Christina was born in Aqtau, Kazakhstan. She spent 2 1/2 years in an orphanage with limited material resources, affection, and compassion. Her life changed when a Pleasant Hill local adopted her and changed her fate by opening numerous doors of opportunity. Christina was enrolled in early intervention services that included speech therapy as she was nonverbal until the age of 3. After 7 years of speech therapy, Christina found her words and learned how to effectively communicate her wants, needs, thoughts, and emotions with the world around her. It’s her turn to give back.

She has an affinity for working with children of all ages, so it only made sense for her to specialize in pediatrics. Her primary experiences consist of working with children who are considered ‘late talkers’, children with diagnoses of Autism, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), articulation and phonological impairments, and/or Down syndrome.

Sherry Garcia graduated with her master’s in communicative disorders from San Francisco State University in 2004. After graduation, she worked for Peninsula Associates, a private practice in Menlo Park, and the Morgan Autism Center. In 2007, she and her husband had their first child and Sherry decided to pause her career in speech therapy to stay home and take care of her children. For the next 13 years, she was a stay-at-home mom to their four children. During the pause in her career, Sherry continuously kept up her speech pathology license and ASHA certification with continuing education courses. In 2019, Sherry resumed her career and started working for West Contra Costa School District as a pre-k speech pathologist. In 2021, she and her family moved to Pleasant Hill, and in 2022 she began working at Beckman Early Speech Therapy as an early intervention speech pathologist. Sherry enjoys the flexibility of providing in-home services to families and the collaboration this delivery model provides. In her limited free time, she enjoys Crossfit, cooking, volunteering at her children's schools, watching her children's sporting events, serving her church community, going to the movies, and exploring the outdoors. 

Charlotte has 5+ years of experience as a speech-language pathologist, and formally worked as an elementary and special education teacher for 4 years. She specializes in early intervention, articulation, phonology, apraxia, gestalt language processing, receptive and expressive language, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Charlotte is passionate about caregiver coaching. She believes that providing caregivers with strategies allows them to feel empowered and helps create a lasting impact on children within their natural home environment.

Charlotte is DIRFloortime (Basic) certified and incorporates the Floortime framework into all of her sessions by understanding pieces of development critical to successful communication, such as regulation, engagement, interaction, individual differences and relationships. She is also a Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) Trained Clinician, an in-depth course on gestalt language processing, and PROMPT trained (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets), a common technique for apraxia of speech.

Charlotte lives in Oakland with her partner and two cats. In her free time, Charlotte enjoys yoga, rollerskating, playing piano, drinking matcha tea, hiking and drawing.

A Bay Area native, Veronica received her bachelor's degree in Classical Civilization from UCLA and her master's in Communicative Disorders from Kansas State University. She has worked in public schools, private practice, and home health. She finds early intervention home health particularly rewarding as she is able to establish close relationships with clients and families while incorporating therapy techniques into daily routines that promote communication success.

Veronica lives in Contra Costa County with her husband and two toddler boys. In what little free time she has, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, penpalling, cooking, and dancing.

Deeann has been a Speech-Language Pathologist since 1997. She says, ’we won’t count how many years that is.’ For the bulk of her career, she worked for Alta-Bates/Summit hospital in the outpatient department at Herrick Hospital. Deeann worked with both adults and children, including a preschool (3-5 year old) group program, then an Early Intervention (18-36 months) program. She later developed a once a week preemie group program. After a few years, Deeann worked with children exclusively. She then found a terrific job overseas working in Early Intervention in England with military families. Deeann loved working with the little ones, but tired of the lousy British weather, came back home to California. She is continuing her Early Intervention work with Beckman Early Speech Therapy.

Selma has 15 years of experience helping school-age children improve their communication skills. She earned her master's degree in 2008. Her special interests include Autism and Early Intervention. In her off time she enjoys hiking and exploring the beautiful Bay Area.