Meet Our Therapists
At Creating Voices, we’re dedicated to providing compassionate care. With a combined 36 years of experience, our therapists provide a culture of support and community to patients and their families.
Clare Coates, M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech - Language Pathologist
Clare received a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders from The University of Arkansas. She received her Masters of Science in Communication Disorders from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Prior to starting Creating Voices, Clare has served children in the early intervention, clinic based, hospital, and home health settings.
Clare has experience in serving children with articulation impairments, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down syndrome, expressive and receptive language impairments, feeding impairments, medically complex conditions, pragmatic language impairments, and various genetic disorders.
She enjoys treating infants with feeding impairments to increase their ability to obtain nutrition, meet growth expectations, and increase social engagement with caregivers. Clare enjoys working closely with caregivers to empower them to provide for their child's nutritional and communication needs.
She is certified to provide neuro-muscular electrical stimulation (VitalStim) therapy to aid in pharyngeal dysphagia. Clare is PROMPT trained to serve children who experience Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
Clare is from Little Rock, Arkansas and has enjoyed living in Dallas since 2009. She enjoys spending quality time with her husband, three sons, family, and friends.
She is currently accepting new patients. She looks forward to meeting you and your child!
Megan Davidson, M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech - Language Pathologist
Megan graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders. She received her Masters of Science from the University of Texas at Dallas.
She became interested in becoming a speech-language pathologist because two of her brothers are on the Autism Spectrum Disorder. Megan has experience serving children in Early Childhood Intervention (ECI), clinic based, hospital and home health settings prior to starting Creating Voices.
She has experience in treating children with various developmental differences such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down syndrome, rare genetic disorders, pragmatic language impairments, articulation impairments, Childhood Apraxia of Speech and receptive and expressive language delays/impairments.
She is PROMPT trained to aid in serving children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. She has worked with children who have dysphagia and feeding difficulties. She is certified in providing neuro-muscular electrical stimulation (VitalStim) to address pharyngeal phase dysphagia. She also enjoys helping children gain communication abilities with AAC devices. Megan is dedicated to serving every child and their family to the best of her ability.
Megan is originally from Houston, TX. Megan and her husband have enjoyed living in Dallas since 2009. They have three boys and are loving every second of parenthood!
Megan has since moved to Arkansas and is no longer seeing patients at Creating Voices. She is honored to stay connected to previous patients and assist with administrative tasks.
Nicole Rhodes, M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech - Language Pathologist
Nicole graduated from Texas Christian University with Bachelor and Masters degrees in Speech Language Pathology.
She became interested in speech-language pathology after her brother received speech therapy for articulation, as well as serving as a caregiver for a child with Autism during her time at TCU. Nicole joined the Creating Voices team in 2020. Prior to working at Creating Voices, Nicole has served children in clinic based, hospital, home health, and university settings as a clinical supervisor at the graduate level. She has experience treating children with articulation and language impairments, Autism Spectrum Disorder, feeding impairments, pragmatic language impairment, Down syndrome, motor speech disorders, and various genetic disorders.
She is PROMPT trained to serve children who experience Childhood Apraxia of Speech, and certified in VitalStim neuro-muscular electrical stimulation for dysphagia management.
Nicole is from McKinney, Texas and has lived in Dallas since 2015. She enjoys spending time with her husband Robert, daughter Caroline and rescue dog, Buzz! She enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends!
She is currently accepting new patients. She looks forward to meeting you!
Margaret Sumrell, M.Ed. CCC-SLP
Speech - Language Pathologist
Margaret received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of North Georgia in 2007. Her Master’s of Education is from Georgia State University which she received in 2010.
Margaret joined the Creating Voices team in 2021. Prior to working at Creating Voices, Margaret worked in a variety of settings including rehabilitation settings with adults, schools, private clinics, and home health.
She has experience treating children with articulation and language impairments, Autism Spectrum Disorder, pragmatic language impairment, Down syndrome, motor speech disorders, and various genetic disorders.
Margaret is from Athens, Georgia and has lived in Dallas since 2010. She enjoys spending time with her husband, two kids, and their ancient goldendoodle. Margaret loves reading and nature.
She is currently accepting new patients. She looks forward to meeting you!
Our Story
Creating Voices founders, Megan and Clare, met in college, where they both studied speech pathology.
After attending graduate school in Dallas, both Megan and Clare joined reputable therapy establishments, where they worked with many children. After gaining valuable experience, they decided to take a leap of faith, and they started Creating Voices.
Creating Voices began with one therapy room where Megan and Clare alternated days seeing patients. Creating Voices grew in popularity and Megan and Clare expanded into two therapy rooms.
Since then, Creating Voices has gained two new, vetted therapists: Nicole, one of Megan’s old co-workers, and Margaret, who they met through the audiologist of PAD.
Megan has recently moved to Arkansas to support her husband’s new job opportunity. Megan finds that it has been hard to be away geographically from Creating Voices, but she takes great comfort in keeping up with previous patients and still helping with administrative tasks.
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We don’t take for granted what a special blessing it is to be friends, moms, business owners, and therapists together!