Holistic Business Coaching for Healthcare Leaders
Julie Bear Don’t Walk is here to help you grow your clinic— profitably and sustainably
Thriving in your business is one of the most healing things you can do as a healthcare provider
You became a healer to help people — not to run a hamster wheel of admin, marketing, and low-pay burnout
But somewhere between patient charts, reschedules, and solving everyone else’s problems, you started to disappear.
Sound familiar?
→ You’re brilliant at clinical care — but secretly dreading your next full day of clients
→ The go-to problem solver — but tired of being the only one who knows how to fix everything
→ Craving support — but unsure how to receive it without guilt, without it taking more time that it seems worth, and also…nobody does it like you do?
→ Sitting on brilliant ideas for growth and serving your patients and community better — but have no time, energy, or system to birth them
→Overgiving (again) — and under-receiving (again)
You’re the magic behind your practice — but lately, it’s more draining than inspiring.
And the worst part?
You’re too smart to pretend this is sustainable.
What If There Could Be Another Way?
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Holistic Business Coaching For Healthcare Leaders
Enough with the over-giving and under-receiving.
You became a healer to help. You can help best when you are present, resourced, and in the flow.
How do you get THERE? This is where I come in.
If you help people, I can help you grow your business in a thoughtful way—without overwhelm and burnout.
This means more profit without working more hours.
This means more income without sacrificing your values.
This means receiving more support from a committed team.
This means walking your talk when it comes to work-life balance.
This means going home with better energy and better mood at the end of the day.
This means being able to rest in systems that truly support you.
It’s time to ditch the overwhelm & prioritize the vitality of you and your practice
Let’s talk about what’s possible for you and your clinic. About what it would mean for you to receive ACTUAL support from your team, and from someone who has been in your exact shoes. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. You just have to know…things can’t keep going the way they are.
“Julie quite literally helped me design my dream practice and supported me every step of the way to make it happen.”
With Julie’s support, I moved into a bigger, dream clinic space, expanded my associate’s hours (and filled her schedule and mine), let go of my virtual receptionist, hired an office manager, brought on additional front desk support, and most recently, hired another associate to prepare for my maternity leave.
Julie quite literally helped me design my dream practice and supported me every step of the way to make it happen. Now, just months away from going on leave, I feel confident that my clinic will not only survive but thrive while I’m away. She has helped me hit every goal I ever set for myself, and I am beyond grateful. THANK YOU.—Marisa B, Acupuncturist, California
P.S. I’m officially on maternity leave and my team of two associates are on track to have a 40k revenue month–without me! This works!
“I was just running the numbers from last year and in 2023, we grossed $208k, and for 2024, it was $387k! Thanks for all your support in helping me get there!”
Blaise R. Acupuncturist, Ottawa CAN
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I've been reflecting on my clinic's growth and how fun and almost effortless it is, and it all started with the group coaching I did with you . There was an exercise that I think was "Envision your Perfect Team" or something similar, and I knew there was one employee I had to let go. We had a session about the firing process, and the firing went as smoothly as it could. You also put into my mind that my clinic could see 100 patients/week, which sounded insane to me at the time, but we have 110 appointments on the schedule this week (and most weeks the last few months have been 90!)
Tracey S. Acupuncturist, Washington State
436.3% practice growth.
That's what a coaching client has experienced since we started working together last year.
She reached out to me in July 2023,, and was then seeing about 25 patients a week. She had hired another coach, but wasn't getting the results she wanted (no shade, it just wasn't yielding what she wanted).
We started working together--first in a small group, then 1:1, and this week she is seeing 96 patients.
AND she took a 3 week trip to Europe with her family this summer.
AND she takes a week off periodically to work on her DAOM (every couple of months).
She will be out of the office for 10 days this month.
AND her new norm is 90ish patients a week.
In our time together, she hired really great front desk support, expanded her current office from 3 to 4 treatment rooms, and shored up her patient communication and cancellation policy. She also went from seeing 2 patients an hour, to 3 patients an hour, and now, 4 patients an hour.
She's not exhausted. She said her full days feel really easy now.
She gets EXCELLENT results for her patients (her practice is largely referrals from her current patients).
She's a mom, with two school age children and a partner who works full time.
