Helping therapists find adventure and freedom through travel jobs
Congrats! You got a job as a traveling therapist! Now, you need to find short-term housing for your travel therapy assignment. Finding housing can be one of the most challenging parts of travel therapy. You have come to the right place! As a therapist who has taken travel assignments for over 10 years, I have …
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The first day of a new travel therapy assignment can make even the most experienced travel therapist nervous. Don’t worry, because you got this! Arriving prepared for your first day can help to ease the transition into a new building and start your contract on a positive note. I have worked over thirty travel therapy …
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Travel speech-language pathologists take short-term contracts across the United States to fill temporary staffing needs. As a travel SLP, one month you might be working in a skilled nursing facility in Virginia, and the next month doing home health in California. If this sounds like your dream job, then you might be wondering how to …
Are you ready to live the dream life in 2023? Relax on the beach in Hawaii or conquer that glacier in Alaska? You might not need any reasons to be a traveling therapist, but in case you do, I got you! Travel therapists work short-term contracts across the United States and provide solutions to temporary …
As a traveling therapist, you are working temporary job assignments. The lack of consistency in working with agencies and gaps between contracts could make health insurance an issue. In the United States, we rely primarily on employer-sponsored health insurance, which can be an issue when you constantly change employers. If you are curious about how …
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As a travel therapy content creator, one of the most common questions I receive is “what are the pros and cons of travel therapy” While travel may seem glamorous, it is definitely not all unicorns and rainbows. It can be a hard path to take and one that takes some consideration and planning. Without further …
You want to be a traveling therapist but you don’t know how to find a travel therapy job. Well, you came to the right place to learn. I’m going to be breaking down the most popular ways to find travel therapy jobs in the United States. Find a travel therapy job through a recruiter Traditionally, …
Are you a travel therapist about to embark on a travel assignment and don’t know what to pack? Need a travel therapy packing list? You don’t want to forget something important at home, yet you don’t want to overpack. Packing can be one of the hardest parts about picking up and moving to a new …
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Calling all aspiring traveling therapists. If you are thinking about working short-term assignments in the travel therapy industry, you probably noticed that there are hundreds of staffing agencies. It can get very overwhelming to choose an agency. So how do you find the best travel therapy companies? Personally, I do not think that there is …
Across the literature on this site, you frequently see the use of the term travel therapy tax home. You may be wondering what exactly a tax home is. A tax home is a concept best defined by the IRS. As a blogger, I’ll do my best to explain a tax home and provide you with …
As a traveling therapist, you generally sign a 13-week contract. If signing a 13-week contract is not risky enough for job stability, there is also a chance that the contract could be canceled with a short notice. Travel therapy contract cancelation is never something that you want to happen, but it can and does. I’ve been …
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The idea of a travel therapy job right after graduating and becoming a newly licensed therapist can be very exciting, but daunting at the same time. You’ve been working incredibly hard over the last several years to pursue a profession you are passionate about and are ready to start your career out with a bang. …