Speech-language therapy for adults with diagnosed or suspected FND symptoms. Virtual across Toronto and Ontario.

Your Symptoms Are Real, Even If Your Test Results Are Normal

If you've been told your scans look normal, but your voice won't come, your speech feels stuck, or swallowing has suddenly become difficult, you're not imagining it, and you're not alone.

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) happens when the nervous system has trouble sending and receiving signals correctly. The structures involved, your brain, nerves, and vocal folds, aren't damaged, but they’re not communicating correctly. That's why tests so often come back normal, even though what you're experiencing is completely genuine.

If you've been referred for a functional speech or swallowing symptom, you may have a lot of questions, and maybe some frustration, too. We want you to know: what you're feeling is real, and effective, evidence-informed treatment exists.

If you have not received a referral, please know that one is not required to begin speech therapy. If you’re still unsure if FND matches your lived experiences, please find more information here. 

Speech therapy for adults after concussion, brain injury or neurosurgery. Virtual cognitive communication assessment and treatment from Toronto and across Ontario.

You Don't Look Injured. But Something Has Changed.

A concussion, traumatic brain injury, or even neurosurgery can affect skills such as attention, memory, thinking, and communication, even when everything looks fine on the outside. You may feel like your brain is foggy, slower, or just not quite like it used to be. You may have heard the term cognitive communication disorder or cognitive communication differences. If not, that’s okay. Read below to see if any of these symptoms resonate with you. 

You might notice:

• Difficulty concentrating or staying on topic

• Slower processing of written or auditory information

• Memory changes that affect your day-to-day functioning

• Difficulty remembering details

• Trouble planning ahead, organizing tasks or schedules, or spontaneous problem-solving

• Fatigue that impacts your speech or leaves you overwhelmed 

• Challenges with attention, multitasking, or switching between tasks

• Difficulty finding words or organizing your responses

• Changes in how you communicate socially since your injury

• Difficulty listening in groups or noisy situations

• Changes in communication after a motor vehicle accident (MVA), stroke, or brain injury

• Trouble participating in work, school, or social interactions

Speech-language therapy for adults regaining communication after a stroke, including aphasia, dysarthria, and apraxia of speech. Virtual in Toronto and across Ontario.

What Is Aphasia and How Does It Affect Communication After a Stroke?

Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to the brain, most often from a stroke, that can affect an individual’s ability to speak, understand language, read, and write. It doesn't affect intelligence: the knowledge is still there. Difficulties arise in accessing language, be it for production or comprehension.

We help adults regain and strengthen communication after a stroke, including:

• Aphasia (language difficulties), including listening and speaking

• Dysarthria or apraxia of speech (speech difficulties).

• Difficulty with reading or writing.

Therapy is built around what matters most to you, whether that's returning to work, reconnecting with your community, or getting back to the activities and relationships you value most.

Neurodiversity-affirming speech therapy for neurodivergent teens and adults, building social communication and executive functioning skills that transfer to real life. Virtual speech therapy across Toronto and Ontario for teens and adult.

What Is Social Communication & Executive Functioning Therapy?

We provide neurodiversity-affirming support for neurodivergent teens and adults, focused on functional communication that reflects your goals, not a one-size-fits-all standard. We treat social interaction as a learnable system with identifiable patterns and teachable strategies. This isn't about masking or performing; it's about giving you concrete tools that actually transfer to your real relationships, workplace, and community.

Social communication difficulties can affect conversation, reading nonverbal cues, and understanding unspoken social rules. Executive functioning challenges can affect attention, memory, time management, and organization. Difficulties with both social communication and executive functioning can overlap, showing up together in how you communicate day to day.

We primarily work with teens and adults with ADHD, ASD, and dyslexia. But, you do not need a diagnosis—or even need to suspect one—to be able to access speech therapy for executive functioning. 

Regardless of whether you've recently received your diagnosis or have had it since childhood, we work with you on the communication skills that matter most across social, academic, and professional settings. If you have a different diagnosis or concern, chat with us and we'll guide you on the best path forward.

