About FlowGap

I'm Dan Gardner, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Del Mar, California. I trained at Northwestern and UC San Diego, spent most of my career in practice, and for a stretch of it ran the psychiatry and behavioral medicine section at Scripps Clinic.

None of that taught me how to run a practice. Residency covers diagnosis and treatment and says almost nothing about whether your calendar is actually full, whether the people who call you back become clients, or what a 20% no-show rate quietly costs you by December. Most of us learn it slowly, expensively, and alone — and the tools on offer either hand you a dashboard full of numbers with no interpretation, or a consultant at $400 an hour.

FlowGap is my attempt at the thing I wanted instead. Medicine did teach me one genuinely useful habit: take a history, gather the findings, weigh what's likely, commit to a plan. This points that same discipline at your practice rather than at a patient.