Building a Private Practice (Session B)

Using a small-group seminar format, this four-session course offers a forum in which participants can think through some of the challenges involved in building and maintaining a successful private practice.

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Four sessions on Tuesdays: Apr. 28, 2026; May 5, 12, 19, 2026 

Time: 6:00-7:30 PM ET

All courses will take place online. Seminar sessions are not recorded
Registration Deadline: April 24, 2026

Continuing Education credits are not offered for this course.

Registrants are expected to be able to attend all sessions in their entirety. Should your availability change, please contact the BPSI Team (team@bpsi.org) to remove your course registration and allow other interested participants to attend.

 

Building a Private Practice (Session B)

Using a small-group seminar format, this four-session course offers a forum in which participants can think through some of the challenges involved in building and maintaining a successful private practice. We will focus on practical issues such as choosing an office location (in person and/or virtual), record keeping, whether or not to take insurance, and setting fees as well as clinical issues such as finding patients, how to begin treatments, and developing your professional support system.

Please note: this course will also be offered in the Spring.

Instructors

Alison Newman, LICSW
Alison Newman, LICSW is a Third Year Candidate Member and academic graduate of the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at BPSI; Current advisor and mentor of Fellowship & ATP clinicians at BPSI, Former Adjuct Faculty, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Alison is a current supervisor and clinician in private practice in Lexington, MA.

Emily Matteodo, MD
Emily Matteodo, MD is a Third Year Candidate Member of BPSI and an academic graduate of the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She serves as an advisor to BPSI students in the Fellowship Program and as a psychodynamic psychotherapy supervisor to residents in the MGH/McLean Residency Program. She has worked as an attending in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and is currently in full time private practice in Lexington, MA


Open to Licensed Clinicians & Clinicians on the Path to Licensure. 

Scholarships are available for BPSI programs.

FEE:

$150 Course Fee
$50 Early Career Clinicians, Residents and Students
$125 Early Bird (available until /23/2026)  Use Code at Checkout: EB2026BPPB

The fee is waived for BPSI Members, Trainees, and Partners. Scholarships are available upon request.

 

Explorations in Mind: Community Education at BPSI is made possible by the generous support of BPSI Members and friends. To make a gift to BPSI, contact Carole Nathan (cnathan@bpsi.org or 617-266-0953 x101),
go to www.bpsi.org, or send mail to BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459.

 
Program Administrator
Jackson Doty: jdoty@bpsi.org

Program Chairs
Natasha Lifton, PhD: natashalifton@gmail.com
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD: l-emanuel@northwestern.edu
 
 
Event Cancellation Policies & Procedures
Any program participant requesting their individual program registration be canceled, must submit their request in writing via email to Jackson Doty at jdoty@bpsi.org. For fee-based events, a request for cancellation (and refund using the original form of payment) must be received no later than 48 hours in advance of the event. Requests received later than 48 hours prior to the event will not be processed or accepted. All approved refunds are subject to a $10.00 administrative fee. If BPSI cancels an event, all registrants will receive a full refund of fees paid (no administration charge) no later than two business days following the scheduled date of the event, using the original form of payment.
 
Grievance Policy
Please address any questions or concerns about your experience at this or any program or event you have attended at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to the Program Chair(s), via the Senior Administrator/Continuing Education Administrator, BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459; team@bpsi.org; 617.266.0953.
 
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc., 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459, does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin or handicap in the admissions to or administration of its educational programs, scholarship programs or employment.