Starting a Private Practice as a Neurodiverse SLP Private Practice Beginners with Jennifer Corie
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What motivated Jennifer to consider starting her own 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. Jennifer Corey is a speech-language pathologist who started a private practice in 2021 after working in several settings and getting her PhD. I got to know Jennifer during her time in the Start Your Private Practice program. In this episode, she talks about how she sees clients virtually, how clients find her, her specialties, and why private practice has been great for her as a neurodiverse person. If you've been thinking about starting a private practice, particularly if you are neurodiverse, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned. I'm Jenna Castro-Casbon, 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 share your name, your location, and the name
of your private practice? Yes, I'm Jennifer Corey. I'm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and my practice is iceberg therapy services.
So I am so excited to do this because I love to share, you know, stories of all kinds of different private practitioners and people who've had different paths and all kinds of different stuff. And you're in Baton Rouge. I'm from New Orleans, which
is about an
hour from Baton Rouge. So
I always
love meeting other Louisiana people. But what I would love to do is could you take us back to the beginning of your career and also share when did you start thinking about private practice?
I would say I did not take the most traditional career path or kind of straightforward route, which is kind of my theme. But I did my undergraduate degree, my master's both in speech pathology. And that was probably probably even during the undergraduate time that I heard like, oh, SLPs can do private practice. That sounds like a cool setting. And it was just kind of like an idea planted there and took me much, much longer to get back to that. But let's see. So after I did the master's program, I decided I was going to go right into a PhD program. And I was again hearing, oh, there's a shortage of PhD faculty in our field. So there's a need. And I was like, okay, cool. You know, I'm a nerd and I can embrace that and do academia and research sounds interesting.
So maybe I can contribute something there because like clinically I had some struggles and things like definitely like hit my confidence on it. So I did the PhD program, finished that. And then I took a job faculty job in South Mississippi, did that. And I was there for seven years. Oh, and the funny part was like, while I was there, I did my CF, like while on the side of working as a faculty person, got my C's, so I did it all backwards.
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