Founded by Elizabeth, a seasoned Speech Language Pathologist with a decade of experience, and Sara, an Occupational Therapist with over 20 years in the field, SOAR Pediatric Therapy is the result of a shared vision to provide high-quality, community-based care. Originally, we each operated our own private practices, dreaming of one day combining our expertise. From day one, our collaboration was founded on a mutual commitment to serve families with the utmost care, fostering growth and progress.

In April 2022, it became clear that merging our practices was the best way to expand and enhance our services. This union allowed us to offer more comprehensive, in-home and community-based pediatric therapy services in Nashville. Our services now include Occupational, Speech, and Feeding Therapy.

We are proud of the multi-disciplinary team we have built, which includes some of the most creative, skilled, and compassionate therapists in the industry. The SOAR team is passionate about meeting, collaborating with, and serving families in our community.

Thank you for visiting us. We are excited to partner with your family and help your child soar to new heights!

Meet the Founders

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  • Co-Founder, Lead Occupational Therapist

    Sara is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience working with the pediatric population in a variety of different settings including homes, outpatient clinics, and in schools. She received her OT degree from the University of Kansas, and is certified with NBCOT and is licensed in the state of TN. Sara specializes in sensory processing, emotional regulation, self regulation and attention difficulties, reflex integration, and developmental delays. Her additional trainings include: STAR Institute Sensory Processing Disorder Advanced Intensive Mentorship Level 1, Astronaut Training Certified, Vital Links Quickshifts, Primitive Reflex Integration and Handwriting Without Tears. Sara enjoys gardening, spending time with family and friends, and traveling with her husband, J, and their three boys Eli, Xander and Liam.

  • Co-Founder, Lead Speech Pathologist

    Elizabeth Sestini is a speech language pathologist and feeding therapist with over 10 years of experience working with the pediatric population. Elizabeth graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduate degree in Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology and Loyola University with a Masters degree in Speech and Language Pathology. Elizabeth specializes in sensory feeding, childhood apraxia of speech as well as augmentative and alternative communication. Elizabeth is certified in PROMPT, SOS Approach to Feeding, Food Scientist Model, The Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP) as well as Language Acquisition Through Motor planning (LAMP). When not working, Elizabeth enjoys traveling with her husband Mark and children, Amelia, Ella & Charlie.

SOAR Pediatric Therapy is a community of skilled, experienced, passionate and creative therapists with a single shared goal: partnering with families to help be successful and watch their child SOAR. 

In 4 years, we have grown to having 14 therapists on our team and serving over 150 families in the Middle TN area. Our team of dedicated therapists offered a comprehensive range of services designed to support your child’s unique journey.

Explore our services and find out how your child can SOAR to new heights in development and every day life!

  • Not only were the sessions effective and tailored to my child, but they were fun and playful as well. Do I even need to mention how valuable it is to have this done in the home environment?!

    - Samantha B.

  • Keely is extremely experienced, knowledgeable, creative and excellent with kids. Communication is great and it's clear she really cares about her patients....The whole practice is very professional and responsive. This place is a gem!

    - Beth D.

  • Kim does an excellent job with communicating and collaborating with us and my child’s school. We are very lucky to have her – if you are needing a kind/dependable OT, Kim is it!

    -Meli S.