What 245,000 Therapists Reveal About Building a Successful Private Practice with Dr. Lindsay Oberleitner | POP 1389

What 245,000 Therapists Reveal About Building a Successful Private Practice with Dr. Lindsay Oberleitner | POP 1389

July 1, 2026 · 41 min

About this episode

Dr. Lindsay Oberleitner discusses insights from a large analysis of independent mental health practices and what it reveals about building a successful private practice.

What does a successful practice actually look like? Too often, therapists get the answer to this question from anecdotes, social media, or their colleagues down the hall. And for good reason – the mental health field has lacked industry reports on the private practice experience for decades. Thankfully, that is all starting to change though. One of the largest analyses of independent mental health practices ever published came out recently from SimplePractice - representing the more than 245,000 clinicians that use their platform. Today, Dr. Lindsay Oberleitner, Head of Clinical Strategy at SimplePractice and lead author of this first-ever Annual State of Private Practice Report walks us through what hundreds of thousands of clinicians reveal about what's really going on in private practice today.

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