She's doing what she loves, and she's making a great living. She dives deep into the medicine as her passion. She's clear that she wants to help many people feel better, and that she wants to make a great living doing it.
This is a perfect example of what's possible with coaching. THIS is why I coach. Because 70 more patients per week are getting care from someone who is prioritizing her own health and wellbeing, living her dream life.
Next up? She'll be hiring an Associate. And a year from now, her clinic will be helping 150-160 patients a week with the same care and sustainable systems in place.
(We just met and she gave me permission to share this story with you all!)
Rachel S., Acupunctrurist, U.S.
I’m Julie Bear Don’t Walk, and my greatest commitment is to help you thrive—in your healthcare business and your life.
Healing is my thing. Transforming generational patterns of “not enough” is my purpose.
I grew my cash practice from a one-person show seeing 12 patients a week to a team of eight helping over 150 patients a week, all while growing in my marriage, as a parent, and as a human being.
I grew up in a household where suffering was the dominant state of being. My mother grew up with trauma — alcoholism, sexual abuse, being poor, untreated family depression. So naturally, she suffered. She suffered physical pain, mental pain, and tremendous shame. She dealt with it by self medicating with whatever she could get her hands on: drugs, alcohol, sex, and food.
I’m the oldest of six children and I stood in for her when her suffering overwhelmed her ability to be a present parent (her intentions were always good, but untreated trauma has a way of taking the driver’s seat). As a kid, I just wanted to help. I understand that as an adult, my capacity to help when I was a child was pretty limited, but my desire to help others was born of witnessing this kind of overwhelming suffering.
I believe that we have the power to heal, at every level. I believe that we are amazingly capable of shifting things. I believe that we can transcend familiar patterns and realize our dreams. This is my life’s work. And I want to help you shine more brightly in your life. By helping you to help others. By helping you to own your power, do the work you came here to do. By helping you to live deeply, fully and present-ly.
My greatest passion is to help you create real gains with your time, money, and energy.
To facilitate sustainable, real transformation on multiple levels. For you to THRIVE.
I offer experience. I was a busy clinician, with multiple clinicians and admin team members, while also being a committed mother, a present partner and healer, committed to healing her own stuff. I know that sometimes you can see the path forward, but not exactly how to get there. I offer guidance along your path, based upon my training and real-life experience.
In May of 2024, I closed my robust clinic to focus on helping other practitioners grow their practices. This fulfills my commitment to being in the world, which is to help as many people as possible—feel better. If I can help practitioners have thriving practices, I exponentially increase my ability to make a positive impact on the world we live in. In communities near and far. In healing moments all happening simultaneously, raising the vitality of our shared humanity.
This is what I came here to do.
Are you ready to create a nourishing, profitable, sustainable healthcare practice as a key part of your own healing journey?
All business growth is about healing the patterns that disconnect you from your agency.
Who do I help?
I help thoughtful acupuncturists and healthcare providers who are committed to growing authentically, profitably, and sustainably.
Acupuncturists and holistic health practitioners who:
Have a vision for where they want to go and recognize the value in receiving support to get there effectively,
Feel stuck, burned out and want to re-connect with the JOY of helping people
Are ready to grow, but overwhelmed with all of the details that might entail, and feel stuck in decision fatigue or fear
Are really struggling with work / life balance and feeling squeezed between the roles of parent / partner / practitioner / person
Feel like “if I grow, it might negatively impact my family or marriage or my own nervous system”
Want to grow but not sure they are up for the task, emotionally, physically, or energetically.
Have some things figured out but feel maxed out with taking it further, and can’t figure out the qi math of continuing to deliver high quality care with scaling up
Don’t have the time to sift through a bunch of self-paced material — they need the Cliff’s Notes version for growing thoughtfully, effectively, and congruently.
Are going through a major life transition: pregnancy, marriage, divorce, moving locations, empty-nesters, changing business focus
Are ready to hire additional staff, grow into a bigger space, streamline into more efficient systems so that their time is used more effectively
Shift from employee to starting their own practice
Want to improve their relationships with their family or their own health (or all of it!) while growing as a practitioner
Want to heal themselves, and view being a healer as a deeply holistic endeavor
When is a good time for coaching?
