Practitioner Mentorship

Building a practice that works for your brain.

Solo practice is rewarding, and nobody hands you a manual. I spent my first years in practice figuring it out mostly on my own, with no mentors and a lot of trial and error. I know what it feels like to be in the weeds, making it up as you go along.

Whether you're navigating the nuts and bolts of opening your doors or learning how to make your practice genuinely welcoming to neurodivergent patients, this is the mentorship I wish I'd had - someone to help you avoid the pitfalls, get unstuck, and make those first few years feel a little less lonely.

I'm available for one-off mentorship calls for practitioners in the planning stages or early years of running their practice, as well as for practitioners at any stage of their career who want to make their practice more neurodivergent-affirming.

Building a Sustainable Practice

  • Starting lean - how to think about overhead before you commit to anything

  • Planning for worst-case scenarios, not best-case ones

  • Finding and evaluating office space, with ideas on what to prioritize and what to avoid

  • Software, EHRs, scheduling, and payment systems - what I use, what I've abandoned, and why

  • Developing systems to help your practice run more efficiently

  • Sourcing wholesale items for retail, and when to avoid it

  • Running a solo practice as a neurodivergent practitioner yourself

Creating a Neurodivergent-Affirming Practice

  • Building an accessible, sensory-friendly clinic environment

  • Intake forms and welcome materials that work for neurodivergent patients

  • Crafting a welcoming website for neurodivergent patients

  • Communication styles and scheduling practices that reduce barriers

  • Non-stigmatizing and affirming ways of working with neurodivergence in your practice

I'm three years into running my solo practice - recent enough that the early struggles are still fresh, and far enough along to have hard-won opinions about what works. I've made expensive mistakes, tried a lot of tools, and learned the hard way what I wish someone had told me at the start.

I'm especially familiar with the acupuncture, Chinese medicine, and massage landscape, though much of what I've learned applies to any solo healthcare or wellness practice.

Rates

$150 per 60-minute session
$90 per 60-minute session for the first three sessions for practitioners in their first year of practice

Sessions are virtual! Book a single session, no package required.

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Have questions before booking? Email me at kate@fireweedacupuncture.com.

A Note on the First-Year Discount

When I was starting out, I would have balked at the expense of paying someone by the hour for advice - I get it! But I also know that a single conversation that helps you avoid one bad decision - a lease you can't get out of, a software subscription that doesn't fit your workflow, overhead you can't sustain - is worth far more than the cost of an hour. The discount is there because I remember what it felt like to be new, and because I think this kind of support should be accessible to people who actually need it most.