Ep. 83 How We Started Our Private Practices at 26 Years Old ft. Jena Castro Casbon
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Why did the host invite Jena Castro Casbon to discuss starting a private practice?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids.
We're an SLP couple from California with four boys. And we're here every week to bring you neuroaffirming tips, tricks, and tools. Are you ready to make the shift? Let's do this!
Hello everyone, welcome to Making the Shift. Today is an exciting day. We have my good friend here, Jenna Castro Kazvon. And I will tell you how we ended up bringing her on and why we're having this conversation, which is recently I posted about how I started my private practice one year after getting my master's and all these people commented saying, How? How did you do that? Tell me all of your ways. And then I was thinking back because when I started my practice there were there was one resource, maybe you remember this, Jenna, it was like a binder. It was called a book, but it was a binder from Asha on how to start a private practice. And it just like came to you as a binder with a bunch of printed out sheets.
And like if Jenna Was her programs were running at that point, I would have just died of excitement because it really was a lot of work now compared to now. Um, if you guys know Jenna, you know she's known for her program, Start Your Private Practice, Grow Your Private Practice, helps OTs, SLPs, has a private practice success stories podcast. So helping every peop every person, people like you, start your private practice every single day and making it so much easier than than back in our
day. Totally. And I also started at twenty-six, which is kind of fun. Both Jesse and I started our private practices at our same age. And Jesse, I remember that binder because I also ordered that from Asha. And what I remember about it was it told you everything not to do. It was much more about like a scare kind of a thing. It's like don't do this, don't do that, don't do this. And I was like, I need to know what to do though. Like sure I want to know what not to do, obviously, but I don't want to be scared of private practice. I just want someone to teach me, just like how in grad school they taught me how to do things, right? And so it's been a really cool experience to be able to create the same resources that I wished were available for me and I wish were available for you for these next generations of SLPs and OTs in private practice.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I just Think back to that binder. It was so boring too, among other things. But uh so boring. It was like business licenses. It was honestly it's the stuff that looks hard at the surface level, but it's actually really easy to do. It's just there's like a lot of those random steps, and then that's just that's not the fun part, you know? And I think that what I see so much now is therapists wanna go into private practice because they wanna be able to do things the way that they wanna do things. And, you know, initially when I started my practice, that was my mentality. The practice I was working in I was starting, you know, to try to run parent groups in addition to my hours. I was doing trainings for the staff.
I was creating a newsletter for the for the clients. I was this it makes me sound like such an overachiever. Um I was just doing so much and I was like, I might as well just be doing this for myself, you know. And um one of the big things that draws people, I think, especially, you know, related to what we talk about here, which is neurodiversity affirming practice, is so many therapists feel like they're bound by the structures and systems that are in place for their work setting and it's just they're not aligning with their values. And I'm sure you have so many incredible stories of people who have started their own practice, like just for that reason.
Oh, totally. I mean, I think that we all go into the field to help people, right? We all and whatever that type of person is, whatever, you know, diagnosis, disorder, difference that you love is what, you know, kind of draws you into the field. And then people get out into the field, you know, they they graduate from grad school, do a clinical fellowship, whatever, get out into the field, and then they start working and realize that they really can't help in the way that they dreamed.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did the host invite Jena Castro Casbon to discuss starting a private practice?
0:08–4:50
2
What was the original “binder” resource and how did it shape early private‑practice owners?
4:50–8:49
3
How do freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and finances motivate clinicians to go private?
8:49–12:56
4
What are the biggest pitfalls (legal, billing, marketing) when launching a practice?
12:56–17:36
5
How can a therapist start a practice while still working a full‑time job?
17:36–21:49
6
What step‑by‑step system does Jena’s Start Your Private Practice program provide?
21:49–26:10
7
Why is investing in a coaching program worth it for new private‑practice owners?
26:10–30:04
8
When is the best time to launch your private practice and get the first five clients?
30:04–33:41
Speakers
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