For practioners
We want Black women therapists to hit six figures without burnout.
Woods Collective
Six figures.
Without burnout.
A financial comparison of three practice models for a licensed clinician in North Carolina — and what each one actually costs you.
Assumptions
25 clients/week
$150/session
46 working weeks
(6 weeks off/year)
$150/session
46 working weeks
(6 weeks off/year)
Group Practice
40% revenue share
Solo Practice
fully independent
Woods Collective
$300/month membership
Financial
Annual Gross Revenue
Before any deductions
$172,500
$172,500
$172,500
Practice Cut / Overhead
What leaves your pocket
−$69,00040% revenue share
−$8,700EHR + insurance + office
−$12,300membership + EHR + insurance + office
What You Keep
Annual net income
$103,500
$163,800
$160,200
CEU Co-facilitation
2 trainings/year, 60% to you
✕
✕
+$4,500yours to keep
Annual Recovery Retreat
50% off for collective members
✕
✕
✓
$1,250 vs $2,500 full price
Total Potential Income
Clinical income + CEU
$103,500
$163,800
$164,700
Ownership & Autonomy
Own Your Client Relationships
✕
✓
✓
Set Your Own Rates
✕
✓
✓
Control Your Clinical Direction
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✓
✓
Keep Your Intellectual Property
✕
✓
✓
Community & Support
Peer Supervision
Liberation-centered, no explaining needed
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Generic, not liberation-centered✕
✓
Referral Network
~
✕
✓
Shared Research & Writing
Your frameworks become scholarship
✕
✕
✓
Co-facilitated Group Offerings
~
✕
✓
Established Brand & Marketing
7 years of WC presence working for you
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✕
✓
Decolonial Clinical Community
Black women practitioners, Triangle–Piedmont–Triad
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✕
✓
Group Practice
$103K
You pay $69,000/year for services worth approximately $8,700. The rest is extracted labor.
You do not own your clients, your rates, or your direction. The burnout is included at no extra charge.
Solo Practice
$163K
Full autonomy. Full income. Full isolation. No peer supervision, no community, no intellectual home.
Many Black practitioners leave solo practice not because of money — but because carrying this work alone is its own kind of extraction.
Woods Collective
$164K
Comparable income to solo practice — plus everything solo practice cannot offer.
$300/month buys peer supervision, referral network, shared research, CEU income, annual retreat at half price, and a community of Black women practitioners doing liberation work together.
New for Collective Members
The Annual
Recovery Retreat
One week per year, facilitated by LaVoya Woods — a restoration retreat designed specifically for Black women therapists and healers. Because the people doing the hardest work deserve the deepest rest. Collective practitioners receive 50% off the full retreat price.
Full Retreat Price
$2,500
Open to Black women therapists and healers outside the collective
Collective Member Price
$1,250
50% discount — because you are already doing the work
Estimated Annual Revenue
$43,750
Based on 15 external + 5 collective members — gross before expenses
What $300/month actually buys you
The question isn't why pay for the collective when you could go alone. The question is what going alone actually costs — that never shows up in a spreadsheet.
Peer supervision that speaks your language
Regular consultation with practitioners who share your framework. No explaining, no code-switching, no starting from scratch.
A referral network that fills your caseload
One referral generating a 12-session container at $150/session = $1,800. That single referral covers six months of membership.
CEU income from your own frameworks
Two trainings per year at the 60/40 split = $4,500 additional income. Your intellectual labor earns — not just your session hours.
Your frameworks become scholarship
Structures for publishing, presenting, and contributing to the decolonial mental health literature. Your insights belong in the field, not just your session notes.
Seven years of brand working for you
Woods Collective's established identity and philosophy from day one. No building from scratch.
The thing that prevents burnout
Not going it alone. A community of Black women practitioners doing liberation work together — the only sustainable way to do this work long-term.
Calculations based on 25 clients/week · $150/session · 46 working weeks/year (6 weeks off) · $172,500 gross annual revenue
Group practice assumes 40% revenue share · Solo/WC overhead includes EHR ($100/mo), malpractice insurance ($125/mo), in-person office ($500/mo)
CEU income: 2 trainings/year · 25 participants · $150/participant · 60% facilitator / 40% Woods Collective
Woods Collective membership: $300/month · Retreat: $2,500 full / $1,250 collective members
Group practice assumes 40% revenue share · Solo/WC overhead includes EHR ($100/mo), malpractice insurance ($125/mo), in-person office ($500/mo)
CEU income: 2 trainings/year · 25 participants · $150/participant · 60% facilitator / 40% Woods Collective
Woods Collective membership: $300/month · Retreat: $2,500 full / $1,250 collective members
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