Professional communication coaching from a registered speech-language pathologist for adults who want to communicate with clarity and confidence at work. Improve your skills across settings from presentations and meetings to negotiations, and everyday professional interactions. In-person and virtual from Toronto and across Ontario.

What Is Professional Communication Coaching?

Professional communication coaching is a process designed to improve how you communicate in the workplace: clarity, confidence, tone, body language, and effective presentation. Therapy is functional and personalized, built around your daily needs and personal goals, not a generic communication style.

For many adults, professional communication challenges are also tied to executive functioning: the mental tools behind planning, organizing thoughts, managing time, and staying on topic. When communication feels jumbled, hard to organize, or hard to keep on track, we work on both the message and the underlying systems that support it.

Speech-language therapy for professional voice users and adults experiencing voice disorders: vocal fatigue, muscle tension dysphonia, and changes to vocal quality or strength. Virtual across Toronto and Ontario.

What Is Voice Therapy?

Voice therapy addresses changes in the pitch, volume, or quality of your voice, including:

• Hoarseness

• Strain

• Fatigue

• Or a voice that no longer feels like it's working the way it should

These changes can stem from vocal fold misuse, muscle tension, professional voice demands, or medical causes like acid reflux. We help you build vocal habits that support the way you use your voice every day, whether that's teaching, presenting, or simply being heard comfortably.

Differences in voice can also happen following traumatic brain injuries, stroke, or via physical injuries to the chest, neck, or face.

Virtual speech-language therapy for adults managing the long-term effects of Long COVID and other chronic illnesses: brain fog, word-finding difficulty, and fatigue-related communication changes. Available across Ontario.

What Are Cognitive-Communication Changes?

"Brain fog" refers to a group of symptoms that affect your thinking, memory and concentration; research indicates that it is common in Long Covid, post chemo-therapy, and in other chronic illnesses, such as hEDS.

It can include:

• Thinking that feels slower

• Word finding difficulties

• Multitasking challenges

• Conversation that takes more effort

• Amongst other symptoms or challenges

When these changes affect attention, memory, processing speed, and organization, and get in the way of daily communication, they fall into a clinical area called cognitive-communication, which is within the scope of speech-language pathology.

We help adults manage the cognitive-communication effects of Long COVID and other chronic illnesses, including brain fog, word-finding difficulty, fatigue-related communication changes, and reduced concentration. Our holistic approach accounts for fatigue, energy limits, and cognitive load directly, so therapy fits realistically into life with a chronic condition, not against it.

Speech therapy for stuttering that has has emerged or changed in your adulthood. Adulthood stuttering can negatively impact your self-confidence, and personal and professional relationships. Virtual and in-person in Toronto and virtual across Ontario.

Support for Adults with Newly Acquired Stuttering

We provide stuttering support for teens and adults, who’ve experienced a change in their fluency. Perhaps you thought stuttering was an artifact of your childhood or perhaps it’s a new experience altogether. 

Therapy isn't about eliminating who you are as a speaker. It's about building confidence, communication tools, and strategies that work for you, on your terms. We offer both stuttering modification and fluency shaping approaches, and collaboratively tailor treatment to your goals.

What Is Acquired or Renewed Stuttering?

Stuttering that emerges or changes in the teen or adult years, sometimes called acquired or neurogenic stuttering, can differ from childhood-onset stuttering in how it presents and what may be contributing to it. It can follow a stroke, brain injury, or neurological condition, or it may simply be a stutter re-emerging or shifting in pattern later in life without a clear precipitating event. Whatever the cause, it's assessed and treated with the same care and evidence-based approach as any other stuttering pattern.

Stuttering itself involves disruptions in the flow of speech, repetitions, prolongations, or blocks, that may be accompanied by tension or anxiety. It can affect confidence in social situations, workplaces, presentations, school, and everyday conversations.