Women in Private Practice Utah
Our Mission
Supporting high quality mental health care through education and networking
Our Vision
Building a community of thriving private practice therapists
Next Event:
Please join us on September 5, 2025 for our Annual Conference. Our theme this year is The State of Private Practice. Our keynote speaker is Susie Rigas!
— About Us
The History of WPP Utah
Women in Private Practice Utah got its start somewhere in the 1980's. A small group of therapists led initially by Ruth Manville, started to meet to support each other.
Susan Lyons became the guiding leader for the group and contributed significantly to the overall development of WPP. Susan built a team of volunteers who added a list serve to facilitate communication, free virtual CEU events, annual social events and most recently an annual conference which is now provided both in person and online to meet the needs of our members statewide.
At present we are a group of approximately 700 members from multiple disciplines, including fully and provisionally licensed therapists across the state of Utah.
In order to become a member of Women in Private Practice, you must be committed to the support and development of female-identifying mental health therapists, and licensed for practice in Utah (fully or provisionally). You must also be in private practice- whether at the very early stages or many years in!
Events
Sept 5, 2025 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, WPP Utah Annual Conference, in person at the Larry H Miller Conference Center, featuring keynote speaker Susie Rigas. Our speakers for the day include Melanie Davies, John Robbins, Anna Empey, Jana Johansen, Jamie Brass, Sarah Stroub, Elizabeth Fawcett and Jessica Black.
Need CEU's? We have great options!
Once a year we offer a day long conference - participants can attend in person or online. We bring in a national key note speaker, have several local presenters and wrap up our day with an ethics panel. Previous keynote speakers include Julie Herres of Profit First for Therapists and Mauren Werbach of The Group Practice Exchange.
In addition, we offer three virtual CEU events per year- in November, February and March. These events are held on the second Thursday of the month from 8:30 am to 10 am and are included in the price of your annual membership.
