Lori Melnitsky, SLP first encountered speech-language pathology as a client with stuttering. She earned a degree in accounting and decided on a career change to speech therapy. She delved into the fields of early intervention and the public schools early on. Currently her practice focuses on individuals who stutter and children with oral-motor deficits, and she concurrently works at a school part-time.

Here's What We Cover:

• The value she has found in her unique personal experience as well as continuing education
• How she balances her thriving practice with a growing number of responsibilities
• The reasons she recommends having an office within your own home
• Her innovative ideas to expand her practice
• Her best advice for practitioners who are nervous about starting out 

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Adrienne Fuller, SLP envisioned herself as a private practitioner early on. In addition to skilled nursing facility work and public school contracting, she has extensive experience as a published author and a public speaker. Adrienne currently has an established practice working with two other speech-language pathologists.

Here's What We Cover:

• Her recommendations for entering and sustaining private practice fill books, with more to come
• Her definition of private practice which may surprise potential practitioners
• The benefits and obstacles she encountered as she branched out from her solo practice
• The leap from working for someone else to your own private practice leading to more “control of your financial destiny”
• Her networking ideas to ensure she stays connected to the small business community
• Eye-opening brainstorming session on how different your path to success can be 

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Amy Strekas, SLP explored a variety of pediatric settings prior to developing her private practice. She is highly specialized at treating stuttering. Amy currently sees pediatric clients with a variety of disorders in their homes and schools.

Here's What We Cover:

• How her freelancing experience helped her set up her private practice
• Her unique manner of finding clients
• The many ways that seeing clients in their natural environments works for her
• Her decision to create a new and helpful resource for parents

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Kelley discovered her passion for hippotherapy as a college student. While she mostly worked with adults in the inpatient rehabilitation field throughout her career, she "dipped her toes" into private practice by taking on one pediatric client. Currently Kelley is growing her private practice as well as working PRN part-time.

Here's What We Cover:

• Her specific model of hippotherapy that has worked for her clients
• How her private practice stands out from the therapeutic riding centers in her area
• Her need to provide ongoing education to clients on hippotherapy benefits
• Jena’s input regarding successful Facebook advertising
• Her advice for pursuing hippotherapy in the absence of your own horse and barn

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Bobbi 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 has recently launched her own private practice as a certified autism specialist.

Here's What We Cover:

• Her in-depth research that unearthed important business revelations
• Her development of a unique product to generate passive income
• The difficult yet beneficial decision she made to delay renting an office space
• Her best recommendations to join in and collaborate with your community

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McKell envisioned starting her private practice when she was in college, but never suspected that it would occur so early in her career. She currently manages a large office employing several therapists. Together they provide services mostly through telepractice with a small percent of clients seen in-house.

Here's What We Cover:

• Her insider’s point of view of the developing field of telepractice
• Her process to finding new clients with a recommendation to consider delegating tasks as needed
• The art of new navigating business relationships and licensure rules
• Exciting developments regarding her new teletherapy platform
• Her best recommendation for new practitioners

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Leanna's private practice has been "in the making" for the last 15 years. She prepared by working in the schools and in the medical field, primarily in pediatrics. Her target population is children with autism spectrum disorders. Leanna started with one client and has experienced tremendous growth over the course of a year.

Here's What We Cover:

• Her compelling argument in support of in-home services
• Her strategies to generate referrals from numerous resources
• How she promotes collaboration, not competition, with other SLPs and healthcare practitioners
• Her pragmatic advice to balance both your private practice aspirations and your sanity
• The helpful resources she created (and is now sharing) that have been valuable to her practice

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Katie has worked closely with adults and children throughout her career. However, she is most passionate about working with children. She currently works as an early interventionist part-time and part-time as a traveling private practice provider. Katie is in her first year of private practice.

Here's What We Cover:

• The "leap of faith" she took launching a private practice
• Rising to the challenge of marketing herself despite her shy disposition
• Balancing her ideal work life with her family needs
• Her dedication to continuing education

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Stacey underwent a career change when she left her occupation as an accountant to become an SLP. She worked as a school SLP for three years until she felt ready to pursue private practice. She treats children in need of primarily social-emotional functioning and dyslexia at this time.

Here's What We Cover:

• The need to be flexible when you start private practice to earn the flexibility of an established practice
• The specific population of referrals that surprised her the most
• How she set herself apart when she chose her specialization in dyslexia
• Combining skills from her various interests to craft her own "low effort high impact" curriculum, which she presents online and in workshop form
• Technology’s impact on communication, which has challenged adults and children alike
• How important it is to continuously self-assess one’s own communication skills, from the standpoint that everyone can improve
• Her recommendation to new clinicians regarding private practice

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While Emily has had experience working for other private practices in her career, she set off to found her own company when she realized she wanted to pursue the clients she was most passionate about and make her own schedule. Her practice is driven by her training as a Hanen instructor and considerable time spent with therapists in other fields, such as occupational therapy. 

Here's What We Cover:

• How she chose the unique name of her practice
• Educating herself on business administration skills in order to acquire clients, particularly online
• The benefits she has reaped from delegating different activities to others
• How she structures her day to maximize her time
• Her successful marketing strategies and the next group she wants to break into
• The particular feature of her website that has helped add a personal touch

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