Private Clients AND a School Contract with Eliana Provenzano-Lewis
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What is the overall purpose of starting a private speech‑language practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Eliana Provenzano-Lewis is a bilingual speech language pathologist with a pediatric private practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She started Monarch Speech and Language Therapy in 2023 after feeling determined to explore different work environments. As a first-generation immigrant from Argentina and a proud bilingual therapist, Eliana has built a private practice that is not only deeply personal, but also deeply impactful. In this episode, Aliana shares the challenges and triumphs of private practice by sharing everything from getting credentialed with insurance to balancing school contracts and private clients, as well as how she's creating a flexible career that aligns with her values and family life.
She tells us how she embraced her niche of bilingual therapy and has utilized what she's learned in the Grow Your Private Practice program to expand her services to include parent coaching, educational workshops, and plans for hiring other therapists to grow her reach. If you've been thinking about starting your own private practice and want to hear how to take that leap with purpose and confidence, 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.
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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?
So my name is Eliana Provenzana Lewis, and I'm based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the name of my practice is Monarch Speech and Language Institute.
Eliana, I am so excited to do this interview because I have been really lucky to get a behind the scenes look into your practice and your growth and everything like that. So I can't wait to tell our listeners what all you've been up to. But before we get to how your private practice is now, can you please take us back to the kind of like the beginning of your career and what you were doing and then share when did you first start thinking about private practice?
So I have kind of a unique discovery to the field. I am a first generation immigrant and first generation college student. And my parents basically just really wanted me to make it to college. And so I did. And then there are an abundance of choices you can make when you get there. And I knew that I really wanted to do something where I could help people and where I could use my native language every day. So Spanish is my first language. My family's from Argentina. And so that was something that was really important to me to kind of hold on to my roots and then also to make a difference and to help others.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the overall purpose of starting a private speech‑language practice?
0:00–5:31
2
How did Eliana’s early life and education lead her to bilingual SLP work?
5:31–10:19
3
What steps did Eliana take to launch Monarch Speech and Language Therapy?
10:19–15:31
4
How did she balance school contracts with building a private‑client caseload?
15:31–21:09
5
What challenges did she face when getting credentialed and marketing her practice?
21:09–24:56
Speakers
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