In this podcast interview, Sivie Suckerman speaks with Megan Ellow, a licensed clinical social worker and the creator of Therapist CEU. They discuss the growing corporatization of mental health, specifically how large entities and private equity firms have taken over the field of continuing education. Megan shares her frustration with generic, low-quality trainings offered by major conglomerates and explains how her new online directory empowers independent clinicians to share their specialized expertise. The conversation highlights the importance of human-centered therapy over insurance-driven models that prioritize profits over clinical depth. Megan talks about a circular economy where therapists support one another by exchanging knowledge and diversifying their income away from exploitative systems.

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Megan Ellow, is a licensed clinical social worker and the owner of Nest Counseling, a small group practice in Media, Pennsylvania. Her team focuses on child, adolescent, and family therapy, with specialties in play therapy and perinatal mental health.

She also founded TherapistCEU, an online directory built to solve a problem she kept running into herself: finding good continuing education without wading through overpriced, low-quality options. The platform connects independent therapy trainers with licensed clinicians looking for trainings worth their time and money. She built it because she wanted the money therapists spend on CE to go back to other therapists, not to the corporations and private equity firms that have bought up most of the field.

Website: TherapistCEU.com and Nest-counseling.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therapistceu

On the directory sign-up page: Clinicians/trainers enter Founder60 when creating an account on the Therapist CEU directory website to claim a 60-day free trial to list their continuing education trainings.

This episode was produced and edited by Sivie Suckerman, MA, LMHC, ACS