle the financial and emotional well-being of all its employees/contractors.

We chose a collective model that allows for each of our individual practices to come together under an umbrella (or should we say “house” 😊) and sustain each other through combined creative power, clinical resource-sharing, and professional/emotional support. It allows us to move within our values as people who both believe in the transformative power of collaboration and also in maintaining our autonomy and freedom as individual clinicians – a manifestation of the therapeutic concept of interdependence in our own professional lives.