Why we exist

Built around four convictions

Caladrius wasn't started to fill a market gap. It was started because Jessie, our founder, had worked inside the systems most therapists work inside — and decided not to keep doing it that way. The practice is built around four convictions about what care should look like, for clients and for the people providing it.

Independence

No outside money pulling the strings

Caladrius is female-owned, female-led, and bootstrapped. No venture capital. No private equity rollup. No quarterly pressure to expand into states where we can't deliver the care we believe in. Decisions about how we treat clients get made by clinicians, not by investors looking for an exit. We think that matters, and we plan to keep it that way.

Access

Care that's actually accessible

We accept most major Carolina insurance plans, offer income-based rates for clients without coverage, and don't make you call to find out whether you can afford us. In 2025, most of our insured clients paid a copay or nothing — and roughly one in three paid $0 out of pocket all year. The average American adult should be able to walk through our door and get evidence-based care. That's a low bar. Most of our field doesn't clear it.

Depth

Specialty depth, not generalist breadth

The standard private-practice model is one or two clinicians who treat everything. Ours is different. Every Caladrius therapist is trained deeply in something specific — EMDR, DBT, TF-CBT, IFS, sandtray and child-centered play therapy, and others. When you come to us with a problem, we match you to someone who has actually trained in that problem.

Sustainability

A team that can stay

Therapists at Caladrius earn a livable wage. They have real benefits, real time to recharge, and the room to do this work without burning out. We say this because the alternative is the model that runs most of our field — and the alternative is bad for clinicians and produces worse care for clients. The therapist sitting across from you should not be coming off six back-to-back sessions, exhausted, looking for the door.

The Caladrius Therapy team holding a paint canvas at a team event

The practice today

Where Caladrius is now

The convictions above aren’t aspirational. Caladrius has been operating on them for eight years and has grown well past being a founder-only operation.

4000+
Clients served

Charlotte families, couples, and individuals trusting us with their care.

23+
Team members

A team large enough to specialize. Small enough that we know each other.

8
Years

Independent the whole way. No outside capital, no rollups.

12+
Modalities

Real training, not a list on a website. Every modality represented by clinicians certified in it.

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Outside recognition

Named to the 2026 PurposeBuilt100

Caladrius ranked #25 on the inaugural PurposeBuilt100 and #4 on its Women Founder/CEO Top Ten — a list of the fastest-growing companies in America that are also built on real social impact. For us, that's outside confirmation of what we've believed since 2018: growth and mission don't have to be in tension.

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A Caladrius therapist with her dog at our Charlotte office