San Rafael
Team
carolina perez-venero
M.S., CCC -SLP (she/her/hers)
Former scientist and market researcher Carolina Perez-Venero comes to us with a degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Her personal experiences as the mother of children with speech and language concerns led her to pursue a career in speech language pathology. Since graduating with her Masters in Communication Sciences and Disorders from University if Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2017, Carolina has honed her clinical skills through multi-faceted experiences conducting assessments and delivering individualized therapy to children with a variety of language, articulation, and phonological disorder. She has a successful track record treating children with highly unintelligible speech, as well as those with lisps and other specific articulation concerns. She also specializes in facilitating reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and language processing in children from elementary to high school age. She believes in empowering children and their parents/caregivers with the tools they need to develop awareness and support self-improvement, and she tailors each treatment plan accordingly. Carolina is certified by the Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and licensed to practice in the state of California.
ZOE ST.JOHN
M.S., CCC -SLP (she/her/hers)
Zoe St John earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University, Sacramento in 2018 with a minor in Child Development. She continued at CSU Sacramento, earning her Master’s of Science in Speech Pathology in 2022. She has spent over a decade working with children including working as a preschool teacher and earning her Early Childhood Education credential. She has also worked as an Early Intervention Specialist, Dyslexia Reading Specialist and has enjoyed her time working as a travel nanny.
Zoe provides bilingual speech therapy in Spanish and French. She has attended special training courses for Child Learning and Language Development, Pediatric Feeding Disorders, the Barton System for Reading, ADHD and Executive Functioning, Gestalt Language Learning for children with autism, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Zoe works with both children and adults and has enjoyed providing care for clients with autism, ADHD, pediatric feeding disorders, articulation and phonological disorders, bilingual language developmental disorders, apraxia, voice disorders, transgender voice therapy, aphasia, and cognitive-linguistic impairments.
She is passionate about collaborating with families and providing exceptional services focused on relationships and building confidence through a growth mindset approach with her pediatric and adult clients. Zoe was born and raised in Sonoma County, and lives in Sebastopol. In her free time she enjoys spending time outdoors, walking her dog, live music, crafting, gardening and reading.