Consultation with Brian
Mental health • Recovery • Reinvention • Clinical work • Practice operations • Podcasting • Entrepreneurship • Big decisions
Bring the problem that has been eating your time and mental bandwidth.
You are paying for an hour of Brian's focused time, experience, and judgment. Bring the questions, ideas, decisions, documents, or situations you want to work through. The conversation may involve mental health, addiction, recovery, relationships, career loss, reinvention, treatment options, clinical work, private practice, podcasting, content, business, or something harder to categorize. We follow the issue wherever it needs to go.
Almost any question that could benefit from an experienced second mind.
These are examples rather than separate services. Bring everything that feels relevant. If it touches something Brian has lived, studied, built, operated, repaired, or learned the hard way, it can probably become a useful conversation. Questions often overlap, and the consultation can move across categories as the situation becomes clearer.
Mental Health, Recovery & Real Life
For people trying to understand a mental-health, addiction, relationship, recovery, identity, or treatment concern and determine useful next steps.
- Understanding patterns, symptoms, and treatment options
- Questions about Brian's recovery and what rebuilding has required
- Career loss, being fired, reinvention, and starting over
- Finding the right therapist, program, assessment, or level of care
- Supporting someone without rescuing, controlling, or enabling
- Thinking through a relationship, recovery, or family situation
Clinical Work & Private Practice
For clinicians who want another experienced perspective on a case, a clinical decision, or the complicated machinery involved in building and running a sustainable practice.
- Case formulation, treatment direction, boundaries, and impasses
- Addiction, trauma, attachment, couples, and co-occurring concerns
- Billing, insurance, payer mix, credentialing, and self-pay strategy
- EHR selection, documentation, scheduling, policies, and workflow
- Services, rates, websites, referrals, marketing, and capacity
Podcasting & Content Creation
For people who want to develop a useful public voice, start a podcast, sharpen an existing show, or turn lived and professional experience into compelling content.
- Podcast concept, positioning, and audience
- Episode development, scripting, interviewing, and structure
- Turning expertise into clear, human content
- Building a repeatable recording and publishing workflow
- Connecting content to a practice, service, or professional identity
Entrepreneurship, Systems & Big Decisions
For entrepreneurs, business owners, and people carrying an idea, operational problem, or complicated decision that has become difficult to see clearly from the inside.
- Turning expertise or an idea into a workable paid service
- Pricing, cash flow, capacity, budgeting, and sustainability
- Software, AI tools, websites, SEO, automation, and workflow
- Vendors, contractors, hiring, delegation, and bottlenecks
- Major projects, competing priorities, risk, and tradeoffs
- Moving from an idea to a version that can function in real life
For anyone who wants a direct, informed second mind in the room.
People arrive with every kind of background and every level of clarity. Some come for clinical expertise. Some come because Brian has lived through addiction, recovery, career collapse, reinvention, and the work of building an entirely different life. Others want access to a hands-on entrepreneur who has learned how to build, operate, troubleshoot, and improve the moving parts of a real business.
Individuals With Questions
People trying to understand a mental-health, addiction, relationship, recovery, or treatment concern before deciding what to do next.
Partners & Family Members
People concerned about someone they love and trying to balance support, boundaries, treatment options, and their own well-being.
Therapists & New Clinicians
Licensed clinicians and registered interns seeking case consultation, clinical perspective, documentation guidance, or practice support.
Private-Practice Owners
Solo clinicians and small-practice owners working through rates, capacity, insurance, systems, positioning, growth, or operational strain.
Podcasters & Creators
People turning knowledge, experience, or a strong idea into podcasts, educational content, interviews, writing, or other public-facing work.
People Starting Over
People rebuilding after addiction, failure, job loss, being fired, a major identity shift, or the collapse of the life they expected to have.
Entrepreneurs & Owners
People working through pricing, systems, technology, cash flow, growth, delegation, vendors, major projects, or the daily friction of operating a business.
People Building Something
People with an idea, side project, service, platform, or creative direction who need help turning scattered possibilities into a workable next version.
One focused hour built around whatever you need to work through.
Bring your questions, competing ideas, unfinished thoughts, and the parts that still feel unclear. We organize the situation together and use the time where it matters most.
Give Me the Context
Share a brief description of what you want to discuss and any questions already on your mind. Relevant de-identified documents can be identified in advance when reviewing them would make the consultation more useful.
