From School SLP to Small Town Private Practitioner with Sarah Desimone
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What motivated Sarah to transition from a school SLP to starting 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. Sarah Di Simoni is a former school SLP who started her private practice in a small town in Idaho. After following the steps laid out in the Start Your Private Practice program. In this interview, Sarah talks about how she built her private practice on the side of her job in the schools and how she loves knowing that she is serving her community who would otherwise be stuck on a wait list or commuting a long distance to get speech therapy. If you've ever thought about starting a private practice as a school SLP or as someone who lives in a more rural area, this is the perfect student success story for you to listen to.
There are a couple of spots in the interview where the Wi-Fi was a little bit weak, but the content that Sarah shares is so valuable. Make sure you push through and listen to the whole thing. In the interview, Sarah talks about her experience as a student in the Start Your Private Practice program and how it helped her get started with both information and ongoing support. We are gonna be reopening soon. So if you want to make sure that you get access to the exact same resources that helped Sarah, make sure you're on the waiting list over at startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash wait list. We only open publicly a few times a year, so make sure that you're on our list and get notified the second we reopen.
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.
So before we dive in, could you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yeah, my name is Sarah Desimoni and I'm the owner and speech language pathologist at Huckleberry Therapy L L C. I live in Athel, Idaho, uh, which is a small town of uh less than a thousand people. It's for people who are familiar with the Pacific Northwest, it's about a half hour north of Quarterlaine, Idaho, and about forty-five minutes from Spokane, Washington.
Fantastic. Well, I always love to hear about people who have private practices in different parts of the country. So I'm very curious to hear what it's like, you know, having a private practice in your area. But before we get into talking about like where you are currently in your private practice journey, could you take us back to like your early career as an SLP and maybe what led you to start thinking about private practice?
Sure, yeah. Well, I kind of had had I I'd always known that I wanted to work with kids, but being a teacher was just out of the question. Because that's too many kids at one time.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What motivated Sarah to transition from a school SLP to starting her own private practice?
0:00–8:43
2
How did the COVID‑19 pandemic influence Sarah’s decision to launch her practice?
8:43–14:27
3
What were Sarah’s first steps in turning the Start Your Private Practice program into a real business?
14:27–20:20
4
Why did Sarah change her practice name and how did she simplify branding?
20:20–25:55
5
How did Sarah secure a physical office space and what challenges did she face?
25:55–32:36
6
What are the unique advantages and challenges of running a speech‑therapy practice in a rural town?
32:36–39:49
7
How does Sarah balance contract work, school employment, and her private practice?
39:49–47:21
8
What key advice does Sarah give to SLPs who are hesitant about starting a private practice?
47:21–47:39
Speakers
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