Diversify Beyond the Chair:
A Business-Building Retreat for Therapist Practice Owners Ready for What’s Next
April 12–14, 2026 | Las Vegas, NV
You’ve built a career helping others.
Now it’s time to build a business that helps you, too.
If you’re like so many established practice owners I work with, you’ve hit a point where:
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You’re tired of being at the mercy of insurance companies or being worried about building caseloads
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Your energy for clinical work isn’t what it used to be.
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You want to make a bigger impact without burning out.
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You know you’re capable of more — you just aren’t sure where to begin.
You’ve probably thought about coaching, consulting, courses, speaking, podcasting, or launching a membership…
But the jump from “therapy” to “something new” can feel overwhelming without guidance.
And honestly?
You shouldn’t have to figure it out alone.
That’s why we created this retreat.
A 3-Day, Hands-On Retreat to Help You Build Your Next Revenue Stream With Confidence
The Diversify Beyond the Chair Retreat brings together a curated group of 30–40 therapist practice owners who are ready to expand beyond 1:1 sessions — and want a clear, ethical, sustainable path forward.
This is not a conference.
This is not a giant ballroom.
This is not a “sit, listen, and hope it helps” event.
This is an intimate, high-touch experience where you will actually:
✨ Explore multiple revenue streams
✨ Learn directly from therapists who have successfully diversified
✨ Start mapping and building your next offer
✨ Get real-time feedback from experts
✨ Develop a plan you can execute with confidence
✨ Build relationships with other therapists walking the same path
By the time you leave, you’ll know exactly what your next revenue stream will be — and how to bring it to life.
What You’ll Gain:
Clarity
Identify the best revenue stream for you — aligned with your strengths, expertise, and season of life.
A Launch Roadmap
Walk away with a step-by-step plan to bring your new offer to the world.
Confidence in Your Future
No more fear of the next insurance change or burnout cycle. You’ll have income options and the skills to build sustainably.
Mentorship From Those Who’ve Done It
Every speaker started as a therapist and built something bigger — and they’ll show you how they did it.
Implementation Time
This isn’t just learning. You will start building at the retreat with support from speakers and sponsors.
Community
Leave with new business friends, collaborators, and accountability partners who truly get it.
And did we mention...
10 NBCC CEs are available for this retreat?!
NBCC Disclaimer
This Retreat Is For You If…
- You have ideas about how to build and diversify outside of the one-on-one chair
- You have already begun a process of diversification and you need support or you need to learn from others that have done this well and been successful
- You're feeling alone and isolated in the work that you do—or alone and isolated and having these big thinking parts that have ideas but nowhere to have these ideas affirmed, encouraged, or supported
- You would like to come to Las Vegas and have an amazing time exploring an amazing city with other therapists and business owners
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A Glimpse Inside the 3-Day Retreat
Sunday, April 12
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9am-10am: Breakfast served
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9:30am-10:15am:Â Intro and connection
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10:15 am-11:45am:Â Speaker 1 (Dominique Pritchett)
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12pm-1:30pm: Speaker 2 (Rachel Bentley)
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Plenty of time to explore Vegas (alone or with others from the retreat)
Monday, April 13
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Breakfast served 9am-10am
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9:30am-10:15am:Â Morning Check-In - Processing, Q&A, and dreaming big together
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10:15 am-11:45am: Speaker 1 (Melissa Rosinski)
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12pm-1:30pm:Â Â Speaker 2 (Julia Nepini)
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Plenty of time to explore Vegas (alone or with others from the retreat)
Tuesday, April 14
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9am-10am: Breakfast servedÂ
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 9:30am-10:45am: Speaker 1(Kara Cruz)
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11am-12:30pm: Speaker 2 (Michelle Risser)
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12:30pm-1:30pm:Â LunchÂ
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1:30pm-2:30pm: All speaker panel - Ask questions, dream big, get support
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2:45pm-4:45pm: Implementation lab with speaker supportÂ
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 Tuesday night: Dinner and Las Vegas show
Meet Your Retreat Host:
Rachel Bentley
(Therapist Business Owner and Las Vegas Enthusiast)
I cannot tell you how excited I am to be hosting and speaking at Diversify Beyond the Chair! If you’ve been in the therapy world for any length of time, you already know the truth: Seeing a high caseload week after week, year after year, is not sustainable.
