Pivoting Into Private Practice to Create Her Dream Job with Kelsey Brown
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What motivated Kelsey Brown to leave her school job and start a private practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Kelsey Brown is a speech language pathologist and children's book author in Washington, D.C., who is obsessed with all things AAC and gestalt language processing. She finished up graduate school just as COVID was starting and worked in the school and then got her dream position at a specialty school with tons of high tech AAC users. While this started off as a dream job, things changed, and Kelsey knew that she needed The shift into a new setting, her own private practice. Now she's making more and working less and has the freedom and flexibility that she was craving. I initially got to know Kelsey when I supervised her as a graduate student, and then it's been great to have her in the Start Your Private Practice program and recently welcome her into the Grow Your Private Practice program to help her grow from here.
In this episode, Kelsey shares how she started to lay the groundwork for leaving her job, exactly how she's making more money and working less, and how she's built stability into her income by filling a school contract and doing EI sessions while she builds her private pay caseload. She also shares how she recently adopted a quadriplegic dog, which she never would have had time or energy to do before. Kelsey is a great example of a young and talented SLP who refused to get caught up in working in settings that didn't serve her or her clients and is instead creating her own systems and life through her private practice. The next generation is doing things differently, and I'm here for it. If you're craving flexibility, freedom, and finances in your life, and you want to work with ideal clients to truly help people.
people while helping yourself? 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. Hi, I'm Kelsey Brown. My practice is Kelsey Brown SLP, P-L-C, and I am located in DC.
So Kelsey, we actually know each other from when you were at grad school at Emerson. I was a clinical instructor there um at the time. And so I got to know you. You are a really fantastic grad student. I just want to lead with that. Aw, thank you. You were just one of these grad students who was like so eager and so responsible and independent. And I was like, I see a bright future for this woman. And so at the time I just, you know, knew that you were going places, but I didn't know that one of the places that you would be going would be Preg of practice.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What motivated Kelsey Brown to leave her school job and start a private practice?
0:00–13:11
2
How did Kelsey’s early experiences as an SLP shape her career path?
13:11–21:32
3
When did Kelsey decide to transition into private practice and why?
21:32–28:40
4
How did Kelsey build a stable income by combining school contracts with private‑pay caseloads?
28:40–34:19
5
What does a typical work day look like for Kelsey in her private practice?
34:19–40:57
6
What inspired Kelsey to write the children’s book “Come On, Calm” and how did she create it?
40:57–45:41
Speakers
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