Starting a Private Practice is where we talk with therapists and psychologists who built practices on their own terms, and get honest about the parts nobody trained us for. This one is for anyone who has done everything they could think of to grow, watched it not work, and quietly wondered whether the problem is them. Kristin left academic medicine, built a virtual group practice for kids and teens, and figured out that the skill she needed to sharpen was not a clinical one.
What You'll Hear
00:00 Introduction to Kristin and her practice
01:35 Building a virtual, accessible practice
03:12 Evidence-based care and outcome tracking
06:59 Leading a collaborative group practice
09:59 Marketing, social media, and SEO
16:12 Growing the practice through business skills
19:36 Staying grounded through growth
22:29 Advice for building a pediatric practice
25:18 Final advice for practice owners
About Kristin
Kristin is a licensed psychologist and the founder of Little Dove Psychology, a virtual practice based in Austin serving children, adolescents, college students, and families across Texas and additional PSYPACT states. Before private practice, she worked in academic medicine at Children's Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin, including work as the attending psychologist for a cystic fibrosis clinic and research on telehealth group therapy that predates the pandemic. Her practice focuses on anxiety, depression, family conflict, emotion regulation, and ADHD testing and treatment, with evening and weekend availability so kids are not pulled out of school and parents are not missing work. She also runs Little Dove Consulting, which partners with health systems on behavioral health program design. You can reach her through littledovepsychology.com or on LinkedIn.
Resources Mentioned
Little Dove Psychology: https://littledovepsychology.com/
ADHD testing in Austin: https://littledovepsychology.com/adhd-testing-austin
Psychological testing and evaluation: https://littledovepsychology.com/psychological-testing-evaluation
Anxiety therapy for kids and teens: https://littledovepsychology.com/anxiety-therapist-austin
Online therapy in Austin: https://littledovepsychology.com/austin-therapy
Meet the Little Dove team: https://littledovepsychology.com/about
About Kristin: https://littledovepsychology.com/dr-kristin-kroll
Little Dove Consulting: https://littledoveconsulting.com/
Kristin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-hunter-kroll-phd-b94a1330/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KbHnfIZeJS4
Read the blog post: [BLOG URL]
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