Dream Practice Academy

Launch or grow your dream psychiatry private practice — and build a career that gives you autonomy, income, and impact.

 

A full-scale mentorship and coaching  program for psychiatrists & other mental health prescribers ready to master private practice logistics, learn integrative psychiatry, and escape the grind of insurance-based care.

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Trusted by hundreds of practitioners across the U.S.:

330+ 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

Practices launched in 48 states (plus 2 international!). Think this won’t work for you because of your geographic location? Not true!

 3,000+ patients

3,000+ patients served through Dream Practice Academy-founded practices.

Is This Program Right for You?

Dream Practice Academy is for:

Psychiatrists
Family or internal medicine physicians with a strong interest in mental health
Experienced PMHNPs & psychiatric PAs

who are:

✅ Just starting out 

And want to launch a profitable, values-aligned practice from scratch

✅ Already in private practice 

And feeling stuck, burned out, or unsure how to grow

✅ Ready to build a business with impact

Not just a job with more paperwork

We Help Our Clients Get 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
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What Dream Practice Academy Helps You Do

Dream Practice Academy is more than a course — it’s a full-spectrum curriculum, coaching experience, and community for psychiatrist and other mental health prescribers ready to build careers on their own terms.

Whether you're starting from scratch or optimizing what you’ve already built, this program helps you:

🚪 Leave the soul-sucking job behind

And launch a private practice that gives you autonomy, spaciousness, and joy

💰 Turn your expertise into wealth

 By building a profitable practice that reflects your values and unique strengths

🌿 Deliver next-level care

With integrative psychiatry skills you were never taught in residency or NP training

🤝 Surround yourself with like-minded clinicians

Who are redefining what it means to practice psychiatry today

This is the path if you want to practice medicine on your own terms — and actually enjoy your life while doing it.

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What You’ll Master Inside Dream Practice Academy:

 

 Learn Integrative Psychiatry with Confidence

Deliver exceptional care by combining the best of conventional and holistic approaches — even if you’ve never been trained in integrative methods before. You’ll learn how to:

✅ Use nutrition, movement, and sleep as core treatment pillars

✅ Integrate functional and genetic testing to personalize treatment

✅ Recommend pharmaceutical-grade supplements backed by research

✅ Apply psychotherapy techniques and improve rapport-building

✅ Become a smarter, more strategic prescriber — not just a refiller

Market Yourself Authentically (Without Feeling Salesy)

It’s not enough to be a great clinician — people need to find you, understand what makes you different, and want to work with you. I’ll show you how to:

✅ Craft a clear, compelling Unique Selling Proposition (USP)

✅ Build a simple, conversion-optimized website (no tech stress)

✅ Optimize your Psychology Today profile so it actually converts

✅ Build referral relationships through genuine outreach

✅ Learn beginner-friendly SEO and track what’s working

Run Your Practice Like a CEO

You don’t need an MBA to run a profitable, fulfilling practice. You need clarity, structure, and a step-by-step plan. Inside the program, you’ll learn how to:

✅ Choose the right business structure and set up the legal essentials

✅ Design workflows and systems that save you hours every week

✅ Understand your numbers — and raise your fees with confidence

✅ Create SOPs and automation so your business runs without micromanagement

✅ Make decisions like a CEO (instead of an overwhelmed solo clinician)

Meet Your Mentor

Hi! I’m Elana Miller, MD

I'm a Harvard, USC and UCLA-trained integrative psychiatrist and the founder of Dream Practice Academy.

I completed my undergrad in psychology at Harvard, earned my M.D. from USC’s Keck School of Medicine (where graduated with AOA Honors), and finished my residency at UCLA (where I was nominated as a UCLA Exceptional Physician).

I loved my training, but the model felt broken.

Throughout my medical training, I always had the feeling that something essential was missing in how we were taught to care for patients.

When I graduated from residency in 2017, I started a private practice built around autonomy, depth, and integrative care — blending evidence-based medicine with holistic approaches like nutrition, functional labs, and mind-body healing. Today, my Los Angeles-based practice helps people heal from anxiety, depression, trauma, and burnout through an approach that’s both grounded and expansive.

But something else happened: other psychiatrists started reaching out, asking me how I did it.

I built the career I wanted — now I help others do the same.

And that’s why I created Dream Practice Academy.

Since 2021, I’ve helped hundreds of psychiatrists and other mental health prescribers across the U.S. launch and scale private practices that are values-aligned, cash-pay, and clinically effective. No soul-sucking insurance contracts. No 15-minute med checks. No “just survive the day” mindset.

Instead: joy, mastery, freedom, and results that change lives.

