OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Every aspect of your life is filled with meaningful occupations.  When you suffer an illness or impairment, we work with you to increase your quality of life.  Our job is to treat the whole person.  

We address the physical, mental, and behavioral to achieve complete wellness.   Life is not simple.  Things happen to you as a person sometime outside your control.  

Injuries affect more than the physical, it can take an emotional toll.  You cannot have complete wellness without freeing the mind as well as the body.

As an occupational therapists, we provide a holistic view of meaningful activity, we must understand the relationship between physical, psychological, and social variables, especially as they affect our psychosocial evaluations and treatment.

How is this achieved?   

• Using a variety of contexts to providing education on coping skills and self-regulation skills 
• Providing education  and implement sensory approaches for self-regulation
• Incorporating yoga and movement interventions to provide sensory input and achieve self-regulation
• Therapeutic relationships building (couples, families, siblings etc.)
• Utilize CBT Approach
• Educate on health habits and positive life structures into daily routines
• Social Skills and family relationship building
• School skills factors (bullying)
• Development of sensory diet 
• Parental Training to help parents deal with child with sensory, behavioral, and physical impairments. 

Kids with certain medical conditions may benefit. 

• Developmental Delayed
• Birth injuries or birth defects
• ADHD
• Sensory processing disorders
• traumatic injuries (brain or spinal cord)
• Learning problems (recall, processing, lack attention etc)
• Autism
• Mental health  (cutting, depressed, going through parents divorce, sexual abuse, etc)
• Behavioral problems
• Orthopedic injuries
• Post-surgical conditions
• Cancer
• Multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other chronic illnesses