Meet Miss Lena

Your guide through this exploration of Mind, Body & Speech.

Branch Out Speech & Yoga is a speech therapy, wellness, and yoga practice designed for kiddos from birth to adolescence. Early learning services are envisioned for all, with mindful instruction for those with special needs.

Lena Santacaterina is a licensed speech-language pathologist (CCC- SLP), focused on: feeding therapy, sensory-integrated therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder, language development, and speech production. Lena earned her Masters in Speech and Hearing Sciences from UNC - Chapel Hill. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida, where she studied Communication Sciences and Disorders with an independent study in Spirituality and Health. Lena has nearly a decade of experience providing clinical speech-language assessments and treatment in families’ homes, outpatient hospitals, in-patient rehab centers, and in all levels of the NC public school system (pre-K through high school). Lena has been practicing yoga and mindfulness since adolescence. She is a 200-hour Register Yoga Teacher (RYT) with two additional 30-hour certificates for teaching trauma-informed yoga and Radiant Child Yoga for ADD and Autism.

Branch Out provides virtual and in-person treatment for: pragmatic (social) language impairment, receptive/expressive language delay, childhood apraxia of speech, articulation, and fluency (stuttering). We also provide individualized and group instruction for: executive functioning, attention, and emotional-regulation.