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 neurodivergent needs, communication difficulties and/or trauma related life events. This often includes helping people find their voice in everyday spaces, word-finding, language and social communication supports.
Our home clinic is a space where you can come as you are for therapy that meets you where you’re at. We are 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!
Please fill out our Contact Form and we’ll be in touch soon.
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If you are a Counsellor, Psychologist, or other service provider sending a referral, please email: services@pacificrimspeech.nz
We regularly work with ACC and ORS collaborative teams, schools, and directly with children and adults. All our services are provided by trained, experienced, and registered Speech-Language Therapists/Pathologists.
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 incorporate story or narrative intervention into much of our work. Whether we create new stories or build stories from real experiences, research tells us this is a rich approach to meeting a variety of social communication and language-based goals.
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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
Perspective-taking, emotional vocabulary, & problem-solving through narrative/story work
Regulation, voice and self-monitoring communication readiness
Communication & comprehension following significant injury or events (including word-finding)
Neurodivergent preferences, flexibility & social communication
Structured literacy intervention
Childhood apraxia of speech
Collaborative assessment and therapy services in areas, such as 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.
