Authentic Leaders Group is here to help you become the authentic and wholehearted leader you aspire to be.

Authentic Leaders Monthly Group

Next cohort coming in 2025!

Join us in this journey of self-discovery and leadership mastery, where you'll not only enhance your leadership skills but also forge meaningful connections with fellow therapists who are committed to their own growth and the betterment of the therapy field.

Step into autehntic leadership with courage.

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Step into autehntic leadership with courage. •

Are you a therapist stepping into a leadership role for the first time? Or maybe you’ve been in a leadership position for a while, but are bumping up against new struggles.

It's a transformative journey, one that can be deeply rewarding but also filled with unique challenges. Many therapists find themselves in leadership positions because of their exceptional therapeutic skills, yet leading, supervising, or managing others requires a whole new set of competencies not typically covered in graduate school. Our Authentic Leadership group is here to help you become the authentic and wholehearted leader you aspire to be, and we believe that journey is best undertaken with the guidance of experienced mentors and alongside fellow learners.

Throughout the 8-month program, we will explore a range of valuable topics, including:

  • The Right Use of Power™: Understanding how to use power ethically and effectively as well as guiding others to recognize their own personal power. 

  • Effective Communication: Mastering the art of clear, direct, and empathetic communication.

  • Resolving Conflict: Developing strategies for resolving conflicts constructively and with integrity.

  • Building Trust with Your Team: Creating relationships built on trust and collaboration.

  • Integrity: Being a model for others with generosity and healthy boundaries.

  • Shame/self-compassion: The role that shame takes within an organization and the compassionate tools to support shame-resilience in self and staff. 

  • Qualities of Integral Leadership: Exploring the cutting-edge concepts in modern leadership.

Who should join Authentic Leaders?


Therapists who want to enhance their leadership skills, whether you're a manager, a supervisor, a group practice owner, or have a different leadership role within the field of psychotherapy. Limited to 10 participants.

Investment

Cost: You choose your payment between $550-$800 for the full program. Please make a fair contribution based on your social location and privilege. (Cost can be received as a one time payment or three installments over three months.)

What’s included?

  • One 90-minute meeting per month for eight months

  • Over eight hours of asynchronous didactic psychoeducation

  • Five hours of optional support/integration sessions

  • A private virtual community space to connect with others

  • Unlimited Marco Polo exchanges with Sarah

  • And one on one sessions for a discounted rate of $75/hour


    CEUs available for Illinois social workers and counselors for $10/CE hour.

Leading with the head and the heart

At Head/Heart Business Therapy, we approach individual, group and organizational healing from the inside out. We believe that in order to offer the best care to clients, we professionals must do our own inner work as well. And at this point in history, we are called to move beyond our old ways of being and courageously step into a new paradigm. We are poised to support our clients’ transformation...but we must also transform ourselves.

About your facilitator

Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF, NMT is a speaker, educator, consultant, therapist, and the founder of Head/Heart Therapy and Head/Heart Business Therapy.

For more than a decade, Sarah has applied her social work skills supporting individuals, groups, helping professionals, and organizations with issues as varied as wellness for helping professionals, shame resilience, anti-racism in healthcare, and healing developmental trauma. Sarah founded Head/Heart Therapy in 2014, which quickly grew into an important resource both in Chicago and nationally.

Sarah is energized by helping other helping professionals and healthcare organizations. She still holds a small caseload of individual clients, and now focuses her talents on healing at the group and organizational level by integrating not only her clinical knowledge, but also her business experience.