Embodied Private Practice Cohort

The Embodied Private Practice Cohort is a year-long mentorship offering for therapists and aligned care workers who are beginning or revisioning private practice with a focus on embodiment and sustainability. Combining reality-based, capacity-conscious clinical and business consultation, mentorship will focus on the ways that practitioners can be nurtured by practice, avoid burnout, and commit to sustainability, self care and healing. This program will be focused on centering and valuing the unique experiences and challenges of therapists and aligned care workers with lived experience of chronic illness, disability, mental illness, trauma, and oppression; with expansive thinking about and active undoing of the harm caused by the well provider/unwell patient binary expectation in mental health and wellness fields.

Participation.

Participation in the Cohort will include:

  • Monthly group clinical case consultation

  • Monthly group private practice business consultation

  • Optional monthly or bimonthly individual clinical consultation

  • An intimate, supportive cohort of similarly situated colleagues and mentors

  • Access to a focused Listserv, shared resources, and a robust referral network for Cohort members and alums

  • Advertising via the KTC website, listserv, and social media channels

  • Alums of the cohort will be eligible for KTC supervisory training and opportunities for paid leadership roles within the Collective

Schedule.

Applicants are asked to make a yearlong commitment, with 10 months of active participation, which includes:

  • 3 hours/month of direct consultation

    • Cohorts that begin in the Spring meet on the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 Eastern

    • Cohorts that begin in the Fall meet on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 Eastern

  • Additional time to prep for each session

    • Suggested readings, media, and exercises will be offered prior to each business consultation session

    • Cohort members will have the opportunity to prepare and share case presentations throughout the year

  • Asynchronous community engagement via Slack

  • Optional engagement in virtual affinity groups

  • Optional individual clinical consultation

  • No sessions held in August (Summer Break) & December (Winter Break)

Finances.

This year-long program offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (retirement, savings, investments, expectation of an inheritance; how easily could you learn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and world); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

This payment structure is inspired and informed by the justice-oriented models put forth by Worts & Cunning Apothecary, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, and Corporeal Writing.

For participants interested in individual clinical consultation, sessions are available monthly for $175/month or bimonthly for $300/month.

Please note:

Therapists do not need to be fully licensed to participate, however, the KTC Embodied Private Practice Cohort is a consulting relationship and not clinical supervision. Services do not count towards licensure and unlicensed therapists will need to have a clinical supervisor in the state in which they are practicing.

You can contact KTC with questions about the Embodied Private Practice Cohort via the contact page - please select EPPC from the dropdown menu. Applications will be read on a rolling basis with a focus on maintaining an intimate, generative environment.

Solidarity Rate — $350/mo ($3,500/yr)

This rate is for you if you have ample financial resources, due to personal earnings and/or access to intergenerational wealth. Paying this rate extends support to members without these privileges and acknowledges the value of building a diverse and more equitable community.

True Value Rate — $250/mo ($2,500/yr)

This rate is for you if you have access to financial security and do not traditionally qualify for sliding scale fee reductions. Paying this rate recognizes the actual cost to run this program and values the time, labor, and resources of its facilitators.

Community Care Rate  — $200/mo ($2,000/yr)

This rate is for you if you can typically afford to meet your basic needs, but with minimal expendable income. Paying this rate acknowledges the disparity of resources afforded to folks based on the impact of oppression including racism, ableism, and classism.

Reparations Rate  — $100/mo ($1,000/yr)

This rate is offered in acknowledgment of the stolen indigenous land and legacies of anti-blackness that continue to harm members of our community.  We offer this rate to honor the ongoing inequity, harm, and barriers to access within professional care work spaces.

“The Kintsugi Therapist Collective has been an important touchpoint as I navigate the start of my private therapy practice. It has offered me regular community and support through the messiness of being both a person and a therapist. Onyx and Asher have created a thoughtful program and gathered incredible clinicians, and I have grown to know myself and my practice better through the prompts and questions we discuss both in and out of our scheduled sessions. Each time we meet, I am struck by the emotionality and vulnerability that I feel and that I witness in the group -- it truly feels like an exhale when the world has created so many reasons to hold my breath. Being a part of KTC has affirmed my belief that I may be deeply committed to my work and also beautifully and imperfectly human and I imagine this will be core to how I craft my professional life moving forward.”

— Alice Wang, LCSW
Member of Cohort 1

“There is so much that I received from this cohort that I didn't know I needed as a psychotherapist. When I initially entered KTC I imagined that I would have an opportunity to build queer community among other care workers, remember the why of this work, and find inspiration. I did receive all of those things far beyond the degrees in which I imagined, but I also experienced a deep resonance of our collective struggle as both therapists and humans of this world. Being a member of this group allowed me to metabolize my/our collective suffering and transmute it into something beyond just me. I have so much gratitude for KTC and all of the great hearts and minds that create it!”

— Melissa Gericke, LMHC, LPCC
Member of Cohort 2

“Participating in KTC has been nourishing and transformational - to experience a group environment that genuinely encourages me to honor my limits and help me meet my needs, that is curious and understanding rather than punitive, and that supports me in bringing all the parts of me to this work.”

— Member of Cohort 2

“Engagement with the Kintsugi Therapist Collective in their second Embodied Private Practice Cohort has connected me to community in ways I didn’t even know were possible. I am a non-binary, neurodivergent, and chronically ill therapist serving predominantly queer and trans individuals in the state of Florida. Being welcomed into the collective, and meeting other dynamic and similarly positioned therapists, has felt like the first place I can find solidarity and acceptance - for all my intersecting identities - within a professional network.

The care and love that Onyx and Asher demonstrate through nearly every interaction has created a space for therapists like me to breathe, discuss our experiences, and recalibrate to our bodies. KTC is a labor of love, an answer to my prayers, and a diverse community I am so fortunate to be a part of.

— Dani Sullivan, MSW, RCSWI
Member of Cohort 2