At Veterinary Practice Rising, we are dedicated to building a future of veterinary medicine that is sustainable, ethical, and compassionate. Our mission is to inspire other veterinarians towards private practice ownership - where their values combined with proven, efficient, and evolving SOPs transform a clinic full of burned-out health professionals into a thriving, joyful, & caring healthcare team.
Our founder started Veterinary Practice Rising in Aug of 2025, halfway through her second pregnancy and while in the third year of her own private practice ownership journey. After realizing the rapid decline of client trust and the aggressive spread of scientific misinformation online, she pursued social media originally for client education. What started as an extracurricular, turned into a passion for national systemic change in veterinary clinic ownership.
Online, she was faced with the overwhelming burnout of veterinary professionals but also, clients that felt scammed by their veterinarians. These arguments and debates lit a fire for change.
Carlee believes ethical private practice ownership - where people are the center - is the solution. She works part-time as a mixed animal veterinarian in her own clinic, raises 2 small boys, and now teaches other veterinarians how to buy clinics and transform them with well-designed systems and protocols.
She lives in Kansas with her husband & best friend, Van.
She loves reading, chickens, her family, her clinic home, and really really spicy food.
The veterinary-client-patient relationship is actively harmed by private equity ownership of veterinary spaces - driving unethical and excess strain on a system already plagued with a high level of depression and burnout. We believe that private ownership with - ethical treatment of workers, a focus on staff morale, and well-designed systems and protocols is the answer.
Our mission is to change the scape of veterinary medicine towards a future that is better for everyone. That through evolving, collaborative, and innovative thinking - private ownership of veterinary medicine could bring out the most affordable and optimized solution to a previously struggling industry.
By 2035, our goal is that 85% of veterinary clinics and hospitals are privately owned AND veterinary healthcare professionals find joy and fulfillment in their careers.
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