Success Stories

Amanda Anderson, Owner of Raise the Bar Physical Therapy & Performance — East Dallas, Texas 

Meet Amanda — she spent four and a half years commuting up to two hours each way to a hospital-based sports medicine clinic before deciding there had to be a better way. She started Raise the Bar as a side project, figured out what she was doing wrong, and now can't imagine going back to working for anyone else.

Adrienne and Katherine, Owners of Rebalance Physical Therapy — Greenville, South Carolina 

Meet Katherine and Adrienne — two PTs who bonded over frustration at a corporate clinic, quit within 30 days of each other, and launched the only vestibular-specific cash practice in upstate South Carolina. Two years in, they're breaking revenue records and just getting started.

Allison Berglund, Owner of 633 Physical Therapy — Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 

Meet Allison — she moved to Mt. Pleasant knowing almost nobody and decided to start a cash practice anyway. By showing up to run clubs three times a week and doing what she actually loves, she built a thriving runner and triathlete niche faster than anyone told her she should expect.

Blake Bohannon, Owner of Shift Performance Therapy — Knoxville, Tennessee 

Meet Blake — in three years he moved through four different spaces before finally landing in his own standalone clinic. The road was full of construction headaches, growing pains, and a stretch where he was ready to walk away. He didn't. Now he's building something worth staying for.

Dan Carmack, Owner of Breakthrough Performance Physical Therapy — Asheville, North Carolina 

Meet Dan — he spent four years operating out of gyms and satellite spaces before opening his own standalone clinic in Asheville. He's built a thriving multi-provider practice by going deep into the community, and in Asheville that means everything from the running trails to the local brewery scene.

Paul Michael Peeler, Owner of 865 PT — Knoxville, Tennessee 

Meet Paul — he was seeing 16 to 18 patients a day, having panic attacks, and barely seeing his kids. So he started treating golfers out of his garage with a cheap Amazon table and one patient. Two years later he's in his own standalone clinic with a $50,000 golf simulator and more revenue in his first four months than he made in his entire first year.

Ryan Perez, Owner of Elevation Athletics — Fort Worth, Texas 

Meet Ryan — he started Elevation Athletics in a gym, and within one year of moving into his own standalone space, he had three staff PTs and was already busting at the seams. His secret? Relentless community building, a crystal clear vision, and doing exactly what PT Biz told him to do.

Jaicy Harless, Owner of Elite Muscle Recovery — Chattanooga, Tennessee 

Meet Jaicy — she spent 12 years as a travel PT, saw the writing on the wall when outpatient started demanding four patients an hour, and decided she was done working for anyone else. Now she runs a standalone clinic in Chattanooga that blends PT, Pilates, and group fitness, and she's building it so she doesn't have to be the one treating everyone.

Shveta Jones, Owner of Strive PT — Chandler, Arizona 

Meet Shveta — she spent nearly two decades as a manual therapist before a corporate buyout told her she'd be seeing three patients an hour with no support staff. That was the moment. Six years later she's running a thriving hybrid PT and performance practice in Chandler with her own space and a vision for what's next.

Bailey Quintanar, Owner of Powerhouse Physical Therapy — Dallas, Texas 

Meet Bailey — she never wanted to own a business, had a kidney transplant in her first year of PT school, and spent two years trying to get pregnant while grinding through a high-volume clinic job. Once she made the leap, everything changed. She's now a new mom running a pregnancy and postpartum focused cash practice on her own terms.

Shawn Daniel, Owner of The Mobile Athlete Physical Therapy & Performance — Peachtree City, Georgia 

Meet Shawn — he started in a 10-by-10 box in a CrossFit gym, built out his standalone clinic almost entirely by hand with his wife Shannon, and did it all while welcoming their third child. The road was brutal. The result is something they're genuinely proud of.

Cassie Thompson, Owner of Pursuit Physical Therapy — Argyle, Texas 

Meet Cassie — she spent 10 years in traditional outpatient PT, worked her way up to clinical director, and then walked away to build something of her own. A self-described perfectionist who admits owning a business is the least perfectionist-friendly thing you can do, she's building Pursuit around one simple idea: loving her people well.

Hannah and Elliot, Owners of Made to Move — Charleston, South Carolina 

Meet Hannah and Elliot — she started as a patient at Made to Move, became its first female hire, and eventually took ownership alongside her now-business-partner and boyfriend Elliot, who knocked on gym doors across James Island until someone said yes. Together they turned two separate practices into one, and they're just getting started.

Kristen Davenport, Owner of Base Physical Therapy and Wellness — Argyle, Texas 

Meet Kristen — she spent nine years in outpatient ortho, moved around constantly, and was doing notes until 10pm while commuting 40 minutes each way. When her employer told her she'd maxed out her pay, she was done. Six months later she had replaced her income seeing just eight patients a week.  

Taylor Reyes, Owner of Fire Physical Therapy — Dallas, Texas 

Meet Taylor — she spent five and a half years running a cash practice out of her home, built a three-month waitlist without even trying to grow, and eventually moved into one of the only waterfront clinic spaces in Dallas. Now she's running a multidisciplinary practice with a massage therapist, a lymphedema specialist, and an OT, and she's just getting started.

