Build & Scale a Group Practice That Pays You
With Vanessa Flores Newton, LCSW-S, who built Colors of Austin Counseling into a $2M group practice with zero debt.
Business coaching and ready-to-use templates for therapists. Book a free discovery call or shop templates by stage.
Starting out?
Start Your Practice
Ready to hire?
Launch Your Group
Leading a team?
Scale Your Practice
- $2Mgroup practice revenue
- 17therapists on my team
- $0debt to build it
- 85%insurance-based caseload
- 100+therapists coached
The Brave Build Method™
The same five steps I used to grow from solo to 17 therapists, and the same steps I still run every week.
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Foundation
Your why, your values, your entity, and a cash-flow plan to launch without debt.
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Revenue
An insurance-first money model: credentialing, payer mix, clinician pay, and a budget that works.
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Systems
Intake, scheduling, billing, policies, and SOPs that run without you.
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People
Hiring, onboarding, and a culture clinicians want to stay in.
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CEO
The shift from clinician to CEO, so you stop being the bottleneck.
Real therapists. Real practices. Real growth.
Stories from therapists who've worked with me through business coaching, leadership coaching, and clinical supervision.
Pearl started working with Vanessa in 2021 and built Pinnacle of Purpose Counseling, a hybrid group practice for women of color.
Pearl Bryant · Pinnacle of Purpose Counseling
Read Pearl's story →
“She completely surpassed all the expectations I had for her as a supervisor!”
Natalie Boone · Therapist
Read Natalie's story →The templates I run my practice on
Editable Word and Excel versions of the real documents behind a $2M practice. Names, rates, and client details are removed, and every dollar amount is an example. Have your own attorney review them for your state.
Group Practice Launch Bundle
$199Everything to hire your first clinicians: offer letters and agreements, 13 job descriptions, and a hiring and onboarding kit.
Group Practice Scale Bundle
$299Leadership SOPs and job descriptions, a full billing system, and the operations to run without you.
The Group Practice Operating System
$597Every template in the store, for the owner who wants the whole system at once.
Private Practice Paperwork Bundle
$55Intake, consent, telehealth, and Good Faith Estimate forms for a solo practice.
I’m a first-generation Latina, a first-generation wealth builder, and the first in my family to run a business. I had no roadmap and no trust fund, just a belief and a vision.
Our field gatekeeps. Insurance decides what our work is worth, licensure costs years, and the math of rate times sessions rarely adds up to a livable wage. Therapists of color carry all of that, plus fewer people who look like us to ask for business advice.
Built by a therapist of color, for therapists who weren’t handed a roadmap
Brave & Well is the space I wish I’d had: real numbers, real systems, and a community that believes there’s room for all of us. Community over competition will always take you farther.
All group offerings via Brave & Well invite folx of all different identities and backgrounds to participate. With those identities come lived experiences that may be rooted in oppression and resistance. While we know that not everyone has had the same journey, these spaces/groups are sacred and brave, and we do not tolerate any forms of hate, racism, and discrimination.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Vanessa Flores Newton, LCSW-S, founder of Brave & Well and creator of The Brave Build Method, coaches therapists to build and scale group practices. She is the founder and CEO of Colors of Austin Counseling in Austin, Texas, which she grew from solo to 10 clinicians in 3 years and then to a $2 million practice with 17 therapists, built with cash and zero debt on a caseload that is about 85% insurance. She has coached 100+ therapists across the U.S. and beyond.
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Usually when your caseload is consistently full, you have a waitlist, and you can cover a new clinician’s pay for the first few months while they build a caseload. You also need to be ready to spend less time in session and more time leading. The Group Practice Launch Intensive, the Brave Boss VIP Day, and the Group Practice Launch Bundle are built for this exact stage.
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It depends on how much control you need over schedules, training, and how clinicians do their work. Controlling those things for a 1099 contractor creates misclassification risk. Brave & Well offers W2 job description templates and an employee and operations manual, and Vanessa walks owners through this decision so they can confirm it with their CPA or attorney.
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Templates start at $27, and the complete Group Practice Operating System is $597. The Brave & Well Membership is $47 a month, and the From Therapist to CEO course is $499. The Group Practice Circle is $100 per session, and 90-minute strategy sessions are $375. Brave Boss VIP Days are $997 virtual or $1,997 in person in Austin. Leadership coaching starts at $1,000. The Brave & Well Mastermind is $3,000, and the Group Practice Launch Intensive starts at $5,000.
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Yes. Coaching, the Group Practice Circle, strategy sessions, and virtual VIP Days are all online, so practice owners anywhere can join. In-person VIP Days are held in Austin, Texas.
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Brave & Well centers therapists of color and first-generation entrepreneurs, and it welcomes clinicians of every identity and background who share its values of access and equity. Vanessa is a first-generation Latina business owner, and every group space is built on community over competition, with no tolerance for hate or discrimination.
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Yes. Every template is an editable Word or Excel file with the fill-in fields highlighted, and the names, rates, and client details from the original practice are removed. Laws vary by state, so have your own attorney review employment and client documents before you use them.