Our Staff
- Clinic Owner
- Clinical Director
- Occupational Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Speech and Language Pathologists
- Licensed Massage Therapist
- Office Staff
- Aides
Clinic Owner
Kimberly Alquist OTR/L, CHT
kimberlya@bpandht.com
Kimberly has over 20 years of experience in pediatric occupational therapy and with hand therapy in both the pediatric and adult populations. She is a University of Washington graduate, with affiliations in pediatrics, psychiatry, physical disabilities, and orthopedic hand rehabilitation. She has worked in school settings, private practice, and acute orthopedic hand surgery rehabilitation. She uses an eclectic approach involving her training in modalitites, splinting, myofascial release, acute surgical rehabilitation, overuse syndrome intervention, NDT, SI, functional vision development, and oral-motor development. Kimberly helped standardize the ETCH (Evaluation Tool of Children Handwriting). She is also a Certified Kinesiotaping Practitioner. She specializes in custom spliniting, positioning and casting. Her interests include the study of the upper extremity kinematics in relation to development which lead her to a post-graduate independent study involving dissection of anatomy at the University of Washington.
Clinical Director
Lisa Burns MPT, ATC
lisab@bpandht.com
Lisa graduated with her Master of Physical therapy degree from Saint Louis University in 2001. Prior to coming to BPHT in 2006, she spent 5 years in outpatient orthopedic rehabilitation and contracting as an athletic trainer at local high schools. Her areas of interest include early intervention, gross motor skill acquisition, developmental and genetic disorders, sensory integration, and limb deficiency. She has developed an intervention program for children with obstetrical brachial plexus injuries that spans from birth-teen years. The focus of this program is the promotion of function, in conjunction with the physician, through prevention of muscular and skeletal problems common after this injury. She focuses on a family-centered approach to facilitate optimal therapeutic results by promoting carryover between the clinic and home. Her hobbies include hiking, road and mountain biking, and skiing.
Occupational Therapists
Vicki Nelson, OTR/L
vickin@bpandht.com
Vicki has over 10 years of experience in pediatric occupational therapy. Vicki is a graduate of University of Washington with a degree in psychology and University of Oklahoma for occupational therapy. Her experience comes from public schools, private clinics, and hospital settings. Her interests are early intervention, sensory integrative disorder, and fine motor skill acquisition. Vicki believes strongly that communication between the school, physicians, and private therapy clinics is key to the success of each child. She has education in the Alert Program, Handwriting Without Tears, Loops and Other Groups, Infant Assessment Training at the University of Washington, and oral-motor/feeding. Vicki is the mother of three children and enjoys running, family, and quiet evenings once her children are asleep.
Maria Soderqvist, OTR/L
marias@bpandht.com
Maria graduated in Sweden with her degree in occupational therapy in 1989. She has experience with children and adult populations in hospital and private settings in neurology, rheumatology, and psychiatry departments. Maria is very interested in aquatic therapy and she was an instructor in Halliwick Swimming for children with special needs for many years. Maria has a passion for dogs and has seen how they can be an attribute in the therapeutic setting. When not working, Maria lives an active life interested in the outdoors and running. She spends most of her time with her husband, 3 children playing competitive sports, and 2 dogs.
Julianne Kroll, OTR/L
juliannek@bpandht.com
Julianne received her BS in Occupational Therapy from the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, WA in 2002. She has been practicing as a pediatric occupational therapist for the past 5 1/2 years. Julianne has taken continuing education classes focusing on handling techniques, visual skills, bilateral coordination, sensory processing skills and aquatic therapy. Her interests include visual motor/visual perceptual skills, aquatic therapy, motor development and bilateral integration. Julianne spends her leisure time remodelling her house, doing pilates and spending time with friends and family. She is currently working toward her Advanced Masters degree in Occupational Therapy from Texas Woman's University in Houston, TX.
Erica Verkamp, COTA
ericav@bpandht.com
Erica is a COTA and attended school in Southern California at Santa Ana College. She moved to Washington in the fall of 2007. She has been a COTA for 2 1/2 years and is planning on continuing her education. She has worked with early intervention, school based and clinic based therapy. Working in pediatrics is so fullfilling and it's amazing to see the progress that these amazing kids make. Besides work, she also enjoys exporing Washington, meeting new people, and being around friends. She misses the weather of Southern California at times, but Washington is her new home and she plans on staying here for a very long time!
Jonathan, OTR/L
jonathan@bpandht.com
Jonathan graduated with a Master of Occupational Therapy from the University of Sydney in 2006. Prior to this Jonathan completed a Bachelor of Psychology at the Australian National University. Since graduating he has worked at a community rehabilitation center for adults with mental illness. He has also spent time at a major acute hospital in Sydney, working in orthopedics, neurosciences and general surgery. Away from work Jonathan enjoys being outdoors and is a member of the Seattle Grizzlies Australian Rules football club.
