Speech-Language and Feeding Therapy
that works
Meet the team
Meet Natalie R Tipakov, MS-CCC- SLP, our senior bilingually certified clinician and the founder of Chattykiddo Pediatric Therapy. Natalie has worked with children 0-18 across a variety of settings for over 15 years. Natalie completed all of her speech pathology schooling in New York City, where she had practiced the first 6 years before moving to Southern California in 2016. She is a passionate PROMPT (level 2) therapist, motor planning expert (e.g. apraxia) as well as feeding consultant. Natalie has extensive experience working with children with various neurodevelpmental disorders, including Autism. She is also a passionate advocate for shaping social communication (social skills) early on to help children succeed in life.
When not in therapy, Natalie loves spending time with her husband and their three children. She’s passionate about all things nutrition and supplements, and enjoys keeping up with the latest research in running and fitness through the Huberman Lab and other science-based podcasts. Natalie believes in living a physically active, nutritionally balanced life and integrates her love for wellness into everything she does.
Meet Alex, Natalie's husband and Chattykiddo's financial operations officer. Alex is in charge of making sure the day to day operations are running smoothly and Chattykiddo Pediatric Therapy is compliant with the city and state on all levels.
Alex graduated from Chapman University in Orange, California and has been an entrepreneur exploring international and local business opportunities since then.
Alex is in charge of making most dinners in the family! He is an avid tennis player and a hiker on the weekends.
Meet our wonderful Mrs. Rachel, pediatric SLPA. Mrs. Rachel is your seasoned, punctual, organized clinician diving deep into each child's development and finding those individual hidden strengths to maximize therapy results.
Rachel graduated from Biola University with a Bachelors in Communication Science Disorders in 2013. In 2015 she received her SLPA license and began working in schools in Riverside County. Once married in 2022 she moved to Orange County and continued to work in the school setting. In 2024 Rachel and her husband welcomed home their first born- a beautiful baby girl. Now being part of Chattykiddo family Rachel is bringing 10 years+ of experience to the clinic. She is enthusiastic about helping all of our children thrive and shine! Rachel believes that our kiddos are our future and she wants them to have all the speech tools needed to be successful in achieving their goals.
When not in therapy,
Rachel enjoys family time, going to the beach, baking when the weather is cooler and going on adventures (near or far)!
Meet our lovely Heather, pediatric SLPA.
Heather graduated Magna Cum Laude from California State University Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in Communicative Disorders in December 2020. She has been working with a variety of communication impaired children in private clinics since then. Previous to becoming a Speech Language Pathology Assistant, she had a career in Human Resources for almost 10 years. How cool is that?! Heather feels she is now in a career that she is truly passionate about- helping children communicate. While Heather is well versed in treating children of all ages (from minimally verbal and those on the Autism spectrum to working with children who are working on higher level language skills), she especially enjoys working on social pragmatic skills, teaching kiddos to USE language functionally and appropriately across all social situations (including with AAC). Heather is now leading our Social Club to do just that! She finds deep reward in helping each child to better communicate with their loved ones and within their community.
In her free time, Heather enjoys doing arts and crafts and spending time with her dog and cat! She also loves art and music and brings these hobbies and passions into her fun sessions at Chattykiddo.