Start β€” The Private Practice Launch System
For SLPs & OTs ready to begin

You don't take a course. You build a practice β€” with us beside you.

The done-with-you system that takes SLPs and OTs from "someday" to their first paying client β€” without quitting the day job.

Private practice is simple β€” but it requires real attention. We give it ours, with you.

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A real clinician (or Jena) β€” warm, working from home / with a client
Your Start PlanBuilt for you
βœ“Pick your model & first service
βœ“Register correctly for your state
βœ“Set your rate & write your offer
βœ“Land your first client
0clinicians started with us
All 50states represented
Since 2008doing this one thing
0first client within a week*
Why this is different

A course hands you videos and wishes you luck. A system builds the thing with you.

You've probably already bought the course. Downloaded the freebies. Joined the Facebook groups. And you're still here β€” because information was never the thing standing between you and your first client. Support was.

The old way

A course

  • Γ—You watch the lessons alone and hope you're doing it right.
  • Γ—Generic steps that ignore your state, setting, and schedule.
  • Γ—Nobody looks at your work. No feedback. No checkpoint.
  • Γ—You stall at the first hard step β€” and quietly close the laptop.
The Start system

Done with you

  • βœ“An onboarding call where a real person maps your first steps.
  • βœ“A plan customized to your license, state, and life.
  • βœ“Feedback at every checkpoint β€” your work reviewed, not just watched.
    So you never wonder "is this right?"
  • βœ“A community matched to your stage, and tools that get it done.
How the system works

Five parts that carry you from thinking about it to doing it.

Not five months of homework. A path with people on it β€” designed so the next step is always obvious, and you're never the only one looking at your work.

1

Your onboarding call

You don't start with a login and a wall of videos. You start with a conversation. We learn your license, your setting, your goals, and your timeline β€” then map your first moves so day one isn't guesswork.

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Your custom plan

Everyone's start looks different. A school SLP launching summer teletherapy isn't the home-health OT going private on weekends. Your plan is built around your path β€” the exact steps, in the exact order, for the practice you're actually building.

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The roadmap β€” in the right order

Legal setup, marketing, rates, billing, insurance, documentation, taxes. All of it, broken down for clinicians with zero business background, in the sequence that actually works. So you stop Googling and start moving.

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Feedback at every checkpoint

This is the part a course can't give you. Your business name, your rate, your first offer, your website words β€” reviewed by people who've done this. You'll never have to wonder whether you got it right. You'll know.

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A community that's actually yours

Not a noisy feed of strangers. A space matched to where you are β€” beginners with beginners, alongside clinicians a few steps ahead and mentors who remember exactly what this felt like. You belong here from day one.

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Tools that do the heavy lifting

The work that stalls everyone? We hand you a head start.

The thing that stops most clinicians isn't the big decisions β€” it's the tedious middle. The legal steps. The first email. The website words. Start gives you get-it-done tools that turn the parts you dread into a draft you just refine.

Built into your membership β€” no extra logins, no extra cost.

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State Setup Guide

Tell us your state and license. Get the exact legal, licensing, and registration steps for where you practice β€” no more 50-tab Google spirals.

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Website Copywriter

Answer a few prompts and get the words for your home, about, and services pages β€” written in your voice, ready to paste.

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Website Designer

Turn that copy into a clean, findable site β€” layout, colors, and sections handled, so you look legit from day one.

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Practice Namer

Land on a name that feels good, stands out, and isn't already taken β€” with the checks done for you.

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Rate & Income Planner

Stop guessing what to charge. Get a rate you can defend and see what your year could actually look like.

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First-Client Outreach Kit

Your "I'm open for business" announcement and intro messages, drafted for you to personalize and send.

Plus pre-filled intake & HIPAA paperwork, a documentation-system picker, and a hiring-readiness check for when you're ready to grow.

What you walk away with

Not a certificate. A practice.

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Legally set up β€” the right way

Your business registered and structured correctly, so you can see clients with confidence instead of quiet fear that you missed something.

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Your first paying clients

Not "someday." Most clinicians who actively work the system get their first client within weeks of trying.*

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The four F's, back in your life

Freedom. Flexibility. Fulfillment. Finances. A practice that fits around your family and pays you what your skill is worth.

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Is this you?

Built for the clinician who's been circling this for years.

This is for you if…

  • You're a licensed SLP or OT, good at the clinical work, burned out by the system.
  • You want to start small β€” evenings, weekends, summers β€” without quitting your day job.
  • You've started and stalled before, and you're done trying to figure it out alone.
  • You want to do it right: legally, ethically, with someone checking your work.

This isn't for you if…

  • You're looking for a get-rich-quick scheme or big income promises. That's not us.
  • You want to be left alone with videos and no support. That's a course β€” go cheaper.
  • You're not licensed yet. Come back when you are; we'll be here.
  • You want someone to do all of it for you. We do it with you β€” you still build it.
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Your guide

I built the conversation I wish someone had given me.

I started my own practice at 26, two years into a hospital job that was already burning me out. What changed everything wasn't a course. It was two colleagues who sat down with me and told me the truth about what was possible.

Since 2008, I've helped more than 20,000 SLPs and OTs build practices of their own. Start is that same conversation β€” the plan, the feedback, the people β€” built into a system, so you don't have to wait for someone to happen to sit down with you.

You don't have to figure this out alone. I already did that part.

In their words

Clinicians who stopped waiting.

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The investment

Run the math honestly.

The real comparison isn't this number against zero. It's this β€” once β€” against another year of capped income, missed pickups, and compounding burnout. A handful of private sessions pays it back.

Placeholder pricing β€” confirm before launch
$1,997
pay in full
β€” or β€”
6 Γ— $397
monthly

Tax-deductible as a business expense. Everything above is included β€” onboarding call, custom plan, roadmap, feedback, community, and tools.

β˜… Most clinicians recoup the investment in their first month or two.*

Honest answers

The questions you're actually asking.

Do I have to quit my job to do this?+
No β€” and please don't. The whole system is built for the clinician who keeps their paycheck and benefits while they start on the side. One client, evenings or weekends, on your terms. You scale up only when you're ready.
I don't have any business background. Is that a problem?+
That's exactly who this is for. Every step assumes zero business knowledge and is explained in plain language, in the right order β€” and you've got people checking your work the whole way. You follow ethical and legal standards in your clinical practice every day. The business side is no different. We make it learnable.
How is this different from the courses I've already bought?+
A course gives you information and leaves you alone with it. Start gives you a plan customized to your situation, feedback at every checkpoint, a real community, an onboarding call, and tools that do the tedious parts. Information was never your bottleneck. Support was.
I'm busy and I've stalled before. What makes this time different?+
You didn't fail at private practice. You tried to do it alone β€” that's different. The system is built so the next step is always small and always obvious, and someone's expecting your work. Structure is what closes the gap between wanting it and doing it.
What exactly are the tools?+
Get-it-done helpers for the work that stalls everyone β€” a state-by-state setup guide, a website copywriter and designer, a practice namer, a rate-and-income planner, first-client outreach drafts, and pre-filled paperwork. They give you a working starting point so you're refining instead of staring at a blank page. You stay fully in control of the final result.
Your next step

Let's build your practice together.

Enrollment is open. You'll start with your onboarding call, get a plan built around your life, and take the first real step toward your practice β€” with us beside you the whole way.

Questions first? Our team is one message away.

The Independent Clinician Β· Private Practice School  Β·  *Results reflect students who actively work the system; figures from internal data β€” verify before publishing.