Liberated Practice Lab with Susie Rigas-Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW

Dismantling the Myth of Platform Necessity

This session traces the corporate takeover of behavioral health and its impact on frontline clinicians. Susie Rigas-Morozowich will map the timeline of power consolidation, showing how reforms like MHPAEA and the ACA opened the door for insurers, private equity, and digital platforms to stripmine the behavioral health landscape. She will expose how consolidation and financial engineering have redefined therapy as a commodity, how regulatory failures have normalized care denials as efficiency, and how these dynamics push providers into contracts that undermine both autonomy and sustainability. Rather than abstract policy, the session will connect these structural forces to the lived realities of clinicians: shrinking reimbursement, escalating administrative burdens, and an erosion of professional integrity. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how these conditions were engineered, why they persist, and what it means for providers determined to safeguard the soul of their work.

Susie Rigas-Morozowich,…