Private Practice Lactation Consultants (PPLCs) do it everywhere.

-- Your office is somewhere in the home, and is where you do paperwork,
reports, charting, etc. (your heinously messy desk).
-- Your office is somewhere in the home, to which your family has access,
but where you are also able to receive retail or clinical visitors in that
space (your dining room which is now converted to the consult room).
-- Your office is a separate and distinct part of your home, that can be
closed off from the family living area.  Administrative, clinical and/or
retail functions can occur there.  (Always neat and tidy even if your home
is like your desk.)
-- Your office is your car, in which you transport the equipement and
materials you will need to transact clinical or retail business where the
mother is located.
-- Your office is a room you use on a regular basis, inside the premises of
a like-minded business, although you don't "leave" stuff there.
Pediatricians, midwives, obstetricians, childbirth prep teachers,
cranial-sacral therapists, herbalists, chiropractors, day-care providers,
infant or adult massage therapists:  all are candidates as practitioners
whose philosophy and clientele make the IBCLC's presence compatible.
-- Your office is a room you rent/barter in a site like that described above
-- only now, you have rights to park stuff there.  (You can put your owns
posters up and leave your books there.)
-- Your office is an honest-to-goodness office or storefront, in which you
have contracted to rent the space from a landlord.  Again, you may partner
with another business-owner to make this feasible (i.e. you own the clinical
part of the business; she owns the retail part).
-- Your office is an honest-to-goodness health care facility that has hired
you -- as a contractor, not as an employee -- to provide IBCLC services.
Like any consultant or contractor, your ability to leave your stuff there
will vary with their space and storage capacity.
-- Your office is temporarily where you have to be ... like the hospital, to
teach the BF class, since they have hired you as a PPLC to provide this
fabulous service.  IBCLCs can be hired to do lots of classes in lots of
different set-ups.  For example, we do "hard" teaching (BF to expectant
parents) and "soft" teaching ("starting solids" at the parenting
exchange ... a peripheral topic to BF-per-se, but one where the IBCLC
teaches more than the traditional BF mom).

There are different logistical, tax and contractual considerations that come
into play for each of these settings, of course, but you get the idea: if
tehre is a way to do it, a PPLCer probably has.

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA (PPLCer since 1997)
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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