🚀 Just Getting Started? We’ll Help You Launch With Confidence

If you're in the first 6–12 months of building your private practice — or gearing up to leave your job soon — Dream Practice Academy gives you everything you need to hit the ground running.
🧱 Build a Business That’s Legally and Logistically Sound

From NPI to DEA, malpractice to business structure — we walk you through every setup step for a compliant, cash-pay telepsych practice.

⚙️ Get Your First Patient, Fast

You'll create a streamlined Minimum Viable Practice so you can start seeing your first cash-pay patient within 60 days — no perfectionism required.

💰 Price Confidently and Plan for Profit

Set your fees strategically (or select insurances to credential with strategically) and map out a first-year financial plan that supports both your lifestyle and your long-term growth.

🧾 Get the Tools & Templates You Need

No guessing, Googling, or starting from scratch — we give you proven intake forms, consent documents, rating scales, and software recommendations.

🌿 Learn Integrative Psychiatry That Patients Are Searching For

Access Elana’s high-yield protocols and clinical frameworks that go beyond med management — and position yourself as a true value-driven provider.

🎯 Attract the Right Patients With the Right Message

We’ll help you clarify your niche, craft messaging that speaks to your ideal client, and build a simple, effective marketing presence that brings them to your door.

📈 Already Have a Practice? Let’s Take It to the Next Level

Most people think Dream Practice Academy is just for new clinicians — but we’re known for helping established practices scale smarter, earn more, and operate with clarity and intention.

If you’re already in private practice but feel like something’s not quite clicking — whether it’s income, time, strategy, or systems — we’ll help you tighten what’s loose, elevate what’s working, and uncover the growth opportunities hiding in plain sight.

🔍 Get Clear With a Private Practice Audit

We’ll guide you through a data-driven business audit — analyzing your revenue streams, expenses, patient flow, and time allocation — so you can see exactly where to cut, invest, and grow. It’s the roadmap to your next right moves, backed by numbers.

💸 Convert Your Insurance Panel to Cash-Pay

If you're still taking insurance, we have a proven system to help you transition to cash-pay — often retaining 30–40% of your panel and increasing your income per hour. That means you can work fewer hours and earn more, while delivering higher-quality care.

🎯 Refine Your Niche, Raise Your Fees, and Plug Revenue Leaks

We’ll help you hone your niche positioning, raise your fees with integrity, and better package your services so your income grows without needing more patients. You’ll also identify underutilized assets, services, and pricing gaps holding you back.

🧠 Expand Your Clinical Edge With Advanced Functional Psychiatry

If you already practice integrative psychiatry, we’ll help you go deeper — with training on gut-brain dysfunction, chronic fatigue, complex patient protocols, and functional tools that elevate your results (and your confidence as a clinician).

📣 Implement Advanced Marketing & Thought Leadership Strategy

From Google Ads and keyword targeting to blogging, content strategy, media, and social proof, we’ll teach you how to market like an expert — and position yourself as one. You’ll stop relying on referrals alone and start attracting aligned patients at scale.

⚙️ Systematize, Delegate, and Step Into the CEO Role

We’ll help you create and implement SOPs, hiring plans, and VA management systems so you can eliminate low-value tasks, delegate like a pro, and finally stop being the bottleneck in your own growth.

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Client Results

“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 

The Dream Practice Academy Framework:

 

This isn’t just content. It’s a 12-month journey designed to build your dream practice — step by step, with support every step of the way.

Whether you're starting from scratch or scaling what you've already built, you’ll follow a proven process designed to take you from “Where do I start?” to “I can’t believe I run a business I love.”

Here’s how it works:

🧭 It All Starts With Your 12-Month Strategy

On Day One, you’ll meet 1:1 with a member of our team to map out your customized practice roadmap — based on your goals, timeline, and experience level. Whether you need to build a foundation or optimize what's already working, we’ll help you make decisions and set priorities that move the needle.

This plan will evolve with you — and you’ll always know what to focus on next.

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🎓 Then You’ll Dive Into the Most Comprehensive Curriculum in the Field

You’ll get access to 10+ expertly crafted modules (60+ lessons) walking you through:

✓ Practice setup (legal, EHR, systems, pricing, SOPs)

✓ Integrative psychiatry protocols (for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and more)

✓ Business and financial planning (cash-pay strategy, fee setting, optimization)

✓ Marketing (USP, messaging, directories, outreach, content, and ads)

✓ Hiring, scaling, boundaries, and everything in between

Everything is searchable, organized, and ready when you need it — whether you’re writing your first Psychology Today profile or hiring your first assistant. 

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💬 Live Group Coaching That Meets You Where You Are

Every other week, you’ll join live group calls led by Elana and the coaching team — where you can:

✓Ask questions and get real-time support

✓ Troubleshoot challenges

✓ Workshop your USP, forms, workflows, or pricing

✓ Learn from the questions and breakthroughs of other clinicians

Whether you show up every time or dip in when you need it, these calls create the momentum and perspective that solo practice often lacks.

