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Our Team
Jill Zank
Founder | Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) | Owner
Jill Zank holds a Master of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from East Carolina University and maintains her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) with the American Speech Hearing Association (ASHA). She has extensive training in working with children ages birth through middle school. Jill is a wife and a mother of 2 beautiful girls. In addition to her passion for speech and language, she enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, exercising, camping, cross country skiing and traveling.
Amy Sundheim
Applied Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, She has experience and training in autism identification and treatment that she integrates with her background in child development. She is also dedicated to supervising others in using a play-based model rooted in applied behavior analysis during treatment. She loves to collaborate with parents, school staff, and specialists around the state. When not at the clinic or in Homer-area schools, Amy can be found boating on the waters of Kachemak Bay, making concoctions in the kitchen, reading by the woodstove, and trying to keep up with her three busy kids.
Ally High
Administrative Assistant | Office Staff
Ally is a recent high school graduate working full time at Changing Tides Therapy Services. She is the first face you see behind the front desk. She does everything from scheduling to treatment prep to cleaning to social media and web design. She loves getting to see all the amazing kids that come in everyday. During her free time she loves to do art projects, play video games, and hang out with her family and friends.
Megan Connell
Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) | Applied Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
Megan is a teacher with fifteen years’ experience working with individuals from age three to twenty-one in schools in Nome and across the Peninsula. She has an English degree from Baldwin Wallace University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a Special Education degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is currently working on completing her master’s and BCBA from the University of Cincinnati. She believes learning should be joyful and that every individual deserves dignity and a voice. During her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, skiing, trying to be a runner, and spending time with her three dogs, cat, husband, and friends.
Savanna Paladino
Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
Savanna Paladino has over 20 years of experience working in Early Childhood Education and with an Associates Degree, a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a special focus on Development and Learning and Behavior; she is joining the Changing Tides Team as an RBT (Registered Behavioral Technician). Savanna has special skills in meeting children where they are at to facilitate the MOST learning through connection and play. Savanna believes that children have so much to teach us about presence and learning about our broader human experience making her heart for learning, truly child led and play centered! After 2 years working for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District with neurodiverse populations, Savanna has found a true passion in life skill building with Homer community children and is honored to join the gang at Changing Tides as an RBT!
Amanda Ranttila
Occupational Therapist (OT)
Amanda Ranttila is a Board-Certified Occupational Therapist who received her Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy from Boston University in 2016. She has been working in pediatrics, focused on the ASD population within interdisciplinary settings for the past 7 years. Amanda also works in aquatic therapy with a variety of neurological diagnoses in children. She is currently working toward her Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate through Elizabethtown College, with an anticipated graduation date of December 2024. When she is not at work, Amanda enjoys running, relaxing with her cats, or traveling with her friends! Most recently they traveled to Iceland, where she was able to complete a bucket list item of seeing the Northern Lights!
Michelle High
Office Manager | Office Staff
Michelle is a new addition to our office staff! Michelle and Ally are our mother-daughter duo that help run everything in the office. Michelle can often be found in her office and handles lots of things behind the scenes. She makes sure Changing Tides runs smoothly by communicating with families, insurances, and surrounding business. She is Jill's right hand-man and we couldn't be more glad to have her here. Outside of work Michelle enjoys spending time with her husband and six kids as well as crafting and making crocheted stuffed animals.
Josephine Ryan
Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA)
Coming Soon!
Andrea Young
Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
Andrea is an RBT who is enthusiastic about naturalistic, child-led learning through play. One of her favorite quotes is by Maria Montessori, “Play is the work of a child.” She believes, adults need to stop talking so much and hear what children are trying to say through their words and their actions. Her goal when helping kids is to be honor them, be intentional, and adapt to best meet their individual needs so they may grow to their fullest potential. She is also raising her three amazing boys, who teach her more about her personal foibles. Currently, Andrea is finishing her elementary education degree with hopes of getting her master’s in clinical mental health counseling. Away from work, you can find her beachcombing, propagating plants, reading, researching, and spending time with family and friends. She also dreams of authoring several books, having a luscious garden, starting a non-profit (or two), and perhaps raising some alpaca.
Francesca Gutirrez
Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
Coming Soon!
Timothy Hill
Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA)
Coming soon!
Adyana Brashear
Occupational Therapist (OT)
Coming Soon!