Private Practice Success Stories

Have you ever dreamed of starting a private practice that brought in six figures?When many people think of starting their own private practice, they think of it as a side income, but it doesn’t have to be. You can grow it as much or as little as you want.In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I sat down with one of my Start Your Private Practice students, Samantha Asher, to talk about how she grew her private practice to six figures while only working 3 days a week. She is able to support her family financially with her private practice and also be there for her kids every day.Samantha Asher, MA, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist and the CEO of Green Light Speech and Language Services, LLC. Green Light specializes in providing effective feeding, language, and speech therapy that children genuinely enjoy. Samantha built Green Light on the principles of responsive feeding and parent-child-therapist collaboration. Samantha also develops and shares content about responsive feeding and therapy

Do you ever wish you could hear from students who have gone through the Start Your Private Practice program directly? If you want to hear their words, their experience, and their outcomes after completing the program, you’re in the right place. In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I am introducing you to five of my amazing Start Your Private Practice students so you can hear it for yourself. You’ll hear from Ty Renee Jones, Emily McCullough, Hannah Haleudeth, Ruth Maldonado, and Meera Raval Deters. In this interview, they are sharing some really personal stories of what they faced in their jobs such as anxiety, depression, homophobia, ADHD, and burnout, and how their private practice helped them cope with it and become stronger and more successful as a result. This is a powerful panel interview that originally aired as part of our most recent private practice bootcamp event. It was so amazing that I wanted you to hear it, too. If you love an underdog, a success story, and h

Have you ever felt burnt out with your job as an SLP? As busy practitioners, it can be overwhelming to think about starting a business while trying to manage our full-time jobs. This is why maternity leave is the perfect time to take the leap. In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I sat down with Ashtyn Mouton to talk about how she did just that. For Ashtyn, after becoming a mother, a flexible schedule was more important than ever because she needed to be there for her daughter whenever she needed her. Ashtyn knew that investing in herself was key to taking control of her personal, professional, and financial life. Ashtyn Mouton, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, is the owner of Simple Speech Therapy. She is a pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist in the Central Florida area. She has been practicing as an SLP for over 6 years and has worked with children and adults of all ages in schools, skilled nursing facilities, and in private practice. Ashtyn holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence

Are you ready to take your private practice full-time? I know when you are first getting started, it can seem overwhelming to think about everything you need to do to get to that point. In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, we are talking to one of my students, Kristin Beasley,  who started her private practice and grew it from zero to 10 clients in one month! She provided high-quality service to her clients and the referrals started rolling in. She took her private practice full-time and now enjoys much more balance and fulfillment than ever before. Kristin has extensive experience in the field of Speech-Language Pathology, as she has worked in several settings, including public and private education, early intervention, pediatric and adult medical facilities, and clinic-based and home health settings.  Kristin has experience in a multitude of speech, language, and feeding disorders, ranging from birth through adulthood.  While the understanding, knowledge, and ex

Are you in the growth phase of your private practice journey? If so, this episode of Private Practice Success Stories is for you. It features two of my coaches from the Grow Your Private Practice Program, Adrienne Fuller and Tami Teshima. Both of these amazing coaches sat down with me to talk about 5 tips for growing your private practice. We talked about marketing, finances, hiring, and so much more. Adrienne Fuller M.S., CCC-SLP is the Clinical Director and Owner of SpeechBuilders Speech and Language Therapy in Apopka, Florida.  She began her journey as a middle school teacher to students with learning disabilities, where she developed a desire to help children build a strong foundation for learning. She then went on to earn her Master’s Degree from the University of New Hampshire. For the past 15 years, she has worked in many settings as a Speech-Language Pathologist including, schools, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and finally in private practice.  Adrienne is also the co

Starting a private practice is such an amazing way to branch out and do your own thing. It enables you to work with your dream clients on your own terms. One of my favorite things about private practices though is how it can open so many doors to you that you didn’t even dream were possible. In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I sat down with Theresa Harp to talk about how she went from running her own private practice to starting a second successful business in a totally different niche. Theresa Harp is a mother of four and a New Jersey native. She is a certified speech therapist and listening and spoken language specialist who opened a private practice for children with hearing loss in 2014. As she began juggling the increasing demands in her home and her business, she began to study time management and productivity and discovered strategies to maximize her time.  These interests led to the creation of an entirely new business called The Time Tamers, which provides time

