10/06/2026
Only 18% of therapy practices say they're truly thriving.
That's from new research we ran this year with more than 1,000 clinicians and practice leaders across mental health, behavioral health, SLP, PT, and OT.
We asked them what a healthy practice actually looks like, and the answer kept coming back in five parts:
→ Client outcomes: are clients getting better?
→ Financial health: is the money side working?
→ Practice operations: does the day-to-day run smoothly?
→ Clinician well-being: can the people doing the work keep doing it?
→ Client experience: what's it like to be a client here?
95% of practice leaders agree you need all five to call a practice successful. But almost nobody tracks all five: only 7% do, and 62% track one domain or none at all.
The gap between what practices value and what they measure is where a lot of quiet struggle hides.
We're spending the next several months digging into each of these domains, one at a time, in our newsletter: what the data shows, what thriving practices do differently, and small habits worth borrowing.
This was one of five pieces in our latest edition. Link to subscribe is in the comments 👇
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