Meet the Team 

Play-based therapy, AAC support, and caregiver coaching.
Our mission is to help children communicate with confidence and give families clear strategies that carry over into everyday life.

Play-based therapy, AAC support, and caregiver coaching.
Our mission is to help children communicate with confidence and give families clear strategies that carry over into everyday life.

Why Families Choose Lilypad

Lilypad was founded on a simple belief: speech therapy should feel supportive, empowering, and built for real life.

After more than a decade working with children and families across Long Island, I saw how much progress happens when therapy is child-led, parents are part of the process, and communication goals connect directly to everyday life. 

That's why our team focuses on building meaningful relationships with children, partnering closely with caregivers, and creating therapy plans that fit the real world, not just the therapy room.

Today, every therapist at Lilypad shares that same commitment to connection, collaboration, and helping children communicate with confidence.

Lily Goldberg

Specialties: early language & intervention, articulation, fluency, pragmatics, gestalt language processing, and voice therapy

Trained: SpeakOut! & LSVT@LOUD

Founded Lilypad Speech & Language Therapy, PLLC in 2022. 

Owner &
Speech Language Pathologist

Nicole Wernert

Specializies: early language development, AAC (Augmentative & Alternative Communication), motor speech disorders and articulation disorders

Trained: PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)

Speech Language Pathologist

Preeti Singh

Specialities: early language development, AAC (Augmentative & Alternative Communication), gestalt langauge processing, and fluency (stuttering) disorders.

Speech Language Pathologist

Lauren Mastrianni

Specializies: early language development, pragmatic language, articulation & phonology, motor speech disorders, and feeding therapy

Trained: PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) 

Speech Language Pathologist

Carly Wasserman

Specializies: early language development, pragmatic language, articulation & phonology, motor speech disorders, and feeding therapy

Trained: DIR/floortime trained 

Speech Language Pathologist

Marissa Verdi

Specializies: Feeding therapy, early language development, motor speech disorders & oral myofunctional therapy.

Trained: PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets), Oral myofunctional training, SOS Feeding Therapy 

Speech Language Pathologist

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 Our goal is to make the process feel supportive, collaborative, and clear from the very first conversation.

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