Welcome to Empowering Abilities Therapy Speech Therapy

Empowering Abilities Therapy Speech Therapy provides unique, personalized, evidence-based services that integrates the holistic nature of an individual with his/her parent, caregiver, team. We believe in incorporating as many sensory and motoric components to increase the ability to learn, remember, and achieve speech, language, myofunctional, and/or feeding goals. 

Victoria is a passionate Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) and former collegiate athlete with experience providing services across the lifespan in medical (acute inpatient rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab), outpatient, and school-based settings. She has worked with a diverse range of pediatric and geriatric disorders, delays, and disabilities.

Victoria is dedicated to providing holistic, family-centered care, collaborating closely with caregivers to support functional, meaningful outcomes. Her goal is to ensure that each child, patient, and family feels supported, empowered, and confident throughout their speech therapy journey.

Victoria has dedicated her career to empowering others through communication—whether in the therapy room, within the community, or through sports-based environments—believing that communication is essential to participation, independence, and quality of life.

She is an active member of the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ISHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and has contributed to professional research, including presenting her thesis on child language development at national conferences.

Additional Certifications & Training:
• Orofacial Myologist
• PROMPT-trained
• Theraplay® Certified