Co-Founder
CurrentFireside invests in mental health practices and supports the founders in building the practices of their dreams. Mental health is the planet’s biggest source of disease burden. And in the United States, COVID ushered in a new era where we could no longer hide from our mental health issues. There aren’t enough clinicians on the front lines of this vital struggle, and too many leave the profession due to burnout. Our mission is to build a different kind of practice that retains them not just in our practices, but in practice as a whole. Let’s create a culture where they are paid well, respected, and excited to serve their clients.We are a truly culture-driven investor. This means our #1 priority is clinician retention and satisfaction. Skeptics tell us that, far too often, there are trade-offs between culture and profitability. Sometimes this is the case in the short-term but in the long-term, the best practices we see - including those founded by our team - create a virtuous circle where culture and profitability fuel each other. These practices treat their employee clinicians like gold who in turn provide extraordinary levels of service, generating more business than the practice can handle. We have a team of some of the nation’s leading experts in the business of mental health. Michael Goldberg grew his Massachussets practice to ~$20m in revenue with extremely high employee satisfaction rates. Lindsay Smith still owns her practice in Silicon Valley, but it is run almost entirely without her day to day involvement. Other pe buyers mistreat clinicians and focus on short-term profit extraction so you may be skeptical. We get that. We want to share profits with you because we know in the long-term, by working together, we can build a bigger and better practice. We prefer that founders stay with us in a re-designed role where they can focus purely on their strengths. When we do only the work we are meant to do, we heal from burnout and serve others powerfully.
