From Contractor to Confident Owner: Designing a Practice on Your Terms with Rebecca Wellons

What if the job you’ve been dreaming of already exists—you just have to build it yourself? Today’s guest started her career wanting to work in hospitals with adults, but a perfect storm of timing and self-discovery led her somewhere entirely different. Now she’s using her clinical skills to serve kids and families in a way that actually works—and I can’t wait for you to hear her story!

I’m thrilled to introduce you to Rebecca Wellons is speech-language pathologist and the owner and founder of Little Seeds Speech Therapy, serving families in Durham, North. 

Rebecca’s journey proves that you don’t have to make a dramatic, overnight leap to build a thriving practice. By embracing a slow, steady transition and leveraging powerful, simple strategies, she crafted a business that gives her control, flexibility, and deep professional satisfaction.

In this episode, Rebecca discusses how starting slow, following her clinical curiosities, and designing a schedule that led to more peace, more purpose, and a practice she truly loves.

Rebecca is a licensed speech-language pathologist with a fascinating background in linguistics. She specializes in myofunctional therapy, childhood apraxia of speech, and late talkers. She holds her graduate degree in speech-language pathology and has pursued extensive continuing education to better serve children.

She takes a whole-child approach that recognizes the overlap between motor planning, oral motor function, and communication—refusing to put kids in boxes when their challenges don’t fit neatly into one diagnosis.

Outside of client care, Rebecca enjoys spending time in the Durham community and protecting her midday breaks for things like errands when the stores are quiet (a small perk of the private practice life).

In Today’s Episode, We Discuss:

• How working as a contractor gave her first taste of autonomy
• Her realization that she could cap her caseload, schedule, and create a space for herself
• Discovering she is neurodivergent and how that realization changed everything
• How she began designing a practice that works with her brain, not against it

Rebecca’s story is a beautiful reminder that private practice doesn’t have to mean quitting your job overnight and going all in. For her, it meant slowly transitioning, following referrals from fellow SLPs, and building at a pace that felt sustainable.

Want to build a private practice that actually fits your life—neurodivergence, midday breaks, specialized niche, and all? The Start Your Private Practice Program gives you the roadmap, resources, and support to get started. Learn more at www.StartYourPrivatePractice.com.

Whether you want to start a private practice or grow your existing private practice, I can help you get the freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and financial abundance that you deserve. Visit my website www.independentclinician.com to learn more.

 

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Check out her website: www.littleseedsspeechtherapy.com/

 

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