Fat chance.”
Lots of Master’s level people in and around Houston can make even more than that but they are self-employed, do a lot of marketing, have a web page, stay away from all of the lower paying networks and have private pay patients as part of their base. Ones I know work a whole lot of hours but love what they do and many of them are excellent therapists.
Often the private practice folks are short term. They have a peak that lasts a few years at best, then because of all that overhead to maintain the practice they fizzle and go back to a company. It cycles.