Meet The Speech-Language Pathologist

Brett Welch,                PhD, CCC-SLP

Dr. Brett Welch (any pronouns) is a passionate clinician-researcher. Clinically, Dr. Welch specializes in providing gender-affirming voice care and working with functional voice and breathing disorders. These areas of clinical work often intersect heavily with psychological components like identity, personality, and stress. As a researcher, Dr. Welch leverages advanced quantitative methods to interrogate these psycho-social-vocal relationships to better understand their interactions and how they relate to people’s psycho-social well-being and clinical outcomes.

Dr. Welch is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas. As a queer individual, Brett is an LGBTQIA+ activist who is dedicated to furthering LGBTQIA+ rights and educating other professionals on cultural humility when working with LGBTQIA+ clients. He has presented at various state and national conferences over these issues, and continues to educate and advocate for the betterment of the LGBTQIA+ Community to his peers and colleagues regularly. 

Brett was raised in the Houston area. He moved to Austin to study Linguistics and Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Texas at Austin. He then earned his Master's in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Brett then completed a PhD in Communication Science and Disorders from the University of Pittsburgh. Brett recently moved to Kansas City for further training in advanced statistical methods at the University of Kansas as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology.