Our Staff

Theresa is a native to Florida, growing up in Sarasota. After graduation from high school, she completed her AS degree at Manatee Community College in Business. She opened a family daycare while her children were growing up and cared for young children in her home for 10 years. She received the highest level of certification for a home daycare and was National Certified as well. An opportunity to take her caring and concern from the young to the hearing impaired community through a family member has changed her life completely. She is genuinely devoted to her patients, will go above and beyond to help her patients hear better whether caring for them in person or over the phone. She takes her time with every patient, each and every visit. She is now Nationally Board Certified (this highest level of certification for a hearing specialist), a member of the International Hearing Society, Florida Society of Hearing Healthcare Professionals and licensed Hearing Aid Specialist since 2005. Due to her passion, she shares her knowledge and expertise training new specialist coming into the field. She looks forward to helping everyone hear better, enjoy their lives again with their family and friends and communicate better. Without your hearing, how can you enjoy life?

Jennifer Wilson is an Audio Technician. She is originally from Portland, Maine and moved to Port Charlotte, FL in June 2021. She attended Intercoast Career Institution, for Registered Medical Assistant, and started working at Hearing Centers of Charlotte, Port Charlotte, FL. She began working in the hearing industry in August 2022 and was drawn to the profession because after obtaining her RMA certification, she accepted a position with MMP Otolaryngology in 2014. She had a great mentor that allowed her to work alongside him, learning and utilizing her skills in the ENT profession, Audiology was at the top of her interests.

What she loves most about saving hearing lives is she was able to witness firsthand the impact and the outcome cochlear implant surgery had on a patient’s ability to hear again and for some for the very first time, she knew that the hearing world was something she was drawn too and wanted to be a part of it within her professional field. She strives to learn everything she can from Theresa Stevens, HIS, since her employment within her clinic, Theresa has taught her tools and skills to allow her to utilize what she has learned from her previous employment to where she works now to help as many people as she can to hear better and make an impact in their hearing journey. She is thrilled to work for an amazing organization with an outstanding mentor by her side that shares the same goals as she does and the opportunity to work every day with patients and their hearing journey.

Outside of saving hearing lives, she loves hobbies such as refurbishing furniture, painting, DIY projects, flea markets, hiking, sightseeing, playing cribbage, spending time with her family back in Maine every opportunity she can get, and cannot forget about her French bulldog, named Vinnie as well.

Sheila Laverty is a Patient Services Coordinator. She is originally from Soldotna, Alaska and moved to Port Charlotte, Florida in 2017. Sheila attended Southern Technical College and started working at a Private Doctor’s office in 2018. Sheila began working in the hearing industry in 2024 and was drawn to the profession because she enjoys working with patients and taking care of others.

What Sheila loves most about saving hearing lives is how happy the patients look after being fitted with their first pair of hearing aids. Sheila strives to improve daily on becoming more efficient, while making sure the patients feel like they are the number one priority in her everyday work with patients.

Outside of saving hearing lives, Sheila loves hobbies such as reading, pool time, cooking, and road trips with her husband, John and their Chihuahua, Chica.