The X-Studio is a non-profit mental health cooperative (co-op) that provides an alternative business practice model for graduate students and postgraduate students seeking practicum/internship experience and clinical supervision experience while providing pro-bono and reduced-cost mental health services to community members in need.

Our mission is to provide an alternative to the long-standing business service model available in the mental health profession to new clinicians by introducing a co-op model different from the solo and group practice model and providing pron-bono and reduced-cost mental health services to community members in need.

Our vision is a more democratic, streamlined, supportive, non-toxic, professional path toward independent mental health practice for Counseling Interns and Licensed Professional Counselor-Associates (LPC-A) while serving the community.

In partnership with Counseling Interns and Licensed Professional Counselor-Associates (LPC-A), we provide community members in need with access to affordable mental health care. We work together to achieve common goals.

Our network of mental health graduate students and post-graduate students is dedicated to providing pro-bono and reduced-cost in-office and online mental health care community members in need who are facing financial challenges. 

Our co-op is made up of the next generation of mental health professionals who gain knowledge, certification, and licensing through higher education, training, and experience. Each member specializes in a unique niche, population, community, issue, or mental health condition.

We work towards a more democratic, streamlined, supportive, non-toxic, professional path toward independent mental health practice for Counseling Interns and Licensed Professional Counselor-Associates (LPC-A).

We are not a group practice or multiple brands operating under a parent company or group. We are a cooperative (co-op).

We help guide the next generations of practitioners in alternative options so that they can pursue their path toward becoming independent mental health clinicians in a sustainable way that minimizes burnout without solo practice isolation or group practice politics.

We are doing so by providing an alternative to the long-standing business service models available in the mental health profession and introducing this mental health cooperative model. 

The mental health cooperative model is a business model where it is owned by member-owners. We are democratically controlled by our member-owners, and unlike the traditional group practice model, each member has a voice in how the business is run and each member can interact and practice as an independent and autonomous practitioner with the benefits that come along from membership of the co-op. 

The Cooperative Principles: 

• Voluntary and open membership

• Democratic member control

• Member's economic participation

• Autonomy and independence

• Education, training, and information

• Cooperation and collaboration among co-op members

• Concern for and service to the community

• Financial sustainability as practitioners 

“It’s a scary thing trying to become a successful practitioner, but The X-Studio took a lot of that anxiety and fear out of the equation. I was able to get personalized recommendations and work with a colleague who helped me get established without the politics that come with group practice or isolation that comes with being a solo practitioner"

— F.L.