Why Graduate School Doesn’t Teach You How to Start a Practice

Written By Kristin Lovato

Most graduate programs focus on clinical competence — but leave clinicians to navigate business, systems, and sustainability alone. This episode explores how that gap contributes to burnout, avoidance, and ethical tension.

Topics Covered

 

  • Training gaps in practice-building

  • Shame and silence in clinician culture

  • Ethics vs business as a false dichotomy

  • Consultation as a support model

 

 

Who This Is For

 

  • New clinicians considering private practice

  • Licensed clinicians feeling stuck or overwhelmed

  • Anyone questioning why this part feels so hard

 

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