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Transforming SLPs

Designed for SLPs - Therapy Career Cafe is a career and clinical resource provider catering to aspiring and practicing therapy professionals. We strive to help you feel confident and empowered in all stages of your SLP journey!

  • Our Goals

    Guide aspiring and practicing clinicians navigating their SLP career journey.

    Applying for a new position can be overwhelming and stressful. We created guides and templates to help you feel more confident, prepared, and successful in navigating your career. We also want to encourage you to take on new roles and, ultimately, your dream job!

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  • Our Goals

    Improve career and clinical resource accessibility in the SLP industry.

    Many new and practicing clinicians don’t always have the resources and tools to support their developing practice. We are constantly creating new SLP resources to support therapists in providing the best quality care as the industry evolves.

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  • Our Goals

    Support supervisors in guiding the next generation of therapists' advancements.

    Supervisors have a vital role in leading the next generation and we know how nerve-wracking it can be on both sides. We want all supervisors to feel even more confident to create an even better industry and level of care for all.

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  • Our Goals

    Empower clinicians with evidence-based, personally meaningful therapy for patients.

    We know some information and resources were either not taught, explained, or often covered again as we enter and continue our practices. We aim to bridge this gap between university and practice by providing resources to help you provide even better care for patients.

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Madeline Williams

Madeline Williams is an ASHA-certified medical speech-language pathologist, certified brain injury specialist, and certified dementia practitioner. She is passionate about working with patients with dysphagia and cognitive communication disorders.

Since graduating with masters in May 2019, Madeline has worked in inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and outpatient hospital settings. She has been on both sides of the hiring process. She has also started supervising her first graduate clinicians as of January 2023.

As a full-time practicing clinician, Madeline has been in multiple settings with the same bare minimum training that is, unfortunately, very common in the SLP industry. She knows first-hand how overwhelming, isolating, unhappy, and stressful this career path can be at times.

Drawing from her own career journey, she created Therapy Career Cafe to provide resources and support to therapists seeking confidence, skills, and fulfillment in their careers.

Madeline loves to see things "click" for clinicians. Her goal is to assist clinicians in landing positions and foster their professional growth. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her two Cavalier King Charles fur babies.

Madeline Williams, M.S., CCC-SLP, CBIS, CDP

Founder of Therapy Career Cafe

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Message From Our Founder:

“I remember how overwhelmed I felt graduating and applying to jobs for the first time. I didn’t know how to package my limited clinical experiences in a resume and navigate the entire hiring process. I spent hours studying and was able to land my dream job - which inspired me to help others to do the same.

I then started my clinical fellowship in an inpatient rehabilitation hospital as the first and only full-time SLP. I realized how tremedous the knowledge gap was between what we learned in the classroom and clinical practice. I dedicated hours after work and free time on the weekend to learning tools and organizing myself so I could be tthe best clinician I could.

As my career developed, depending on the setting and transition, I was constantly learning a lot of skills, information, and practice outside of work. I can look back at my career and see the overwhelm, frustration, and stress that sometimes came with trying to learn as much as I could without many detailed resources.

When I started supervising, I found passion in breaking things down and helping to bridge those gaps between the classroom and real life clinical practice. I started sharing my supervision journey on Instagram and received feedback that this would help others. Therapy Career Cafe grew from there.

I truly hope to empower clinicians in their SLP journey and help support the SLP industry as a whole.”

Madeline Williams, M.S., CCC-SLP, CBIS, CDP

Founder of Therapy Career Cafe