Physical Therapists
Lisa Burns MPT, ATC
lisab@bpandht.com
Lisa graduated with her Master of Physical therapy degree from Saint Louis University in 2001. Prior to coming to BPHT in 2006, she spent 5 years in outpatient orthopedic rehabilitation and contracting as an athletic trainer at local high schools. Her areas of interest include early intervention, gross motor skill acquisition, developmental and genetic disorders, sensory integration, and limb deficiency. She has developed an intervention program for children with obstetrical brachial plexus injuries that spans from birth-teen years. The focus of this program is the promotion of function, in conjunction with the physician, through prevention of muscular and skeletal problems common after this injury. She focuses on a family-centered approach to facilitate optimal therapeutic results by promoting carryover between the clinic and home. Her hobbies include hiking, road and mountain biking, and skiing.
Kim Vinc, DPT
KimV@bpandht.com
Kim is a physical therapist whose passion is helping kids of all ages meet their greatest potential. Prior to becoming a physical therapist, Kim attended both the University of Washington and Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA) for her Physical Therapy degree. Her previous work experience includes working in the Physical Therapy Department at the University of Washington Medical Center. Kim also spent 8 summers, from high school through college, working for a day camp serving children with special needs. Areas of pediatric physical therapy that especially interest Kim are assistive technology, wheelchairs, and early intervention. When Kim is not working, she enjoys traveling with her husband, decorating her new house and working in her yard. She also enjoys spending lots of time outdoors.
Speech and Language Pathologists
Stephanie Boyle MS, CCC-SLP
stephaniep@bpandht.com
Stephanie acquired a Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Texas Womens University in May of 2007. She obtained her Bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of South Florida. Stephanie is PROMPT trained and enjoys working with all pediatric clients. She grew up in Florida and moved to the great northwest with her dog after graduation. She enjoy playing softball and spending time with friends and family.
Sharlet Jensen MS, CCC-SLP
sharletj@bpandht.com
Sharlet graduated with a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Washington. She worked for four years in early intervention, gaining extensive experience working with families of children with autism spectrum disorders, apraxia, hearing impairments, general language delays, and articulation/phonological delays. She then spent a year in an elementary school where she gained additional experience working with children with high functioning autism/Asperger Syndrome, word finding impairments, and early literacy delays. Sharlet believes strongly in providing a structured, step by step approach to acheiving a child's communication goals while capitalizing on a child's personal interests and strengths. Outside of work she enjoy riding horses, hiking, and playing with the animals on her small farm in Arlington.
Licensed Massage Therapist
Allese Robertson-Johnson, LMP
AlleseR@bpandht.com
Allese is a certified clinical massage therapist who graduated from Northwest School of Massage in December of 2004. She utilizes a wide variety of techniques including cranio-sacral, swedish, reiki, and myofacial release. Her true desire is to help humanity, starting with the healing generated through her hands. She treats the entire lifespan from infant to adult, focusing on the disabled and the injured. Her vision is to improve the quality of life for all her patients. She loves writing poetry and collecting rocks and sand. She seeks out laughter and is a #1 nutrition junkie!
Office Staff
Michele Lee
michelel@bpandht.com
Michele has fifteen years experience as an educator in elementary and special education in public and private schools. She earned her BA and Teaching Certification in elementary education from Mills College in CA and an MA in Education, with emphasis in Cognitive Linguistics from UC Berkeley. She is passionate about advocacy and assistive/adaptive technology for children with developmental delays and along the Autism Spectrum. She enjoys reading, hiking and fishing, and making children's picture books.
Olga
olgas@bpandht.com
Olga has 20 years of experience in accounting, 10 of which were working as a senior accountant. She completed the Billing and Coding program at Cambridge College. Olga's hobbies are cooking, reading, hiking, and traveling. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
Julie Lobkov
juliel@bpandht.com
Julie graduated from Cambridge College in Bellevue. She studied medical billing and coding and has worked for BPHT since 2006. She enjoys playing sports, traveling, and spending time with her friends.
Aides
Amanda Lytz
amandal@bpandht.com
Amanda graduated from Gonzaga University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. She plans on getting her masters degree in Occupational Therapy. Amanda has worked with children teaching art classes and as a summer camp counselor. She enjoys yoga and dancing.
Carol Matthew
carolm@bpandht.com
Carol studied Early Childhood Education and Developmental Psychology, graduating with a BA degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University. She worked within the schools of Santa Barbara as a Preschool Teacher, Playground Supervisor, Special Education Aide, and Health Office Assistant for many years before coming to BPHT as a Therapy Aide. Carol is happily married for 25 years to her husband Scott, and they have two fantastic grown children Christopher and Samantha.
Jeanette Klaber
jeanettek@bpandht.com
Jeanette is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in pre physical therapy. She has experience working with kids in aquatic therapy as well as sport related injuries. She is excited to gain more experience working at BPHT while pursuing her goal of attending physical therapy school.