ABOUT

Over the last decade, I have been integrating my deep passion for health, functional/ integrative medicine, nutrition, optimized hydration, mitochondrial function, airway health, breathing and mindset into my practice to help my patients achieve even better results.

We are so incredibly and intricately designed - it’s mind blowing and awe inspiring!  Absolutely everything that makes our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies is interconnected!

So it is this perspective that guides me in my daily personal and professional life.  I see each of my patients as having an endless potential to heal, reclaim their power and fully realize what they were meant to be in this lifetime.

My current, ever-evolving perspective has been enriched and influenced by many incredible physicians and professionals, whose intelligence, courage, honesty, dedication to the truth, and inquisitive nature have been an inspiration!

Here are some of them- Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Isaac Eliaz, Dr. Emoto, Dr. Klinghardt, Dr. Tennant, Dr. Pollack,   Dr. Val Kanter, Dr. Cowan, (the late) Dr. Buttar, Dr. Connealy, Anat Baniel, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Donna Eden, Dave Asprey, Joe Dispenza, Dr. Seneff, Dr. Minkoff,  Dr. Zach Bush,  Dr. Ibrahim Karim, Dr. Perlmutter, Dr. Zaghi, Dr. Jess Peatross, Dr. Northrup and many others!

My mission is to:

• Inspire and empower you to reclaim your health.
• Help you better understand the underlying causes of your condition and their interconnectedness.
• Inform you of all the different options for treatments so you can make an informed choice.
• Provide the best possible care I can
• Share resources that can expedite your healing journey.
• Remind you how incredible, powerful, and capable you truly are!

There is no such official designation or certification (not yet). This is a title I use as it more accurately reflects my philosophy and approach as a clinician.

An integrative or functional speech and language pathologist is a clinician, who looks at the person as a whole. A clinician who considers the relationships between multiple, at times seemingly unrelated, areas. A clinician who is passionate about helping people get to the root cause of their challenge, instead of providing compensatory services with minimal and questionable results.

For example:

1. How the way you sleep can affect your swallowing and voice.
2. How your breathing can affect your physical and mental stamina, voice, anxiety and more.
3. How certain deficiencies can contribute to cognitive and other health challenges.
4. How improper digestion affects every aspect of health (including ability to swallow and cognitive skills).
5. How breathing affects digestion.
6. How your mouth posture can contribute to neck and back tension/pain.
7. How snoring or noisy breathing can contribute to poor attention, mood swings and much more.

I look forward to meeting and working with you.  If we do not get to meet, I wish you the very best on your journey.  

Sincerely,

Zara Mouboiadjian, M.S., CCC-SLP 

Love, Live, Matter

Education/ Credentials 

• B.S. Psychology, California State University, Northridge 
• M.S. Communication Disorders and Sciences, California State University, Northridge
• I hold a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech - Language and Hearing Association) License - California

Professional Training 

• Orofacial myofunctional therapy (AOMT and IAOMT) 
• Buteyko Breathing method (with Patrick McKeown; voice optimization, sleep apnea, anxiety, asthma, etc.)
• Integrative Breathing Therapy (Rosalba Courtney) 
• Lee Silverman Voice Therapy, LSVT (for patients with Parkinson’s disease)
• Lessac Madden Resonant Voice Therapy
• Conversation Training Therapy (CTT)
• Neuro-Fascial Release Techniques/ Fast and Functional Approach
• Kinesio taping
• Anat Baniel’s From Fixing To Connecting, The 9 Essentials of Neuromovement
• PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)
• Hanen, It Takes Two To Talk program (language stimulation for young children)
• Essential Oils (for vagal nerve health, establishing parasympathetic dominance, cognitive enhancement, nasal rehabilitation)
• Auricular therapy (affecting health via pressure points on the ear)
• Tuning fork treatment for scar tissue
• Numerous other courses on voice, swallowing disorders and more...