Feeling burned out? Wondering if private practice is the answer for you?

You’re going to love this episode of Private Practice Success Stories. I sat down with Vanessa Alcala, who decided to start her private practice after feeling the effects of burnout and having the desire to be her own boss.

This is her second time on the show and she talks about her non-traditional journey to the field of SLP. Vanessa discusses how having her own private practice has helped her avoid burnout and how she has the freedom and flexibility to work with a variety of clients, ranging from bilingual children to older adults.

She also talks about the importance of branding your business and the additional streams of revenue she’s added to her practice.

Vanessa Alcala, M.S. CCC-SLP, CDP is the owner and founder of Vital Therapies, a bilingual Speech Therapy private practice serving adolescents and adults. Vanessa is a Dementia Caregiver consultant and SLP Coach who is passionate about serving the bilingual community.

Vanessa is also the co-creator of Sip & Social, which creates opportunities for connection and collaboration for female entrepreneurs in the healthcare industry by hosting social networking events throughout the Tampa Bay area.

It is her mission to provide a holistic approach to speech therapy by utilizing evidence-based and culturally sensitive practices with clients, parents, caregivers, and families.

In Today's Episode, We Discuss:

• Vanessa’s atypical journey to private practice
• The freedom you get when you have your own business
• The mindset shift that increased her success
• What a typical week looks like as a private practice owner
• The work Vanessa is doing with Sip and Social
• The power of building a referral network
• Why we don’t need to be competitive in private practice
• Why you don’t have to wait years to start a private practice
• The power of charging your worth
• A mindset shift around earning money in our profession
• Vanessa’s plans to hire help in her practice

I hope you loved this episode with Vanessa! She is a perfect example of someone who reduced her burnout and found freedom and flexibility through private practice. She has created her ideal career and life for herself by being her own boss, and you can too.

If you would like to know more about our Programs and how we help support SLPs and OTs who want our help to start and grow their practices, please visit www.IndependentClinician.com/resources.

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.

Resources Mentioned:

Visit Vanessa’s website: www.theravolvewellness.com

Follow Vanessa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theravolvewellness

Follow Vanessa on Facebook: Facebook.com/theravolvewellness

Follow Sip and Social on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.social/

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School Based SLPs and OTs: Want to leave the schools and start a private practice? Come to our upcoming training on May 6th. To register...

Ever wish you could hear directly from the “regular” SLPs or OTs who transformed into successful private practitioners after going through the Start Your Private Practice Program?

Their words? Their experience? Their outcomes from being in the program?

Well, now you can!

In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I’m introducing you to 4 amazing Start Your Private Practice student alums: Kacie Bartlet, Emily Gavin, Caitlin Celendano, and Melissa Perez.

All 4 of these Start students came from different backgrounds and had their own unique reasons for starting their own private practices. Some had experienced burnout early on in their careers, and others wanted more freedom and flexibility in their day-to-day lives for their current - or future families. Others had a particular niche that they wanted to serve and knew that there weren’t enough services in their community.

All 4 of these students had the same fears, doubts, and hesitations as you do - but they decided to go for it, join The Start Your Private Practice Program, and create a new future for themselves.

In Today's Episode, We Discuss:

• How each of these students decided to start a private practice
• The power of having a support system when starting a business
• The freedom that having a private practice gives you
• How the Start program helped these students figure out how to succeed
• What it’s like to start your practice on the side of your regular job
• How the Facebook community helps support students in the program
• The income potential with a private practice
• How to fund or access assessments when you’re first getting started
• The impact of collaborating with other practices in your area
• How to find clients for your private practice
• The benefits of investing in yourself

I hope you enjoyed this episode and that as you listened to their stories, you could see how you can do the same. They took a chance on themselves by joining the Start program, and it worked to give them the future they needed whether they were seeking freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, or financial independence.

Enrollment for the Start Program is open now! To enroll, just visit: PrivatePracticeCourse.com and you’ll get immediate access to the exact same program that Kacie, Emily, Caitlin, and Melissa all went through to get set up, started, and seeing private clients.

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.

Resources Mentioned:

Enroll in the Start Your Private Practice program: PrivatePracticeCourse.com

Where We Can Connect:

Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-practice-success-stories/id1374716199

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Wondering how you can get more clients in your private practice? You’re going to love this episode of Private Practice Success Stories!

I sat down with Melissa Perez, a speech-language pathologist with a private practice called Honeybee Speech in El Centro, California. She decided to start her private practice after experiencing burnout from teletherapy and discovering the Start Your Private Practice program in 2022.

Melissa has been one of our Start Start students who recently joined The Grow Your Private Practice Program.

Melissa grew quickly, quicker than she thought she would. In this episode, she talks about how she went from zero to 30 clients in the first 3 months of starting her practice. Melissa shares how she started out by renting a dentist’s waiting room for $50 a month, and expanded her practice through referrals and taking small, consistent steps.

Melissa Perez graduated with a Masters of Science in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from New York University in May of 2020. She has spent the majority of their career working as a teletherapist for a clinic based in Palm Desert, CA. There, she had the opportunity to work with individuals across the lifespan with various communication difficulties.

It was during her time there that she found a true love for working with children with speech sound disorders and the early intervention population. Once the idea of opening a private practice popped into her head, she knew they wanted to focus on those two areas.

To date, it has been 8 months since she opened her private practice and it was truly the best decision she ever made.

In Today's Episode, We Discuss:

• Why Melissa decided that private practice was right for her
• How her private practice took off
• Why you don’t have to start big, you can start small
• How Melissa went from 0-30 clients in 3 months
• The shift from traditional employment to fully self-employed
• The cool things that Melissa has on the horizon for her private practice
• Why other practices aren’t your competition
• Where Melissa gets her clients
• The power of running your practice like a business

I hope you enjoyed this episode with Melissa! I love how she found a way to grow her practice through a variety of referrals and by taking small, consistent steps in the right direction.

If you would like to know more about our Programs and how we help support SLPs and OTs who want our help to start and grow their practices, please visit www.IndependentClinician.com/resources.

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.

Resources Mentioned:

Follow Melissa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivhoneybeespeech/

Where We Can Connect:

Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-practice-success-stories/id1374716199

Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/independentclinician/

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