Our Team

Anita Bullock-Morley, M.A., CCC-SLP,
Founder, Speech-Language Pathologist,
Behavior and Mindfulness Coach
 

Anita is a speech, language, behavioral, and early intervention specialist who has been practicing in the Atlanta metro area for over 20 years. As she began working with children and their families, she discovered her passion for leading the whole family toward success and she opened her private practice, Communication Interventions (now known as Anita Bullock-Morley + Associates), in 2002. Over the years, her company has evolved beyond the scope of just speech therapy and now offers a wider variety of services for children and families. It incorporates the use of research-based interventions, mindfulness training, parent/teacher training, behavioral strategies, and success-based therapeutic models. She incorporates the use of mindfulness, brain health, peaceful parenting techniques, and everyday usable strategies to support families on their journey. Since having two children of her own, she’s now able to take the perspectives of both sides of this journey and she’s grateful to have the opportunity to share her own experiences with parents.  Her combined experience creates an opportunity for the compassion and knowledge needed to be supportive, both effectively and functionally.

Anita is a state-licensed, ASHA certified, Speech Language Pathologist. She has completed and maintains her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC). Her varied background includes a Debra Beckman Oral Motor Training Certification (2000), she’s a Better Brains for Babies Trainer (BBB), and a Certified Natural Health Professional (CNHP). Anita is also on the TIP (Therapy Inclusion Program) Team at the Elaine Clark Child Developmental Center. There, she performs her abilities as a diagnostician in their PEAR (Pediatric Early Assessment Referral) Team Assessments as well as supporting the inclusion classroom environment through teacher training and direct support. This provides her with invaluable experience to work alongside other developmental specialists using this team approach. In 2014, Anita created the Compassionate Boundaries Parenting Workshop which opened the door to the love of supporting parents, teachers, and caregivers in how to mindfully approach challenging situations. She was also the co-founder of Camp TheraFUN, a social-thinking summer camp for over 10 years. Communication Interventions was proud to open its doors to KindTreeKids programs in 2016. This program focuses on connecting kind hearts and strong brains through mindfulness and social thinking groups, summer and holiday camps, direct services, parent coaching, teacher/staff training, and school consultations and workshops.

With a strong focus on the whole child (one that honors the individual needs of the child instead of comparing to the masses), Anita strives to create a whole-family (your goals, your needs) centered program that can easily be implemented in any environment. Anita believes this integrated,  play-based, mindful approach is the best way to create a healthy, functional outcome for everyone. Read Anita's feature on AtlantaMindfulness.com here and here. 

Susan Lobdell, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, Lead Therapist

Susan has been practicing speech-language pathology in the Atlanta area for almost 20 years. She received her Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Georgia. During this time, she completed internships at Emory University Hospital in acute care neurology/inpatient rehab and Clarke County schools. It was during her time in the preschool special needs program in Clarke County that Susan discovered her love for early intervention and helping children develop functional communication skills. After graduation, Susan worked for City Schools of Decatur as an SLP and an Early Intervention teacher. In the Early Intervention Program, Susan developed a love for early literacy development. Susan has also worked in charter school, clinic, and home settings.

Susan is a state-licensed, ASHA-certified, speech-language pathologist. Her areas of specific interest and training include autism/Asperger's Syndrome; early literacy development; apraxia; preschool and school-age language development; family support; executive function, attention, and emotional regulation; and positive behavioral intervention. She is an avid reader, always looking for new ways to help children meet their goals, and combines researched-based clinical practices with healthy body and mind practices, such as yoga and mindfulness, to support children and their families.

Susan believes it is important to develop functional communication, social, and play skills in children by meeting them at their current level and breaking down skills so that children are successful at every step. She also believes that each child is a wonderful, complex, and unique individual who requires a customized and dynamic approach to meeting goals and reaching his or her full potential.

Jennie Grasier, M.Ed, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist

Jennie has been practicing speech-language pathology in the Atlanta area since 2009.  She completed her Masters of Education in Communication Disorders at Georgia State University.  As part of her graduate program, Jennie completed internships at Emory Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital, and Dekalb County School System. Jennie attributes her use of language strategies to her experience at Emory and her interest in literacy-based intervention to her experience at Dekalb County schools. Upon completion of her graduate program, Jennie started her career in the Gwinnett County Public School System working in an elementary school where she continued to develop innovative therapy techniques to address the needs of her students.  Jennie currently provides therapy to children in their homes and schools.

Jennie is both ASHA certified and state licensed as a Speech-Language Pathologist.  She has experience working with children with articulation, language, and fluency disorders including those who also have specific learning disability as well as cognitive, visual, and hearing impairments. Her specific interests are in the areas of word finding, early intervention, literacy-based intervention, executive function training, apraxia, and strategy-based intervention.  Jennie enjoys finding the best methods of therapy for the children using research-based interventions...and then finding some really fun toys or materials to implement those methods! She is passionate about parent and teacher education and feels privileged to be a part of each child’s intervention team. Jennie is committed to helping each child develop into confident and effective communicators.

