Hallie BulkinAsk HallieAI:Your On-Demand Mentor in Pediatric Feeding & Myo

How to Finally Get a Clear Clinical Path

21 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from her YouTube video, Hallie Bulkin recounts her personal journey navigating the fragmented world of clinical education. She describes how she had to cobble together knowledge from disparate courses and continuing education units (CEUs) without a coherent roadmap, and how the lack of real‑time feedback or mentorship left her feeling uncertain. Attempts to secure guidance from local therapists were met with silence, highlighting a culture of gatekeeping within the field. This prolonged ambiguity forced Hallie to spend years building confidence on her own. Her frustration fuels a commitment to create a clearer, more supportive clinical pathway so future practitioners won’t endure the same prolonged struggle.

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And it's not that I wasn't learning, but I was still piecing things together. And that's the point where I finally was like, I got it. I figured this out. And this was really hard. And I don't want other people to have to experience this. So because it took me that long to feel like I pieced everything together, and I was like, oh, one course here and a random CEU there and trying to apply it on my own, right? I just, I didn't have a clear path. That's what I realized. And I had no real-time feedback. I tried to pay local therapists to help mentor me and like Crickets. Nobody would help. What is with the gatekeeping in this space? That goes away. No more of that. I had nobody telling me or saying, yes, this is it. You're on the right track. Hey, have you considered this? What about that? So the confidence took years for me to build.