What are you passionate about? Something I love about being an SLP is that you have so many opportunities available to you after you get certified. You can work in traditional settings or you can do my favorite thing and start your private practice. Once you have your private practice, the sky is the limit on what you can do! Whether you’re interested in school contracts, having multiple locations, a brick-and-mortar clinic, or just becoming your own boss, you’re going to love this episode of Private Practice Success Stories. I sat down with Ebony Green to talk about her journey as an SLP CEO and how she made it all happen. She has a wealth of knowledge on running your own business as an SLP so I was so excited to have her as a guest.  Ebony Green, M.S., CCC-SLP received her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. She then joined a highly selective national teacher corps known as Teach for America and committed four years to teaching in under

Are you a planner? Most speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists are! Deciding to start your own private practice is a big deal. My mission is to make the whole process easier and faster for you, but it all starts with planning.In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I am going to be sharing why you need to plan it all out before you start, and I am doing this by giving you a special behind-the-scenes look into our beginner bootcamp event. There are so many ways to be in private practice. You can have a solo practice where it is just you or you can have a whole team providing multidisciplinary services. You could be a specialist or a generalist. You could provide in-person services or teletherapy. The possibilities are endless and you get to choose! However, before you can build the private practice of your dreams, you have to plan it first. This is important because you’ll need to consider things like NPI,  liability insurance, and marketing—just to name a few

Summer is coming up and it is the perfect time to start dipping your toe into the waters of private practice and start seeing some clients! This is something that is often on people’s to-do lists for years before they finally take action, but it doesn’t have to be that way! In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I want to help you get set up so you can start this summer because there is no better time than right now. Summer is still a few months away, but now is the time when you need to start getting your ducks in a row so that you will be ready to take on those first clients. You may think that by only seeing one or two clients to start, it isn’t really a private practice- but it actually is! There is no such thing as “under the table” private practices. You must get your business set up legally so that you don’t get into any trouble later on. In Today's Episode, We Discuss:Why summer is the perfect time to start seeing clientsThe importance of setting your business up legi

Do you enjoy offering telepractice? Have you ever considered offering it through your own private practice instead of an agency that pays peanuts? If this is something that interests you, this episode of Private Practice Success Stories is for you. I sat down with Elise Mitchell to talk about the opportunity to offer teletherapy to your own private clients and also to share some success stories from other Start Your Private Practice students who are offering teletherapy either exclusively or in addition to their in-person services. Elise Mitchell is a Speech-Language Pathologist, owner of The Therapist Support Network, and Head of New Practice Development with The Independent Clinician. As the owner of The Therapist Support Network, Elise focuses on providing affordable intervention materials to SLPs and OTs. She has spent the majority of her clinical career in telepractice, specifically contracting and managing school-based telepractice services in addition to serving private telepractice clie

Having a part-time private practice is the safest and smartest way to get started. I actually don’t recommend that SLPs or OTs jump full-time into running their own private practice to start. People are so surprised to hear me say that but the truth is, when just starting out, I recommend that you start part-time on the side of your regular job for a few different reasons.The first is that it decreases your financial risk when you leave your job and allows you to have those benefits while growing your business. This works wonders for calming those nerves about embarking on your private practice journey. The second is that it helps you test the waters and make sure that going all-in on private practice is right for you. The last thing you want or need is to dive into being a private practice owner only to find it’s not right for you. The third reason is that you can start generating income on the side that you can use to pay off debt, build up your savings, reinvest in your business, or use on f

Many new SLPs hold back from starting their own private practice because they don’t believe they have enough experience to venture off on their own, but that isn’t true! You can start your private practice as soon as you have something to bring to the table. Specializing is a great way to increase your referrals and find success sooner, even if you are a new SLP. In this episode, I sat down with Sydney Bassard to talk about how she started her own private practice that focuses on deaf and hard-of-hearing children and literacy early on in her career and how she created multiple streams of income to increase her success. Sydney knows that she can run her private practice in whatever way works for her. She is a multi-passionate person and is using her private practice as a way to focus on more than just one of them. Sydney Bassard is a private practice SLP in Charlotte, NC. She graduated with her B.S. in Public Health in 2017 and her MSP in Speech Pathology in 2019. Sydney received both her d

Have you ever wanted to offer a specialty service? When you start your own private practice, you have the freedom to create the job of your dreams for yourself. If you are passionate about a certain service or population, make that your specialty! This helps you become known as “the one” to go to for that service so you can put your business on the fast track for success. My guest in this episode of Private Practice Success Stories is Mallory Millet, a Start Your Private Practice student. Mallory is a speech therapist who carved out a niche for herself based on her passion and where she saw a need. Mallory Millet is a Speech Pathologist who specializes in pediatric feeding disorders. Her focuses include infant reflux, infant oral development, and bottle feeding. Through her professional work, and with a lack of support during her own babies’ feeding journeys, she created The Feeding Mom. It is here that she provides in-person and virtual support to empower parents through their feeding journeys

