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ABOUT ADMIRRA
We Built This Because We Lived This.
If you've ever ended a Friday with a pile of unreturned referral calls, a spreadsheet that stopped making sense three months ago, and a nagging feeling that somewhere in the chaos a client slipped through — you're exactly who we built Admirra for.
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Running a mental health practice is one of the most meaningful things a person can do. It's also, administratively, one of the hardest. The systems that exist were never built for the way therapy practices actually operate — and the gap between the care you want to deliver and the operational reality you're managing every day is real, exhausting, and frankly, unnecessary.
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We know this because we didn't read about it. We lived it.
Built From Frustration. Driven By Purpose.
Admirra was born out of a specific moment — the kind of moment that practice owners know well. Wendy McSparren, a licensed clinician and group practice owner, was trying to manage her own practice's intake process across spreadsheets, emails, and systems that weren't talking to each other. Referrals were getting lost. Insurance verification was eating hours. Her team was working hard and still falling behind.
She didn't need a better EHR. She needed something the EHR was never designed to be — a system that managed the operational layer of running a practice. The intake pipeline. The client matching. The workflows. The communications. The data that tells you whether your practice is actually healthy.
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She brought that problem to her husband, John Mihalik — a veteran software engineer who'd spent decades building platforms for high-growth companies. He saw it immediately. And together, they built Admirra.
Meet Wendy
The Clinician Who Refused to Accept the Chaos.
Wendy McSparren is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 30 years of experience in the mental health field. She's also the founder and CEO of WPA Therapy, a thriving group practice in Pennsylvania — which means she doesn't just understand the operational challenges facing practice owners, she manages them herself every day.
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With an MS in Business from Robert Morris University layered on top of her clinical training, Wendy brings something rare to the SaaS world: she thinks like a clinician and operates like a CEO. She understands the human complexity of mental health care and the business discipline required to make a practice sustainable.
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When Wendy talks about the operational chaos that mental health practices navigate, she's not describing someone else's problem. She's describing her own — and the frustration that eventually became Admirra.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
30+ years clinical experience
Founder & CEO, WPA Therapy
MS in Business, Robert Morris University
Certifications: CBT, DBT, EMDR
Meet John
The Engineer Who Builds What Actually Works.
John Mihalik is a software engineer's software engineer. With decades of experience building platforms for high-growth companies — including multiple roles as CTO — John has seen what it takes to build technology that scales without breaking, and that real teams can actually use.
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What makes John different isn't just technical depth. It's his instinct for building things that solve real problems rather than impressive-sounding ones. When Wendy brought him the operational chaos she was living inside, he didn't build a complicated enterprise system. He built something practical, purposeful, and built to last.
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At Admirra, John is the reason the platform is reliable, scalable, and designed to work the way your team actually works — not the way a software demo makes it look.
Decades of software engineering experience
Multiple CTO roles at high-growth companies
Built and scaled platforms across multiple industries
Co-Founder & CTO, Admirra
THE IMPACT SO FAR
Purpose-Built. Practice-Proven.
Wendy and John founded Admirra in 2024 with a shared belief: that operational excellence isn't just a business goal — it's an ethical one.
When practices run well, clinicians can focus on care. When intake is smooth, clients get matched faster and stay longer. When the data is clear, leaders make better decisions. All of it connects back to the same thing: more people getting the mental health support they need.
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That belief shows up in every product decision, every feature, and every conversation with a customer.
OUR MISSION
To eliminate the operational chaos that limits access to mental health care — and replace it with systems that help practices scale with integrity, efficiency, and heart.