Welcome to our branch in the VitalCenter at Gasselstiege 21!

Directly opposite the health center and a stone’s throw away from the York Center, you will find our bright and friendly practice on the 4th floor of the VitalCenter, together with specialists in phoniatrics/paedaudiology and ENT, child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as practices for occupational therapy and physiotherapy . At Gasselstiege we offer you advice, diagnostics and therapy for all speech therapy disorders. We only offer occupational therapy in the branches Toppheideweg 9 and Plettendorfstr. 1 on! However, you will also find Claudia Kretzschmar’s occupational therapy practice on the 4th floor. We look forward to your inquiry – please use our “appointment request” form in the main menu or give us a call.

Our team

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Christina Koenig

State-certified speech therapist B. Sc.
General manager

0251-6867372

  • Completion of the dual study program Speech Therapy at the School of Speech Therapy at the University Hospital Aachen and RWTH Aachen: state-approved speech therapist (since September 2016) and Bachelor of Science speech therapy (since September 2017)
  • 2 1/2 years of work in an Aachen practice for speech therapy, in the context of this activity intensive therapy experience with children and adults with disabilities

Main areas of therapy:
Speech development disorders, also in children with disabilities, myofunctional disorders, neurological disorders (dysarthria after stroke or neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease), dysphagia, voice

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Kathrin Deiters

State-certified speech therapist
Learning therapist

0251-6867374

  • completed university education for the teaching profession for the primary level (major German)
  • Training as a state-certified speech therapist
  • one-year training as a pedagogical-psychological learning therapist
  • Many years of practical experience as an employed speech therapist, comprehensive experience in all disorders

Main areas of therapy:
Initial examination and parent counselling,
Children’s language (early childhood language development disorders, pronunciation disorders, verbal developmental dyspraxia, disorders of grammar and lexicon acquisition in pre-school and primary school children, auditory processing and perception disorders (AVWS) in schoolchildren), speech flow disorders in children (stuttering and rumbling),
Learning therapy for learning difficulties, dyslexia (LRS) and dyscalculia in schoolchildren

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Betty Machado

State-certified speech therapist
Learning therapist
Speech therapy teacher
Actress

0251-6867370

  • state-approved speech therapist
  • Many years of practical experience as an employed speech therapist
  • one-year training as a pedagogical-psychological learning therapist
  • Lecturer for the Department of Improvisational Theatre Techniques in Therapy
  • Teaching lecturer in the further training of educators and professional colleagues

Main areas of therapy:
Initial examination and parent counselling,
comprehensive experience in all disorders,
Learning therapy for reading-spelling disorders

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Julia Schleenvoigt

State-certified speech therapist

0251-6867373

  • Studies at the University of Music and Theatre Cello
  • Training as a state-approved speech therapist, graduated in 1998 from the University Hospital Essen
  • many years of professional experience in the therapy of children’s language, myofunctional disorders,
    Stuttering/rumbling, voice, neurological disorders as well as a variety of subject-specific training in these areas
  • Collaboration in various speech therapy practices, e.g. with Anita Kittel in Tübingen
  • Mother of 2 children (11 and 15 years)
  • Yoga teacher
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Susanne Binnewies

State-certified speech therapist

0251-6867370

  • so far work in two speech therapy practices
  • Many years of experience in a neurological rehabilitation clinic with treatment of all rehabilitation phases, including stroke unit

Therapeutic focus: Neurological disorders, tracheal cannula management, treatment of all disorders

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Carolin Wolter

State-certified speech therapist

0251-6867370

  • Training as a state-approved speech therapist at the Düsseldorf Academy (2018-2021)
  • Currently studying “Therapy and Nursing Sciences” at the Hamburger Fernhochschule
  • 1/2 year working in a speech therapy practice in Essen with a focus on childhood speech development disorders, myofunctional disorders and neurologically induced speech and language disorders

Main areas of therapy:

  • childhood speech development disorders, late talkers
  • myofunctional disorders
  • neurologically-induced speech and language disorders
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Larissa Kollenberg

State-certified speech therapist

0251-6867373

  • Training as a state-approved speech therapist at the Düsseldorf Academy (2018-2021)
  • Currently studying “Therapy and Nursing Sciences” at the Hamburger Fernhochschule
  • 1/2 year working in a speech therapy practice in Essen with a focus on childhood speech development disorders, myofunctional disorders and neurologically induced speech and language disorders

Main areas of therapy:

  • childhood speech development disorders, late talkers
  • myofunctional disorders
  • neurologically-induced speech and language disorders
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Leonie Kolaritsch

State-certified speech therapist

0251-6867370

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Daniel Slon

State-certified speech therapist B.Sc.

0251-6867373

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Christina Garbe

State-certified speech therapist, B.Sc.

0251-29798352

  • Training to become a state-certified speech therapist at the Ross School in Hanover, graduating in 2016
  • Subsequent bachelor’s degree at the HAWK Hildesheim in the course “Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy”, graduating in 2018
  • 2 years of practical work as a speech therapist during my studies
  • 1.5 year employment at early intervention in Magdeburg, focus on children’s speech therapy
  • 3-year employment in an interdisciplinary practice in Hanover, focus on children’s language, speech therapy specialist
  • most recently employed at the speech therapy practice of Alexianer Werkstätten GmbH

Therapy focus:

  • Children’s language
  • Myofunctional therapy
  • neurologically caused speech
  • and language disorders

Qualifications:

  • many further training courses in the area of ​​children’s language
  • certified LSVT-LOUD therapist
  • certified NLP practitioners
  • Currently training to become a
  • dyslexia therapist (according to BVL)
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Stefan Warych

Owner
State-certified speech therapist
Learning therapist
Lecturer

0251-6867370

  • Studies of Ethnology, Archaeology and Philology at the University of Bonn
  • Training as a state-owned certified speech therapist, graduation 2001
  • Many years of management activity in a phoniatric-pediatric audiology practice
  • freelance speech therapist since 2004
  • Training as a learning therapist 2006
  • Head of a training institute since 2007
  • Teaching lecturer for the subjects Auditory Processing and Perceptual Disorders (AVWS) and Reading-Spelling Disorders (LRS)

Main areas of therapy:
Initial examination and parental advice in the field of children’s language,
Treatment of AVWS and LRS

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Ute Schulte-Leibbrand

Managerial assistant
Administration
Project manager

0251-6867370

Group practice

We work with the experienced occupational therapist Mrs. Marie Bourdais and her staff in the group practice for occupational therapy and speech therapy at Toppheideweg 9. This enables you to discuss additional developmental issues with Mrs Bourdais on an interdisciplinary basis at any time.

The consulting rooms