SECTION 01 - ABOUT THE SUMMIT
Together in Practice is a virtual summit for therapists who are serious about the business and leadership of their practice. Not how to start one. Not basic marketing. The high-level conversation experienced practitioners have been unable to find — until now.
SECTION 02 - THE SPEAKERS
The conversation you've been wanting to have. With people who are ready to have it.
You have outgrown the beginner spaces.
You don't need another webinar explaining why therapists need a website. You don't need a Facebook group where someone is asking how to set up Jane. You don't need a course module that assumes you've never thought about your rates.
You need the conversation that picks up where those rooms end.
The conversation about leading a team of clinicians without becoming the therapist for your therapists. About profit margin in a practice with values. About what your business actually looks like in five years — and whether your current decisions are building toward that.
That conversation has been hard to find. Especially on terms that honour the clinician you are, not in spite of her.
What This Summit Is (And Isn't)
SECTION 03 - WHAT IS THE SUMMIT
Built for the conversation you've been ready to have.
TOGETHER IN PRACTICE IS:
A paid, live event built for serious practice owners.
Eight curated 60-minute sessions with live Q&A.
Canadian speakers, Canadian context and reality.
Designed around a workbook that holds your thinking after the live event ends.
A peer room where your level of practice is the baseline, not the ceiling.
The leadership conversation underneath the tactics.
About transformation in your leadership skills
WHAT IT IS NOT:
A free promotional summit selling you into a high-ticket program.
A content firehose with thirty back-to-back replays.
Generic American business advice with a Canadian flag bolted on.
A weekend of inspiration that evaporates by Tuesday.
A room where you'll be the most advanced person and finish more isolated than you started.
Another round of 'just raise your rates' or 'just delegate more.'
Inspirational conversation without actionable steps
SECTION 04 - WHO THIS IS FOR
Built for the practice owner who's done waiting.
If you've been searching for this conversation, you already know how rare it is. Here's how to know whether this is the room for you.
You've crossed the internal threshold from "clinician with a business" to "business owner who happens to do clinical work" — and you're done apologising for it.
You're tired of being the most advanced person in every business room you walk into.
You've outgrown the version of marketing that taught you how to be visible. Now you need to lead.
You hold your clinical values and your business ambitions at the same time — and you refuse to collapse one into the other.
This is for you if...
You're literate in business concepts, you don't need another spreadsheet explained, and you're looking for the next level of the conversation.
You want a room where the baseline is competence, not where you have to perform it.
SECTION 05 - THE TWO HALF-DAY ARC
Two days. One arc. Designed.
The summit is built as a single progression, not two separate events. Every serious practice owner needs both conversations. The order is deliberate.
DAY 1 · SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH · 9amPT/12pm EST
Leading your Practice
The owner's seat: identity, values, financial architecture, and a business that doesn't depend on you being in every room.
4 sessions · 60 min each · Live Q&A included · Included in every tier
SESSION 1 · OPENING KEYNOTE
"Your permission slip to step fully into the CEO role is here."
The identity shift: from clinician to CEO
The practitioner-to-CEO evolution is hard won. The clinician and the business owner are not opposing identities — integrating them is both the hardest and most important work a practice owner can do. Embody the excitement of being the CEO of your practice: confident, grounded, and energized. This keynote sets the frame for the two days.
SESSION 2
"Your values are not on a pretty plaque in your waiting room."
CEO Values
Your values as the CEO are the foundation upon which your house is built — they guide strategic growth, hiring, culture, branding, finances, and leadership. A hands-on working session with meaningful pre-work in the workbook, ending in a framework you'll use for every decision after the summit ends.
SESSION 3
"You didn't just become a CEO. You also became a CFO."
Owning your role as the financial leader: numbers, mindset and systems
You are the one who needs to understand your numbers, what they're telling you, and make strategic financial decisions that reflect your practice values. Learn the key financial metrics of a healthy practice and explore your own numbers to identify what's working — and what isn't. Healthy finances are what let you and your team serve your community for years to come.
