The Story of Thrive
Welcome to Thrive Therapy Solutions - I'm so glad you found us!
Thrive was born from a place of both personal and professional vested interests. I spent most of the first 8+ years of my career as a school-based SLP. After I had my daughter in 2024, my interests in the field shifted. We worked through tongue and lip ties that impacted our early breastfeeding dynamic, and although I'd learned some about this in graduate school, I felt overwhelmed and underprepared. I decided to educate and immerse myself in the world of pediatric feeding with a 12-week course, followed by an 8-month certification program.
While in the midst of the certification program, we received our son's prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, and I couldn't help but feel like I was led down this path so I could best help him. Now, if I am able to use what I've learned both personally and professionally to help just one family to support their baby's feeding and/or speech and language development, that's a win for me.
It would be a privilege to work with you and your family. Let's thrive together!
Specializations & Trainings
Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Certified Pediatric Feeding Therapist™
Feed the Peds Trained
Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTs) Trained
PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) Trained
Sensory Motor Approach to Feeding in the Down Syndrome Population
American Speech-Language Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence
Treatment Areas
Infant feeding (breast and bottle)
Picky or selective eating
Lip/tongue ties
Transition to solids and breast/bottle weaning
Food refusal
Receptive/expressive language delays
Speech sound disorders
