Sonya Brooks
Sonya Brooks owns Hope Therapy Center and practices as a speech-language pathologist. Her credentials, MA, CCC-L/SLP and COM®, put her work where speech, feeding and the muscles of the face and mouth overlap: orofacial myofunctional disorders, tongue and lip tie function, swallowing and feeding therapy, and speech sound production. She built this practice to be wider than any one discipline. Hope Therapy Center now runs physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology from two Louisiana locations, so a three-week-old who cannot latch and an adult relearning to swallow after a stroke are treated in the same building. Patients name her directly in their Google reviews for tongue and lip tie care, and the clinic holds a 5.0 rating across 181 Google reviews.
What a certified orofacial myologist does.
A Certified Orofacial Myologist looks at how the tongue, lips and jaw rest, swallow and move, then retrains them. That is the work behind a tongue or lip tie consultation, an infant who cannot latch, a child who gags on new textures, a swallow that keeps going wrong, and speech sounds that will not clear up no matter how much a family practices at home. As a licensed speech-language pathologist Sonya Brooks carries that caseload herself, and as owner she sets how the clinic runs: one therapist and one plan of care per patient, reassessed often enough that you always know whether it is working. If a problem sits outside speech and feeding, it does not leave the building. The physical therapy and occupational therapy teams work the same two locations under the same roof.