V sits at a white desk with their closed laptop and a white coffee mug in front of them. they are wearing a white tshirt, have long purple hair with black roots, and they are wearing glasses.

offerings and specialties

v offers consultative and clinical services in the san francisco bay area between the city and the peninsula in the comfort of the natural environment (e.g. your school, your home, your office, the park, the beach). teletherapy options are available.

v specializes in speech sound production + neurodivergent communication styles (adhd, autism, twice-exceptional 2E, stuttering, selective mutism, etc. whether there is a label or not) and mandarin-chinese services for 0-3.*

v is available for communication partner(s) consultation and/or training for parents, grandparents, friends, romantic partners, educators, and/or organizational higher up’s when working with individuals with communication disabilities of any kind.

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for parents and caregivers

for the non-caregiving parent who does not attend speech therapy with the child, oftentimes they feel disenfranchised from learning how to communicate or connect with their autistic communicating child. this can cause fractured relationships between parents as well as between parent-and-child. v is available to support parents and caregivers to identify their own communication style as well as their child’s, to learn similarities and contrasts in order to communicate more effectively, be more responsive, and reduce power struggles and communication breakdowns.

for parents of children who have never needed ongoing speech therapy, family communication therapy can also be beneficial to understand communication breakdowns, each individual’s communication styles, and how to be responsive to each other’s needs, especially surrounding a child’s social-emotional development.

 

  • in-person assessment and therapy can be provided locally in the san francisco bay area within a 10-mile radius from south san francisco (94080) or 5-mile radius from san carlos (94070). parking must be accessible. for distances outside of the radius, travel time is charged. services are provided within the client’s natural environment (e.g. their daycare, their school, their office, their homes, their community such as the park or beach).

    teleservices can be provided to anyone located within the state of california.

    consultations for assessments, services, family communication (e.g. parents, siblings), romantic-relationship communication (e.g. couples’ communication, dating communication), or for school-based goals and services building for IEPs can be provided globally without geographic limitation. v has worked with families and professionals abroad in china, taiwan, india, singapore, and israel for communication wellness consultations.

  • v offers communication wellness therapy for any need, whether it is short-term or long-term, whether it is for the autistic individual themself, or whether it is for the purposes of communication differences between autistic style and neurotypical style communication (the ‘double empathy problem’) for family wellness, romantic partner welnness, friendship wellness, or for workplace wellness.

  • communication is a two-way street, and the recipient of communication is important to address.

    It is well-documented that the double empathy problem is not only discriminatory but oppressive. if one is adjacent to autistic communicator(s) (e.g. a parent, a sibling, a romantic partner, a friend, a manager/boss, an educator), v is available for consultation, communication coaching, or communication therapies.

    while it is not yet well-documented in the literature, listener training is also critical for individuals with speech sound disabilities (mccormack et al, 2010). partners of frequent communication can learn easily to attune to speech patterns of someone with a speech disability or accent and is more rapid and efficient for solving communication breakdown than only expecting the person with a speech difference to change how they speak.

    as education spaces and workforces diversify, especially surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, human resources and corporate training for being responsive to neurodivergent communication and speech/language disabilities or differences is something that v supports.

as an actually autistic individual with lived experience and clinical expertise, v helps support neurodivergent people through social-emotional development that assists with living and experiencing neurotypical demands