Starting an Adult Neuro Focused Practice with Lauren Schwabish
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What motivated Lauren Schwabish to start an adult‑focused 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. Lauren Swabish is an adult-focused speech language pathologist who has been in the field for 20 years. She started her private practice during COVID and hasn't looked back. Although she loved her previous job, she describes herself as so much happier now and is loving working with adults with brain injuries, aphasia, and executive functioning deficits in her own private practice. Lauren got her start in the your private practice program and it has been wonderful to watch her get started and start to grow her private practice. In this episode, she talks about where she gets clients, where she sees clients, how she handles billing, and her plans to get more into consulting.
If you've been thinking about starting an adult-focused private practice, 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 stock 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.
So before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
My name is Lauren Schwabich. I am located in McLean, Virginia, which is right outside of Washington, DC, and my practice is Neuro Speech Services.
So, Lauren, I am so excited to have you on. I've gotten to know you a little bit. You were in the Start Your Private Practice program. And my goodness, have you grown from there? But before we kind of talk about what your private practice looks like now, can you take our listeners back to the beginning of your career and then also share at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
Yes, I was really lucky because the last externship of my graduate program, I went to graduate school at Hunter College in New York City. And the last externship I had was in a hospital, a city hospital system. It had two campuses with a thousand beds each. And that's where I got my CFY and where I went on to be a staff speech pathologist. And I was there for five years. Years. So I got to see everything. I saw trauma, ICU, trach invent, rehab, skilled nursing facility. There was infectious disease, tropical disease, like you name it. It was really, it was the best place to grow. It was really out of my comfort zone as a person because I'd never been with a lot of the people that I worked with, but I loved it.
And then I got married and we relocated to Washington, DC. And there I got a position as a speech pathologist in um on an acute inpatient rehabilitation service. For a smaller hospital, it's part of a bigger hospital corporation. And I was there for 16 years. And it was funny because I came in with five years of experience.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What motivated Lauren Schwabish to start an adult‑focused private practice?
0:00–5:17
2
How did Lauren’s early hospital and rehab experience shape her career?
5:17–8:57
3
Why did the pandemic become the turning point for launching Neuro Speech Services?
8:57–13:07
4
What specific business skills did the Start Your Private Practice program teach Lauren?
13:07–17:27
5
How did Lauren build a referral network with neurologists, neuropsychologists, and care managers?
17:27–21:15
6
What are the different service delivery models Lauren uses (mobile, virtual, office visits)?
21:15–25:30
7
How is Lauren expanding into consulting, education, and community outreach?
25:30–29:27
8
What are Lauren’s short‑term and long‑term goals for growing her practice?
29:27–32:49
Speakers
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