Strength-based speech &
language therapy services.
Whole-person care in
everyday communication.
Pacific Rim Speech provides assessment and therapy services for school-aged learners and adults. Our mahi specializes in working with families and adults navigating communication difficulties alongside neurodivergent needs and/or trauma related life events. Our home clinic is a space where you can come as you are, for coaching or therapy that meets you where you’re at.
We regularly work with ACC and ORS collaborative teams, including schools, other sensitive claims providers, and directly with children and adults. All our services are provided by trained, experienced, and registered Speech-Language Therapists/Pathologists and based out of Ōtautahi/Christchurch.
Our website is currently under construction.
If you have any questions or would like to book an initial honohono/connecting call to chat about our services, please scroll down below to our connect form.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Questions?
Let’s connect.
Kia ora! I’m Nicole, a Registered
Speech-Language Therapist based in Ōtautahi/ Christchurch. In my years of supporting adults and students, I find creating a safe space is the best foundation for success, growth, and growing skills that help people confidently communicate in the world around them.
Please fill out our Contact Form and we’ll be in touch soon.
If you are a Counsellor, Psychologist, or other service provider sending a referral, please email: services@pacificrimspeech.nz
Thank you/Merci/Ngā mihi/Fa’afetai
“I think that a good storyteller brings hope, hilarity, comfort, inspiration and peace.”
-Richard Van Camp (Tłı̨chǫ Dene Author & Storyteller)
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We value building a safe space for meaningful connections and therapy goals to grow, respecting and upholding the shared Māori and Indigenous view that people are ‘born capable’.
Like many cultures across the Pacific Rim, we also incorporate story or narrative intervention into much of our work. Whether we create new stories or focus on personal story telling from truths, research tells us this is a rich approach to meeting a variety of communication skills and needs.
A wee bit more . . .
Kia ora! I’m Nicole. I hold a Bachelors in Media Communications from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and a Masters in Speech-Language Pathology from University of Canterbury (NZ). My studies and career have also included psychology, theatre, and improv comedy.
I also lean into additional training that includes trauma-informed care, multisensory learning, and neuro-affirming approaches to intervention.
This includes how cognition and language impact navigating visual and verbal information, sensory demands and tools, problem-solving, and perspective-taking in daily activities. -
Planning & organization of information
(executive function skills)
Perspective, emotional vocabulary, & problem-solving, often through narrative/story skills
Regulation for communication readiness
(including sensory needs & voice)
Language use & comprehension (oral & written)
Neurodivergent feeding & picky eating
Childhood apraxia of speech
Structured literacy intervention
Collaborative assessment of: Dementia, FASD, Autism, and Dyslexia
Did you know?
Research tells us that each classroom has multiple students with communication disorders who would benefit from direct speech therapy services. Speech-language Therapists can provide screenings and intervention with skills that ensure learner needs are identified and supported. This can often reduce trauma, negative experiences with learning, and in-class “behaviours”, impacting us differently in adulthood once our academic journey ends.
Our visual below shows why it can be difficult to identify when a Speech-Language Therapist is needed. It also shows why we often work in teams with other Rehab providers, Educators, Dieticians, and Psychologists.
