Meet Our Team

Our warm and friendly front office staff are here to welcome you and assist you with all of your scheduling, insurance, and other logistical needs.

Kim is our official “office manager”. The title however, is not fitting. Kim IS the office. Even though she does not do it alone, Kim is integral to all the cogwheels of the office. Most likely, when you call the clinic, you will talk with Kim. She is your first contact when scheduling your first appointment. Simply put, no one does it better. Not only can she answer scheduling, billing, funding, and insurance questions, but she is genuinely invested in getting to know you. What makes Kim’s day is when a child finally is able to say her name and greet her. She loves spending time with her family and friends. But honestly, Kim is a workaholic. Not because it’s a job requirement, but because she loves what she does and the part she plays in helping families everyday.

Margaret has worked as an Occupational Therapist since 1986, finishing her career here at Therapy Connections between 2007-2023. After retiring, there were too many quiet hours during the day. So she came back to assist at the front desk; a perfect opportunity to be with old friends and see all the new smiling little faces. Margaret also enjoys filling her time with family and friends and tries to remain active with cooking, camping, gardening, pickleball, reading and volunteering.

Speech Pathologists provide specialized services to improve expressive language skills, receptive language skills, feeding, swallowing, phonology, and more.

Leti has been a speech pathologist since 1995. She graduated from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She moved here to follow her husband who was an active-duty Air Force officer. They have since planted roots and have stayed to enjoy raising their son and daughter in beautiful Beavercreek. Leti enjoys practicing as a speech pathologist part time and uses the remaining time running Therapy Connections. Leti enjoys volunteering her time supporting Owen’s Place and Greenebucs where her husband and son have jumped in learning to build adaptive bikes for children and veterans who would not otherwise be able to ride a bike. On her down time, she enjoys traveling and spending time outdoors with her family.

Trish is one of our speech pathologists who is never supposed to retire (we hope)! She worked in Centerville schools and after 37 years of practice she has become a valuable part-time Therapy Connections team member since 2016. Her experience and creativity have been such an asset to our group and families. Trish shares her love of childrens books in therapy. When not at Therapy Connections, Trish spoils her grandchildren and is a competitive dancer!

Cindi has been a Speech Pathologist at Therapy Connections since 2012. She is originally from Atlanta, GA and graduated with from Vanderbilt University, and the University of South Alabama. Cindi additionally has a master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois. Due to Cindi’s vast educational background, facilitating communication is her strength. Cindi became a speech pathologist when she realized how much she loved talking with children. She finds joy in helping them find their voice. Cindi enjoys scrapbooking, genealogy and going on adventures with her friends, husband, Hank and 2 sons.

Katie has been with Therapy Connections since 2004! She is an excellent speech pathologist with a passion for helping children. Social skills, feeding therapy and ‘the complex child’ are her areas of special interests. Katie is calm, cool and collected when helping her families problem solve to find practical and effective treatment methods. Always on the search for new treatment methods and innovating therapy tools, Katie is a natural-born leader who excels in motivating those around her! Katie has chosen impressive continuing education coursework to further her training and knowledge from the key leaders in the profession. Katie lives in Centerville with her husband and 2 children. Aside from all things speech therapy, she enjoys baking and spending time with her family.

Rose is a licensed speech-language pathologist and has provided therapy services since 2002. Rose graduated with her master’s degree from Penn State. She has over 20 years of experience working in pediatric hospitals, private practice and schools. She and her husband homeschool their five children. She enjoys being outdoors gardening and spending time with her family.

Physical therapists aid in developing and enhancing a child’s gross motor skills to increase independence with movement.

Laura has been with Therapy Connections since 2015. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati. She is a super-motivating Physical Therapist and completes many exercises with her students. Her years of ballet training show. Laura will use a variety of training modalities and build in complexity to find the ‘just right’ challenge in creative ways. Laura is exceptionally efficient, a positive thinker and a compassionate clinician. Laura, her husband Chris and their 4 children live in Beavercreek.

Kari is our awesome “new”, physical therapist. She came to us as a student at the beginning of 2018. By the end of her rotation, we found it too difficult to let her go, so we offered her a position at Therapy Connections. Kari showed us that she possessed excellent clinical skills, she became a team member, and worked closely with all clinicians to best support the children she treated. We just couldn’t let her go! She created connections with families and sought to understand their current needs as well as long-term goals. Kari enjoys traveling and spending time at the lake with her family.

Occupational therapists promote skills that enable self help, problem solving, visual perception, coordination and self-regulation.

Katie H. has been with Therapy Connections since 2010, soon after graduating from St. Louis University. As an Occupational Therapist, Katie challenges herself to keep up on the latest research including but not limited to: feeding, sensory integration, handwriting, social skills (Social Thinking), Integrated Listening, mental health in pediatrics, & reflex integration. Katie is our resident book lover and continuously requests new educational materials to help keep us current, using newest research and best practice materials, ideas and tools for our clinic. Her personal passions include nutrition and wellness. Katie enjoys traveling, hiking and rock climbing with her husband and children.

Katie F. joined our other awesome ‘Katies’ on the TC team. She represents the best millenials have to offer – enthusiasm, passion, and a strong work ethic. Katie spent her last summer learning from our awesome OTs and is now on staff. She joined Therapy Connections in 2019. We couldn’t be prouder to have her on board. Katie loves to spend her weekends on DIY projects.

Hannah, our newest OT graduate, joined the Therapy Connections team in 2024. She graduated from Sinclair as an occupational therapy assistant in 2020 and primarily worked with adults in inpatient rehab. To fulfill her dream of working with children, she continued her master’s education at the University of Cincinnati to become an occupational therapist. Fun fact – Hannah shadowed at Therapy Connections in high school when she fell in love with OT! It is truly a full circle experience for her to be back here. On the weekends, Hannah enjoys thrifting, cooking, and taking her son on playdates with her mom friends and their kids.

Jeni has practiced as an Occupational Therapist at Therapy Connections since 2007! She started working as an Easter Seals daycare provider, focusing on caring for children with needs beyond what most daycares provide. She learned about occupational therapy and fell in love with helping children grow and become more functional and confident through play. She studied at the University of Dayton and University of Indianapolis and joined Therapy Connections soon after. Today, Jeni continues to use play and movement as tools in her everyday practice here at Therapy Connections. She is creative and will “think outside the box” when developing treatment plans drawing from her years of experience and current evidence-based research. Jeni excitedly brings new literature and professional conversations into the clinic regularly. We can always count on Jeni to start interesting ‘water cooler’ conversations.

Emily joined our team after completing her internship in 2019. Emily was one of the best OT students and we couldn’t part with her. Emily is the “just right” fit for our team and loves OT with an incomparable passion. She loves learning and has attended every course, inservice and conversation- soaking it all in! In her spare time, she enjoys learning (of course), baking (of which we benefit from) and spending time outdoors.