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Founder, pediatric SLP
I've been working with kids since 2006. I started my career as a classroom teacher, but spent my nights and weekends coaching after school music programs (ah, to be young again!). I made the move to SLP when I discovered that the parts of teaching I most loved – and most excelled in – were better suited for one-on-one work with kids who need special attention. I had a natural interest in neurodiversity (before we called it that) and found more fulfillment in my role as an SLP than I could have anticipated.
Parlance Therapy is my contribution to our profession. I wanted SLPs and OTs to be liberated from the drudgery that causes some of us to burn out. Less burnout means more energy and mental freedom to do what we love!
When I'm not rolling around the floor of a classroom, you might catch me rolling around the floor of my house with the family. I love reading, music, and woodworking. Let me know if you ever need to borrow some tools!
Founder, software developer
I'm a software developer who's worked in tech across healthcare and finance. Along the way I learned how much I love designing and building delightful user interfaces.
Before that, I spent years teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) overseas. So I know a little of the chaos that comes from working with kids. I also know how much time documentation eats, and what a headache bad tools can be. Ugh.
What I love most is watching something I built solve real problems for folks. I know Parlance Therapy tools will do that for you.
I'm also a percussionist — that's actually how I first met Kevin. I enjoy rock climbing, I love sci-fi and fantasy, and I'll stop to pet every dog I meet.
We founded Parlance Therapy on the belief that communication is not a single skill, method, or format, but a process of finding shared ground between people. Effective therapy should respect the many ways people communicate, adapt to the individual rather than forcing the individual into a prescribed system, and leave families and clinicians with strategies that remain useful beyond the therapy session itself.
That same principle shapes how we think about clinical work more broadly: professional judgement should remain with the clinician, while unnecessary bureaucracy, repetition, and inherited conventions should not consume the time and attention that belong to patients, families, and meaningful care. We believe technology is most valuable when it reduces friction without replacing human judgement, and when the information clinicians gather in the course of care remains clear, useful, and connected rather than disappearing into isolated forms and records.
The name Parlance reflects that founding idea: that meaningful progress begins when people with different needs, perspectives, and ways of communicating can meet on common ground and develop a language that works between them.
Clinicians, you do excellent work, but under time pressure your notes don't always show it. Organizations, you sit on thousands of notes that are hard to audit and harder to analyze. You're both working hard, and neither of you is well served.
ParlaDraft and ParlaGoal close that gap. Session notes and IEP goals take a fraction of the time, and every word is still yours. There's no AI, so no hallucinations. ParlaTrace turns the notes you save into progress charts for every skill.
Feel free to say hi! We'd love to hear from you.
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