Insurance-based therapists are navigating ever-tightening insurance requirements, denials, and shrinking rates. Private-pay therapists face constant pressure to market, fill caseloads, and maintain income stability. No matter your model, we all eventually reach the same realization:
There has to be another way.
As both a group practice owner and private practice consultant, I hear the same longing over and over—therapists want more freedom, more creativity, more financial stability, and more ease. We want options. We want to build something that supports our nervous systems, our families, and our long-term futures.
But here’s the kicker: most of us were never taught how to own a business, let alone how to diversify one.
That’s why this Vegas retreat exists.
And speaking of Vegas… I cannot wait to welcome you there. In 2025, I celebrated 30 years of visiting Las Vegas. The city has changed, but one thing remains true—it is vibrant, freeing, and endlessly inspiring. It’s the perfect backdrop for dreaming bigger, taking courageous steps, and building something new.
Meet the Therapists Who Expanded Beyond the Chair
Each retreat speaker began as a therapist — and built thriving, profitable revenue streams outside 1:1 therapy.
Rachel Bentley, MA LPC
Building Next Level Success: The Systems, Community, and Strategy Behind My Growth
Rachel Bentley is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Michigan, an IFS Level 2 trained therapist, and an IFIO advanced trained therapist. She is the Founder and CEO of COR Counseling, Community Services and Clinical Supervision—a group practice of 35+ team members serving clients throughout Michigan.
Rachel is also the owner of Next Level Private Practice, a coaching and consulting company.
In her work with Next Level Private Practice, Rachel has successfully built an online course, offered CE based training, hosted summits and retreats, facilitates private practice mentorship groups and offers consultation to therapists and helpers that are starting, growing or working to sustain their Private Practices.
Rachel has also been featured as a keynote speaker and break out speaker at several events.
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Kara Cruz, LMFT, PMH-C
There’s Room for All of Us: Reclaiming Creativity, Connection, and Authenticity Beyond the Therapy Room
Kara Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional, EMDRIA Certified Therapist™, and CE trainer. A private practice owner, educator, and clinical supervisor, she has over a decade of experience supporting women navigating complex trauma, ADHD, and reproductive mental health.
She founded Therapist Group Bootcamp, guiding therapists to design and launch their signature therapy groups, and leads It Begins With Us, a women’s program helping women reconnect with themselves, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim authentic self-connection.
Melissa Rosinski, MS, LPC
Creating Your Signature Retreat: Build the Experience Only You Can Lead
Melissa Rosinski is a Licensed Professional Counselor, group practice owner, clinical supervisor, and consultant with over 15 years of experience in the mental health and wellness field.
She is highly trained in trauma-focused modalities—including EMDR and Somatic Experiencing—and integrates alternative healing practices such as Reiki and auricular acupuncture into her work.
Melissa leads the annual signature retreat Nature, Ritual and Renewal, a somatic, nature-based experience for helping professionals in Costa Rica, and is currently expanding her retreat offerings for 2026 and 2027.
Michelle Risser, LISW-S
You Have the Expertise, Now Share It! Expand Your Impact as an Approved Continuing Education Provider
Michelle Risser, LISW-S, is a licensed therapist, consultant, and continuing education provider with over 23 years of clinical and professional experience.
She is the creator of the Therapist Educator’s Academy and the Doable Marketing Circle, and has helped hundreds of therapists expand their income and impact as approved continuing education providers.
Drawing from her own journey through burnout recovery and entrepreneurship, Michelle supports therapists in creating aligned, sustainable income streams. Her work focuses on CE course approval, ethical marketing, and real-life systems that make diversified income streams more doable.
