SOURCE-BACKED AGENCY PROFILE

Sagewood Practice Support

Ongoing operations support for mental health private practices

6Sourced claims
NonePublic rating sources
2026-09-17Last reviewed
BEST SUITED FOR

Solo clinicians and growing group practices (roughly 1-8 clinicians) that want an ongoing, retainer-based operations partner for inquiry response, intake, and practice systems - with visibility into how retainer hours are used.

Assessment checked 2026-09-17
AGENCY OVERVIEW

At a glance.

Support model
Retainer-based operations support with client portal
Commitment
Monthly retainer - terms not published
Starting price
Custom pricing
Price basis
No public pricing found; two tiers (Sage, Cedar)
Talent geography
Not published; serves US practices
EDITORIAL ASSESSMENT

What stands out, and what still needs checking.

Key strengths

Clinician-led: founder and CEO Ebonie Lovell-Dancy is a working therapist who has served as an in-house operations manager for multiple private practices (agency about page). · Deliberately scoped: services are designed for practices between 1 and 8 clinicians, with two published tiers (Sage for single-channel inquiry response, Cedar adding multi-channel coverage, extended follow-up, and conversion reporting). · Transparency tooling: every client gets the Sagewood Support Hub, a proprietary portal showing retainer usage, active work, recommendations, and completed support · the Hub is explicitly not an EHR or patient database. · Full inquiry pipeline: inquiry monitoring and response, screening for insurance/eligibility/fit, consultation calls, callbacks after missed calls, follow-up sequences, intake, routing, and EHR data entry. · Named, credential-bearing client testimonials from practice owners (agency-hosted).

Limitations and tradeoffs

No public pricing; retainer amounts and minimum terms require consultation. · No qualifying independent review-platform record found (no Trustpilot, Clutch, G2, or Google Business profile located as of 2026-09-17). · Small founding team (founder plus co-founder/operations director named); bench depth and backup coverage are not published. · Billing support is limited to eligibility/benefits verification and billing-related administration; claim submission and payment posting are not listed among core services. · Young company: founding year is not published, and the site's copyright and imagery suggest a recent launch · confirm operating history.

Questions to confirm before signing

Retainer pricing and minimum commitment for Sage and Cedar; who performs the work and backup coverage; BAA and technical safeguards; response-time standards per channel; what happens to unused retainer hours; current client references; the company's founding date and client count.

Management and support

Free consultation, then ongoing retainer support managed through the Support Hub: clients request work, approve recommendations, and track retainer usage (agency-described process).

Security and compliance

The Support Hub is described as holding practice-level operational information only, not patient records (agency-stated). No BAA terms, HIPAA training detail, or technical safeguards are published; all controls require confirmation.

SOURCE-BACKED RESEARCH

What we found and where it came from.

6 claims

Service model1 claim

Retainer-based virtual assistant agency for solo and group mental health private practices, covering inquiry monitoring, screening, consultation calls, callbacks, follow-up outreach, intake, routing, EHR support, and reporting.

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Tier structure1 claim

Two tiers - Sage (single-channel inquiry monitoring, core screening and intake) and Cedar (multi-channel including missed calls, extended follow-up, tracking and reporting on inquiry sources, response times, and conversion).

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Practice-size scope1 claim

Services scoped for practices from one clinician up to eight.

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Founder background1 claim

Founder and CEO Ebonie Lovell-Dancy is a working clinician and former in-house operations manager for multiple private practices; co-founder Austin Dancy is Operations Director.

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Support Hub1 claim

Proprietary client portal showing retainer usage, requests, recommendations, and completed work; explicitly not an EHR, patient portal, or patient-record database.

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Pricing model1 claim

Retainer-based with no public dollar figures; pricing requires consultation.

Editorial assessmentHigh confidenceSource 1Source 2

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