The Tongue Therapy Group

Myofunctional Client Services

We provide virtual myofunctional therapy services for people all over the world.

  • Get your physical materials in the mail

  • Access to online program with educational material and additional resources

  • Meet with us virtually and share videos

  • We’ll coordinate with local providers as needed

Professional Training

Are you a dentist, RDH or SLP that wants to become a myofunctional therapist?

Then the Becoming a Tongue Therapist 15-week course is for you!

Recorded lectures and live meetings every week to review, get guidance, ask questions and practice with ACTUAL clients.

Includes additional therapy tools and educational materials, as well as continuing support in a professional support group!

What is Myofunctional Therapy?

The focus of myofunctional therapy is to achieve these five goals: constant nasal breathing, constant lip seal, proper tongue posture at rest, proper tongue movement while swallowing, and eliminating muscle compensations. This is achieved by utilizing targeted exercises for the muscles of the face, lips, tongue and soft palate to strengthen and coordinate the muscles and retrain your body’s subconscious habits.

Breathing is the basis of life, every cell in your body is reliant on oxygen to function, and HOW you are breathing makes a big difference. Nasal breathing is far superior to mouth breathing and leads to better oxygen absorption, alleviates allergies, lessens sleep disordered breathing, lowers risk for chronic diseases and promotes proper facial growth.

Your tongue placement and movements when chewing, swallowing, and at rest plays a key role in how your facial bones and dental arches develop. Proper tongue posture early on in life can alleviate the need for palatal expanders or even braces as a whole.

Myofunctional therapy uses targeted exercises to optimize the basic elements of life, eating and breathing, in order to naturally remedy many chronic, underlying issues.

Get the full oral function guidebook!

Meet the Team

  • Owner, Myofunctional Therapist

    Ashley started The Tongue Therapy Group as "The Tongue Therapist" in 2021. Previously a dental hygienist, she became passionate about myofunctional therapy and breathwork after discovering how her own tongue-tie and mouth breathing habit were greatly impacting her health and sleep quality. Shocked that she wasn't made aware of these issues with her history of working in dental offices and her dental hygiene schooling, she became passionate about educating others on the importance of oral function and helping them find relief from similar issues.

  • Myofunctional therapist

    Lindsay's background is also in dental hygiene. Fun fact, she and Ashley were actually in the same class! According to Ashley she was easily the smartest student in the program. Lindsay is a mom to a 1-year-old, and continues to work as a dental hygienist part time but is passionate about her work as a myofunctional therapist and loves to take a more holistic approach to her work.

  • Myofunctional Therapist

    Presh has worked as a dental hygienist for over 20 years! After learning more about proper oral function and tethered oral tissues she began seeing how much these issues have been impacting her patients. She began digging deeper and realized that she and her own kids had myofunctional issues that traditional dental trainings don't teach you to look for! This drove her to pursue myofunctional therapy to educate and help people get relief from the mouth breathing, sleep disordered breathing and oral function issues that she wishes she knew about sooner.

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