Owner of Valley Family Therapeutics, LLC, Co-Owner of Connective Intervention Services, LLC, Adjunct Professor at Moravian University
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Sonja Burmeister is an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Science and Postprofessional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy programs at Moravian University. She has been passionate about Pediatrics, focusing her career on helping children with special needs since 1996. She continued her education, obtaining an Early Intervention Certification in 2008, and then went on to specialize in Pediatric Neurosurgery as a Physician’s Assistant. She brings her wealth of clinical knowledge in Occupational Therapy and Medicine to her teaching.
Beginning in 2003, Sonja established her first business providing multidisciplinary Early Intervention services, which now serves Lehigh, Northampton, Montgomery, and Berks Counties in Pennsylvania. She then expanded her business portfolio to begin a second practice, providing school-based and outpatient therapy throughout the Lehigh Valley. Sonja is a certified Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule administrator and evaluates, diagnoses, and treats children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sonja has proudly taught at Moravian University since 2019.