Cathleen Thomas

Cathy has over 25 years experience in a variety of settings treating all ages. She has worked in schools, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home care, and rehab facilities providing in-patient and out-patient services. Over the last 8 years, she has provided mostly teletherapy services to her clients. After working for many years in the field, Cathy pursued additional training and a degree in Public and Global Health initiatives. She gained a great deal of experience with interdisciplinary team and functional health approaches during her doctoral work with caregivers of clients with cognitive impairments, learning to tailor approaches to make therapy interventions functional and useful.

Her bachelor's degree and master's degree are from Wayne State University, and her doctorate is from A.T. Still School of Health Sciences. Cathy is licensed in Florida, Michigan, California, Indiana, and Illinois. For her adult clients she is experienced in working with post-stroke, TBI, and executive functioning. Cathy can also tailor a program for professional/corporate speaking and voice and fluency as well as help with accent modification. For her younger clients, Cathy is able to bring skills with literacy development, executive functioning for teens and tweens, and especially enjoys working with speech clarity and intelligibility strategies. Cathy will work to collaborate with you on goals that help you achieve your best communication self.