Christine Stanton Petersen

A California-based speech-language pathologist with nearly two decades of experience, Christine Stanton Petersen treats a wide variety of conditions related to communication and cognition. Her patients are often children, but also include adolescents and adults.
Ms. Petersen holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Communicative Disorders from the University of Redlands. She began her career in 1993, with a year-long clinical fellowship as an Associate Speech-Language Pathologist for Sharon Wilcox & Associates, a speech and language pathology clinic in Santa Barbara. Ms. Petersen treated patients with a traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s disease, stuttering, and hearing impairment, among other conditions.

Following her fellowship, Christine Stanton Petersen took a position as a Staff Speech-Language Pathologist for the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center (currently the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital). In this role, Ms. Petersen served as supervisor to the Outpatient Department of Child and Adolescent Speech/Language Services and supervisor of services for the Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program. She also treated speech-language disorders related to conditions such as selective mutism, neonatal stroke, bipolar disorder, and Landau-Kleffener syndrome.

With a California State Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology license and a Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology, Ms. Petersen started her own private practice in Newport Beach and Aliso Viejo in 1996. At her practice, Ms. Petersen’s caseload comprises primarily cases involving children with disorders such as autism spectrum disorders, developmental langauge disorders, social skills dysfunction, apraxia, and nonverbal learning disabilities. Christine Stanton Petersen also provides training programs for parents and educational professionals regarding the appropriate behaviors when interacting with children with speech or cognitive disorders.

In addition to her private practice, Christine Stanton Petersen is also the founder and Director of Circle of Friends, a communicative disorders clinic. At Circle of Friends, Ms. Petersen uses socialization, and behavioral conditioning in a group therapy environment to treat children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger’s syndrome.