Meet the Team
At Whole Child Therapy Services, we provide thoughtful, individualized care that recognizes the unique strengths and needs of every child and family. Our approach integrates neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed care with evidence-based practices, strong clinical reasoning, and meaningful family collaboration. Integrity, accountability, and genuine therapeutic relationships are at the heart of everything we do.
Mary Coburn, M.A., CCC-SLP (she/her)
Speech-Language Pathologist, Owner/Director
Sound Youth Neurodiversity Collective Founder
Mary is a pediatric speech-language pathologist with over 16 years of clinical experience, including 12 years in private practice. Her work is grounded in neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based, and relationship-centered care that recognizes each child's unique communication style, sensory needs, strengths, and developmental differences. She emphasizes individualized, evidence-based approaches that prioritize connection, meaningful engagement, and collaboration with families.
Mary is Hanen certified in It Takes Two to Talk® and More Than Words®, and has completed Level 2 training in the SOS Approach to Feeding®. Her clinical work incorporates approaches such as Natural Language Acquisition for gestalt language processors and Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS). She supports children with a wide range of communication differences, feeding challenges, executive functioning difficulties, and social communication needs. Her approach emphasizes understanding the underlying factors contributing to challenges rather than focusing solely on observable behaviors.
Mary earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in Communication Disorders from New Mexico State University and established Whole Child Therapy Services in 2014. She believes effective intervention requires strong clinical reasoning, individualized support, and meaningful partnerships with families. Her goal is to help parents better understand their children's developmental differences while providing practical strategies that support communication, regulation, and participation in everyday life.
As a neurodivergent provider and parent of neurodivergent children, Mary brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work. She understands firsthand the complexities of navigating diagnoses, school systems, therapies, and the everyday challenges families may encounter. This perspective informs her commitment to providing compassionate, honest, and respectful support while creating space for parents to ask questions, express concerns, and feel understood without judgment.
Crys Hassler, M.S.Ed., CCC-SLP (they/them)
Speech-Language Pathologist
Crys strives to meet clients and their families where they’re at and assist them in finding strategies, tools, and frameworks to reach their goals. Since beginning their career as a speech therapist in 2021, they have built a therapeutic foundation based on establishing trust, presuming competence, and taking the time to get to know their clients as a whole person, not just their speech concerns.
As a queer and neurodivergent provider, Crys seeks to use their lived experiences to empower families by gaining a better understanding of their child and helping children to advocate for themselves. Their intervention is tailored to each child using a strengths-based model that builds on a child’s interests and passions. Crys has extensive experience working with non-speaking and minimally speaking individuals and going through the funding process for a speech generating device (AAC).
They also have training and experience in assisting transgender and gender-nonconforming youth in developing a voice that is true to them. Outside of the office, they enjoy spending time with their partner and two cats, playing video games, and delving into their most recent creative endeavor.