About Me

Hi, I'm Maddie. I'm a licensed speech-language pathologist and board-certified Cognitive Specialist, and I work with children, teens, and young adults who find the social world hard to navigate. Many of my clients were born to a brain that makes attending to, interpreting, and responding to social information genuinely challenging. That can look like trouble making and keeping friends, managing big emotions, planning and following through, or seeing a situation from someone else's point of view.

Here's what I believe, and it shapes everything I do: social skills are only the tip of the iceberg. Before anyone can act in a socially effective way, their brain has to think it through — reading the room, weighing what matters, and choosing a response. So I don't run a “social skills” program. Instead, I teach my clients the strategies and frameworks that build real social understanding, drawing heavily on Michelle Garcia Winner's Social Thinking® Methodology and the Zones of Regulation. Together we work toward two goals: understanding how the social world works, and developing the self-regulation to move through it with confidence.

I earned my B.S. from the University of Delaware and my M.S. from Hunter College, then worked as an SLP in a special-education private school and a charter school before moving into private practice. Alongside social learning, I have deep experience supporting students with dyslexia and with expressive and receptive language delays, including robust, multi-sensory reading intervention.

The clients I see come with all kinds of profiles — autism, ADHD, social communication and nonverbal learning differences, anxiety, twice-exceptional and profoundly gifted learners, and many with no diagnosis at all. In my experience, the label matters far less than the individual in front of me. I'd love to learn about yours.