Most heart-centered founders hit a wall around the full-roster mark. The business that felt aligned starts feeling like a ceiling. In this episode, Jordana Bergman, founder of Eden Wellness Psychotherapy and former Bay Street litigator, shares the exact shifts that took her from full solo practice to a scalable boutique group clinic without losing the integrity of the work or burning out in the process.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏻 Why "full from day one" is a credibility play, not a marketing one, and what actually builds that credibility before you ever hang the sign

👉🏻 The niching mindset that makes hiring the right clinicians obvious instead of agonizing

👉🏻 How risk-averse founders can use data to make bold moves and why spreadsheets reduce risk for every personality type

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 — Introduction

05:00 — The injury that forced the pivot

11:00 — Back to school with four kids under seven

18:00 — The 2025 decision to scale

24:00 — Hiring for lived experience

30:00 — From gut calls to data driven decisions

35:00 — The vision for a boutique group clinic

CONNECT WITH JORDANA BERGMAN

Website: https://www.edenwellness.ca/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edenwellnesspsychotherapy/

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months. If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide

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Susan Henriques spent 17 years in the school board system before she made her first move toward private practice. Four years later, she runs a group psychology practice with three associates and two mornings a week just for herself. This isn't a story about taking a big leap. It's about building something that lasts by moving at exactly the right pace.

In this episode of FoundHer Rising, Christine Hakkola sits down with the founder of New Horizons Child and Adolescent Psychology Services to talk about the real mechanics of going from solo practitioner to group practice, and the hard lessons about burnout, systems, trust, and knowing when enough growth is exactly enough.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏻 Why "change happens at the speed of safety" is a strategy, not an excuse, and how Susan used a four-year gradual transition to build an unshakeable private practice foundation

👉🏻 The key difference between hiring someone and actually delegating to them and why trust has to come before you let go, not after

👉🏻 How to identify your business's "set point" the size and structure where it is most profitable, most sustainable, and most aligned with why you built it

CONNECT WITH SUSAN HENRIQUES:

Website: www.newhorizonspsychology.ca

Email: info@newhorizonspsych.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-henriques-30056317a/

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months: https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide

Are you a founder in wellness, coaching, or consulting?

If today's episode resonated and you're ready to have an honest conversation about what scaling actually looks like in your business, apply to be a guest on FoundHer Rising.

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Two LCSWs Left the Hospital. Then They Built What the Mental Health System Was Missing. Jodi Kapes and Valerie Lighthall spent years inside hospital behavioral health. After 14+ years in the system, they walked out and built Aligned Clinical LCSW Consulting, a practice delivering clinical debriefings, mental health support, and risk management consulting directly to organizations and communities. But this episode is not just their story. It's a masterclass for any woman in business who has ever struggled to charge her worth, market her services, or reconcile building a sustainable business with wanting to genuinely help people. Christine Hakkola makes one thing very clear: you are not selling yourself. You are selling a service. And the difference between those two things is costing many women service providers their businesses.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏼 Undercharging doesn't protect the people you serve — it limits how long you can serve them

👉🏼 The clearest marketing language you'll ever write is already in how you describe your impact out loud

👉🏼 B2B consulting models let service providers create exponentially larger community impact

CONNECT WITH ALIGNED CLINICAL LCSW CONSULTING:

Website: alignedclinical.com

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

Instagram: @hakkolahorizons

If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. Free Guide: https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide

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