🗂 Personalized Coaching That Adapts to Your Stage

We know not everyone is starting from scratch — so our coaching isn’t cookie-cutter. Depending on where you are, we’ll help you:

✓ Launch your first practice efficiently

✓ Transition from insurance to cash-pay

✓ Rebrand and reposition your existing practice

✓ Raise fees, streamline systems, and optimize operations

✓ Develop media, marketing, or expansion strategies

Your questions, your materials, your timeline. Personalized feedback and coaching every step of the way.

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👥 Support That’s There When You Need It

In our private, high-caliber community forum, you’ll get access to:

✓ Feedback from other clinicians building and growing

✓ Referrals, case consults, and practical tools

✓ Encouragement when you’re stuck — and celebration when you win

Many members say this is the most uplifting, empowering professional space they’ve ever been part of.

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🧠 Tools You Didn’t Know You Needed

✓ Practice audit templates

✓ AI tools to build your website copy

✓ Intake paperwork, checklists, and marketing trackers

✓ Scorecards, strategy guides, and planning worksheets

You’ll never say “I don’t know where to start” again.

It’s Not a One-Size-Fits-All System. It’s a Scalable Support Structure.

 
Some members come in not even knowing what an LLC is.
Others are earning multi six figures (or even 7 figures!) and want to scale further or streamline.
Both grow here — because our framework supports both the foundations and the advanced questions that emerge as you evolve.
 

 

 What Makes Us 

Different

Live implementation coaching 

Not just ideas, but strategic feedback on what you are building

Structured feedback loops 

We review your actual website, marketing, pricing, and roadmap

Peer community support 

Ask questions, stay accountable, and celebrate real wins in real time

An evolving identity shift  

From employee → clinician-CEO

 

But What if There Are Obstacles?

You’ll come to a coaching call.
You’ll post in the community.
You’ll troubleshoot with the team.

We expect obstacles. We’ve built the solutions in.

 

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Investing in Yourself and Your Future

You’ve worked hard to become who you are.

 

Now it’s time to build a career that reflects your skill, your vision, and your worth.

 

Dream Practice Academy is the most comprehensive mentorship and coaching available for mental health prescribers building integrative, profitable, values-driven private practices.

It’s not just an investment in your business. It’s an investment in your freedom, fulfillment, and future.

 

Choose the Track that's Right for You

Both Flagship+ and Elite represent the full Dream Practice Academy experience — the complete mentorship, strategy, and support to build or scale your dream practice.

 

These are for clinicians who are ready to get moving now — whether that means launching from scratch, optimizing what you’ve already built, or making big leaps in revenue, systems, and confidence.

Inside both tracks, you’ll get:

  • ✅ A 12-month step-by-step curriculum to help you launch and grow a private practice that’s values-aligned and clinically excellent

  • ✅ Live group coaching with Elana, where you’ll troubleshoot strategy, refine clinical frameworks, and learn from your peers

  • ✅ Working sessions and feedback loops to help you actually implement what you're learning — so you don’t get stuck in theory

  • ✅ Access to our community forum, marketing templates, financial tools, integrative protocols, and everything else we’ve built to help you succeed

  • ✅ A proven system that combines business strategy, integrative psychiatry, and personal growth — so you can build a practice that actually fits you

So what’s the difference between Flagship+ and Elite?

It all comes down to the level of personalization, support and acceleration you want.

FLAGSHIP+

$17,800

(pay in full, payment plans available)
 
For the self-directed action-taker who’s ready to build now, with strategy and support. 
Includes live group coaching, structured guidance, and personalized feedback — in a collaborative cohort setting

 

 Flagship+ gives you everything you need to launch your practice with clarity, structure, and momentum — and avoid costly trial-and-error along the way. You’ll get expert guidance in a collaborative group setting, personalized feedback on your business assets, and a clear roadmap to execute with confidence.

Flagship+ is for you if: 
  • Are self-driven but want accountability, support, and strategic guidance
  • You're starting a practice from scratch (rather than optimizing an existing practice)
  • You thrive in GROUP settings with other like-minded peers
     
What Makes it Powerful:
  • Business Strategy Kick-Off Session to set your 12-month plan

  • Bi-weekly Group Coaching & Working Sessions

  • One Private Check In & Coaching Call at the 3-month mark to measure progress and refine your plan

  • Personalized feedback on every major marketing, operations, and financial decision

  • Access to all program tools, community, curriculum, and templates

  • Trusted Referral Listing on Elana’s website

6-Month Plan: $3,263/mo
12-Month Plan: $1,780/mo
 
Additional third-party funding available. See below.

