Start your private practice – student success stories

After finding her way to SLP after a career in teaching, Tami Teshima was a school SLP who got laid off in spring of 2019. She decided that it was a sign to start her own private practice. This episode was recorded on her year anniversary of private practice. She is now a Mentor in The Start Your Private Practice System, which is how she got her start!
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In this episode of The Private Practice Success Stories podcast, Katie Brown, MS CCC-SLP of Neuro Speech Solutions talks about how she converted her passion for the adult medical field into a private practice. She followed the Start Your Private Practice System and then quit her job and built her practice!
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In this episode of The Private Practice Success Stories podcast, Lauren Walden of Walden Speech Therapy shares her love of speech-language pathology while working as a secretary at a private clinic. In addition to working in the public schools, she continues to work for that same clinic as a PRN SLP while she pursues clients in her own office space. She credits the Start Your Private Practice course as a helpful and motivational method to help her pursue success.​
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Bobbi Adams-Brown, SLP had a family connection to speech-language pathology early on and pursued it beyond her education degree. She has experience both in contracting in the public schools as well as working for others’ private practices. She is a certified autism specialist and has multiple streams of income from her private practice, paid consulting, part-time work, passive income on Teachers Pay Teachers and is a Mentor for The Start Your Private Practice System.​
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Tiffany is a pioneer in the field of private practice because she has started her own early in her career. She seamlessly transitioned from an acute rehab position to specializing in assistive technology. Her relentless determination, pursuit of skilled training, and her community connections have helped her build her clientele of children and adults with complex communication needs in a tremendously short span of time. She followed The Start Your Private Practice System to get started.
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Emily Hussey initially put her private practice dreams on hold to focus on her family and her important work as a school SLP. She patiently drew up a plan, interviewed others, carefully researched the needs of her area and accumulated helpful resources. She also credits the Start Your Private Practice student FB group with essential support. Now Emily is combining her passion for nutrition and wellness, her extensive experience with school-age children, and her know-how for developing multimedia presentations into a successful private practice.
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Tia Javier is a private practitioner and one of only 91 Spanish speaking speech-language pathologists in the state of Virginia. She is actually someone who I first came across when she joined the Start Your Private Practice program. Tia saw a huge need in the market for a bilingual private practice. In this episode, she shares how her student loans motivated her to make this decision, what a typical day in her practice looks like and her plans for the future. I really like Tia’s attitude and how she doesn’t look at obstacles as a set-back but instead figures out a way to overcome them.
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Claudia Hamilton Davisson is a private practitioner based out of Michigan and a mentor for my Start Your Private Practice program. Claudia has been a SLP for over three decades and has worked in so many different areas of the business.

In this episode, Claudia shares how she started her business as a private practitioner on the side of her job. She talks about the reasons she was drawn to private practice and the areas where she sees other private practitioners get stuck in their business.

​We also talk about where she sees most of her referrals come from and her advice for someone who is unsure if opening their own private practice is the right move for them. ​

Jena H. Castro-Casbon, MS, CCC-SLP, is a private-practice consultant who has helped thousands of speech-language pathologists start and grow their own private practices through her company, The Independent Clinician.  She has written articles for The ASHA Leader and Presented at ASHA Connect (2017).

You’ll find her online in the SLP Private Practice Beginners Facebook Group and in her premium programs, The Start Your Private Practice System and the Grow Your Private Practice Coaching Program.

Jena lives in Boston, MA and is a wife and mama to two young boys.