Spencer Potesta

Psychotherapist, Company Builder, Author | Founder of Potesta Holdings Corporation & Social Capital Foundation

My background is in clinical and organizational psychology, dedicating time to psychotherapy for patients with severe anxiety and trauma disorders, while building and partnering with organizations in organizational psychology. The tools I use in therapy mirror those that help executives and organizations excel.

In psychotherapy, I run a private practice as a double-board certified psychotherapist in Illinois, offering specialized, evidence-based care for severe anxiety (like OCD) and trauma disorders (including dissociation). I dedicate a select few days per week to this transformative, client-centered work.

As CEO of Midsommer.org, I address clinical pain points—like limited access, high costs, and fragmentation—leading a pioneering mental health organization. We build a clinician-led holistic care model, revolutionizing psychotherapy with self-managing teams, comprehensive services, and ethical, insurance-based practices for affordability across states and specialties. We empower ethical clinicians to own teams as directors and co-owners (typically 10-12 grouped by region/specialty), creating sustainable foundations, better business outcomes, higher clinician satisfaction through collaboration, and dedicated client care. Achieved via aligned incentives and lock-step partnerships—not franchising—this forms a constellation of high-powered, human-centered teams. This bridges my passions of organizational psychology & psychotherapy, empowering resilience and impact for clinicians and clients.

In organizational psychology, I operate Social Capital Holdings, consulting Fortune 500/1000 firms on efficiency and performance. Now, I focus on engaged partnerships in businesses like Midsommer and others, strengthening systems, leadership, and operations.

While devoting time to psychotherapy a few days weekly and advancing ventures, my deepest passion is Social Capital Foundation. As President of this 501(c)(3) healthcare endowment, I tackle generational health needs, leveraging my success to innovate solutions benefiting practitioners and clients. We streamline operations to keep 100% of donations intact, supporting healthcare individuals and organizations.

Founder & Principal

Focused on scaling and rebuilding organizations

Service Lines:
-Organizational Consulting (Organizational Effectiveness & Development)
-Advising for startup organizations
-Turning around failing or distressed businesses
-Support Midsized to Largesized organizations becoming more effective and performative 
-Executive Coaching

*Coming 2023 the PPC Leader Academy focusing on providing straightforward ways for high performing leaders to increase performance and effectiveness. Academy is based on Psychotherapy & Organizational Psychology principles to help leaders break through internal and external barriers of success.

Spencer R. Potesta

Sanandum LLC

Therapist / Program Development

Heartland Alliance

Assistant manager of the Heartland Alliance Healths Shelter Based Care team. Providing direct therapeutic services to the unhoused, transient, and migrant populations across Chicago.

The Heartland Health Network was downsized in November of 2023 resulting in the disbandment of this team.

Assistant Manager

Behavioral Hospital

Intensive Outpatient Clinical Supervisor responsible for daily operations associated with running an IOP program with public pay sources. Patient population included those that fall under the SMI heading along with individuals with chronic mental illness, passive suicidality, and experiencing other disrupting symptoms that prohibit successful engagement in major life domains.

Clinical Supervisor

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

Clinical Director of Project IMPACT

Garfield Park Behavioral Hospital

Social worker for acute child and adolescent patients aimed at stabilization and crisis services and brokering external resources.

Social Worker

The Bowen Center

Graduate level intern for adult acute inpatient clientele working in a multidisciplinary team targeting stabilization services.

Bowen Center Inpatient Unit - MSW Intern 

Indiana Department Of Child Services

Permanency, assessment, and collaborative care experience over the course of three years. Worked with family systems and youths being emancipated from the foster care system. Specialization in sexual abuse and older youth populations.

Collaborative Care Case Manager 

Lifeline Youth & Family Services

Family Consultant that focused on providing supervised visitations for families involved with the child welfare system. Provided individual casework services and mentorship to probate youths.

Family Consultant 

MSW, LCSW - Indiana University ‘21, mental health and addictions. LCSW recipient ‘23. 
MBA Candidate '25 with a concentration in leadership. 
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional 
EMDR Trained Clinician

Interests include: Community Organizing, Racial Justice and EDI topics, program development, workforce training, and social welfare/justice policy work. 

My clinical bend is simple: Believe people and meet them where they are. 

I believe in leading by example, absorbing criticism, and passing on praise to those that have worked to achieve success. I believe in accountability. I believe in the need for diversity, equity, and inclusivity, and the need for human services and related practices being entrenched in empathy through trauma-informed, research-driven, and intersectional care. 

My prior experiences include working at Generic Behavioral Hospital as a clinical supervisor for their intensive outpatient program targeted toward Public Aid recipients. Additionally, I have served as the Clinical Director for the Swedish Hospital Project IMPACT managing the crisis and intake team as well as working with Garfield Park Behavioral Hospital as a social worker for children and adolescents. Finally, I have experience working within the Indiana Child Welfare system via investigations and case management with specializations in sexual abuse and older youth populations. 

Internship experiences includes adult inpatient care as well as interning through IN211’s crisis and triage hotline.

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