Meet Meg Young

Not every story starts with burnout. Mine started with a decision.

I was a licensed therapist in Connecticut, on insurance panels, with a full caseload and a full house. My stepchildren were teenagers, my mother-in-law was living with us and navigating memory loss, and most evenings I stayed at my desk a little longer than necessary because it was easier than being "on" for everyone the moment I closed my laptop.

I wasn't burned out. I was a therapist doing what therapists do: holding space for everyone else while quietly running on a schedule that left nothing for me.

I started getting calls from first responders (which was and is my therapy niche) who wanted to work with me. Police officers, paramedics and firefighters who needed support, but were afraid to use their insurance. They were afraid it would get back to their chain of command and they'd be pulled off the line...in essence that asking for help would cost them their career. So, many didn't book because I was on their panel. That stayed with me.

Years before we moved to Florida, I got licensed there. I'd been planning ahead, the way I always do. And when the time came to open my practice in a brand new state without any referral sources, colleagues, or network, and nobody who knew my name, I made one decision upfront: I would not join a single insurance panel. Not because I was burned out by insurance, but because I'd spent enough years watching insurance limit my session frequency, cap my reimbursement rates, and require me to justify clinical decisions to someone who had likely never sat across from a suffering human being. Not to mention, I wanted first responders to be able to call me and actually book.

So, I built my Florida multi-six-figure income practice completely private pay in a state where I didn't know a single person. What I found on the other side wasn't just better income, but freedom. I travel when I want to. I spend real time with my husband, instead of the leftover hours after dealing with billing and insurances. I give each client the time and energy they actually deserve, without an insurance company telling me how many sessions they're allowed to have or how much that session is worth. I I feel free...light...present...And I haven't filed a prior auth in years.

Why I Work With Therapists on This

I'm not going to tell you I know exactly what it feels like to leave a practice you've built over a decade and be terrified the private-pay clients won't come. But, what I can tell you is I decided to be private pay in a state where I had no clients, colleagues, or safety net when I started, and I still built a thriving private-pay practice.

I have 20 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and qualified supervisor. I understand the insurance system from the inside, being on panels in Connecticut including what it takes, what it costs, and what it does to a therapist's sense of worth over time.

And I have the tools to help you do the thing you already know you want to do, but keep talking yourself out of. It helps to work with someone who left the insurance panel world on purpose and can show you how to do the same.

Workshops and Seminars Meg has Presented At

2017: Seminar - Service without Sacrifice

2018: Community Event - Q&A about the emotional and behavioral symptoms of trauma

2020: Virtual Seminar - Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Therapists

2022: Seminar - Service without Sacrifice

2025: Seminar - The Science of Somatic Healing: Yoga, EMDR, IFS, and More.

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