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✦ Founding Cohort — October 2026 · First three cohorts at founding price · Places limited
A Practice Freedom offering · Aotearoa New Zealand

My Practice Reset

For practitioners who've been doing this for a while — and something needs to shift.

If your practice isn't delivering the results, freedom, or fulfilment you hoped for, this course helps you build the systems, financial confidence, and business mindset to create a sustainable, thriving private practice — covering money and pricing, marketing, referrals, niching, and streamlined systems.

Designed for emotional and psychological health practitioners at any career stage · Counsellors · Psychotherapists · Psychologists · Allied Health
Enrol in the Founding Cohort — $497 NZD Book a chat to find out more
No payment processed today · Commencing October 2026
Does this sound familiar?

Signs it's time for a reset

You're undercharging, or you dread looking at the numbers.

Referrals feel unpredictable, and word-of-mouth isn't enough.

Admin and systems eat the time you'd rather spend on clients.

A practice built around meaningful work still feels heavy.

By the end of this course you will have

What you walk away with

A solid financial foundation — clarity on your true financial position, tax efficiencies, and profitability.

Pricing confidence — overcoming money-mindset blocks and creating sustainable income.

Streamlined systems — intake, onboarding, and day-to-day administration that run smoothly.

A steady referral engine — marketing, branding, niching, and referral strategies that attract your ideal clients without feeling "salesy".

Burnout prevention — a framework for balancing caseload, leave, and income stability.

NZ-specific guidance — IRD, ACC, NZAC/HPCA frameworks, and the Privacy Act 2020.

A values-aligned mindset — one that lets you be profitable and sustainable while staying aligned with your values.

Templates, a roadmap, and action steps — practical tools in place, ready to use.

Inside the curriculum

9 core modules · 37 practical lessons

A practical, implementation-focused experience. Every module guides you through real decisions using tools designed specifically for the NZ landscape.

Explore the full curriculum 9 modules · 37 lessons ▾
Pre-Course

Rate Your Practice — The Waka Float Quiz

Free 30-question self-assessment across five domains. Maps directly to every module and gives you a clear starting point.

Module 1

Introduction & Orientation

The Waka Framework, where you are on the journey, stage orientation (Building / Sustaining / Transitioning).

Module 2

Focus on You

Snapshot of now, financial snapshot, your ideal vision, mindset & beliefs, values, ideal client profile.

Module 3

Your Practice Plan

Grounded business plan, marketing plan overview, practice budget review.

Module 4

Your Support Team

Your professional support network, supervision vs business coaching, legal & insurance review.

Module 5

All About Money

Money mindset, practice costs review, raising your fees, business structure, managing your money, tax, GST & ACC, budgeting & cashflow, revenue diversification.

Module 6

Brand & Marketing

Brand audit, the three mistakes, niching down, online presence review, your marketing reset.

Module 7

The Referral Engine

Before referrals — are you ready?, the eight streams of referral, acknowledging referrals, working on the business tracker.

Module 8

Level Up Your Systems

Admin & business processes, intake process, onboarding bundle, first-session protocol, telehealth & online compliance.

Module 9

Sustainability & Wellbeing

Parallel process, avoiding burnout, sustainable caseload planning, leave & income planning.

Add-Ons

Contingency, Succession & Systems

Included with enrolment — access when relevant to you.

How it works

Cohort-based, self-paced, NZ-specific

Join a cohort

Released in cohorts twice a month. You move with a peer community, but keep lifetime access to all materials and future updates to review at your own pace.

4 live Q&A sessions with Sam

Direct professional mentorship. Bring your bottlenecks, hear what colleagues are navigating, and get real-time strategic alignment as you work through the course.

Practical NZ toolkit included

Aotearoa-specific and informed: the Fee Reset Calculator, Practice Cost Review, done-for-you scripts for difficult client conversations, and framework templates. Reduced admin fee if you join Your Focus as an ACC provider.

✦ Save $500 — first three cohorts only

Founding Cohort — October 2026

The founding cohort is more than early access — it's a collaborative partnership. The first three cohorts are offered at the founding price. In exchange, your real-time feedback helps shape the course.

Reserve now, pay later: no payment today. Secure your place in the October 2026 cohort; your payment processes when it goes live.

$497$997You save $500
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Enrol in the Founding Cohort — $497 NZD Book a chat to find out more

Our Founding Member Trust Promise: if you start and find the framework isn't the right fit, let us know within the first 14 days for a full, hassle-free refund. Building long-term trust with our founding cohort matters more to us than rigid policies.

What's included in your lifetime access

Your facilitator

Built by a practitioner, for practitioners

Sam Mitchell

Sam Mitchell is a registered integrative psychotherapist with 30 years in private practice, specialising in attachment-informed and transpersonal EMDR. She runs her own practice in Aotearoa, internationally (EMDR intensives) and online, and is the founder and director of Your Focus Ltd.

"You trained for years to do your clinical work. You deserve a practice that honours that dedication — financially, structurally, and personally."

Ms Sam Mitchell · Waiheke Island, Aotearoa NZ

PBANZ · APANZ · EMDRAA · Dip Teaching
Frequently asked questions

Your questions answered

Is this course specific to New Zealand?
Yes. The frameworks, toolkit, and the tax, ACC and fee references are all built for the Aotearoa context.
Which practitioners is this designed for?
Counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and allied health practitioners in private practice.
Is this course CPD-eligible?
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I've been in practice for 20+ years. Is this still relevant?
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I'm only a year into private practice. Will this be over my head?
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What does "released in cohorts twice a month" mean?
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When does payment process?
No payment is taken today. Your payment processes when the October 2026 cohort goes live.
A note from Sam

This is the course I wish I'd had

"This is the exact business and operational roadmap I wish I'd had when I started out."

I'm pleased and proud to offer it as our first offering from Practice Freedom — a home for private practitioners in Aotearoa. And there's more to come.

This Practice Reset course is built for practitioners who want to run a practice aligned with their values, grounded in solid business skills, and designed around the life they actually want to live — not just the one they fell into. If you've been waiting for permission to reset, here it is.

The founding cohort offer

Ready to build a practice aligned with your life?