Most speakers will inspire your room for an hour. I send them home knowing what it takes to keep their doors open.
Thirty years in behavioral health. No fluff, no theory, just the truth nobody tells founders until it is almost too late. I get in front of your people and talk straight about what it really takes to start and sustain this work, from someone who has built it, run it, and lived the close calls.
Your audience does not just leave inspired. They leave knowing what to do next.
Tonya Shaw, LCSW, SAP
Thirty years in behavioral health.
Speaker
Understand your Business
Starting it right
How to open a behavioral health business the right way, from entity and licensing to your first client, across clinics, facilities, and private practice.
Audit-ready paperwork
Building policies and procedures that survive a real audit instead of falling apart the moment someone reads them
Compliance that protects
The compliance foundations that protect your license, your clients, and your reputation, in plain language your whole team can use.
Compliance in the age of AI
What the new tools moving into this field actually change, what they put at risk, and how to stay protected as the rules catch up.
Opening facilities
Licensing pathways for facilities and programs, including BHRF and outpatient levels of care, done in the right order.
Revenue beyond insurance
Building stable income streams that do not depend entirely on insurance payouts, without cutting a single corner on compliance.