Work Through It Together
We clarify the situation, answer your questions, identify what is driving the difficulty, challenge assumptions, consider real-world constraints, and explore your available options. The conversation can move wherever the underlying issue requires.
Leave With Direction
You leave with greater clarity, useful next steps, and a stronger understanding of what deserves your attention. Some consultations produce a decision. Others reveal the questions that needed to be asked in the first place.
Clinical experience and entrepreneurship live in the same real world.
Brian Granneman, LMHC, CAP, brings experience from law enforcement, child protective investigations, community mental health, addiction treatment across multiple levels of care, private practice, and business ownership. His perspective also comes from lived recovery, being fired, losing a career identity, and building a new profession and successful practice from the ground up. He is a hands-on, jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur who has personally worked through billing, insurance, EHR systems, documentation, scheduling, websites, SEO, pricing, technology, vendors, cash flow, service design, and the constant operational problems involved in making a business function. He also hosts Doing the Work, a long-form mental-health podcast built through more than eighty published episodes.
That range matters because real problems rarely stay in a single category. Mental health affects relationships. Family patterns affect recovery. Losing a career affects identity. Starting over requires emotional work and practical decisions at the same time. Clinical boundaries affect business. Creative work can become part of rebuilding. Consultation keeps the whole system in view.
Podcast consultation comes from producing the work, episode after episode.
Doing the Work is Brian's long-form podcast about the patterns that keep people stuck across relationships, recovery, conflict, avoidance, habits, and everyday decisions. More than eighty published episodes have required concept development, writing, interviewing, recording, editing, publishing, distribution, and the discipline to keep making something after the initial excitement wears off.
Doing the Work
Listen to the show to get a direct sense of Brian's voice, clinical thinking, storytelling, and approach to building useful content without flattening it into generic advice.
Listen to the PodcastA defined hour for whatever deserves your attention.
Consultation is self-pay and scheduled according to current availability.
Know what to bring and what consultation can cover.
Who can schedule a consultation?
Individuals, partners, family members, clinicians, practice owners, creators, podcasters, professionals, and entrepreneurs are welcome. The topic determines the scope of the conversation.
Can I ask personal mental-health or addiction questions?
Yes. Consultation can provide education, help you understand patterns and treatment options, prepare you to speak with a provider, and identify useful next steps. Your physical location and the nature of the question determine which personalized services are legally available.
Can I ask Brian about his recovery or career reinvention?
Yes. Brian is open about the lived experience of addiction, recovery, being fired, losing a career identity, starting over, becoming a therapist, and building a successful practice and business. The conversation can focus on what helped, what failed, what recovery has demanded, and what rebuilding has looked like in real life.
Can I discuss a clinical case?
Yes. Clinical details must be de-identified before they are shared. Consultation can support formulation, treatment planning, documentation, therapeutic process, boundaries, and consideration of evidence-based approaches. Responsibility for the client and all treatment decisions remains with the treating professional.
Can I bring more than one question?
Yes. Bring everything that feels relevant. We will organize the questions together, identify what matters most, and use the hour where it can create the most movement.
Can we work on my private-practice numbers and business decisions?
Yes. Consultation can examine rates, payer mix, capacity, service design, scheduling, workflow, positioning, and operational decisions. Questions requiring legal, tax, accounting, employment, or regulatory advice should be directed to the appropriately licensed professional.
Can we get specific about billing, insurance, EHRs, websites, or business systems?
Yes. Brian can share practical experience with billing workflows, insurance strategy, payer mix, self-pay transitions, EHR selection, documentation systems, scheduling, websites, SEO, technology, automation, pricing, vendors, and operational bottlenecks. The discussion stays grounded in what has worked, what has failed, and what fits the business you are actually building.
Can you help me start or improve a podcast?
Yes. Consultation can address concept, audience, episode structure, scripting, interviewing, workflow, consistency, and the relationship between the podcast and your professional work.
Is consultation ongoing?
It can be used once or scheduled periodically when continued perspective would help. Each appointment stands on its own, with no required package or recurring commitment.
What should I send before the session?
Send a brief description of what you want to discuss and any questions already on your mind. Record review or work requiring significant preparation may need additional time and a separate fee agreement.
Bring the knot. Leave with a clearer next move.
Choose Consultation with Brian through the secure scheduling portal. Include a short description of whatever you want to discuss.
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