Meet the Team
Emily Johnson, M.S., CCC-SLP
Emily is a board certified speech language pathologist and owner of Juniper Therapies. She received her masters degree in communication disorders from Arizona State University and has worked in private practice and public schools for more than 10 years. She currently serves on the board for Oregon Speech Language Hearing Association (OSHA).
Emily specializes in diagnostics and loves working with children of all ages, but middle schoolers have a special place in her heart. She also loves parent coaching, multidisciplinary service models, and loves collaborating with other practitioners and preschools to provide the best possible care to the Central Oregon community.
Emily grew up in Denver, Colorado and currently lives in Bend with her husband and 2 young children. When she’s not working, you can find her gardening, singing, playing the violin, viola or guitar, baking, painting, or paddle boarding on the Deschutes River.
Sam has been working as a Masters level Speech-Language Pathologist for over 10 years, with toddlers and preschoolers in early childhood special education. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in early intervention in both direct therapy and parent education.
She feels passionately about working with children with complex communication needs, apraxia of speech, autism spectrum disorder, AAC, and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing population (and knows some American Sign Language). She has expertise in green screen teletherapy and loves teaching her speech therapy preschool class every week.
Sam finds joy experiencing and creating art and music, and incorporating this into her therapy. She has developed a Music, Movement and Language Circle Time program, blending speech therapy with music and movement for 3-6 year olds, which she offers as an enrichment class to preschools around the Bend area. She also performs around Oregon in her children’s band, The Party Animals, with songs inspired by her many years doing speech therapy in preschool classrooms. She can often be found riding her bike through beautiful Bend with her ukulele strapped to her back!
Sam Spaciano, M.S., CCC-SLP
Lauren Del Mar, M.S., CCC-SLP
Lauren has a Masters in Speech Language Pathology from East Carolina University and has worked with children throughout Central Oregon since 2018. Her career has focused on working with children with a variety of needs including articulation, dysfluency and delayed expressive communication, with a special interest in family coaching and play-based therapies for those aged birth-5 with speech and language delays. She strongly believes in using a strengths-based approach to therapy, and starts by recognizing all the skills her clients already have, and building from there! She takes particular joy in building collaborative relationships with clients, families and other providers to achieve communication goals, and loves how improving communication has positive cascading effects on many aspects of patients’ lives.
In her spare time, Lauren loves to kayak, read, tend to her indoor plants and travel.
Sidney Davie, M.S., CCC-SLP
Sidney has a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood/Elementary Education from Warner Pacific University and a Post baccalaureate in Communication Disorders and Sciences from the University of Oregon. She received a masters degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and a Gerontology certification from Pacific University in 2022.
Sidney previously taught for several years as an early childhood/elementary teacher, which led to her career in Speech Language Pathology. She has worked with a variety of populations ranging from infants to adults with diverse communication needs. Sidney’s areas of interest include; voice, cognitive communication, social pragmatics, feeding/swallowing, and early language development. She values collaboration with families and other health care professionals to provide holistic treatment that improves the lives of the clients and families attending Juniper Therapies.
During Sidney’s spare time she enjoys reading, paddleboarding, and traveling with her husband and dog.