Dream Practice Academy
Master your private practice business plan, learn integrative psychiatry, and build your dream career making the kind of impact that transforms your patients' lives.
A Psychiatry Career Mentorship Program that teaches you how to offer highly effective integrative psychiatric care and build wealth authentically while surrounded by a community of like-minded practitioners.
230+ Psychiatrists & PMHNPs and Growing
a high-caliber community of providers who are pursuing psychiatry on their own terms, not in a way the insurance model dictates them to.
48 States
cash-pay practices set-up in 48 states across the U.S, which includes 2 international telepsych practices too. Think this won’t work for you because of your geographic location? Not true!
3,000+ patients
who have had access to an integrative psychiatrist via the new practices established from Dream Practice Academy. Trust me, there are a LOT more patients out there looking for a provider just like you.
Client Results
“I made more than 10X back on my initial investment on your mentorship program in the first 6 months of joining. I now understand that what I bring to the table is uniquely different from most other psychiatrists.”
- Geoff T., MD
“I’m charging 3X more than what I did when I started this program; I was charging $350 for an intake, and $150 for follow-up appointments. Now I’m charging $1,000 for an intake, and $325 for follow-ups. That’s over a $200K difference in just one year.”
- Alysha Woods, PMHNP
“This is one of the best decisions I made when starting my practice. It's a no brainer, the return on investment is absolutely there.” Jess now works 25-30 hours/week in his private practice and makes $25-30k/month.
- Jess Romeo, PMHNP
Meet Your Mentor: Elana Miller, MD
I received my B.A. in psychology at Harvard University before studying medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where I graduated with AOA Honors. I completed my psychiatry residency training at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I was nominated as a UCLA Exceptional Physician and served as the first chief resident of the Resident Psychotherapy Program.
My writing has been featured on the website of Academy of Integrative and Holistic Medicine Huffington Post, Forbes, KevinMD, Reimagine, Healthy Women, I currently have an integrative psychiatry private practice based out of Los Angeles, California where I use both traditional medicinal and holistic non-medicinal approaches to help people overcome anxiety, depression, trauma, and PTSD to live happier and more fulfilling lives.
I created Dream Practice Academy in July of 2021 as a way to help empower psychiatrists, PMHNPs, and other mental health prescribers to leave the soul-sucking paradigm of corporate jobs and instead start their own dream integrative psychiatry private practices. I strive to help my mentees find autonomy and joy in their work while having the kind of impact that transforms their patients’ lives.
The Dream Practice Academy is an online curriculum and coaching program for high-achieving psychiatrists, PMHNPs, and other mental health prescribers like you who are ready to:
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Leave their soul-sucking jobs and start their own private practice that provides complete autonomy, financial abundance, and joy
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Optimize, scale, and grow their existing private practice to be capitalized on their unique strengths so they can work less and make more (including transitioning from an insurance-based practice to cash)
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Learn integrative psychiatry and offer their patients a level of care that isn’t taught in traditional psychiatric training, or our insurance-based healthcare system
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Be a part of a supportive community of like-minded providers who are building their own integrative practices all around the country
If you’re just starting a private practice (or want to have a private practice within the next 12 months)...
I can help you start-to-finish launch and scale your dream integrative private practice, including:
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The business set-up logistics and must-haves for a telepsych practice, including your NPI, DEA, malpractice insurance, and business structure
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Set up your Minimum Viable Practice so you can see your first cash-pay patient within 2 months
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Set your cash-pay fees and create a financial roadmap for your first year in practice
- Recommend the best software solutions, show you how to set them up, and share digital copies of ALL practice forms including consents, intake paperwork, and diagnostic rating scales
- Learn high-yield integrative psychiatry, access all of my integrative protocols, and market yourself as an integrative provider
- Identify your niche (dream patients) and have total clarity of their problems, what they’re looking for in a provider and treatment, and how you’re uniquely positioning to serve them
- Build your website, online directory listings, and develop a high-yield marketing strategy to attract your dream patients
“I am glad I joined this program. It really helped me with having the confidence to just go out and do it and not overthink and never start.”
– Lauren, MD
"I had a micro practice prior to joining the program and the program helped me grow from ~8-10 patients to 45-50 patients in less than a year with minimal admin work. This has been phenomenal for my enjoyment of my private practice. I feel energized and joyful towards my private practice most weeks. I do the exact type and amount of work I want to do and it feels AWESOME."
- Amy, MD
“It has definitely pushed me to charge more than I would have and helped me recognize how valuable my skills are to the type of patient I'm marketing myself to. I think my imposter syndrome would have overwhelmed me if not for the program.”
- Sarah, PMHNP
If you already have a private practice…
My guess is that you're here because you've been able to get your practice to a certain point, but now you feel stuck.
