What sets SST apart
-
15+ year of experience with multilingual development and third-culture families
-
Consistent, weekly one-on-one sessions
-
Services delivered at homes, in schools, barnehage or wherever your child learns best
-
Established partnerships with international schools (ISS, BISS, The Children’s House, and Sandnes International)
-
Flexible, practical therapy rooted in your child’s day-to-day needs
-
A commitment to understanding the whole child, not just the diagnosis
Why this matters
If you’ve tried to navigate the system and ended up exhausted, overwhelmed, or still waiting, I’ve been there too.
If you’re figuring out how to support your child’s development across multiple languages, you don’t have to do it alone.
And if you just want someone who gets it, and knows how to help, I’m here.
Speech-language pathologist. Third-culture parent. Someone who gets it.
Hi, I’m Hilary. I’m the founder of Stavanger Speech Therapy, where I work with English-speaking children who are growing up between languages, cultures, and identities.
If that sounds like your child, you’re in the right place. This practice exists to support families like yours.
My Approach
I’m a licensed speech-language pathologist who has spent over a decade in Norway working with kids whose stories don’t fit into neat little boxes. I specialize in working with English-speaking kids who are navigating multilingual and cross cultural lives. My approach is grounded in relationships and informed by evidence-based practice. Every session is tailored to your child’s strengths, needs, and lived experience.
I’m also raising two bilingual, third-culture kids of my own, an experience that keeps me connected to the reality of what this work looks like at home, not just in theory. It shapes how I show up, how I listen, and how I help.
How I got here
My career began in Texas, supporting young children and their families through early intervention and in a bilingual school setting. With a high caseload and limited resources, I couldn’t always support families the way I knew they needed. I saw teachers who cared deeply but didn’t have the bandwidth. I saw parents who wanted guidance but couldn’t get it consistently.
That experience taught me that meaningful progress takes collaboration, trust, and support that fits into the messy, real rhythms of daily life, and I longed for the space to do it right.
When I moved to Norway in 2014, I wasn’t planning to start a practice. But just weeks after settling into Stavanger, a family reached out looking for someone who spoke English, understood their child’s needs, and wouldn’t put them on a waiting list. And I realized their story wasn’t unique. There were no private options for English speaking families.
So in 2015, I started Stavanger Speech Therapy, the first private practice in the region dedicated to the needs of English-speaking families. My intention was not just to fill a gap, but to build the kind of support I wished had existed for every family I’d worked with before. One with time to connect, space to collaborate, and the freedom to support each child in the way they actually need.
