Keeping Options Open: Changing Directions & Starting a Private Practice with Hyunjoo Chung

This episode features Hyunjoo Chung, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. Hyunjoo shares her journey as an SLP working in various settings that led her to open a private practice as a part-time sole proprietor. She highlights resources and experiences that helped her open a small private practice as a part-time sole proprietor. She shares steps to open her practice, including navigating the ASHA website, resources from SLP entrepreneurs, U.S. small business administration, local business certificate regulations, and Medicare and commercial insurance systems. As an SLP born and raised in Korea, Hyunjoo also reflects on cultural considerations that influence therapeutic effectiveness. Hyunjoo discusses observations of linguistic and cultural diversity not only in communities but also within the same family. She describes her work as a clinician to create the most effective cultural context for clients to feel comfortable and functionally engaged in therapeutic activities through in-home therapy and hybrid options of the clinic, in-home, and teletherapy.