From Burned Out to Lit Up: How One OT Built a Practice That Actually Fits with Tanya Glass
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What inspired Tanya Glass to leave hospital‑based OT and start her own practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Welcome back to another episode of the Private Practice Success Stories Podcast. I'm your host, Jenna Castor Kasbon, and I'm so excited for you to meet today's guest, Tanya Glass. Tanya is an occupational therapist and the founder of Grow and Thrive OT in the San Antonio area. I've actually had the pleasure of getting to know Tanya over the past few years. First inside of the Start Your Private Practice program, and now inside of Next Level Private Practitioners. So I've gotten a front row seat to her journey, and let me tell you, it's a good one. Before she built the private practice that finally fits her, Tanya went through something that a lot of therapists quietly experience and rarely talk about.
In today's episode, she gets really honest about what it feels like to lose your spark in this profession and how building her own private practice brought it back. If you're a therapist who's been wondering whether private practice practice could be the thing that changes everything for you, then this conversation is going to feel like permission. So let's get into it. 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, absolutely. My name is Tanya Glass. I'm an occupational therapist and I'm currently located in the San Antonio area in Texas. And my private practice is Grow and Thrive OT. Okay, Tanya.
I have gotten to know you over the past couple of years. We'll we'll talk about how we've gotten to know each other, but in the start program and then also a next level private practitioner. And the thing I love lots of things about you, but one of them is that you have a pretty successful private practice and you know, you have a a niche that you're working with, and you've got some really cool stuff going for you. So we're gonna come to all that a little later in the episode. But can you tell everybody how you got started in the field of? O T and also at what point did you start thinking about privacy?
Practice. Sure.
How did years of working in many settings lead to burnout for Tanya?
Yeah. Um, so I've been an OT now actually for 27 years. And I started, my mom actually worked at the Perkins School for the Blind when I was younger. And I was trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life. And I had several different majors in undergrad. And she said, you know what, you might really enjoy OT. So I did some volunteer work and that. Really connected with me with that? I went into that road, finished my undergrad, and then went to grad school in Oakland.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired Tanya Glass to leave hospital‑based OT and start her own practice?
0:00–3:36
2
How did years of working in many settings lead to burnout for Tanya?
3:36–6:33
3
Why did focusing on a feeding‑therapy niche reignite Tanya’s passion for OT?
6:33–9:26
4
What steps did Tanya take in the Start Your Private Practice program to build a solid foundation?
9:26–12:31
5
How does a 60/40 split between private practice and contracting give Tanya flexibility and control?
12:31–15:53
6
What strategies does Tanya use to attract neuro‑divergent clients and referrals?
15:53–18:44
7
How does running a mobile, functional practice improve client outcomes and therapist mental health?
18:44–21:44
8
What advice does Tanya give OTs who are hesitant to launch their own private practice?
21:44–24:06
Speakers
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