ELITE

$24,800

(pay in full, payment plans available)

 

For the "Silent Assassins" ready to blow this thing out of the water 😉. 
Includes everything in Flagship+, plus unlimited 1:1 coaching, deeper customization, and private strategic support.
 

Elite is our highest-touch experience — combining everything in Flagship+ with unlimited private coaching, advanced operations assistance and leadership development.

Whether you're starting a practice from scratch, looking to optimize an existing practice, or ready to step into a new era of CEO-level growth, you want next-level support, clarity, and results. 

Elite is for you if:

  • Have an existing practice you want to optimize, scale, or refine

  • Want 1:1 coaching and personalized strategic partnership

  • Are navigating a complex situation (like switching from insurance to cash-pay, hiring staff, raising fees, or preparing to scale beyond yourself)

  • Want direct 1:1 coaching from Elana and her team — not just feedback, but real collaboration

What Makes It Powerful (includes everything in Flagship+ AND):
  • Business Strategy Kick-Off Session with Elana

  • Custom 12-month Practice Roadmap & Business Plan with timelines, goals, and clear direction to follow

  • Unlimited coaching calls with your DPA business coach

  • Practice Audit + EHR Review to optimize operations and workflows for growth
  • Advanced mindset and leadership development to break internal blocks and lead with clarity

  • VIP Day with Elana: A ½-day intensive to unpack your strategy, refine your mindset, and identify high-impact growth moves

6-Month Plan: $4,546/mo
12-Month Plan: $2,480/mo
 
Additional third-party funding available. See below.

2-Week Full Refund Guarantee

We want you to feel confident saying yes.

That’s why we offer a full refund for our Flaghip+ or Elite tiers for any reason within the first 14 days of joining, no questions asked. If you get inside and realize it’s not the right fit, just let us know.

This isn’t about locking anyone into something they’re unsure about. It’s about giving you the chance to experience the value for yourself — and then decide from there.

We believe deeply in the results we help our members create. But we also know that trust is earned — and this is one way we hope to earn yours.

              

🌱 Not Ready to Launch Yet?

Start With The Momentum Track (New!)

 
For future private practice owners who want to set the stage — before they take the leap. 

We built Flagship+ and Elite for clinicians ready to move fast — but some people needed a place to begin. Maybe finances are tight, you’re still in training, or you’re not 100% sure private practice is the right move... yet. BUT you also know...

A dream delayed is a dream denied, and waiting for the “perfect” time usually means never starting at all.

The Momentum Track is your runway. It’s a dedicated experience for future private practice owners who want to set the stage before they launch.

You’ll build clarity, confidence, and momentum — without pressure to go all-in before you’re ready.

It isn't a discount version of the program or "coaching-lite"—it’s a strategic, intentional starting point — built to prepare you for full participation in the Dream Practice Academy experience when the timing is right.

Momentum Track is right for you if:
  • You're 6–12 months away from launching but want to lay the foundation now

  • You’re still in training or juggling life responsibilities that make “full launch mode” feel premature

  • You’re still exploring private practice and want to understand the roadmap before you commit

  • You want a lower-risk way to build trust in our process before committing to a high-ticket program — and want to see the value for yourself before going all-in

✅ What You Do Get — and Why It Matters

✔️Full Curriculum Access:
Learn the logistics of private practice step by step — from niche to pricing to systems — so you start strong when it’s time to launch.

✔️ Library of Integrative Protocols:
Begin learning how to deliver next-level, whole-person care — even before you’re fully up and running.

✔️Access to the DPA Community Forum
Surround yourself with other motivated clinicians so you can ask questions, stay inspired, and connect with future peers.

✔️Past Q&A Call Recordings
Learn from real coaching calls and see how others tackled the same questions and decisions you’ll face soon.

❌ What’s Not Included — and Why That’s Important

The Momentum Track is intentionally limited in scope — because it’s designed to serve a very specific stage of the journey: Preparation.

To stay aligned with that goal, you won’t receive:

❌ No 1:1 or Group Coaching

❌ No Personalized Feedback or Strategy

❌ No Direct Access to the DPA Team

That’s because Momentum is designed for your preparation phase — not the launch or growth phase. Once you’re ready to build, you’ll need personalized guidance to reach your goals. That kind of transformation happens inside Flagship+ and Elite, where we work closely with you to make it real.

💡 In Other Words...

The Momentum Track is where you build clarity.
Flagship+ and Elite are where you build your business.

Cost: $980/month

No commitment, cancel anytime


And here’s the best part: 100% of your payments can be credited toward a future upgrade to Flagship+ or Elite if done within 12 months.

Are You Ready to Level Up Your Psychiatry Career?

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