Starting and Growing a Socially Minded and Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy Practice with Caitlin Zeien
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What is the overall focus of the Private Practice Success Stories episode?
Starting a private practice isn't what it used to be. Today's clinicians are starting private practices much quicker, easier, and cheaper than before. And they aren't guessing their way through it or getting stuck in analysis paralysis, they're following a tried-and-trude roadmap in order to save time, money, and frustration. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel or struggle to figure out how to start a private practice on your own. We've helped thousands of SLPs and OTs through this process and now we want to help you too. For a limited time, I'm offering a free copy of our private practice roadmap, specifically for SLPs and OTs who are curious about private practice and want to see what the journey looks like.
To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Caitlin Zion is a speech language pathologist with a private practice in Chicago, Illinois that offers highly specialized social cognitive language-based therapy. Caitlin developed a passion for social cognition and social pragmatic language, leading her to specialize in neurodiversity affirming therapy. Her private practice focuses on older children and young adults, a niche that differentiates her from other practitioners in her area. Caitlin started her private practice journey by joining the Start Your Private Practice program, which helped her overcome her business related apprehensions.
She is now part of the Grow Program, and it has been amazing to see the evolution of her practice. In this episode, Caitlin discusses her journey and experiences, highlighting the non-traditional ways that she has built her private practice, which is called socially minded therapy. Despite some challenges, including a cross-country move and having to adapt to new professional environments. Caitlin's passion for specializing in social cognition and pragmatic language continued to grow. If you've been thinking about starting a non-traditional private practice, or you're a fellow neurodiversity affirming clinician and you want to know what that looks like in private practice, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned.
I'm Jenna Kastro-Kazvan, CEO of the Independent Clinician and founder of Private Practice School. First, I started my own private practice. And then, over the past 15 years, I've worked with over 10,000 SLPs and OTs to start and grow their successful private practices so they can have more freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and finances. I created the Private Practice Success Stories podcast. to share what's possible for you, your family, your clients, and your community when you choose private practice. We'll share everything from small private practice side hustles to flexible lifestyle private practices to traditional brick and mortar practices, and everything in between. You'll meet regular clinicians, just like you, who followed our steps and are now living their private practice dreams.
If they can do it, you can do it too. So let's get started. Can you please share your name, your location, and also the name of your private practice?
Sure, thank you. My name is Caitlin Zion. The name of my private practice is socially minded therapy. And I am located in the beautiful Chicago, Illinois. I love it.
Well, what I would love to do to kind of start is just so that people can get to know you a little bit better, can you share kind of how you got started in the profession and then when did you start seeking about private practice?
I've been a clinician for seventeen years. So I started at a private practice. So my first my CFY um was at a private practice and it was multidisciplinary and an amazing team of people. And where I just I I learned so much. We were uh I was a generalist in pediatrics, but I also I had this amazing group of women who were like ten years older than me, most of them five to ten years older than me. And they just they really it was just that team, right? And so they learned so much from them and Always made me feel like doesn't equal with them.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the overall focus of the Private Practice Success Stories episode?
0:00–5:12
2
How did Caitlin Zeien discover her passion for neurodiversity‑affirming therapy?
5:12–14:32
3
How did the Start Your Private Practice program help Caitlin launch her niche practice?
14:32–21:22
4
What challenges did Caitlin face when she moved across the country and how did she overcome them?
21:22–26:47
5
Why does niching down to older children and young adults matter for a neurodiversity‑focused practice?
26:47–39:10
Speakers
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