Esther Reeds, M.A, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist

Esther recently moved to the Atlanta area from New York. She graduated summa cum laude from Touro College in 2003 with a BS in Speech and Communications. She received her Masters Degree in Speech and Language Pathology from Touro College in 2006. She has years of experience working with preschool and school- aged children with a broad range of speech and language deficits in home, preschool, and school settings. Skills she has addressed include articulation, oral motor, receptive and expressive language, auditory processing, voice, fluency, cognition, and pragmatic language skills. Her work experience includes much collaborative work with other professionals and parents to ensure uniformity across all aspects of intervention and to ensure that parents were involved in the intervention process. She has found collaborative team-work and working closely with the family to be very effective.

Esther is both ASHA certified and state licensed as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She finds this career to be a very rewarding one and has a real desire to help children with communicative disabilities.

Cara Boggs, M.S., CF-SLP
Clinical Fellow, Speech-Language Pathologist

Cara graduated with her undergrad from Georgia Southern University in 2016 with a B.S. in Child and Family Development. Shortly after graduation, Cara worked as an assistant preschool teacher, where her passion for working with children and their families continued to grow. During that time, she decided to dive into the speech and language world. She began working with Anita Bullock-Morley and Associates in 2017 as an SLP-A.

Cara recently graduated with her Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of South Carolina. During her time in grad school, her passion for learning about how to be a better advocate for neurodiversity, improving child language development, and play-based therapy grew. While continuing her work as an SLP-A and a graduate student, Cara continued to build strong relationships with parents and  supporting the whole child.

Since graduating, Cara will be working as a state licensed Clinical Fellow with our practice as she continues to grow and develop as an SLP and earns her CCC's. Cara is also involved in our Kindtree Kids programs where she leads groups and camps supporting children to feel their most confident self when navigating their social and emotional development.

Allison Tkaczuk, M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist

Allison T. received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in Hearing and Speech Sciences with minors in Psychology and Linguistics, and her Masters degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Loyola University Maryland. Following graduation, she worked in elementary schools and early intervention preschool classrooms in Maryland for several years. Her family relocated to the Atlanta area in 2018. Since then, she has worked as a school-based SLP in elementary schools in both Dekalb and Gwinnett counties part-time, joining Anita Bullock-Morley and Associates in the Fall of 2021.
As a parent of a child who is neurodiverse, paired with her background in education, Allison is an advocate for inclusion for children of all abilities, centering on working with a team approach that includes and empowers parents. She enjoys working with parents collaboratively to support their child's speech and language development and successes, both inside and outside of school, at home, and in the community. She believes that therapy efficacy is directly tied to developing a relationship with each child, working to incorporate special interests, respecting individual preferences, and working to engage children in learning through imaginative and sensory play, arts and crafts, movement, and literacy-based activities.
Allison is an ASHA certified and state-licensed Speech-Language Pathologist. Her specific interests include pre-school and school-aged articulation and phonological disorders, language development, early intervention, fluency, language-based learning disabilities, and neurodiversity-affirming practices.

Lauren Murphy, M.Ed. CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist

Lauren is a speech-language pathologist that has practiced in the Gwinnett County Public School System since 2018. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders and a master’s in education in Speech-Language Pathology. She completed her internships in the Coweta County School Systems and at an acute care skilled nursing facility. In these settings, she discovered her passion for client-driven practice. Currently, she has her ASHA Certification of Clinical Competence (CCC) and her Speech-Language Therapist certification for the state of Georgia. Her skills include knowledge of evidence-based interventions in treating articulation difficulties, language delays, cognitive deficits, apraxia, social skills, auditory processing, phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary, executive functioning, bilingualism support and intervention, and hearing impairments. Her interests are in vocabulary and lexical development, articulation, stuttering intervention, family centered therapy approaches for total communication, and bilingual intervention for Spanish speaking children. Her mantra for therapy is to always put the “fun” in “functional” for every child she works with. She aspires to be an integral part of a child’s support team and loves to develop their skills for their communication.

Sydney Floyd, M.A. CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist 

Beth Denman, B. Arch
Administrative Support, Camp Counselor

Beth Denman graduated from the Georgia Tech College of Architecture in 2001 and then pursued a second degree from Southern Polytechnic. After working as a Project Manager for an Architecture firm for several years, she chose to stay at home with her first child. The idea of homeschooling developed naturally from her personal parenting style, and she has continued to teach her own children in her home through kindness, invention, and creativity since 2013. She has grown her own business to include weekly drop-off science classes and summer camps. Through her homeschooling journey, she has come to value the importance of social-emotional learning and mindfulness education for children. She joined the team to provide support for the programs offered through Anita Bullock-Morley & Associates and KindTree Kids.