Why I only work with mental health providers
I'm Elan Siedband. I've spent more than a decade working in mental health, including co-founding an adolescent IOP and leading its growth.
I lived the referral grind firsthand. I made call after call to discharge planners and drove across the state for lunch-and-learns with inpatient teams, all under constant census pressure. It taught me that a practice can't count on referrals alone to keep caseloads full.
Most of the owners I talk to have clinicians with open hours. The people who'd fill them are often already searching on Google. They get lost between the search and a booked intake, usually because nobody answers fast enough or the page never mentions their insurance.
I started GrowMyPractice to close that gap. Mental health is the whole focus, because it's where I've spent my career and where I know how intake actually works.