About Us

Kristi Tekel, 

MA, CCC-SLP, LLC received her Master’s Degree from Western Washington University. Kristi has enjoyed working in both hospital and private clinic settings, and has been in private practice since 2006.  She enjoys working with children of all ages with speech and language impairments, with particular interest and expertise working with students struggling with literacy skills.

Jodie Hastings, 

MS, CCC-SLP, LLC  received her Master's Degree  from University of South Alabama in 1999.  She has enjoyed working in private practice clinics treating articulation, phonological, and language disorders in preschool and elementary school age children. Jodie enjoys working with motor speech disorders, apraxia, craniofacial anomalies, and early language development.

Brenda Ray, 

MS, CCC-SLP, LLC  received her Master’s Degree from the University of Washington in 2003.  She enjoys working with youth with selective mutism, speech sound disorders, motor speech disorders, and velopharyngeal mislearning.  

Leslie Delorenzi, M.S., CCC-SLP, C-SLDS, LLC earned her Master’s degree from the University of Texas. She has worked in private schools supporting students of all ages with speech, language, and literacy challenges. Leslie is certified by the Center for Effective Reading Instruction as a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist, and has extensive training in Orton-Gillingham-based therapies.

Lauren Burgheimer, M.S., CCC-SLP, PLLC received her Master’s Degree from Northern Arizona University.  Lauren enjoys working with infants, toddlers, and school-aged children who have a variety of feeding and swallowing difficulties, including bottle feeding, transitioning to solids, picky eating, and weaning from tube feedings.