This session will explore the competing demands clinicians face and will address methods to ease these demands in order to achieve balance. Specifically, the unpredictable nature of live client clinics can create barriers to immersion in the academy. On the other hand, the demands of research, service, and teaching in the classroom can place limits on the type of immersion clinics demand. Moreover, clinicians may lack the support, time, and mentoring to engage in research or other roles in the academy that can undermine clinicians’ full professional development, collaboration with other faculty inside and outside the clinic, and faculty governance. Methods for addressing these tensions include strategies for structuring clinical programs to promote collaboration among clinicians and clinics; internal clinic workshops and meetings; creating opportunities for joint teaching among clinics and with non-clinical faculty; and other approaches. The session will begin with a discussion of various clinic models, challenges each model presents, and methods to enhance collaboration, improve teaching, and develop mechanisms to enhance the freedoms and minimize the limitations clinical teaching presents. The session will be interactive, calling on all participants to share their experiences in various models, raise important and difficult questions about the gains clinicians have made in the academy and the barriers clinicians still face.