How Comprehensive Therapy Consultants is Advocating For School Service Provider; A Letter From Our CEO.

I’ve been listening — and now it’s time to step forward.

For years, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside school-based therapists — Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, and related service providers — in districts across the country.

What I hear consistently is not a lack of commitment, but a growing strain:

increasing caseloads, expanding documentation requirements, rising student needs, and compensation that has not kept pace with the responsibility or cost of living.

These professionals are essential to student success. Yet many are being asked to do more with less, year after year.

Over the coming months, I’ll be intentionally stepping into conversations with state leaders, education stakeholders, and policymakers to share what therapists in schools are experiencing firsthand — and to better understand how we can support a more sustainable future for school-based therapy services.

I also want to be transparent. As the CEO of a staffing organization, it’s reasonable to ask whether advocacy for higher pay presents a conflict of interest. At Comprehensive Therapy Consultants, our history has been clear and consistent: when school partners increase rates, those increases are passed directly to the therapists providing services. This work has never been about margins — it’s about retaining qualified clinicians, reducing burnout, and protecting student access to care.

This effort is not about blame or politics. It’s about listening, learning, and ensuring that the professionals supporting students every day can continue to do so without sacrificing their own sustainability.

If you are a school-based therapist and would like your voice included — anonymously or otherwise — I invite you to share your experience.

Valuing therapists means valuing students. And that conversation is long overdue.

— NeShanta Wilburn

CEO, Comprehensive Therapy Consultants

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