From Getting Started to Starting to Grow with Sarah Sweeney
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Sarah Sweeney is a speech language pathologist who offers pediatric speech and myofunctional therapy in Mechanicsburg, Virginia. She started her private practice during the pandemic when she saw an opportunity to help families who really needed her help. I got to know Sarah in the Grow Your Private Practice program, and it has been amazing to watch her grow so quickly and in a wonderful way. In this episode, she shares how she felt trapped in the schools and even considered getting a job with the Postal Service because she was so unhappy. Instead, she decided to start a speech therapy private practice, and my goodness, that has turned around her career.
And her life. Now she has a thriving practice with another SLP, an office manager, and is adding an OT soon. In this episode, she talks about the importance of things like setting boundaries and exploring your relationship with money and how those are essential for private practitioners. She also talks about being a type B SLP and what role she hired for to help her stay organized. If you're thinking About starting or growing a private practice, and you want to see how Sarah did it, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned. 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, before we dive in, can you please share your
name, your location, and the name of your private practice? Yes, my name is Sarah Sweeney. I am in Richmond, Virginia, and the name of my private practice is Sunshine Speech Therapy. I am so excited to do this episode.
Sarah, we've known each other for a good while and I've watched you like go from beginning private practitioner to very established and underway and growing private practitioner. And I want to hear all that whole story of how that unfolded for our listeners to hear. But before we dive into that, can you please share, you know, how did you get started in the profession and when did you start thinking about private practice?
Absolutely. So I graduated from my master's degree program in 2017. I went to the University of Virginia's communication disorders program. And I worked, my clinical fellowship was in the public school system. And I continued with that school system for another two years. And then COVID turned everything on its head. Right. So in my third year of practicing as an SLP in the schools, uh, we shut down along with everybody else. Right. And I happened to work with a caseload that really was comprised of children with really high need support, right?
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:39
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Why did Sarah decide to leave her school job and start a private practice?
6:39–15:41
3
How did the COVID‑19 pandemic create the opportunity for Sarah’s home‑based therapy?
15:41–29:48
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What role did Sarah’s spouse and support network play in launching the practice?
29:48–37:19
Speakers
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