Izzy is a compassionate Speech Pathologist with a strong focus on supporting neurodivergent children and adolescents in their communication and social development. She takes a neuro-affirming, strengths-based approach, ensuring therapy is meaningful, inclusive, and empowering.

With experience across hospitals, schools, and community mental health settings, Izzy provides comprehensive speech and language assessments, intervention planning, and consultation for families and professionals. She has a special interest in working with children with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other neurodevelopmental conditions, helping them develop communication skills that support self-advocacy and connection.

Izzy has completed extensive training in anxiety and autism, neuro-affirming practice, and culturally responsive therapy. She values collaboration and works closely with families, educators, and multidisciplinary teams to create individualised, practical strategies.

Clinical Interests

• Neuro-affirming speech pathology
• Autism and ADHD communication support
• Speech and language delays and disorders
• Anxiety and its impact on communication
• Play-based and child-led therapy
• Multidisciplinary collaboration in mental health
• Literacy and language development
• Supporting children with trauma histories
• Culturally responsive practice in speech therapy
• Early intervention and school-based therapy

Therapy Options

Izzy strives to create a supportive and engaging environment where children feel confident in expressing themselves. By working with children in their natural settings, she fosters the generalisation of communication skills across different environments. She also empowers the adults in a child’s life with effective strategies to enhance communication, play, and social interactions.

• school session
• clinic-based session
• Child care sessions
• Kindergarten sessions
• Speech in Schools: Work directly with schools, kindergartens and childcare centres to provide a speech pathology service within your eduction setting.