The kids call her “Chello.” Marcella Fernandez, owner of Busy Bees Kids Therapy in Tuckerton, doesn’t mind; all the adults in her practice go by their first names, making the children here feel they are on a family footing.

Busy Bees provides pediatric speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy. Fernandez is a master’s-level speech pathologist with degrees from Stockton and Temple universities and a business acumen learned from her three years in business and 16 years of…