Kia ora, I’m Nicole!

Kia ora! I’m a Speech-Language Therapist living and working in Ōtautahi/Christchurch here in the Canterbury region of NZ. My clinical experience has mainly included supporting adults, school-age learners, and whānau from many backgrounds.

My services often involve supporting clients through cognition and language differences that make it challenging to understanding events and/or people. With a trauma-informed lens, we collaborate on goals that focus on ensuring you can positively participate in daily experiences, communicating your interests, needs and ideas. Therapy goals often include the areas of: social language, oral language, and comprehension skills.

I also have years of experience with autistic learners from toddlers to young adult and am passionate about providing evidence-based services that meet neurodivergent learners and their family where they’re at.

When working with me, you’ll find I value:
-mahi tahi (togetherness and teamwork)
-strength-based solutions
- whole person planning and therapy to create positive communication experiences

Some areas of additional expertise
and experience includes:

-Multi-disciplinary Team Assessment of Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

-Pediatric Feeding Disorders and Picky Feeding
(Responsive and Behavioural Approaches)

-SCERTS Autistic assessment and intervention for school-based teams, and gestalt language in Autistic learners

-IDA+(plus) Structured Literacy Intervention (Neuhaus)

-Childhood Apraxia of Speech (DTTC)


Nicole is also an ACC Sensitive-Claims provider, used to working both individually and collaboratively in:

-rehabilitation from traumatic brain injury and/or stroke
-ORS-funded learner supports, school and home settings
-school-based team consulting & speech-language therapy