Meet Our Team

Katelyn Alford
SLP - Bossier City

Katelyn graduated from Louisiana Tech in May 2021 and immediately joined the PTP family! Katelyn is passionate about helping children find their voice and providing them with tools to be successful communicators. One of Katelyn’s favorite aspects of her job is building relationships with her clients and their families. Katelyn loves the creativity in making every activity and daily living task an opportunity to improve speech and language skills!

Heaven Cunanan
SLP - Shreveport City

Heaven started at our Shreveport clinic in May of 2022! She graduated with her master’s degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 2020. She enjoys working with literacy and tries to incorporate them into each session! Heaven loves co-treatments and brainstorming for new and fun activities to use in therapy. When she’s away from work, she enjoys trying new food, watching movies/shows, and spending time with family and friends!

Loren Gray
SLPA - Bossier City

Loren graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in December of 2021 and joined PTP shortly after. Loren has filled many roles at PTP and is currently one of our SLPA’s. She enjoys working with early childhood language and is passionate about helping her clients progress. When not working, Loren is often found back home in Texas spending time with her family and riding horses.

Jamie Henry
SLP - Bossier City

Jamie has been with PTP since February 2022! She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Pre-Professional Speech-Language Pathology from Louisiana Tech University and Masters degree in Speech- Language Pathology from ULM! Jamie is passionate about helping children find their voice! Whether it’s saying a first word or mastering a new sound, she loves getting excited with children and their families over these exciting milestones. When she is not at PTP, Jamie enjoys spending time with her family at the lake.

Alexis Little
SLP - Bossier City

Alexis joined the PTP family in 2021 at the Bossier Clinic. Alexis has a passion for pediatric speech-language pathology because she gets to be a small part of helping little ones who were once shy, frustrated, and often struggled to communicate grow into confident and independent communicators. She loves working closely with families to nurture children’s speech and language development to help each child find their voice so that they may express themselves with confidence and gain the skills to build meaningful relationships with those around them.

Gracie Maxwell
SLP - Bossier City

Gracie started at our Bossier clinic in June of 2022. She is from Farmerville, LA and attended Louisiana Tech University. She continued her education at Louisiana Tech University where she received her master’s in Speech-Language Pathology. Gracie loves American Sign Language and tries to incorporate it into all her therapy sessions. Outside of work, Gracie enjoys spending time with friends and family, attending church, exercising, traveling, and reading a good book. Gracie’s favorite part of working at PTP is building relationships with her patients and their families and watching her kiddos achieve their goals!

Courtlyn Parker
SLP - Shreveport

Courtlyn joined the PTP family in June of 2022. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Speech-Language Pathology from Louisiana Tech University. Originally a Shreveport native, she was excited to move back and pour into the community she grew up in. Courtlyn loves channeling her creativity into fun, motivating activities for children that directly focus on the growth of her patients’ speech, language, and swallowing skills. She loves working with the pediatric population because of the opportunity to help foster children’s development that sets them up for success for the rest of their lives.

Kelsey Rowell
Clinic Director, SLP - Shreveport

Kelsey came to our Shreveport location in April of 2021. She enjoys forming relationships with her clients and their families. She strives to make an impact on each child and to assist them with learning a way to functionally communicate with others. Kelsey enjoys working closely with the OT department to help her clients improve in a variety of ways and to even learn more herself. Kelsey believes speech therapy is an adventure and has a desire to help kids reach their speech, language, and communication goals.

Brooke Schafer
Team Lead, SLP - Bossier City

Brooke has been a Speech-Language Pathologist since 2013 after graduating with her Masters in Communication Disorders from LSUHSC. After 9 years in both the school and medical settings, Brooke came to PTP in the spring of 2022! Brooke enjoys working with early intervention specializing in AAC and Autism. When she’s not working, she can usually be found horseback riding, in her garden, or spending time with her 2 dogs!

Emily Watkins
CEO, Owner, SLP

Kathy Deen
PTA - Bossier city

Kathy Deen came to the Bossier location of PTP in Sept 2022. She is from Benton, LA. Kathy has 24 years of Physical Therapy Assistant experience in Shreveport/Bossier/and East TX. She graduated from Bossier Parish Community College with an Associates in Applied Science in Physical Therapy Assistant in 1998. She loves spending family time with husband Kenneth, and children Avery and Alivia. Her kitties Tigger and Binx. She also is active in her church, helping in the praise and worship team. She feels very blessed to have the opportunity to work with the wonderful children here at PTP and she feels that it is her calling to be in her profession. She enjoys experiencing the resiliency of children no matter the circumstance and always the infectious smiles.

