Meet Your Expert
Howard Baumgarten is a Licensed Professional Counselor, author, consultant, speaker, wellness, compliance and small business-training expert, and owner of a successful mental health private practice in Lakewood, Colorado. He is the founder of Smart Practice Central, a healthcare business-building platform that values intelligent, ethical, and clinically minded practice development, and provides clinical practice business consultation and trainings to private practices and healthcare agencies.
Howard has lectured on the integration of mental health and business, focusing on practice development, working within managed care systems and the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on mental health care. He is the author of Private Practice Essentials: Business Tools for Mental Health Professionals, a guide to starting and successfully managing mental health practice.
In 2003, he developed and implemented one of the first practice building business curricula in a graduate level-counseling program in the U.S. at the University of Colorado. He is the former Director of Network Relations for West-side Behavioral Care, Inc., a clinical group practice he helped build into one of Colorado’s largest outpatient behavioral health practices.
Howard routinely consults and trains businesses and organizations internationally across a variety of industries in areas including responsible business growth, managing stress, building resilience, creating work/life balance, compassion fatigue, burnout prevention, cultivating compassion and other wellness related topics.