First a Private Practice and Then a Clinical Doctorate With Kayla Thurston
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What is the overall purpose of the Private Practice Success Stories podcast and this episode’s focus?
Starting a private practice isn't what it used to be. Today's clinicians are starting private practices much quicker, easier, and cheaper than before. And they aren't guessing their way through it or getting stuck in analysis paralysis, they're following a tried-and-trude roadmap in order to save time, money, and frustration. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel or struggle to figure out how to start a private practice on your own. We've helped thousands of SLPs and OTs through this process and now we want to help you too. For a limited time, I'm offering a free copy of our private practice roadmap, specifically for SLPs and OTs who are curious about private practice and want to see what the journey looks like.
To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Kayla Thurston is a speech language pathologist in Connecticut. She started her private practice after working in several settings and also having several per diem jobs. Initially, I got to know Kayla in the Start Your Private Practice program, where we helped her get all of her ducks in a row and get set up and started. As her private practice started to grow, she decided to keep a few of her pre diem jobs for financial security, which I actually recommend initially, but then she realized that by not focusing on growing her practice, well, it wasn't growing. So she decided to join the Grow Your Private Practice Program, where she focused on growing her income streams and started to hire so that she could start to work less.
During her time in the program, she also got credentialed with insurance companies, contracted to schools and daycares, and successfully built up her caseload to her desired level. Because Kayla is such a go-getter, she has another big goal ahead of her, which is to pursue her clinical. local doctorate to further her impact on the field of speech pathology. With her clinical doctorate, she is planning to create a diagnostic tool for the two to three year old population. How cool is that? A big lesson here is that in order to take time away from her private practice to pursue something like a clinical doctorate, she had to grow her practice to a certain level and have hired to have more support in place.
Kayla is a very cool person, and whether you're thinking about getting a clinical doctorate or not, I know that you're gonna love this episode because she talks about following her passion and making sure that she had a solid foundation on which to grow. Enjoy the episode. I'm Jenna Castro-Kasbon, 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.
All right, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yes, my name is Kayla Thurston and my practice is Communicate with Me Speech Therapy located in Connecticut.
Awesome. So Kayla, we've gotten to know each other in um the STER program, the growth program, and you have just done amazing things. And I know what your practice is like now, but I want our listeners to know. But before we get to that, can you please share a little bit about how you got started in the profession and when did you start thinking about private grants?
Yeah. So a little side story. My cousin has autism. And so I was truly so invested in his speech therapy treatment because I always loved school and I thought I was going to be a teacher.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the overall purpose of the Private Practice Success Stories podcast and this episode’s focus?
0:00–15:10
2
How did Kayla Thurston first become interested in speech‑language pathology and decide to start her own practice?
15:10–24:40
3
What moment made Kayla realize she needed to stop juggling per‑diem jobs and fully focus on growing her private practice?
24:40–33:32
4
How did the Grow Your Private Practice program help Kayla increase income streams and hire staff?
33:32–38:11
Speakers
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