Our Services

What I offer:

Occupational Therapy is a skilled therapeutic service that helps you or your child grow, develop or return to the things you want, need, or are expected to do throughout your day.  This can be anything from holding a crayon to navigating a bus route to cooking a meal.  My goal for you as an occupational therapist is to do my absolute best to address your concerns and assist you with the things that you value most.

Because we’re able to meet at home or in the community, I can keep the focus of the session on you and your family in relation to the context of the goals and skills we’re working on.  This means that we can work on ordering food in a restaurant, can work on keyboarding skills in a library, or doing laundry in your basement. I believe it’s incredibly powerful to provide treatment in the places and in the ways that will benefit you the most and allow you and/or your child to be the most regulated and therefore able to learn.

Areas of Specialty

    • Utilizing a child’s unique sense of joy, play skills, and preferred activities, I can support motivation in other skill areas, support social emotional, sensory processing, and emotional regulation growth.

    • While I don’t work to change a child’s play (all play is functional!), knowing what makes your child happiest through playful engagement supports all other areas of growth.

    • Fostering play, connection, and belonging in many kiddos with ASD can be the most important part of therapy.  Allowing children a space with limited restrictions, allowing them to be exactly who they are and participate in their own “being” is what foundationally allows them to develop.

    • Praxis is the process that allows you to formulate a plan and execute it successfully.  This skill also involves regulation, executive skills, motor skills, coordination, body awareness, interoception and so much more!  Motor planning is an incredibly complex skill that helps us with all the tasks we need and might want to perform throughout the day, including learning new fun ways to play, how to ride a bike, and how to make macaroni and cheese.

    • Fine motor skills range from everything from clothes and fasteners (zippers, buttons) to writing and eating utensil use, to using tools in the garden and building with legos.

    • It also includes very very small fine motor muscular skills such as those involved in pre-handwriting, handwriting, and keyboard use. 

    • Fine motor skills often also include bilateral coordination, which is using your hands together.  These skills include using scissors, folding paper, stringing beads, tying knots, dressing, and so much more.

    • Visual motor skills can also be called hand-eye coordination, but it also includes all those skills that require visual processing, spatial awareness, visual discrimination, and so much more!

    • Throwing/Catching

    • Drawing, Writing, Tracing, Coloring, Cutting

    • Copying information from the board

    • Pattern recognition, visual closure, visual-spatial reasoning, visual memory, visual sequencing, and many more!

    • While PT is able to address this skill, I’m/OT able to address things like balance, strength, and tone with relation to daily activities.

    • Obstacle courses, upper extremity strength for improved handwriting, core strength for improved postural control while sitting etc.

    • Improving body awareness for clumsiness and coordination always comes before fine motor coordination!

    • A hugely complex and integrative topic!  Self regulation can be addressed lots of ways, but first it’s so important to build a connection with someone to continue to better understand their sensory needs to support this self regulation.

    • Self regulation doesn’t always have to “just do with meltdowns” as it also may involve attention and transitions, routines and activities, social skills, problem solving, flexible thinking, and so much more!

    • Developing a sensory profile, providing parent and school education.

    • Providing a better understanding on you and/or your child’s eight senses, as well as ongoing understanding of the changes someone might have regarding their sensory processing.  Children’s sensory needs change as they get older!

    • Supporting sensory needs to find tools, address hypersensitivity/hyposensitivity, building strategies, learning to support problem solving and autonomy.

    • Intrinsic Motivation

    • Preparation for Kindergarten, high school, college

    • Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Colors, 

    • Supporting academic material already being worked on in school

    • Organization, Following directions, Sensory needs for the classroom, Following a Routine, engaging with peers

    • Utensil use, straws, open top cups, picky eating, ARFID

    • Transition to purees/solid foods

    • Transition from sippy cups to straw cups

    • Expanding nutritional intake/ food variety

    • Oral motor skills for chewing, tongue movement, etc

    • Another hugely complex skill that has less to do with intelligence and far more to do with sensory systems, our cognitive capacities, and independent living skills.  Executive function has a great deal to do with the way our sensory systems interact and impact these secondary skills such as initiation and inhibition amongst many other things.  Learning more about your own sensory profile can help support how you may be able to become more proficient and successful in these areas!

    • Sequencing, memory, attention,

    • Problem solving, Task Initiation, Task Completion, 

    • Organization, Sorting, Patterns

    • Flexible thinking, developing strategies, building plans

    • Soft skills such as interview skills, social skills, resume development

    • Learning specific job skills

    • Chores, apartment management, cooking meals, bank account/money management, cleaning, grocery shopping