About this episode

Damien Adler discusses how to design a private practice that alleviates burnout and supports therapists.

What if the heaviest part of private practice isn't the clinical work, but everything around it? For most therapists, burnout isn't about the sessions. It's the admin, the paperwork, the after-hours notes. You're working all the time and something feels off, but you don't have space to figure out why. Damien Adler makes the case that a draining practice is usually a design problem, not an inevitability. And design problems can be fixed. Damien is a registered psychologist and co-founder of Zanda, a practice management system used by tens of thousands of practitioners across more than 20 countries. He built a group private practice with his wife before turning to technology, so he's lived this himself and now sees the same patterns play out worldwide. In This Episode, You'll Learn: Why your training prepared you for clinical work but not for running a business How "vanity metrics" like staff count and revenue pull you away from what you actually want Why a practice built around one key admin person is a hidden risk How most practice management systems can do far more than scheduling Where AI lightens the load, like drafting SOPs and writing clinical notes in your style Why you…

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Fava

Guest: Damien Adler

Topics covered

• private practice
• burnout
• practice management
• business design
• mental health
• administration

Keywords

• private practice
• burnout
• administration
• practice management
• mental health
• AI
• SOPs

Sponsors

Alma

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Organizations: Zanda

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