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From Clinician to CEO: Empowering Your Private Practice Journey

25 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective segment, the speaker—an experienced clinician with over 20 years in the field—explains how their extensive training provided the confidence and knowledge needed to launch a private practice. They emphasize the importance of support, ideas, and encouragement received throughout their career. The core of the discussion centers on assembling a "magical unicorn" multidisciplinary team in Jacksonville to serve medically complex children, particularly those with feeding challenges and tethered oral tissues. The speaker outlines the desire to bring together dentists, nutritionists, and other specialists who view care through a whole‑child lens, highlighting the challenges and aspirations of creating such a dream team.

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I definitely feel like it gave me the breadth of foundation to feel comfortable, to just take my skills and what I've been doing, you know, over the past 20 plus years and really go out and launch it. And that just comes from, you know, the knowledge I was given, the ideas I was given, the support, the encouragement, all of the things. And I do think that when you go into private practice, particularly with fema and you know, I'm trying now to put together that someone else you had on your podcast recently referred to that the magical unicorn team like and that resonated with me so much because to find all of those professionals, you know, that are in the same lane as you, you know, and I'm looking for the dream team in Jacksonville. If anyone, you know, loves medically complex kids and feeding and tethered all tissues, you know, I want to do the whole team and finding the, the dentists and, and the nutritionist and everyone who sees it through the lens of the whole child and the complexities of feeding.