Blake and Cory Carter, Owners of Impact Initiative Physical Therapy & Performance — Woodstock, Georgia 

Meet Blake and Cory — he was so burnt out from high-volume PT that he was seriously considering leaving the profession entirely. Then a PT Biz ad kept showing up on his Facebook feed. He got his LLC in December, started seeing patients on the side, and had a standalone space within a year. Now he and his wife Cory are building something with a mission bigger than just one clinic.

Matt Paolillo, Owner of Reliving Performance — Greenville, South Carolina 

Meet Matt — a triathlete treating triathletes, running a sublease space that looks more like his own private gym than a borrowed room. He went from 12-hour days and 10pm documentation sessions to seeing four or five people a day and actually loving his work. And four months into the Mastermind, his entire vision for what this business could become changed completely.

Jake Swart, Owner of Athlete's Potential — Decatur, Georgia 

Meet Jake — he didn't start a practice from scratch. He bought one. Specifically, he bought the practice that PT Biz co-founder Danny Matea built and ran for years in Decatur, Georgia. Two years later, he's made it more efficient, more intentional, and more his own, while staying true to everything that made it great in the first place.

Joel Eaby, Owner of Mission Move Physical Therapy — Roswell, Georgia 

Meet Joel — he found his first gym space through a Craigslist ad in 2008 and has been running a cash practice ever since. Sixteen years later he's still treating patients, hosting runner coffee workshops, doing bike fits, and building community in Roswell one latte at a time. Some people are just built for this.

Daniel Bodkin, Owner of Proactive Athletic Performance — Dunwoody, Georgia 

Meet Daniel — he spent years becoming one of the few PTs in the country who truly understands isokinetic testing and ACL return-to-sport assessment. Instead of building a traditional clinic, he built something closer to a research lab, one that serves both athletes and the other clinicians treating them. There's nobody else doing quite what Daniel does.

Gina Giuliano, Owner of Raise the Bar Rehab — Phoenix, Arizona 

Meet Gina — she used to treat NBA, MLB, and NFL players at a high-end sports performance clinic. She left because she felt more fulfilled treating CrossFitters in a gym after hours. Two years into running her own practice full-time, she's building something in the Phoenix CrossFit community that she never could have built working for someone else.

Cecilia Wong, Owner of Grit Physical Therapy — Dallas, Texas 

Meet Cecilia — she found her clinic space by peeking into a gym on her way to get coffee. Three years later she's running a thriving open-model practice inside Strength Society, where 60 to 70 percent of her new patients come from word of mouth and nearly half her caseload stays on for long-term wellness work. She's building something that feels less like a clinic and more like a community.

Elizabeth Alegre, Owner of True Form PT and Wellness — McKinney, Texas 

Meet Elizabeth — she moved from Florida to Texas with an 11-year clinical career, a 9-month-old son, and no existing patient base. She launched True Form PT in a second-story treehouse clinic above a CrossFit gym, built her caseload almost entirely through word of mouth, and hasn't looked back once.

Antonia Counts, Owner of Off the Block Performance Physical Therapy — Easley, South Carolina 

Meet Antonia — she used to run past a building in her hometown of Easley and tell her mom she'd open a PT clinic there one day. She didn't buy the building, but she did get the clinic. Now she's running two locations in small-town upstate South Carolina, proving that cash-based PT doesn't need a big city to thrive.

Morgan Kamau, Owner of Tempo Physical Therapy & Performance — Sandy Springs, Georgia 

Meet Morgan — a Division I runner who spent her first months in practice taking any patient who walked in, even though she had a deep expertise and personal connection to the running niche just waiting to be used. Once she went all in on runners, everything changed. She's not even a year in and already building something worth watching.

Will Duncan, Owner of Southeast Physical Therapy — Roswell, Georgia 

Meet Will — he grew up in Roswell, built a barbell athlete-specific clinic in the same town where people knew him as a teenager, and spent years doing the unglamorous work before it paid off. Now his wife has joined as CEO, January was a record month, and he's building toward multiple locations in the community he's called home his whole life.

Brooke Miller, Owner of Peak Rx PT and Wellness — Dallas, Texas 

Meet Brooke — she went from a sublease space in a gym to a third standalone location with four clinicians, a personal trainer, two front desk staff, and a second story that doubles her square footage. She's built a thriving ortho-pelvic practice in Dallas while raising a family, and she's become the person other women in the PT Biz community turn to when they're figuring out how to do the same.

Elizabeth Rudd, Owner of Well Equipped Physical Therapy — Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia

Meet Elizabeth — a fifth-generation Buckhead resident who built her practice in the neighborhood where she grew up. She's proven that knowing your community is one of the most powerful advantages a clinic owner can have — and she's become a go-to resource for other women navigating ownership.

Nevin Saju, Owner of Revant Physical Therapy — Dallas, Texas

Meet Nevin — he tried launching a cash practice out of a corporate job three times and it fell flat each time. Instead of quitting, he went deep on formal education until he'd genuinely earned the right to charge for his expertise. Now other PTs refer their most complex patients to him.