Hailey Greene
DPT - Bossier city

Hailey started working at our Bossier Clinic in August of 2022! She is from Pineville, LA and attended Louisiana Tech University, where she was involved with the Regal Blues Dance team and Phi Mu Sorority. She then went to LSU Health Shreveport, where she received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy. Hailey always knew she wanted to work with the pediatric population and loves the opportunity to be a source of encouragement and guidance. Her favorite part of the job is forming relationships with kiddos and their families. She recently got married to her husband in December 2021, and they have a furbaby, Henry, a cockapoo! In her spare time, she loves being actively involved with her church community, reading books, and going to the beach!

April Wall
PT - Bossier city

April started working at our Bossier, PTP clinic in October of 2022, after coming to us from a pediatric hospital and outpatient setting. April graduated in May of 2019 with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from LSUHSC-Shreveport. April enjoys playing with each child in a purposeful way to help them achieve their goals. She prefers to have goals from the parents and child to all work towards what is meaningful to each family. She has a passion for learning new techniques and wants to continue to use education opportunities to best serve each child and their family.

Britt Coker
Employee Success Manager - Bossier City

Britt has been with our company since November 2020, and we first got to know her as a patient mom. She has always been passionate about helping her family as an advocate for her own son with special needs but also, she has a gift of encouraging others! Britt has successfully handled nearly every position at our clinic with poise and positivity but currently works as our employee success manager. She truly loves to see all employees at PTP play an impactful role in a child’s life and achieve their potential professionally at our clinic. If there is a theme or party, she is probably responsible in some capacity. If someone needs encouragement or a shoulder to lean on, she is your girl! We have been so blessed to have Britt at our clinic and witness all of the love and kindness she pours into others daily.

Sarah Campbell
Patient Services Coordinator - Bossier City

Sarah joined the PTP team in August 2021. She was born and raised in Shreveport, La. Sarah is passionate about assisting families and their children from an administrative standpoint. She loves spending time with her sweet family and attending church. One of her hobbies includes thrift shopping. She cannot pass up the opportunity to score a good deal! Sarah is currently enrolled at Sothern University. She is studying to obtain a degree in Human Services. With her drive and desire to help others she knows with this degree she will be able to help further assist families in the community.

Kelly Gerard
Collections Specialist - BOSSIER CITY

Kelly joined our PTP family in September 2022. She has lived in the Haughton/Bossier City area for the last 22 years and graduated from Airline High School in 2002. Kelly also graduated from Bossier Parish Community College in 2017 with a degree in Medical Office Administration, with a concentration in medical billing and coding. She loves the work she does and the people, patients, and parents that she gets to interact with every day! Kelly loves spending time with her 2 girls, friends, and family. She loves fishing and hunting.

Christy Martin
Scheduling Coordinator - Shreveport

Christy joined PTP in November 2021. She was born and raised in Shreveport, La. Christy graduated from Southwood High School and got her Associates Degree from Bossier Parish Community College. She enjoys spending time with her husband Chris, two sons Camden and Caysen and their German Shepherd Bayleigh. In her spare time Christy enjoys traveling with her family and hanging out with friends. She really loves her job and getting to interact with the patients and their families every day.

Kristin Nation
Revenue Cycle Manager

Kristin joined Pediatric Therapy Partners in January 2023. She is from Minden Louisiana. Kristin is happily married and has 2 wonderful children. She graduated from DeVry University in 2020, with her bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration. Kristin is passionate about providing administrative assistance to families and their children. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her two dogs and hanging out with her family.

Lindsay Smith
Scheduling Coordinator - Bossier city

Lindsay joined the Bossier PTP team in August of 2022. She is from Shreveport, LA and graduated from Caddo Magnet High. The Smith family now resides in Benton and loves being part of the community. Lindsay has two energetic kids and a wonderful husband of 12 years. She enjoys reading (she can’t pass up an interesting book), doing puzzles and movie nights with the family! Lindsay loves her role at PTP! She enjoys seeing the patients every day and speaking with the families, helping anyway she can! Lindsay is a big advocate for the benefits of pediatric therapy, it has made a huge impact on her daughter’s life! She is excited to grow with the PTP team!