From Seeing Clients on the Weekend to Full-Time Private Practice with Kathleen Salata
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Kathleen Solata is a speech language pathologist with a pediatric private practice in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. Today, Kathleen will share her journey of transitioning from having a part-time private practice to being in private practice full time. Kathleen shares that she always had aspirations of owning a private practice, but she wasn't sure that she could do it until she got some encouragement from her now husband. Kathleen discusses that her initial hesitation to start a private practice stemmed from a lack of knowledge about the business side of things. But after she joined the Start Your Private Practice program in 2020 and used the pandemic period to get her business all set up,
Kathleen began her private practice on the weekends while maintaining a full-time job at a hospital. She also discusses what her first clinic space was like and what it's like now, where she finds most of her clients, hint, they're coming to her. She's not having to go out and find clients, and she shares her plans to hire in the next six months. If you've been thinking about starting part-time and you're eventually want to transition into full-time private practice. 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. Hey Kathleen, how's it going? Hi. Hi, good. So I'm so excited to have you here. I know you. I've gotten to know you in the START program and the grow program, but all of our listeners and viewers don't know you yet.
So can you just share like your
name, your location, and the name of your private practice. Sure. So my name's Kathleen Salada. I am located in Lavonia, Michigan, which is Metro Detroit area. And my practice is called Journey Pediatrics Therapy Services. I love it.
I love it. There's like a lot of private practitioners in Michigan. There yeah.
There are a lot of private practices around here. I wonder why that is. Do you have any idea? No, there's like four major hospitals with an hour radius of each other. So I mean there's a lot of clients in that way, but that would be my best guess. I love it. It's
So funny to me because we have lots of students who are like in Florida and Texas and California, and those all kind of like are bigger states. But then there's a couple other places. So Michigan is definitely one of them. And then the Carolinas, North and South Carolina are huge for private practice, also. So that's not to say that you can't have a private practice someplace else. You absolutely can, but those are some like hot spots, I'll say.
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Chapters
3 chapters
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What is the overall focus of this episode and who is the guest?
0:00–4:15
2
How did Kathleen Salata get started in speech‑language pathology and what inspired her to consider private practice?
4:15–6:04
3
What steps did Kathleen take to launch her part‑time private practice during the pandemic?
6:04–23:16
Speakers
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