FREE LIVE TRAINING FOR SCHOOL-BASED SLPs & OTs
How to Start a Private Practice Without Quitting Your School Job First
The step-by-step roadmap school clinicians are using to build a profitable private practice on the side - without risking your salary, your benefits, or your sanity.
📅 Tuesday, March 24 | 🕗 8:00 PM ET | ✅ Free + Replay Included
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LET ME GUESS…
You love being an SLP (or OT). You love working with your students.
But somewhere between the 80-student caseload, the IEP meetings that eat your lunch break, and the paperwork that follows you home at night… you started wondering:
You've thought about private practice.
Maybe for months. Maybe for years. You've Googled it, followed people who've done it, maybe even whispered it to a friend or two.
But every time you get close to actually doing something about it, you hit the same wall:
✗ "I don't know where to start."
✗ "I don't have a business background."
✗ "I can't afford to quit my job."
✗ "What if I mess up the legal stuff?"
✗ "What if nobody hires me?"
So you stay. And sign the contract for another year. And count down to the next school break just to get through the week.
I know -because that was me.
I started my private practice at age 26, while working full time as an SLP. I didn't quit first. I didn't have a business degree. I just had a step-by-step plan -and that made all the difference.
Now I want to hand you that plan.
In this free training,
you'll learn:
✔ Why you DON'T need to quit your school job before starting a private practice -and why starting "on the side" is actually the smartest move
✔ The 5 biggest mistakes school-based SLPs and OTs make when starting a practice -and how to avoid every single one
✔ The real math: how seeing just 3–5 private clients per week can add $1,000–$2,000/month to your income (without working more hours than you already do)
✔ How to handle the legal stuff -without a lawyer or a business degree
✔ How to get your first private clients using simple, free strategies that actually work for clinicians (not Instagram influencers)
✔ The exact timeline: what a realistic path from "school employee" to "practice owner" actually looks like, step by step
Plus: real stories from school-based SLPs and OTs who've done it -including some who started with zero business experience and had their first client within weeks.
Your plan is waiting.
Join this free live training and walk away with a step-by-step roadmap.
SAVE MY SPOT - IT'S FREE!
March 24 at 8 PM ET | Live + Free Replay
They were in your exact spot.
Now they own their own practice.
SCHOOL SLP → PRACTICE OWNER
"Before the Start Program, I didn't think I wanted to be an SLP anymore. I was constantly thinking about the IEPs I needed to write and wondering how I was going to fit 6 students in my speech closet. Now…? I'm having FUN again!"
-Tayler Garzarek, MS CCC-SLP | Owner, Chatterbox Children's Therapy
ROI IN 2 WEEKS
I made the investment back already in my first 2 weeks of launching my private practice. I'm now up to 25 clients and I started 3 months ago. It's so worth it."
-Katja Piscitelli, MS CCC-SLP | Owner, Total Spectrum Therapy
LIFE CHANGED
"I 100% recommend The Start Program. When I say it COMPLETELY changed my life, I mean it! I'm running my own private practice full-time and happier than ever in my life." -Patricia Saenz, MA CCC-SLP | Owner, The Heart of Therapy
This training was made for you if…
→ You're a school-based SLP or OT who's been thinking about private practice but hasn't taken the leap yet
→ You want to start seeing private clients but you're NOT ready to quit your school job (and don't need to!)
→ You have zero business background and the legal/financial side feels overwhelming
→ You're burned out on caseloads, paperwork, and feeling like you can't give your students what they deserve
→ You want more freedom, flexibility, and financial stability -on YOUR terms
→ You've been researching private practice for months (or years) and you're ready to stop Googling and start doing
Whether you have 2 years of experience or 20 -the business side is new to everyone. That's exactly what this training covers.
MEET YOUR HOST
Jena Castro-Casbon, MS CCC-SLP
Founder of The Independent Clinician | Author of The Path to Private Practice
I started my private practice at age 26 -on the side of my SLP job -because I was burned out and knew there had to be a better way. I had no business background. No connections. No idea what I was doing.
I figured it out step by step, built a practice I loved, and eventually made it my full-time career.
Then my SLP and OT friends started asking how I did it. So I built The Independent Clinician to teach them.
10,000+ Clinicians Helped | 50 States | 10 Years Teaching
"This training is everything I wish someone had told me before I started. I can't wait to share it with you."
You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need a plan.
Join me on March 24 and I'll give you one.
No business degree required. No risk. No fluff. Just a real plan from someone who's done it and helped 10,000+ clinicians do it too.
SAVE MY SPOT - IT'S FREE!Can't make it live? Register anyway -we'll send you the replay. See you there! -Jena
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