Our Team
Liz Garcia
Liz is an experienced speech pathologist and practice director who is deeply committed to strength-based, neuroaffirming care. She has extensive experience supporting children with diverse communication styles and developmental profiles, honouring each child’s unique way of being, relating, and expressing themselves.
Grounded in DIR® Floortime principles, Liz focuses on building capacity through curiosity, co-regulation, shared joy, and respect. She collaborates closely with families to support emotional development, autonomy, and authentic self-expression across home, school, and community settings.
As Clinical Director, Liz shapes the vision and therapeutic approach of be™, ensuring services remain inclusive, relational, and family-centred. She is passionate about mentoring her team to embed neuroaffirming practice into everyday clinical work — creating spaces where children feel seen, valued, and understood.
Speech Pathologist | Director
Jason Garcia
Jason provides the operational foundation that allows be™ to flourish. With oversight of finance, systems, and business operations, he works quietly behind the scenes to ensure the practice runs smoothly, sustainably, and with strong accountability and integrity.
Jason is passionate about building thoughtful systems and structures that support people well. His work creates stability for the team and ensures clinicians have the time, space, and resources to focus fully on meaningful work with children and families.
Through careful planning, Jason helps ensure the long-term sustainability of the practice, allowing be™ to continue growing its impact within the community.
Assistant Director | Account Manager
Practice ManagerJulie Marsh
Julie is the steady, thoughtful presence at the heart of our daily operations. As Practice Manager, she ensures the clinic runs with warmth, efficiency, and care — supporting both families and therapists behind the scenes.
With a strong background in disabilities and administration, Julie brings calm organisation to busy clinical days. She is deeply committed to creating systems that feel clear and supportive — recognising that when families feel welcomed and staff feel supported, everyone thrives.
Julie approaches her role with empathy, responsiveness, and quiet leadership. She values respectful communication and works closely with the team to ensure each family’s journey through be™ feels seamless, personal, and grounded in care.
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Nadine is the warm and welcoming presence behind our Client Care team. She supports families and staff with patience, responsiveness, and genuine care, managing enquiries, appointments, and communications with confidence and clarity.
Nadine brings a calm, thoughtful energy to the clinic, along with creativity and fresh ideas that enhance the experience for families and the team. From the very first point of contact, she works to build trust and connection, ensuring families feel heard, supported, and valued.
She takes pride in creating a welcoming and organised environment, keeping shared spaces calm, tidy, and inviting so that children and families feel comfortable the moment they arrive. Nadine’s supportive and attentive approach helps ensure the clinic runs smoothly while reflecting our values of inclusion, integrity, compassion, authenticity and fun.
Client Care
Mandy Audley
Mandy brings depth, warmth, and compassion to her practice, supporting emotional wellbeing, family resilience, and meaningful connection. She works closely with both children and parents/carers, recognising that sustainable change happens within relationships.
Her approach is strengths-based, child-led, and play-centred. Mandy integrates trauma-informed, relational strategies that honour each child’s unique nervous system and lived experience. By meeting children exactly where they are — emotionally and developmentally — she supports the growth of regulation, self-understanding, and authentic resilience.
Mandy partners with parents and carers to build confidence, insight, and practical tools, helping families navigate life’s challenges with greater connection and capacity.
Social Worker | Therapeutic Play Practitioner
Speech PathologistDanielle Hooper
Danielle is committed to a strength-based, neuroaffirming practice. She uses a play-based, relationship-focused approach to promote early language development, speech sounds, social communication, and self-advocacy skills, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
She works closely alongside parents, educators, and other professionals to ensure each child receives holistic, coordinated care that addresses communication within the context of their broader developmental and emotional needs.
Danielle partners with families, coaching them to embed strategies into everyday routines and interactions, empowering children to communicate confidently and authentically across home, school, and community settings.
She has a keen interest in myofunctional therapy, early language development, literacy, and speech sounds therapy, and draws on evidence-based approaches to support lasting progress while fostering joy, engagement, and meaningful connection in every session.
Maria Benitiz
Maria is a speech pathologist who supports children’s communication and social connection through a neuroaffirming, strengths-based approach. She brings joy, positivity, and playfulness to every session, creating engaging experiences that honour each child’s individual learning style and way of communicating.
Maria has experience supporting children with AAC, swallowing difficulties, and speech and language development. She works closely with families to embed strategies into daily routines, empowering children to communicate confidently and authentically across home, school, and community settings.
Fluent in both Spanish and English, Maria brings a culturally responsive perspective to her practice, celebrating diversity and ensuring supports are meaningful and appropriate for each child and family. She also collaborates with the broader multidisciplinary team to provide holistic, coordinated care, helping children thrive in all areas of development.
Speech Pathologist
Jess Esplin
Jess leads occupational therapy services at be™ with expertise in sensory-motor development, regulation, and daily functional skills. She uses neuroaffirming, developmental frameworks to co-design therapy goals with children and families, ensuring supports are meaningful, practical, and embedded in everyday routines.
Her practice is evidence-based and culturally informed, providing supports that respect and respond to each child’s background, experiences, and unique way of engaging with the world. Jess collaborates closely with families and the multidisciplinary team, ensuring holistic care that addresses physical, emotional, and social development.
Jess provides supervision and mentorship to the OT team, fostering professional growth, reflective practice, and consistent, high-quality therapy. She is passionate about empowering children and families, building confidence, independence, and participation in all areas of life.
Occupational Therapist
Occupational TherapistBianca Thompson
Bianca is a skilled occupational therapist who builds strong therapeutic relationships that celebrate each child’s strengths, interests, and individuality. She brings warmth, creativity, and positivity to her sessions, creating engaging environments where children feel safe to explore, learn, and grow.
Her practice is grounded in evidence-based approaches that support children’s movement, coordination, regulation, and participation in everyday activities that matter most to them. Through playful, meaningful experiences, Bianca helps children develop confidence and capability while honouring their unique developmental pathways.
Bianca is passionate about partnering with parents and caregivers, empowering them with practical strategies that can be embedded into everyday routines. She also values close collaboration with teachers, therapists, and other professionals to ensure children receive holistic, coordinated support across home, school, and community environments.
Courtney Steel
Courtney is a creative occupational therapist who brings brings fun, curiosity, joy to her sessions. She tailors supports that honour each child’s unique sensory, emotional, and learning needs, recognising that every child engages and develops in their own way.
Courtney empowers children to build confidence, regulation, and independence using a strength based approach and fostering a sense of achievement across home, school, and community settings.
Occupational Therapist
Advanced Allied Health AssistantChris Morley
Chris is an integral member of the therapy team, supporting children and families in his role as an Advanced Allied Health Assistant. He brings a supportive and playful presence that helps children feel comfortable, understood, and valued for who they are.
Chris works closely with therapists to support the implementation of therapy goals, helping ensure continuity of care and accessibility for every child. He also partners with families to embed strategies into everyday routines and activities. Through a strengths-based, relational approach, Chris helps create an environment where children can explore, build confidence, and develop new skills in ways that feel meaningful and engaging.
Matt Adcock
Matt is an enthusiastic occupational therapist who supports children’s sensory processing, motor development, and emotional regulation through a play-based, child-centred approach. He believes that therapy is most effective when it is engaging, meaningful, and embedded in the child’s everyday life.
Matt works closely with families to translate strategies into daily routines, empowering children to build confidence, independence, and participation in activities that matter most to them. His approach is grounded in a neuroaffirming framework, emphasising co-regulation and strengths-based goal-setting.
Occupational Therapist