Have you ever felt called to start a private practice that serves the underserved populations in your community? Some of my most successful Start Your Private Practice students are bilingual and have started their private practice to serve linguistically diverse populations. This population often faces a long waitlist for bilingual service providers. They are in desperate need of people like you! In today’s episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I sat down with one of my Start Your Private Practice students, Ana-Maria Jaramillo, to talk about how she decided to start her own private practice for the bilingual community and drastically increased her impact while also increasing her income. Ana-Maria Jaramillo, M.S., CCC-SLP is a nationally-certified bilingual pediatric integrative speech-language pathologist with extensive experience providing speech-langauge therapy to children ages birth to 18. She is the owner and founder of Voz Speech Therapy, a private practice that provides indi

For SLP’s who focus on adult care in their private practices, one of the most important things to learn is Medicare. Many of our adult patients utilize it to pay for the care they need. But how do you set it up for your private practice? In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I sat down with one of my Start Your Private Practice students, Katie Brown, to talk about Medicare in the private practice setting. Katie runs her own practice for adult patients which has given her a lot of experience and knowledge on taking Medicare payments. Billing Medicare can be scary for SLP’s. We have all been there! Katie is making it easier than ever for SLP’s to get enrolled, learn how to bill properly, and document their services through her new program Mastering Medicare for SLP’s. Katie Brown, MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS is a speech-language pathologist and certified brain injury specialist practicing in Buffalo, NY. She owns a private practice called Neuro Speech Solutions which specializes in ther

This is a very special episode of Private Practice Success Stories! This is part two of a Student Success series I did where you’ll hear from three SLPs who have successfully started Adult medical-focused private practices and three SLPs who have started specialty or bilingual practices full-time or “on the side.” Sometimes hearing the stories and successes of others is just the jolt of inspiration you need to get the ball rolling in your own private practice. This episode is meant to inspire you and show you real-life examples of people who have really done it and are out there running their own successful private practices. Can you have an adult-only practice? The answer is YES! These students are proof of that. They started their private practice without any previous business experience and without learning about private practices in grad school. That means that you can do the exact same thing.In Today's Episode, We Discuss:Reasons why medical-based SLPs become interested in starting private

What is your favorite population to work with as an SLP? Who are the clients that light you up? If you have a dream population that you want to serve, go out and serve them! This is one of the main reasons you should start your own private practice. If you are passionate about a certain population, diagnosis, or disorder, you can make them your priority by starting your own practice and getting them the help they so desperately need. This was the case for my Start Your Private Practice student Alex Wynters. She knew that she wanted to work with adults with Parkinson’s, dementia, MS, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and so much more. She took her passion for this population and made her own business out of it and now she is making a difference in the lives of those she works with.In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, you’ll get to hear how she did it and the tips she recommends to anyone ready to do the same. Alexandria has been treating the adult and senior population for 10 years,

Many of us have heard and practiced “collaboration over competition” and that’s for a good reason! This abundance mindset could be what sets you up to build the successful private practice you’ve always dreamed of. If you are thinking of starting a private practice in a big city with a lot of therapy options, you may be feeling intimidated and wondering how you can possibly stand out when there are so many options for clients to choose from. Instead of seeing all of the so-called “competition” in your area and getting discouraged, you can instead see them as collaborators and referral sources. It is possible to work together with these other clinics and practices to serve the clients in your area and position yourself in a way that will bring you success no matter the size of your city. If you’re thinking of starting your private practice in a big city, you’ll love this episode of Private Practice Success Stories. We are talking with my Start Your Private Practice student Meera Raval Deter

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Is this the year you finally take the leap and start your private practice? I talk to many people in various stages of their private practice journey. Some have established private practices already, some are just getting started, and some haven’t taken the plunge just yet because they are waiting for the perfect time. This could mean that they are waiting until their kids are grown up, until they have more time, until they can afford it, etc. I have heard it all, and I totally get it. Life can be crazy! However, if you really want something, you have to learn to make it a priority. If you are tired of putting off your dreams of owning your own private practice, this episode of Private Practice Success Stories is for you. Jchelsea Noe joined me in this episode to talk about why there is never a better time to start than now! Jchelsea (pronounced “Chelsea”) Noe is a 25-year-old mom of two and owns Noe Nonsense Therapy. Serving early language learners to help them increase their quality of l