What is Occupational Therapy ?

(( and how is it different from counseling or psychotherapy? ))

Occupational therapists are different from other professionals because we

“facilitate participation and engagement in occupations; the meaningful, necessary, and familiar activities of everyday life … [we] work collaboratively with people in a manner that helps foster hope, motivation, and empowerment, as well as system change”

— American Occupational Therapy Association, 2016

 The Occupational Therapy Toolbox Consists of

  • Sensory Processing

    Occupational Therapists are knowledgeable about the body in ways other mental health therapists are not. If you are consistently overwhelmed by your sensory environment and it is causing you to not be able to do what you want or need to do an Occupational Therapist is who you need.

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 When you work with a mental health Occupational Therapist you are working with someone who is specialized in understanding the intersection between what you do or don’t do and your satisfaction with life. We will draw on our wide array of tools outside of the mental health realm to help reduce the underlying problems that are causing you to be unsatisfied with your life.

Get started with Occupational Therapy, today.