PLAY | CONNECT | GROW

Nicole (she/her) has over 13 years experience in both school based services (preschool aged- 5th grade) and private therapy (working closely with families). She received her undergraduate degree from University of Arizona, and has a Master’s in Clinical Speech Pathology from Northern Arizona University. She is Nationally certified by ASHA (American Speech-Language and Hearing Association). Nicole has both years of experience and formal training in Childhood Apraxia of Speech and holds DIRFloortime Basic Certificate of Proficiency. She is part of the Apraxia Kids Directory, as a trained Apraxia clinician. She is also an AAC/Gestalt Language Processor (GLP) trained clinician. She has 2 children ages 10 and 7. Nicole loves to craft and garden. She also loves all children’s books. 

 Lisa (she/her) joined Over the Moon as the "Practice Manager," and assists with billing, intakes and community outreach (and keeping us organized in ALL ways). 

 Lisa has been an educator since 2007. She received her Master’s in Special Education and graduate certificate in Assistive Technology in 2010. She has worked as an Early Childhood Specialist, Preschool Special Education teacher and started a Kindergarten assessment program in Phoenix, Arizona. Lisa moved to London, England in 2013 and worked as a Special Education Coordinator across the Borough of Richmond (where Ted Lasso was filmed). Lisa is the mother of two young children. She returned to her Tucson roots to give her children the warmth and community spirit of the Old Pueblo that she had growing up. In 2023, Lisa attended the London Meaningful Speech Conference, completed Gestalt Language Processing training and received the Basic Floortime certificate through DIRFloortime. Lisa is passionate about providing Neurodiversity affirming and inclusive practices to children with disabilities.   

 Over The Moon Therapy provides children with developmental challenges with occupational and speech therapy services. We believe that all parents deserve the opportunity to have fun with their child and that all children deserve to find ways to be comfortable, happy, and experience joy in the body they live in. We work closely with families to center their priorities and help them become the primary driver of their children’s developmental growth. Your child’s treatment plan will help your child enjoy and be successful with the activities you both need and want them to participate in.  We provide Neurodiversity-affirming care based in DIRFloortime, a developmental, relationship based model of intervention. We offer a strongly connected therapeutic team using a trans-disciplinary approach ensuring that your treatment plan is well coordinated and focused on the whole child.   

Occupational Therapy Evaluations typically include between 1 and 1.5 hours direct assessment with your child as well as a one hour interview with your therapist prior to the evaluation. During this parent meeting you will review your child's developmental history and make an appropriate plan for the evaluation session.  Families are asked to fill out a developmental history form and submit it to the therapist 48 hours in advance of our first appointment. I will spend time playing with and getting to know your child and engaging them in fun activities that help me get a sense of how they process sensory information, how they move, and what they are drawn to in play. I will conduct some standardized testing to get a sense of more specific skills, but these are done playfully and are only a piece of the full assessment. Together we will decide if it makes sense to work together and what the focus of our work should be. I will send a written report with recommendations and initial treatment plan within a week of your evaluation. We will then meet together to discuss the evaluation and if you want to work with me further set goals and a treatment plan together. This evaluation is appropriate for children under 3 and children who are not yet able to follow verbal directions. Your therapist will help you determine which evaluation is best for your child at your intake interview.  Cost: $550

Speech Therapy Evaluation  Evaluations typically include between 1 and 1.5 hours direct assessment with your child as well as a one hour interview with your therapist prior to the evaluation. During this parent meeting you will review your child's developmental history and make an appropriate plan for the evaluation session.  Families are asked to fill out a developmental history form and submit it to the therapist 48 hours in advance of our first appointment. I begin all evaluations with playing and building a relationship with your child. During play, I will be assessing play skills, as well as language being produced (and any sound errors, or difficulties imitating sounds), and a sense of how they understand language. While standardized testing will be administered, it is through playing and interview. I tend to use these assessments as a guide more than a tool for determining concerns. Through discussion with parents, we determine if treatment would be beneficial, and what the initial goals are. I then send an initial evaluation report, along with recommendations. We then meet with just therapist and parents to discuss the evaluation results, set goals, and determine a treatment plan.  Cost: $550

OT sessions last 50 minutes. Sensory integration is both a neurological process and  a frame of reference that occupational therapists can use when treating children. OT-SI  seeks to help children integrate their nervous system more efficiently so that they can learn and participate more easily. When working in this frame of reference a therapist will seek to find a just right challenge for a client, they will help provide the child with the input their nervous system needs in order to have an “adaptive response” which is a fancy way of saying be successful with whatever they were trying to do! That might mean they swing on a swing so they get the input they need to sit up straight and tall or learn to use two hands together to push that swing on their own. It might mean engaging in play with dry beans or rice and putting together a light bright picture so they can know their hands better in order to do things like zip up their sweater on their own.  Cost: Sliding Scale See below

Coaching services are an opportunity for us to connect without the distractions of little ones to manage at the same time. Coaching often involved video review that either you submit to us or that we take together in our sessions. It gives us a chance to reflect on our own skills and your relationship with your child. During coaching we help you focus on you and your child's strengths and figure out how to best leverage your unique relationship to support your child's growth, learning, and development.

Coaching sessions are required once a quarter for all active clients. 

 Coaching sessions are billed at our regular hourly rate