You’re spending so much time working “in” your practice with patients and clinical responsibilities that you’ve lost sight of the bigger picture. Is this really the practice you sought out to create in the beginning? Are you making as much as you want to? Are you seeing the patients you want to see and having the kind of impact you dreamed of having when you started in the first place? I can help you to:
- Audit your existing practice to identify the gaps and opportunities to streamline your operations and increase your bottom line revenue
- Hone in on your niche and reposition yourself to more clearly differentiated and skilled for a specific type of patient
- Transition your insurance-based practice to cash-pay practice
- Eliminate and/or automate hours of administrative time
- Monitor your overhead expenses and scale your practice profitability
- Learn high-yield integrative psychiatry and reposition your existing services
- Increase your fees with existing patients
- Identify the right time to hire an assistant, AND how to hire and train them for success (e.g. eliminating the need to micromanage)
- Expand your advanced marketing strategies and skills, including running Google Ads campaigns, developing a YouTube channel, blogging strategies, and social media strategy
I specialize in:
INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRY
I teach you how to build your VALUE by offering treatment modalities outside of just medication, including:
- Ordering & Interpreting Basic Labs
- Specialized Functional Lab Testing (e.g. Genova Diagnostics)
- Genetic Testing (e.g. Genomind, Genesight)
- Recommending Pharmaceutical Grade Supplements
- Psychotherapy
- Stronger Medication Management Skills
- Diet & Nutritional Interventions
- Exercise & Mind/Body Interventions
- Sleep Hygiene Fundamentals
- Improved Rapport-Building Skills
MARKETING
I teach you how to communicate this added VALUE to prospect patients and differentiate yourself as a cash-pay provider while seamlessly converting patients to your practice.
I also teach you how to become VISIBLE to a network of patients who are actively searching for a provider just like you, including:
- Develop your Unique Selling Proposition
- Leverage AI Tools to build your website copy
- Build and optimize your MVP website, Psychology Today profile, and other relevant online directories
- Learn a basic SEO skills
- Learn direct outreach strategies and tactics to build new relationships with like-minded providers
- How to track results and pivot your marketing strategy for high quality new patient leads
ENTREPRENEURIAL GRIT & BUSINESS LOGISTICS
I teach you to be ENTREPRENEURIAL, including the financial skillets needed to effectively grow, optimize, and scale a highly profitable private practice that is seamless to operate.
I also teach you how to think and make decisions like an entrepreneur, and develop GRIT when facing your fears, doubts, and challenges.
And other important things that we don’t learn in medical school (or nursing training), but are essential for private practice success:
- Software systems and solutions
- Finance management
- Business structure and set-up (and taxes)
- Business workflow and creating standard operating procedures
- Professional services
BUILDING COMMUNITY
When you join Dream Practice Academy, you will have lifetime access to a growing group of high-caliber providers that are fueling so much collaboration, growth, and success in our field.
When you surround yourself with people who are action-oriented, positive, supportive, and motivated, you are much more likely to adopt those same qualities yourself.
- Gain insights and perspectives from diverse group of providers who are on a similiar career path as you
- Learn from others' successes and failures, accelerating your own learning curve
- Collaborate on patient cases on the community forum and group Q&A calls
- Access potential collaboration and partnership opportunities within the group
- Stay motivated and inspired by witnessing the progress and achievements of others
With Dream Practice Academy, the path to private practice success is structured within 5 key program components:
1) Program Content – 10 deep-dive modules (with over 60 videos) that include start-to-finish the framework for becoming an entrepreneur, launching your private practice, and becoming a highly skilled integrative provider to work through at your own pace
2) Live Q&A Coaching Calls – every other week to support you as you learn and implement strategies and protocols to your own practice and patients (plus access to all past Q&A call recordings)
3) Direct Feedback on Marketing Initiatives – Unique Selling Proposition, Marketing Plan, Website, etc.
4) Community Forum – Get support, feedback, & advice from me and 230+ other clinicians
5) Personalized Coaching (Optional) – Get matched with the customer success team who will create your personalized Private Practice Roadmap and support you through coaching meetings and check-ins over the course of 12 months.
When you join my mentorship, your success becomes my success, too.
Will this path require you to take consistent action? Yes.
Will you have to dedicate time to implementing and executing what I teach? Yes.
Will you have to be willing to and ready to fail, to feel overcome with doubt and fear, to pivot, and to get back up and keep showing up in spite of the challenges? 100% YES.
If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, get focused, develop your entrepreneurial skills (AND grit), and put in the work that is required for private practice success – then this program is for you.
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Investment
Watch this video to hear a few providers in the Dream Practice Academy talking to me about the return on investment they got in the program:
Choose the tier best for you
There are three tiers of Dream Practice Academy for you to choose from depending on your learning style, preferences, and needs. Each plan comes with lifetime access to the "Light" tier features, and 12-month access to the Flagship and Premier Tier benefits. Lifetime = lifetime of the program (i.e. as long as the program exists). Option to upgrade tiers at any point in the program (downgrades are not available).
LIGHT
$9,800
For those who are self-directed and want access to the core tools and resources to be successful (no personalized feedback or coaching)
FLAGSHIP
$12,800
For those who thrive in group settings (includes personalized feedback and group coaching)
PREMIER
$17,800
For those who thrive with one-on-one support & accountability (includes personalized feedback and 1:1 coaching)
