Community Care LLC

Welcome to Community Care! We're happy you're here. We believe differences in speech, language, voice, thinking, and social skills are what make our world wonderful. Everyone deserves to be heard as their authentic self. We are here to support folks by creating comfortable spaces for individualized speech therapy. We encourage you to bring every facet of your identity to our sessions. We also know communication is a team sport and your team members are always welcome to join our sessions! We also believe that our communities have BIG work to do. That's why we offer group training, tailored for companies, classrooms, coffee shops, and the like to support more inclusive and effective conversations with anyone you meet. Community Care is a human-centered, gender-affirming, neurodiversity-affirming, all-identities welcomed-with-open arms kind of practice. You belong here! About Chrissy Christine (Chrissy) Cook (she/her) is an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association-certified and licensed speech-language therapist with over 15 years of experience in human-centered care. It has been her privilege to collaborate with a wide variety of folks and their communication challenges and changes in the areas of aphasia, gender-expansive voice care, voice rehabilitation, stuttering, and speech, language, and thinking difficulties as a result of stroke, brain injury, and Parkinson's disease. A lover of diverse communication styles, technologies, and options, Chrissy's greatest joy is getting to know her clients and collaborating with them and their communities to achieve communication success. Chrissy has worked in a wide variety of care settings and currently serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor with Northeastern University's Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at their Charlotte, NC global campus, supporting and developing the next generation of culturally responsive speech therapists. Chrissy firmly believes that healthcare and communication are human rights and that trans and nonbinary folx deserve respect, compassion, and excellent care. In her spare time, Chrissy enjoys the heck out of her family, including her 2 kiddos and partner. They can usually be found exploring nature, having spontaneous dance parties, gardening, or reading. Professionally, Chrissy is a member of Charlotte Trans Health, the National Black Speech, Language, Hearing Association (NBASLH)'s Cultural Humility Committee, and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)'s Value Based Care Member Advisory Group.