Growing Her Practice By Specializing in AAC with Kaitlin Mulcahey
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Starting a private practice isn't what it used to be. Today's clinicians are starting private practices much quicker, easier, and cheaper than before. And they aren't guessing their way through it or getting stuck in analysis paralysis, they're following a tried-and-trude roadmap in order to save time, money, and frustration. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel or struggle to figure out how to start a private practice on your own. We've helped thousands of SLPs and OTs through this process and now we want to help you too. For a limited time, I'm offering a free copy of our private practice roadmap, specifically for SLPs and OTs who are curious about private practice and want to see what the journey looks like.
To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Caitlin Mulcahy is a pediatric speech language pathologist with a private practice in Riverside, Rhode Island called Competent Communicators. She first started thinking about private practice when feeling burned out during COVID, and by 2022, she took the leap and started her own practice. I've gotten to know Caitlin during her time in the Grow Your Private Practice program, and it has been so amazing to watch her business shift to become a A C focused, Anne watch her create the work-life balance that she craved. In this episode, she talks about how she loves working with children and how she's becoming known for specializing in AAC.
Caitlin shares how she feels fulfilled being able to do this work with clients in a more personalized, meaningful way. If you're feeling burned out and have been thinking about starting a private practice and you have something that you want to specialize in, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned.
I'm Jenna Castro-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. Okay, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice? My name's Caitlin Mulcahy.
My private practice is Competent Communicators LLC, and I'm located in East Providence, Rhode Island.
So I am so excited to be doing this call with you. And we're not that far away from each other, right? You're in Rhode Island, I'm in Massachusetts. Yeah. So I always love meeting, getting to hear from people who are kind of in the same region. But I want to really dive into like what your private practice is like now. But before we do that, can we please start at the beginning of your private practice journey and talk about where were you like career-wise when you started thinking about private practice?
think the first time I thought about private practice was sort of during COVID, like the height of COVID when things first started. I had recently accepted a new job in like a bigger private practice in the Newton, Massachusetts area, which I really liked, but I mean I started working there in September and then in March we went virtual with everything. And with the type of clientele I see, which is mostly autism, lots of non speaking kids, it was pretty difficult to kind of just go to a new employer and then just transition right over to virtual and parent coaching and all of that in the middle of a pandemic. And that was around the time too that I found
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:57
2
When did Kaitlin first consider starting her own private practice and why?
5:57–21:47
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How did Kaitlin secure her first clinic space and save on rent?
21:47–26:25
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Why did Kaitlin decide to specialize in AAC and related therapies?
26:25–32:06
Speakers
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