Private Practice Elevation with Daniel Fava
Jul 20, 2026 · 30 min · 12 segments
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…
Damian AdlerGuestDaniel FavaHost
I think sometimes we can take it back almost to a foundation thing of what does the practice owner want from their practice.
And that's something that I think people often don't think enough about and think about what should the practice deliver to them, what's meaningful.
Kind of like we touched on at the start about, you know, we all have personal lives outside of our professional lives.
And I think in starting a private practice, I think about what does that mean, you know, in terms of what do I want out of it?
Is it flexibility? Is it financial freedom? Is it choosing the clients that match for you? Is it about being able to focus on your niche or niche that you're after?
You can sort of think about that now still, right? Because we often just sort of slide in and find ourselves somewhere.
And then the next kind of, I think, thing is about thinking about what success, it relates to that, but what does success sort of look like? And sometimes people can get caught up, I think, on the wrong metrics, right? So you can get, people get caught up on, maybe they look at growth in terms of, if they're expanding their practice, they might think about you know, how many clinicians they have or, you know, does their website have a long list of people that are part of the practice or that are something, you know.
And so I would say the next kind of thing that people, you know, define very well or don't think about is the values that are important to them in terms of growing that practice and the sort of people they want sort of in that practice.
So sometimes you see these kind of like almost like vanity metrics, you know, like people are looking at kind of size or they might even be looking at top line, like how much revenue, you know, a practice can generate.
Like if, if you're, um, there's lots of reasons that can happen, but I think that's something that people don't, um, architect well sometimes is, you know, okay, what is it that I'm trying to build? What's meaningful to me? What does it, what, what does success look like? You know, does it mean I, I, See some clients, see a lot of clients, see no clients.
Does it mean I've got freedom to spend time with my kids? You know, one of the reasons I left, I used to work in the public health system, you know, for quite a few years, which is not sort of uncommon pathway into private practice.
I think sometimes we can take it back almost to a foundation thing of what does the practice owner want from their practice.
And that's something that I think people often don't think enough about and think about what should the practice deliver to them, what's meaningful.
Kind of like we touched on at the start about, you know, we all have personal lives outside of our professional lives.
And I think in starting a private practice, I think about what does that mean, you know, in terms of what do I want out of it?
Is it flexibility? Is it financial freedom? Is it choosing the clients that match for you? Is it about being able to focus on your niche or niche that you're after?
You can sort of think about that now still, right? Because we often just sort of slide in and find ourselves somewhere.
And then the next kind of, I think, thing is about thinking about what success, it relates to that, but what does success sort of look like? And sometimes people can get caught up, I think, on the wrong metrics, right? So you can get, people get caught up on, maybe they look at growth in terms of, if they're expanding their practice, they might think about you know, how many clinicians they have or, you know, does their website have a long list of people that are part of the practice or that are something, you know.
And so I would say the next kind of thing that people, you know, define very well or don't think about is the values that are important to them in terms of growing that practice and the sort of people they want sort of in that practice.
So sometimes you see these kind of like almost like vanity metrics, you know, like people are looking at kind of size or they might even be looking at top line, like how much revenue, you know, a practice can generate.
Like if, if you're, um, there's lots of reasons that can happen, but I think that's something that people don't, um, architect well sometimes is, you know, okay, what is it that I'm trying to build? What's meaningful to me? What does it, what, what does success look like? You know, does it mean I, I, See some clients, see a lot of clients, see no clients.
Does it mean I've got freedom to spend time with my kids? You know, one of the reasons I left, I used to work in the public health system, you know, for quite a few years, which is not sort of uncommon pathway into private practice.
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