You want to grow but feel stuck and unsure as to which strategies are best for you and your business
You are going through a major life transition and want to recalibrate to be more in sync with your authentic vision
You want to move locations, add staff, shift focus
You are maxed out, and need solutions for balancing all of your different roles: parent / practitioner / partner / person
When you need immediate, 1:1 support for growth to get to the next level.
When you are ready to start your own practice and want to do it right from the get-go
You are ready for change
How do we do it?
We teach you specific skills for expanding your internal capacity, so that your growth is funded by your ability to be re-sourced, every day, by your practice.
We help you get crystal clear on your brand and your messaging, to call in the perfect patients to YOUR practice.
We guide you in your communication skills so that your patient retention improves radically, while you remain congruent with your values and authenticity.
We implement systems that truly support YOU, your unique practice, and how your move through the world.
We provide proven strategies for growing your team, either administrative, clinical, or both. This includes interviewing, onboarding, training, and leading.
We support you in supporting your qi, your personal life, your relationships—because those things are not separate from your business, as a small business owner.
We help you to reignite your passion for your practice, for your business, for your internal growth.
We foster your personal growth and clinic growth with compassion, real talk, and valuable, real world expertise .
We connect you with other acupuncturists who are doing similar growth work, so that you never feel alone in your journey of expansion and evolution.
Work With Julie
I work with clients in small groups and 1:1.
You Need More Patients + Better Systems
For thoughtful solo practitioners who want to help more patients per week, without overwhelm or burnout
Resources to Flourish is focused on laying the foundation for a successful practice for years to come. Specifically emphasizing how to direct the qi of your clinic so that you can grow without burnout, while incorporating practical business growth strategies such as branding, marketing, patient retention, administrative and qi systems, and scheduling. We identify the best systems for YOUR clinic, systems for resourcing your qi so that your growth nourishes you (no draining practices here!), systems for communicating heart-centered treatment plans, and building community relationships. your clinic and patient numbers, while establishing good systems and rhythms to support sustainable growth. Foundational practices of expanding internal capacity are taught at each session, while also emphasizing marketing, hiring admin support, improved patient retention, clinic systems, financial sustainability, visioning and setting goals. Ideal for practitioners committed to helping more patients, sustainably. Program also includes a comprehensive Resource Library, group for asking questions between calls, and additional workshops. Participants receive a discount on the Seasonal Marketing Bundles.
You have a team or you’re ready to hire
For visionary practitioners who are ready to grow your impact on your community's wellbeing by adding invested clinical team members to your practice while cultivating your leadership skills
Lifeflow Leadership is focused on growing your team to help support you and serve your community. We dive into how to cultivate intentional, healthy team dynamics before you even put a job description out. We also explore and discuss nuts and bolts of numbers, logistics, and flow with a bigger team. Contracts, compensation, mission and vision, clinic directorship, and ease-ful leadership. Especially important during this time is an emphasis on expanding internal capacity so that leadership and practice growth feel organic and in the flow. Burnout prevention and recovery are also addressed. Ideal for practitioners who have a big vision for growth, who intend to hire, or who already have a team in place and need help with team dynamics and leadership. This program includes Voxer support (a voice and text app) for questions that come up between calls, a robust Resource Library, and Skills Labs.
You Want to Realize Your Big Vision
You are a visionary, a groundbreaker and you are ready for the guidance to get you to your next level
1:1 Coaching is best suited for those who are exploring new business models, who are at a crossroads in their profession, who are pivoting or who have been in practice for years and need a re-boot. Ideal for practice owners with unique clinic considerations, multiple team members, introverts, and other complex clinic considerations. This is an opportunity to explore “what next” and come up with a creative plan together for making your mark in the world with your skill set. We continue to emphasize expanding internal capacity so that clarity around future steps is organic and directional, without being forced. This program includes Voxer support (a voice and text app) for issues that come up between calls, a robust Resource Library, and Skills Labs.
You’ve Worked With Me in the Past, and You’re Curious About What Else is Possible for You
You loved finding out what you are capable of, and you’re ready to get curious about even bigger dreams and goals
For clients that have already completed small group coaching or 1:1 coaching. Ready for your next level? Let’s reconnect with a Free 20 Minute Q&A Call.
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