Rachel G., CCC-SLP

About Rachel

She didn't want to work in schools. She didn't want to do voice therapy in an outpatient clinic. She wanted the ICU, the floor, the bedside. And she wanted to travel while doing it.

"People told me that medical SLP travel was limited. That the school market was bigger, more consistent, easier to place. All of that is true. And none of it mattered to me. I wanted acute care, and I figured out how to make it work as a traveler."

Her background in dysphagia — including instrumental assessment experience with MBSS and FEES — has made her a high-demand traveler in settings where that skill set is rare and actively sought. She knows exactly how to position specialty clinical experience for maximum contract leverage.

How Rachel Mentors

Rachel's mentoring is best suited for SLPs who:

• Want medical settings over schools and aren't sure whether that's realistic as a traveler (it is)
• Have dysphagia or instrumental assessment experience and don't know how to use it strategically
• Are navigating the SLP licensure process for acute care hospital contracts specifically
• Want to understand the pay difference between school-based and medical SLP travel

On Positioning Your Specialty

Rachel is direct about one thing: SLPs with acute care and dysphagia experience should never accept a school-market rate. "Your clinical skill set is different. Your market is different. The hospitals competing for you aren't the same entities that fill school contracts. Make sure your agency understands that distinction — or find one that does."

What Rachel Knows About the Acute Care SLP Market

She shares this knowledge freely with mentees navigating the same path she did.