I'm excited to offer birth doula services as I complete my training and gain invaluable experience for my full certification. My goal is to provide compassionate, evidence-based and individualized emotional, physical, and informational support for birthing people and their families.   

Equitable access to gender affirming and anti-racist care is important to me.  To ensure this vital support is available to all, my fees are on a sliding scale at this time, allowing for flexible and affordable options.

Let's schedule a free consultation to discuss your vision and how we can work together to create a beautiful birth experience.

All learning happens in relationships, which come first.  As a speech-language pathologist, I rely on family-centered coaching, education, empowerment, and reflective feedback. 

Caregivers are the most important teacher, and we are a team.  We partner to optimize linguistic and social-emotional interactions to support communication, resilience, and a skill-set that supports lifelong learning.

I specialize in the first 5 years, and I also support communication throughout the lifespan, with experience in supporting in adolescents and adults with a variety of goals.

Neuro-diversity affirming and culturally humble practices are important to me,  and I strive to ensure your voice is heard.

At our free meet-and-greet, we discuss what you envision, and whether I'm the right fit for you.

I am in-network with Premera, and can bill out-of-network or provide a super-bill for all other insurances. We can discuss terms and fees.

Some of the Clinical Approaches I Draw From (in alphabetical order)

• DIR-Floortime (Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship based model) Therapeutic play to build social, emotional and intellectual capacities, rather than skills and isolated behaviors

• Circle of Security: relationship-based early intervention designed to enhance attachment security

• Communicating Partners / Hannen Early Language Support: Incorporate these into treatment

• Promoting First Relationships: early intervention approach emphasizing infant mental health, caregiver- infant interactions and nurturing environments in the context of service provision

• Social Thinking: modified cognitive-behavioral approach to social and emotional communication

• Neurodevelopmental Relationship-based Framework (NRF): Transdisciplinary lens for early intervention

• Reflective Supervision/Consultation: Guiding staff to build on thoughts, feelings, values, skills in practice

Since 2003, I have gathered a wide breadth and depth of experiences in the Early Learning community.

As an academic researcher, public speaker, university faculty member, professional development trainer, early learning director, 0-3 home visiting therapist, advisor, and clinician (and parent!), I have learned deep life lessons as alongside diverse learners and families of children who are healing from adversity, have neurodevelopmental differences, or are thriving after disability diagnoses.

I bring this background as a lens to support your work, in a way that is tailored to your vision.  I develop consultation packages, customized workshops and toolkits around removing barriers to increase inclusion of people with diverse learning needs, to help you and your family or education team feel confident and empowered in supporting children and families.  

I am a STARS-approved trainer in WA state, levels 1-5. 

At our free meet-and-greet, we discuss what you envision, and whether I'm a good fit.

EXAMPLES OF WORKSHOP & PRESENTATION TOPICS & TITLES

Relationships & Resilience

• ACES: An Overview, and Our Response

• Emotional Responsiveness in Early Learning

• Growing Healthy Minds Through Relationships

• Healing the Child in All of Us: Creating Resilience through Relationships

• Learning, Language & Love: Connecting Keys for a Strong Start in Life

• The Parallel Process: Authentically Putting Relationships First

• What is Infant Mental Health, and How to Support it in Your Everyday World?

Supporting Language & Communication

• Best Practices in Supporting Dual Language Users

• Bilingual Babies, Brains & Brilliance: Early Bilingualism and Cognitive Development

• Communication & Language Development, First Words to K: Refining Your Skills

• Early Language and Emergent Literacy: How They Go Together, and How To Best Support Young Learners

• Growing Language Through Interactions

• Language acquisition: Why baby talk, screens, and statistics matter

• Language and communication development in deaf and hearing infants

• Language and Play: Observing the Links

• Late Talkers: How to Spot, and What You Can Do

• Roots of Child Behavior

• Science of Early Learning: Speech, Language and the Brain

• Speech Acoustics: Practical Applications of the Science of Sound

• Strong Communication as a Foundation for Strong Reading

• We Wear All Hats:  Transdiciplinary Lenses in Action

Family & Professional Engagement

• Authentic Engagement with Families

• Considerations for Engaging Families: Cultural Capital, Inclusion, and Relationships

• Engaging Culturally Diverse Families with Disabilities

• Engaging Families of Infants & Toddlers: Lessons Learned from Home Visits

• From Challenging to Empowering Conversations

• Improving Family Engagement through Relationship-based Notes

• Reflective Supervision: What is it, and why do it?

• Small But Mighty: Everyday Ways to Boost Your Child’s Brain Power

• Strengthening Families Protective Factors

Neuroscience in Practice

• Applying Neuro- Relational Strengths- based Principles to Home Visiting Practices

• Building Resilience in Early Learners: Brain- Based Strategies to Support Healing

• Four-Brain Systems: Exploring a Neuro- Relational Lens

• Neuroscience fundamentals: Language and the brain