What to Expect
The intention of Clarity Loft sessions is for our clients to increase their independence and quality of life to a point where they no longer need our extra support. Please reach out if you have any questions prior to your initial consultation or first session. We look forward to working with you!
During Your Session | Working With Children | Booking An Appointment
What We Treat | How Online Speech Therapy Works | What is Reiki?
During Your Session
Time will be devoted to listening to and discussing current needs, progress and insights about our clients and nature of their disorder. We are here to support our clients and their family. Additionally, community group support opportunities will be offered for families throughout the year.
We focus on functional ways to support our clients’ growth that are doable, natural and will get results faster. We do not ask for busy work to ever be completed. Instead, we discuss what is naturally part of your home routine and will work with you to design simple and effective ways to work the progress of goals so that results can be seen outside of treatment.
Tailored and flexible evidenced based speech language therapy techniques will be utilized along with other alternative and complementary body energy work, such as Reiki. As a SLP who also practices energy work, healing energy will flow in ways that are not possible with traditional speech therapy. This can be done both in person and distantly. Dedicated and quiet Reiki and integration time may be incorporated or scheduled separately depending on each client’s preferences and needs.
Working with Children
We will begin with a parent/caregiver interview and client screening followed by discussing the evaluation. The evaluation will guide our treatment plan to improve speech-language skills and quality of life.
Sessions will include education on ways you can easily support your child at home, school and in the community during daily activities. We do not send busy work worksheets, but focus on functional “tricks” you can easily incorporate to help make faster progress. Depending upon the needs of each child, mindfulness, body awareness, active listening and meditation exercises may be utilized in meeting goals.
Parents will choose if they want Reiki energy work to be part of the session. Reiki energy can gently flow during a session or in a quiet integration dedicated time (i.e. like a song). Distant Reiki is just as effective as in person.
Booking An Appointment
You can book online by clicking the scheduling link or contacting me with at least three times you are available. Please contact me if no times listed work for you.
If you need to reschedule, kindly give me at least 24 hours notice. Clients can reschedule their sessions any time using our online scheduling tool. If you miss more than one appointment without notice, you will be charged the entire session fee.
What We Treat
We treat a full variety of areas including:
Speech (pronouncing words)
Language (understanding and expressing messages)
Voice
Swallowing
Cognitive linguistics (i.e. memory, attention, problem solving)
Fluency
Oral motor
Auditory processing disorders
Phonemic awareness
Reading comprehension
Social skills
Breath strength as it relates to speech and swallowing
How Online Speech Therapy Works
Online services are referred to as teletherapy or telepractice and has proven to be just as effective as in person. One of the biggest advantages of teletherapy is that clients can receive treatment in their natural environment (which leads to faster, independent use of their new skills in their own environment vs a controlled clinic room).
Also, with their caregiver present, the information gained by a caregiver during our sessions is exponentially valuable as they will learn techniques to use in their everyday interactions that will lead to the most efficient progress and easier, happier communication and behavior. Clients and their families have found great benefits to online therapy because they practice their skills in their natural environment.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is offered as a complement to speech therapy sessions. Please inquire if you’d like to know more about Reiki or include Reiki in a future session.
Some facts about Reiki:
Reiki is a type of healing energy work which balances and replenishes a client’s mind, body and spirit.
Reiki can be done in-person or long distance via Zoom, both providing the same benefits.
Reiki is effectively used throughout the country in hospitals, clinics and hospice care to treat a full variety of physical, mental and emotional needs.
Reiki is a Japanese word meaning Universal Life Force Energy. Everyone naturally has special energy to make us “alive.” There are other words for this, such as chi, bioplasmic energy, spirit, prana, etc.
Reiki feels different for everyone and varies each session. It is common to feel peaceful and relaxed, tingles, a sense of density and calming, waves of energy, sleepiness, twitching, change of temperature and/or a release.