Meet a School OT with a Growing Private Practice "On the Side" with Erin Zink
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What is the free private‑practice roadmap and why should listeners download it?
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. Erin Zink is a pediatric occupational therapist with a private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. She started her private practice as a seasoned OT in the schools, and she did it on the side of her job so that she could work with ideal clients and earn more money for retirement. I got to know Erin in the Grow Your Private Practice program, where she is doing amazing things. In this episode, she talks about her decision to stay in the schools while growing her practice, her feelings on waiting for the right time to start your private practice, and which population she loves to serve, and how she's focusing on that population in her practice, which is helping fuel her passion while reducing burnout.
If you've been thinking about starting and or growing a private practice on the side of your job, 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.
All right. So before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location,
and the name of your private practice? Sure. My name is Aaron Zank. I am an occupational therapist. I live in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. And my business is OT the number four hope. OT for hope.
I love that name and I have loved getting to know you in the Grow Your Private Practice program. But before we learn about how you grew your practice, can we go back to the beginning of your career as an OT? And can you share a little bit about what that journey was like for you? And then at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
So I have been an occupational therapist for just about 30 years. I have always worked in pediatrics. That was my dream. That was my goal. So I worked on a lot of different settings. I worked for Shriners on two different occasions, one in orthopedics, one in Burns. I've done early intervention, started working in the schools when my older three kids got into school. Then When our older children were preteen teenagers, we became foster parents. And through that journey is kind of what brought me in to start to think about private practice because we had to do lots of trauma training and lots of coursework and then just living it, being foster parents. So what kind of happened is we got involved with a parenting group and also me being trained in trust based relational intervention.
I really felt this pull to help families who were struggling with their kiddos who were foster adopted because of behaviors and sensory and all those things and pulling all those pieces together.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the free private‑practice roadmap and why should listeners download it?
0:00–6:30
2
How did Erin Zink get started as a school OT and decide to launch a side private practice?
6:30–13:12
3
Why does Erin believe the home environment is the ideal setting for OT therapy?
13:12–19:10
4
What networking strategies did Erin use to land her first private‑practice clients?
19:10–24:54
5
How does Erin balance a full‑time school OT job with growing her private practice?
24:54–30:42
6
What challenges did Erin face with scheduling and travel, and how did she create flexibility?
30:42–32:14
Speakers
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