Growing an OT Neurodiversity-Affirming Private Practice with Samantha Rothman
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Why did Samantha decide to start a neurodiversity‑affirming private practice after being laid off?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Samantha Rothman is an occupational therapist with a private practice called Play and Purpose in Phoenix, Arizona. She decided to start her private practice after being laid off during the pandemic and realizing that she didn't want to rely on others for income anymore. In this episode, she talks about creating a neurodiversity affirming OT practice with a whole child approach. The Mantha also discusses how she grew her practice to include five therapists, as well as the importance of setting boundaries to avoid burnout as her practice grows. If you've been thinking about starting or growing a neurodiversity affirming practice and want to learn more, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned.
I'm Jenna Kastro-Kazvan, CEO of the Independent Clinician and founder of Private Practice School. First, I started my own private practice. And then over the past 15 years, I've worked with over 10,000 SLPs and OTs to start and grow their successful private practices so they can have more freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and finances. I created the Private Practice Success Stories podcast. to share what's possible for you, your family, your clients, and your community when you choose private practice. We'll share everything from small private practice side hustles to flexible lifestyle private practices to traditional brick and mortar practices and everything in between. You'll meet regular clinicians, just like you, who followed our steps and are now living their private practice dreams.
If they can do it, you can do it too. So let's get started. Before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yeah, so I'm Samantha Rossman. We are based out of Phoenix, Arizona, and I own Play and Purpose. I'm also an occupational therapist. I love it. I have to
say that you're one of our not we haven't had that many OTs on the show, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to have you on the show. But before we get into kind of what your private practice looks like now, can you please take us back to the beginning of your private practice journey and talk about what were you doing professionally when you started thinking about private
practice? Sure. Yeah, so I have kind of an interesting story. Twenty twenty obviously was a monumental, life changing year for everyone. So my personal experience with that was I was working for a large hospital home health company here in Phoenix and we all thought that we were like uh what is it? They said essential workers and we didn't have to worry about our jobs and our jobs were safe and so I didn't really think that I had to worry about layoffs or anything like that because that's what we were being told from everyone. And then also my boss at the time, she kind of reassured us. She was like, we're just gonna kind of weather the storm and we're not doing any layoffs. You guys don't have to worry about it.
So that was comforting. And then exactly one week after she had that staff meeting with us, I got laid off or furlough. So I was like blindsided, depressed, panic, anxious, all of it. And I was like, okay. At first I just kind of saw it as like this extended vacation.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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Why did Samantha decide to start a neurodiversity‑affirming private practice after being laid off?
0:00–10:38
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How did Samantha transition from full‑time employment to her first private clients?
10:38–19:50
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What challenges did she face with burnout and how did she set boundaries?
19:50–28:47
4
When and why did Samantha decide it was time to hire additional therapists?
28:47–37:08
Speakers
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