SESSION 4
"Retention conversations are leadership conversations."
Building a practice that can run without you
Early client dropout is one of the biggest revenue killers in clinical practice — and beyond the revenue, there's the morale cost of clinicians who start to doubt themselves. When hard-won clients drift away after two or three sessions, that investment disappears with them. You'll walk away with systems as a leadership strategy, not a retention problem.
DAY 2 · SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH· 9amPT/12pm EST
Becoming the Leader
Leadership through others: hiring, culture, authority in the best of ways, and what you're building over ten years.
4 sessions · 60 min each · Live Q&A included · Included in Full Summit and VIP
SESSION 5
"The wrong hire costs more than the right one."
Practice culture & hiring for values, not just credentials
The clinicians who stay are led by people who hold care and accountability at once. Who you hire, the conversation you've been avoiding, and what conflict looks like handled early instead of late.
SESSION 6
"You already know the decision."
Decide like a CEO: doubt, risk & leading before you feel ready
Somewhere along the way, the preparation stopped being diligence and started being avoidance. The leadership skill nobody teaches clinicians: deciding before you feel ready, running experiments that might not work, and treating failure as data instead of verdict.
SESSION 7
"Your values are easy to name when nothing is testing them."
Leading without losing yourself: authentic leadership for clinicians
The real leadership work starts when something tests the foundation — a talented hire who isn't aligned, a hard conversation you've been circling. Holding authority without losing empathy when the people you lead are clinicians with their own judgment.
SESSION 8 · CLOSING KEYNOTE
"You didn't come this far to run a busy practice."
The long game: what you're actually building
Underneath every decision this weekend is a bigger one you may not have made on purpose yet: what is this practice for? A closing conversation that zooms out from tactics to the question that organizes all of them — what kind of leader is this practice asking you to become?
Early-bird pricing · Save 10% on every tier
SECTION 06 - THE WORKBOOK
Most summits give you a weekend. This one gives you a plan.
A summit is only as transformative as what you do with it afterwards. Together in Practice is built around a workbook — the mechanism that turns two days of conversation into the leadership architecture you'll carry forward.
THE THROUGH-LINE
Most workbooks are boring. This one is the work.
Most summit workbooks are a fillable PDF you'll abandon by Tuesday. A downloadable feel-good. A box ticked.
Ours is structured around questions you'll come back to between sessions, on the drive home, and in the months after. It's how the live event becomes a tangible plan.
SECTION 07 · YOUR HOSTS
The two of us. And why we built this together.
Together in Practice was convened by two Canadian therapy practice leaders who have spent years watching the same conversation go missing from our profession. This is the room we wished existed — so we built it.
Cecilia Mannella
MSW, RSW, RCC-ACS cand
Founder, Eterna Counselling & Wellness Inc and Cecilia Mannella Consulting
Cecilia coaches established Canadian therapy practice owners through the leadership identity shift that no clinical training prepares them for. Her work sits at the intersection of clinical wisdom and strategic business architecture — built for therapists who refuse to choose between the two.
She is the host of the Purpose & Profit: The Sustainable Therapy Practice Podcast.
Speaker · Day 1 + Day 2
Stephanie Davis
M.Ed, RCC,-ACS, PCC
Co-Founder, Shoreline Counselling & Founder of Stephanie L Davis Consulting
Stephanie brings over a decade of experience in clinical practice and leadership. Her work sits at the intersection of therapy, coaching, and organizational development. She is passionate about helping therapists build sustainable practices, lead aligned teams, and navigate growth without losing integrity, connection, or themselves in the process.
She is the co-host of A Not So Private Practice podcast
Speaker · Day 1 + Day 2
WHY TOGETHER
"We kept noticing the same thing — there was no Canadian room sophisticated enough for therapists at our level. So we built it."
— STEPHANIE & CECILIA
SECTION 08 · SUMMIT SPEAKERS
The speakers bringing it all together.
