For clinicians
Speech therapy, practiced the way you were trained to
TALK is a boutique pediatric speech and language practice in Buckhead, built in 2011 around a single idea: good therapy comes from clinicians who have the time, the tools, and the backing to do it well. Small enough to know every family, resourced enough to do the work right.
If you are an experienced CCC-SLP who measures outcomes and still loves the work, this is a place to do the clinical work you care about, beside colleagues who feel the same way.
Caseloads built for depth, not volume
A full-time clinician here carries a caseload in the 40s, while a metro district commonly assigns 60 or more across multiple buildings. Sessions stay creative instead of rushed, you have room to prepare and to write the plan the child actually needs, and your evenings stay yours.
Your clinical judgment, not an insurer’s
TALK is private-pay on purpose. The treatment plan is written by the clinician who knows the child, never trimmed to fit an authorization. You practice the way you were trained to, and you measure and report the results.
Continuing education the practice pays for
We hold ourselves to continuing-education standards beyond what licensure requires, and the practice funds it. Two of our clinicians hold ASHA’s ACE Award for exactly that. Colleagues here trade methods and hard-won wins freely.
The work
The children and families you would serve
The caseload is genuinely interesting, and the families make it easier to do good work.
Pediatric, with real clinical breadth
Articulation and phonology, receptive and expressive language, childhood apraxia, fluency, orofacial myofunctional therapy and feeding, early language for late talkers, and bilingual and multilingual families. Toddlers through teens, plus adults in accent and professional-communication work.
Families who do the work with you
Our families are engaged and invested: they show up, they do the home practice, and they treat their child’s progress as a shared project. Many arrive through a psychologist’s report or a teacher’s conference note, so the child already has a team around them.
You coordinate, on campus and across the team
Our clinicians test and treat on campus at several of Atlanta’s independent and immersion schools, write goals against classroom demands, and, with family authorization, keep teachers, psychologists, orthodontists, and dentists in the loop at every review.
Pay and benefits
Compensation, built around how you work
We hire both full-time clinicians and contractors, and the package follows the role.
Full-time
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
Contract (1099)
- A negotiated hourly rate with a monthly floor written into the contract
- The practice fills your schedule and handles billing, space, and materials
- A schedule you help shape around your life
We do not publish figures, and we will not make you sit through a pitch to hear them: ask about compensation or caseload in your introduction email and the owner's reply includes real numbers for both, for the role you want. Our family fees are public on the fees page, so you can see for yourself what a clinical hour here supports.
A caseload built around you
Senior clinicians here carry a real clinical voice. The owner builds each therapist’s caseload around her skills, interests, and the time she actually has (contractors included): the practice takes on complex cases to get the most capability from every child, and the clinician who knows the child decides how. There is no cookie-cutter protocol to inherit.
And if you are weighing this against a district position: we know what TRS vesting, a 190-day calendar, and your summers are worth. Bring that math to the first conversation, and you will get a straight answer to it, not a recruiting pitch.
When you write
- The owner reads your note and replies within two business days, with real compensation and caseload figures if you ask for them.
- Your inquiry is confidential. Most clinicians who write us are currently employed; nothing you send goes beyond the owner.
- The process is three steps: a screening conversation, an interview with the practice owner, and an offer. Come see the office and meet the team before either side decides anything.
Who we hire
Experienced CCC-SLPs, five or more years in, who are creative, warm, and genuinely delighted by children: the ones who light up at a breakthrough and want a practice that has their back. Families bring us their harder cases, and harder cases deserve clinicians who have already seen plenty of them.
One honest note: TALK is not a first job. Every clinician here arrived seasoned, because families bring us the cases that need one. If you are earlier in your career, we are a practice to grow toward, and we hope you do.
Introduce yourself
Let’s talk.
Send a note and your resume, and tell us about the clinical work you are proudest of. A real person, often the owner, reads every introduction.