Going All In to Serve Her Rural Community with Michael Johnston
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Michael Johnston is a speech language pathologist with a private practice in Louisiana. Y'all, I got to know Michael on the START program, and oh my goodness, has she grown quickly? She's one year into her private practice journey and already has a multidisciplinary brick and mortar private practice serving 100 clients a week because she's in a rural area that desperately needs services, because they literally didn't have. With any pediatric therapy services. And so Michael brought them to her community. In addition to wanting to serve her local community, Michael started her private practice to have more flexibility for her family.
She's the type that likes to go all in and she has. In this episode, we discuss how she's getting clients, what went into her decision to start off as a multidisciplinary clinic, and what her clinic space looks like now, as well as what it will look like very soon. Whether you live in a rural or a populated area, if you've been thinking about starting a private practice to fill your needs, your family's needs, and the needs of people in your community, 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.
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Alright, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and
the name of your private
practice?
Okay, so my name is Michael Johnston. The name of my private practice is fundamental pediatric therapy and we are located in Stonewall, Louisiana, which is just south of Shreepport, Louisiana.
I love it. And as you know, I'm a New Orleans native. So I'm always very excited to see Louisiana-based private practitioners getting set up started and helping Louisianians. I've been loving getting to watch your private practice journey. And so I want to share with our listeners kind of what that has been like. But before we get to what things are like now, can you take us back to kind of like the beginning of your career and when did you start thinking about private practice?
Absolutely. So I graduated twenty eighteen. This is year going into year six for me. Straight out of grad school, I jumped into a private practice. It was ABA based. We had lots of severe kiddos with autism, very behavior based, which at the end of the day I just found myself exhausted. So then And when I decided to start a family of my own, I transitioned into the school system. Which is great, 'cause I was able to be home with my family more. But then I felt like I wasn't Not to say you don't make a difference in the school system, but I didn't really feel like I had the same interaction with the families and the parents.
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