Meet Our Team
Allison Johnson, Owner, O.T. &
Child Development Specialist
Allison is an experienced Early Intervention Specialist and Pediatric Occupational Therapist, providing services to children ages 0-3 for the last 11 years. She has been practicing as an OT for 20 years, having earned her Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University in Boston, MA, in 2005. As part of her graduate program, she completed a 13-week full-time internship at Franciscan Hospital for Children, where she evaluated and treated children with a range of special needs in both school and home-based early intervention settings.
In 2006, Allison moved to London, where she lived and worked for eight years. The UK did not have similar early intervention services, but she gained valuable experience in Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Hand Therapy, Acute & Stroke Rehabilitation, and Older Adult Care. She later served as Team Leader for a Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team for five years, further developing her leadership and clinical skills.
Upon returning to the U.S. in 2013, Allison re-focused on her passion for early intervention and pediatric OT services in New Jersey, and later in North Carolina. For the past six years, she has provided in-home and daycare-based therapy to infants and young children in the Raleigh area. Her work supports children with diagnoses such as Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Hydrocephalus, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, Global Developmental Delays, TAR Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, and more.
As a mother of two active boys (ages 12 and 8), Allison brings both professional expertise and personal understanding to her practice. Her own experiences with lip and tongue ties, feeding difficulties, speech delays, sensory sensitivities, anxiety, picky eating, and developmental hip dysplasia have given her a compassionate and practical perspective on the challenges parents can face.
Allison stays up-to-date with current research and intervention strategies. Her recent trainings include evaluation and treatment for retained primitive reflexes, sensory processing, executive functioning, and emotional regulation. She offers in-person evaluations and therapy, as well as virtual coaching treatment sessions (private pay only, with the exception of services provided under the umbrella of the CDSA's Infant Toddler Program).
Katie Fletcher, O.T. &
Child Development Specialist
Katie is an experienced Pediatric Occupational Therapist based in Raleigh, NC. Through her professional and personal experiences, she values the importance of collaboration between child, caregiver, and therapist. She is passionate about working with children, their families, and teachers so that each child can thrive. Her therapy values include building a therapeutic relationship built on trust, safety, and compassion. She follows a child centered, play-based therapeutic philosophy. Katie works closely both with the child and caregiver, to ensure that all are supported, nurtured, and can feel the joy in their progress.
Her background includes extensive time working in the outpatient pediatric setting, serving children from as young as infancy - teenage years. She has experience working with children with a variety of concerns, including but not limited to:
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Sensory processing differences
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Emotional regulation
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Executive functioning skills,
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Fine and gross motor coordination
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Play skills
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Feeding challenges and picky eating
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Independence in daily skills or activities in the home and school environments.
She has served a variety of populations, some without a formal medical diagnosis, and others with one. They include but are not limited to: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, sensory processing differences, ADHD, Fragile X, Angelman Syndrome, as well as developmental delays.
Katie has a Master’s of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Meredith College. She holds a certification with the National Board Certification of Occupational Therapy, and a License with the North Carolina Board of Occupational Therapy.