About Me

I offer speech pathology that feels safe, calm, and genuinely supportive. I don’t focus on fixing or correcting communication. Instead, I encourage un-masking, I take the time to understand how each person naturally communicates, whether that’s through single words, scripts, echolalia, gestures, typing, or quiet connection. I don’t use reward charts, pressure, or compliance-based strategies. My goal is to build trust, reduce stress, and support communication in ways that feel comfortable and respectful.

I work with children and adults across the lifespan, including during important life transitions. This gives me a broad perspective on how communication skills grow and shift over time, and how today’s supports can positively shape future learning, relationships, identity, participation, and wellbeing. Together, we explore sustainable strategies for expressive language, understanding others, social communication, and everyday connection.

Sessions are shaped around each person’s interests, sensory needs, and communication style. We move at their pace, follow their cues, and create predictable, supportive routines so they can feel safe enough to learn and express themselves. I also work closely with families to help them understand communication differences and use simple, practical ways to connect without pressure or overwhelm.

A significant part of my work is informed by my own lived experience as an autistic speech pathologist. Moving through school, university, and the workplace as a neurodivergent person has given me a deep understanding of how communication, sensory needs, emotional safety, and learning all intersect. This perspective allows me to recognise subtle forms of pressure or discomfort, to notice what people may not yet have words for, and to create therapy that genuinely feels supportive rather than stressful.

My approach is gentle, collaborative, and grounded in respect, supporting communication that aligns with who each person truly is.