Linzy Bonham
Founder of Money Skills for Therapists
Linzy is a private practice therapist turned money coach and the creator of the Money Skills for Group Practice Owners program. She helps therapists and health professionals feel calm and in control of their finances.
As the daughter of an accountant, Linzy is like half therapist and half bookkeeper. So when she saw her skilled colleagues struggle with their finances, she put her lucky combination of people and money skills together to support therapists in developing peace of mind about their money. Since so many were never taught money skills, she focuses on the “how” of making the business side of private practice doable — and even super satisfying.
Through her top-rated podcast Money Skills for Therapists, free monthly workshops, and transformative online programs, Linzy has helped thousands of people learn the systems and skills to totally change their relationship with money.
Elana Sures
Founder of Open Space Counselling
Elana Sures is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and the founder of Open Space Counselling, a Vancouver-based group pracitce with two locations and a team of 20+ therapists.
Through her consulting company, Group Practice Performance, Elana works with practice owners on the key performance indicators that drive clinic growth and revenue, focusing strongly on client retention and quality assurance. Elana is the creator of Client Retention System, a training program used by group practices to prevent early client dropout and build stable, productive caseloads.
Laura Bull
Co-Founder of Shoreline Counselling
Laura Bull is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), Approved Clinical Supervisor, and Co-Founder of Shoreline Counselling, a group practice of 25 clinicians serving individuals, couples, and families across British Columbia.
With more than 15 years of experience in the counselling field, Laura is passionate about developing people, cultivating healthy workplace culture, and creating environments where clinicians can thrive. Alongside her business partner, she has helped build Shoreline into a highly sought-after practice known for its strong sense of community, relational leadership, and commitment to mentorship. Laura plays a key role in supervising and developing student interns, post-graduate fellows, and early-career therapists, helping them grow into confident and ethical practitioners.
Laura also co-hosts the A Not So Private Practice podcast, where she and her business partner explore the realities of leadership, business ownership, and building a successful group practice. Drawing from her experience as a clinician, supervisor, and business owner, she brings a practical, people-centered perspective on leadership, team culture, and creating organizations where people genuinely want to show up and contribute.
EARLY-BIRD PRICING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5TH · SAVE 10% ON EVERY TIER
Three ways to be in the room.
The summit was designed as a complete two-day arc, and Full Summit is the experience as built. The Day 1 Pass exists for the owner committing to a single day. VIP is for the owner who wants proximity — smaller rooms, direct conversation, and the work continuing after the event ends.
RECOMMENDED
FULL SUMMIT
The Summit as Designed
$384
$427 Standard · CAD
Everything in Day 1 Pass — plus:
Live access — Day 1 + Day 2 (8 sessions)
The complete 8-session arc
Full summit digital workbook
6-week replay access
The complete conversation — both days, the full workbook, the whole room.
early bird
VIP EXPERIENCE · 20 SEATS
VIP isn't more content.
It's proximity.
Every tier gets the live sessions. The same speakers, the same workbook structure, the same room. What VIP changes is your distance from the conversation — before the summit, during it, and in the weeks after it ends.
Twenty seats. Here's what they hold.
BEFORE THE SUMMIT
The private podcast
Weeks before the event, Cecilia and Stephanie walk through the summit workbook together on a private feed — plus behind-the-scenes context from the speakers. You don't arrive figuring out where to start. You arrive already in the work.
Everyone else starts on October 17. You start in September.
DURING THE SUMMIT
Two group coaching sessions
In the weeks after the summit, VIPs meet twice in coaching groups, led by Cecilia and Stephanie. Not a replay of the content — a working session on your application of it.
Most summit insights die in the two weeks after the event. These sessions are built to catch them.
THROUGHOUT
The room, and the library
A private community of the twenty VIPs — open through the event, the coaching window, and beyond. And 12 months access to every session recording, where all other tiers receive three or six weeks.
The summit lasts two days. These are the parts that don't.
If you've read this far, you already know which room you want to be in.
$897 early bird · $997 standard · CAD
VIP includes everything in Full Summit. When the 20 seats are gone, they're gone.