Building a Sustainable Life Through Private Practice with Mary Burns
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Why did Mary Burns decide to leave traditional employment and start her own private practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Mary Burns is a speech-language pathologist in Bend, Oregon, who started her mobile fees business and private practice after she was tired of not being able to provide high-quality care to her patients in various adult settings. She was feeling underappreciated and undervalued and knew that she wanted to do better by her patients and for her life. So she joined the Start Your Private Practice system, got her ducks in a row, learned how to bill Medicare, and now she's off and running. And on today's episode, she is going to share exactly how she did it. Whether you're an adult SLP or a pediatric SLP, you need to listen to this episode, especially if you struggled with burnout or imposter syndrome, or if you're currently struggling with feeling like you're not able to do your best work.
So let's do it. I'm Jenna Castro-Casbon, speech language pathologist, business coach, and creator of the Start Your Private Practice system. And I'm on a mission to turn stuck SLPs into successful private practitioners. If you're tired of dealing with high productivity requirements, high caseload sizes, and low pay, it's time to take control of your professional, personal, and financial life, and finally get the freedom, flexibility, and financial abundance that you deserve by working with private clients in your own practice. Join me here each week as I share tips, best practices, and inspirational interviews on the Private Practice Success Stories podcast. If you're a private practitioner or one in the making, you're in the right place, so let's get started.
We all got into this field for a reason. And for most of us, it was to help people, not just help them a little bit, but to take all of that wonderful and exciting knowledge that we soaked up and paid for in graduate school and turn it into a rewarding career. So what happens when you're not able to do that? What happens when you get your first job or jobs in a school, hospital, EI, or someone else's private practice, and you're not able to practice the way that you learned how to do or that your clients need most? Really quickly, I want you to imagine a car. Perhaps your current car or vehicle. Now think about your current job as a vehicle. So your vehicle is a school, a hospital, early intervention, university clinic, or maybe someone else's private practice.
Now, your private practice is a new vehicle. And in this analogy, you can start seeing clients on the side of your job. So basically adding a second car for yourself. Or you can go into private practice full time and trade in your current car for a new one. I recommend that most people get started with a private practice either part-time or on the side because it helps reduce the risks and allow you to keep your steady pay and benefits while building your private practice caseload, your confidence, and your income. So in that case, you would have two vehicles, your current job, and your private practice. Now you're on the road and you're driving and you're driving your current job vehicle, but thinking about this new private practice vehicle, as you look in the rear view mirror, what kind of things do you want to move away from?
Do you want to drive away from your micromanaging boss from no or minimal pay increases?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did Mary Burns decide to leave traditional employment and start her own private practice?
0:00–8:17
2
How did Mary identify the adult‑focused population she wanted to serve?
8:17–15:57
3
What signs of burnout and imposter syndrome did Mary experience before launching her practice?
15:57–23:42
4
Why is autonomy so important for clinicians, and how did it shape Mary’s practice model?
23:42–32:07
5
What are the benefits and challenges of providing mobile FEES and in‑home therapy across Oregon?
32:07–39:07
6
How does Mary structure her weekly schedule to balance mobile visits and private‑pay therapy?
39:07–40:15
Speakers
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