Offering Private Pay Packages for Her Pediatric Feeding Practice with Lauren Thompson
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What is Lauren Thompson’s professional background and how did she end up in speech‑language pathology?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. In this episode of the Private Practice Success Stories podcast, I sit down with Lauren Thompson, a speech language pathologist and owner of well-fed feeding and swallowing therapy in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Lauren opens by sharing her unexpected journey into speech therapy, from initially pursuing physical therapy to discovering her passion for communication disorders and also feeding. Lauren first shares how her early career experiences in both medical and pediatric settings set her up for the desire to provide more personalized in-home care for families, and how that led her to establish her very own private practice.
As her private practices grown, Lauren recognized the need to balance accessibility with sustainability, leading to her shift to a new business model. She then shares how she decided to offer private pay packages for her feeding services and to package that as a different type of service delivery model in order to reflect the value of in-home therapy while also maintaining flexibility for families and more stable income for herself. If you've been thinking about launching or growing your own private practice with feeding and swallowing or something completely different, and you're interested in offering private pay packages, then 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.
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All right, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name
of your private practice? My name is Lauren Thompson. I live in Londonderry, New Hampshire, which is where my practice is located. My private practice is called well-fed feeding and swallowing therapy.
So, Lauren, I have really enjoyed getting to know you, getting to watch your practice really flourish. Like right now, you are in an amazing position. And I want to get to that later. But before we get to that, can you please share kind of how you got started in the profession? And then at what point did you start thinking?
About private practice. Awesome. I love to talk about my background because it was not something that I knew I was gonna go into. So I originally went to college in undergrad to be a physical therapist. I had a whole plan. I was going to be a physical therapist and I was going to play softball at Springfield College. And the first day of fall wall, I severely sprained my ankle and I was out. So softball was off the table. And then I started my PT classes and realized I didn't love them. I knew I was close.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Lauren Thompson’s professional background and how did she end up in speech‑language pathology?
0:00–9:03
2
Why did Lauren decide to move from insurance‑based care to a private‑pay model?
9:03–16:41
3
How did the idea of visit packages develop and what problems were they meant to solve?
16:41–23:08
4
What do the different package tiers (6, 12, 24 visits) look like and how are they priced?
23:08–28:33
5
How do the packages improve client commitment and reduce no‑shows?
28:33–34:42
6
How can private‑pay packages be used to supplement Early Intervention services?
34:42–42:18
7
What practical steps did Lauren take to implement the packages in her EMR and scheduling system?
42:18–48:59
8
What advice does Lauren give to clinicians who are hesitant to start a private practice?
48:59–50:54
Speakers
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