• I view therapy as a highly collaborative process. I know a lot about communication and executive functioning, but YOU know a lot about your child. That being said, I will rely on your input throughout the course of therapy. Kids grow so quickly when caregivers and therapists work together!

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• I only work on functional skills. I am resolute about working on skills that improve your child’s quality of life. My therapy goals will never prioritize higher standardized scores, and I don’t spend time teaching to the test. Kids are so much more complex than a test score can show. 

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• I make learning fun! Kids learn best when they are fully engaged. I love making my clients laugh and feel safe to try new, hard things. 

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• I am trained in Natural Language Acquisition and Gestalt Language Processing. I love working with children who use echolalia, scripts, and movie lines to communicate. Gestalt language learners need a very different type of therapy in order to begin using original language, and I am committed to teaching them in the way that they learn best rather than asking them to conform to analytic language learning.

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• My therapy style is holistic. Treating the “whole child” (and really, the whole family) is important to me. I like to build on strengths, praise successes, and promote psychosocial well-being while building communication skills. I often integrate sensory and motor activities into sessions because I believe in fostering childhood development as a whole.

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• I get to the root of the problem. Kids can spend way too many years in therapy when we don't get to the root of the issue. I work to discover why a child finds something challenging or demonstrates a certain behavior, by considering principles of neuroscience. By addressing the root cause and explicitly teaching kids how to learn, I often see the surface-level difficulties resolve. 

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• I always presume competence. Children with communication disorders are competent individuals; they just have some level of difficulty demonstrating their competency. I aim to give my clients a way to express themselves, even if it’s not through oral speech. 

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• I am a neurodiversity affirming therapist. Autism and ADHD are neurotypes--not diseases that should be 'cured.' I listen to neurodivergent voices and I know that my role is to educate, encourage, and empower my clients to develop communication skills, form authentic relationships, and advocate for themselves.

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• I am a life-long learner. The field of speech-language pathology is ever-changing. In order to stay up-to-date, I take continuing education courses, participate in professional learning communities, and subscribe to a monthly digest that allows me to review all new, clinically relevant research articles. I love translating research into practice, and I learn something new from each family that I work with.