Building a Private Practice (Session A)

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 Wednesdays: Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2026

Time: 7:00-8:30 PM EST

All courses will take place online. Seminar sessions are not recorded
Registration Deadline: March 2, 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 A)

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 court will also be offered in the Spring.

Instructors

Jonah Cohen, PhD
is a clinical psychologist and third year adult psychoanalytic candidate at BPSI. He has a private practice in Brookline where he does integrative psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and executive coaching. Jonah is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). At MGH, he is the Associate Director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders and an Assistant Director of Psychology Training. His research focuses on ways to promote cross-discipline conversation and collaboration, particularly in the face of clinical complexity.

Roxanne Sholevar, MD
is a psychiatrist and third year candidate in adult psychoanalysis at BPSI. She has a private practice in Brookline. In her private practice she approaches patients from a comprehensive medical, psychiatric, and psychoanalytic perspective which she attempts to maintain throughout treatment. She is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a staff psychiatrist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She is a founding member of the psychedelic-assisted therapies for psychological and existential distress in patients with advanced cancer and leads the group's educational and clinical program development. 


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 02/23/2026)  Use Code at Checkout: EB2026BPPA

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.