Dr Dominique Pritchett, PsyD, LCSW
Sessions to Stages: A Journey to More Impact, Income & IndependenceÂ
Dr. Dominique Pritchett believes impact, income, and independence should never come at the cost of your sanity.
After navigating several episodes of burnout, this global mental health speaker consultant, trainer, retreat and summit host and licensed therapist chose to redefine what it means to serve.
Through Speak to the Soul®, Beloved Wellness Center®, and Space for Sistas®, she helps people evolve their mental capacity so they can live with without selling their soul. Her insights have been featured in BBC London Radio, Shondaland, SUCCESS and Women’s Health Magazine.Â
Julia Nepini, LICSW
From Solo to Scaled: A Transparent Roadmap for Expanding Your Impact
Julia Nepini is a clinical and forensic social worker who owns the group practice Compassionate Counseling Company and the consulting business, Compassionate Consulting Company, where she and her team help therapists at every stage in business grow successfully and sustainably.
She hosts the Compassionate Climb podcast and travels the world speaking about leadership, CEO mindset, and integrating the Enneagram into clinical practice and team development
This Retreat Isn’t About Chasing Success — It’s About Designing Sustainability.
You deserve:
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predictable, diversified income
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a business that doesn’t consume your identity
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work that excites you again
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financial security that isn’t dependent on endless sessions
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freedom to be creative, spacious, and present
This retreat isn’t pushing you to “do more.”
It’s showing you how to create work that gives you more freedom, more options, and more self-assurance.
Travel & Lodging
Tuscany Hotel
Within walking distance of The Strip, experience the easygoing elegance and personalized service that sets our Tuscan resort apart from other off-strip Las Vegas hotels. Dive into the heart of a unique Tuscan resort experience while enjoying everything Las Vegas has to offer.
Retreat Pricing
General Admission: ~$1997
Black Friday Special:$1,797
Includes:
âś” All retreat sessions
âś” Small group access to speakers
âś” Dinner & Show on Tuesday Night
✔ Breakfast each day, lunch on Tuesday
âś” Speaker/sponsor panel
âś” Tuesday implementation lab
âś” Community + networking
âś” Retreat Workbook
âś” 10 NBCC CEs
Why Vegas?
2025 marked my 30th year of visiting Las Vegas, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this city has my whole heart.
It all started when I was 17. I stepped off the plane and the second I walked outside that airport, I felt it. The energy. The possibility. The freedom. I knew immediately that Vegas was my place.
Here's what people don't always understand about Vegas - yes, there's gambling and yes, there's free-flowing alcohol 24/7, but that's honestly not what keeps me coming back. What I love is that on any given day, at any given time, you can do absolutely anything you want... or nothing at all.
My favorite parts? The thousands of incredible restaurants. The high-quality shows. The sightseeing and people watching. Watching the Bellagio fountains at night, visiting the Conservatory as it changes with each season, sipping coffee at Urth Caffé at the Wynn, taking in city views from rooftop bars, riding real gondolas at the Venetian, exploring the chandelier bar at the Cosmopolitan, seeing The Sphere, walking Fremont Street to experience where it all began.
And I cannot not mention the spa scene. Each Vegas hotel provides a tranquil, relaxing space that you could literally spend all day in. If you love to go to the spa (or maybe you've never been but are curious), I highly recommend it.
I've celebrated birthdays there. I've seen Adele, Elton John, Garth Brooks, and N*SYNC perform there. I still find new things that amaze me every single time.
When I was planning this retreat, I knew exactly where it needed to happen. Vegas has this energy of possibility, of reinvention, of people showing up as their fullest selves.
You’ve given so much to your practice.
Now it’s time to build what’s next for you.
If you’re craving the clarity, confidence, and connection to create a sustainable future beyond the therapy chair — this retreat was built for you.
Join us for three days that will change the trajectory of your business and your life.
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