Do you dream of starting a private practice?

Join us for a conversation exploring ethics, identity, personal values and money in self-employment

Many mental health providers may come to a point in their careers when they consider working for themselves, but where is the road map? Most of us have spent years honing our clinical skills but may have no idea how to start or run a business! This training offers a supportive community space for people who are interested in exploring the freedom and creativity that private practice can offer, while thinking through how larger issues of ethics, identity, personal values and money intersect for...Read more self-employed providers. This learning space will provide concrete insights and awareness into both the challenges and opportunities inherent in starting a private practice, but our focus is not a “how-to” checklist. Come learn from a panel of 4 queer, self-employed therapists who have spent years creating and innovating their unique practices in the fields of social work, art therapy, and sex therapy. Begin to dream into what your future practice might look like, while considering complex and nuanced questions such as:

- What services am I excited to offer? What creative possibilities can I imagine for myself? What does it feel like to become the inspired, confident leader of my own professional life?

- What does it look like to create a financially thriving practice in a capitalist healthcare system that is built around exploitation and scarcity? How can I build a practice that is aligned with my values but also pays my bills?

- Should I work within the insurance system or not? How can I create access for clients if I don’t take insurance? What is equity pricing and what does it look like in practice? How do I determine my rates?

- How will my self-employment be shaped by my unique identity experiences, including things like being a parent, being neurodivergent, or working in a community I also belong to and participate in? What resources will I need to support me?

- How will I challenge imposter syndrome or insecurity as I advertise my services and promote my offerings? How will it feel to articulate my rates, policies, and other business-related boundaries to clients when my income depends on their continued consistent engagement?

- What is it like to provide my own health insurance, sick leave, vacation time, and general safety net? How can I be a good boss to myself?

This training space is meant to be a collaborative and co-created conversation. If you have curiosities or questions you’d like this panel to explore, please email Roxie.Ehlert@proton.me to share your questions ahead of time! Less...

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Learning Objectives

Learners will practice creatively envisioning different possibilities for their future work
Learners will analyze systemic, financial, and personal challenges and opportunities when starting a private practice
Learners will identify 2-3 ethical considerations when starting a private practice

Friday, September 04, 2026

Live Interactive Webinar

02:00 PM MDT - 04:00 PM MDT

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$25.00 - $75.00

EARN 2 CE Credit Hours
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About the speakers

Roxie Rose Ehlert, LPCC, LCPC, ATR-BC

Art Therapist

Roxie Rose Ehlert is a Board-Certified art therapist and art therapy educator based on Tiwa land in Albuquerque, NM. Her private practice, Roxie Rose Art Therapy, provides art therapy supervision, consultation, and mentorship, continuing education trainings, support groups, and community-oriented, art-based healing workshops and retreats. Roxie has been an adjunct professor in the art therapy and counseling programs at Southwestern College since 2019, and taught in the art therapy graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago prior to that. Through the framework of relational feminist, anti-oppressive education, Roxie is passionate about supporting early-career mental health providers to advance their clinical skills, develop greater professional confidence, and critically analyze the systems they work in. She facilitates close-knit, dynamic, and meaningful group supervision communities where therapists tend to their ongoing learning/unlearning, professional wellness, and creative thriving as they support each other in exploring the messy and complex questions this work can evoke.

Molly Adler, LCSW, CST

Director, Sex Therapy New Mexico

Molly is an AASECT certified Sex Therapist, Clinical Social Worker, Sex Educator and Trainer. Her practice Sex Therapy New Mexico is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Tiwa land. She works with a lot of clients who are LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, anti-racist, activists, polyamorous, and/or kink identified. Her approach is compassionate, grounded, pleasure-centered, light-hearted & social justice oriented. She enjoys the micro-level therapeutic work, as well as working towards structural change by offering training for healthcare providers and institutions who want to be more inclusive of sexual and gender diversity in their work. Previously she co-founded and co-directed Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center, New Mexico’s first and only sex-positive, health- and education-focused adult shop and resource center for its first eight years.

Magdalena V. Karlick, M.A., Ph.D., SEP, ATR-BC, LPCC

Magdalena V. Karlick, PhD, SEP, ATR-BC, LPCC (she/her) is an artist, board-certified Art Therapist in the United States, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, educator, arts-based researcher, with a doctorate in Expressive Arts. Magdalena is the owner of Our Imaginal World, a business that provides individual and group therapy, arts and somatic based supervision, post graduate education, and community health consultation for organizations. She has been an educator in the Art Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Counseling fields since 2012, focusing on cultural humility, somatic awareness, ethics, group dynamics, and therapeutic arts techniques. As a supervisor, she focuses on power dynamics, personal bias, culturally sensitive ethical practice, self-care, community care, and nervous system regulation. 

Magdalena is the Art Director for Tomorrow’s Women, working with Palestinian and Israeli femme-identifying youth in an international summer camp intensive. She is also a Vital Spaces studio artist in Santa Fe. Magdalena’s most recent publications include Queering Multiple Relationships in Small Communities in Queer World-Making in Art Therapy Theory and Praxis (Van Den Berg, 2026), and Zines as Creative Public Advocacy in Art Therapy in Comics, Zines, and Graphic Novels in Art Therapy: Illustrating Stories (Carlton, 2026).

Vanya Garabedian, LCSW

Vanya Garabedian, LCSW is the founder and owner of Intentional Path Counseling LLC. She is passionate about supporting and promoting learning, which is clearly demonstrated in the workshops she conducts. She cultivates an atmosphere that captures participants' attention and is both engaging and informative. As a licensed clinical social worker, she is a Brainspotting consultant and therapist, provides education and training for workplaces, and mentors clinicians. She brings over two decades of experience in the Mental and Behavioral Health field, working with diverse populations.

Agenda

2-2:10 Arrival, greetings, check ins
2:10- 2:20 Roxie offers a framework for our time together, shares agenda and group agreements/expectations
2:20-3:30 Panelist intros, panel discussion and participant questions
3:30-4 Reflection, integration, share backs and check out

CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

The New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Board

Approved by New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board. Provider Number CCE0204731. Expires 9/30/26

To all participants: If you were dissatisfied with the workshop, please contact the Counseling and Therapy Practice Board immediately

American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact info@assect.org. Provider 22-148-STNM

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