Community Therapists

07/10/2025

A great lunch meeting today with members of our leadership team and our service coordination department. Connecting and sharing ideas over a great meal 🥗✨…teamwork makes the dreamwork! 💪

06/23/2025

Kudos to our OT team members for joining CTI’s working group to support each other in their work with First Responders. 👨‍🚒 👮‍♀️ 🚑

With 15 member OTs signed up, today marks the first meeting for this group and the beginning of an important initiative aimed at supporting our team in working with this special population of clients. The group will share resources, course learnings, tips and strategies from working in the field and evaluate and enhance our collective clinical toolkit of assessments and therapeutic interventions.

With many such teams at Community Therapists, we continue to invest in our people, processes and resources to better serve our clients and our clinicians.

To learn more about the unique healthcare needs of this population and community resources visit the links below. If this initiative has piqued your interest to learn about the many ways we support clinicians to thrive in a private practice context, please contact us at careers@communitytherapists.com.

https://education.firstresponderhealth.org/collections
https://bcfirstrespondersmentalhealth.com/reach-out/

Bring your expertise to first responders in your community with this unique course. It is designed to increase your understanding of first responder culture in Canadian Provinces.

06/17/2025

A big shout out to our very own Kiley Kwak for her wonderful presentation at last week's WorkSafeBC Annual Healthcare Providers Conference. 👩‍🏫

Kiley's presentation focused on Driver Rehabilitation and Functional Driving Evaluations including referral indications, typical intervention programs, vehicle modification and the role of the driving clinician in relation to ICBC, RoadSafetyBC and the clients funder. Participants gained a better understanding of when to refer and what's involved as well as the impact a driver rehab program can make in a client's overall recovery journey.

Kiley did an amazing job packing so much information into a short session without it feeling rushed! If you would like to learn more about driver rehabilitation services contact us at driving@communitytherapists.com and Kiley or a member of our driver rehab team would be happy to discuss your case to help you determine if a referral is indicated.

06/16/2025

We are delighted to share that our very own Rebecca McDonald, OT, is delivering a CAOT Practice Evidence Webinar entitled "From Pain to Progress" on June 17, 2025 from 9-10 AM PST.

If you work with clients impacted by persistent pain that results in limitations in home, community, leisure or workplace settings, this seminar is for you.

Rebecca artfully weaves together the current evidence and her own clinical experience working with this population to deliver an impactful hour of actionable insights for your clients. Community-based OTs working in private practice will find this session particularly helpful as Rebecca delivers this from a context of working with 3rd party payers in the community and draws upon her experience providing evidence based rationale for her programming to payers to gain approval for her innovative approaches.

Rebecca’s CAOT session is a culmination of many years working in the community with a range of clients impacted by pain and mentoring and supporting many of Community Therapists’ OTs in this challenging but rewarding area of practice. Her passion and expertise for the subject matter has helped our team with some of the most challenging cases and we are incredibly proud of what she has put together to share with the CAOT audience.

If you are interested click the link below to register and if you’d like to learn more about working with us and being supported by Clinical Advisors like Rebecca, contact careers@communitytherapists.com to schedule a chat! We’d love to hear from you! 😊

CAOT | CAOT provides leadership in the development and promotion of the occupational therapy profession in Canada and internationally.

06/03/2025

Our Managing Director, Salim Janmohamed, was recently recognized by Dean Kelleher of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia for his 10+ years of service as an instructor in the MOT program.

While Salim has passed the torch to a new team led by Monita Khaira Sandhu, he continues to provide on demand support and consultation for the instructor team for the Vocational Rehabilitation module which includes FCE, Return to Work, and Disability Management.

Congratulations on this achievement Salim! 🎉

05/20/2025

A big shout out to Lindsay Twaites, teacher extraordinaire Urban Academy for her successful campaign to have the City of Vancouver designate May 14th as the annual Apraxia Awareness Day!

To learn more about Apraxia, visit Speech and Hearing BC:
https://speechandhearingbc.ca/public/disorders/disorder-listing/apraxiadyspraxia/

Visit our website (https://www.communitytherapists.com/services/pediatric-therapy) to learn more about our pediatric OT services.

04/29/2025

Community Therapists’ entire team is deeply saddened by the tragic events that took place at the Lapu Lapu festival in Vancouver.

Our hearts and prayers go out to the families, friends and those injured and impacted by the losses resulting from this incident. We understand that an incident like this can be deeply troubling and want to highlight the Crisis Centre in BC that you can reach out to for support.

The Crisis Centre of BC offers 24/7 immediate access to barrier-free, non-judgmental support via phone and SMS services, providing help and hope to individuals, organizations, and communities. Our education and training programs promote mental wellness and empower schools, organizations, and communi...

02/18/2025

Calling all OTs in Courtenay and Comox Valley – we are hiring!

Did you know we have 15 OT clinical advisors and 3 OT directors ready to support yours success in a range of clinical areas. From navigating funders and their guidelines to working through challenging cases, our OT leadership team is there with you every step of the way. With practice groups including RTW, Home Health, Driver Rehabilitation and Paediatrics and a range of funders to work with, we offer OTs a diverse and supportive environment to learn and grow in a BC OT owned and operated practice.

Learn why more than 40+ OTs have chosen to advance their career with Community Therapists. Email us at careers@communitytherapists.com to start a conversation about your future!

02/04/2025

Last week members of our Fraser Valley team met for a networking lunch hosted by our Directors Sue Reil and Monita Khaira Sandhu. In attendance were OT, PT and Kinesiologist team members! It was a great afternoon to connect and brainstorm ways to further collaborate with our shared clients.

Our clients have many challenges and having a diverse set of team members to facilitate their recovery and return to function is one of the advantages of working in a multidisciplinary setting. Many thanks for S+L Kitchen & Bar for hosting us and for our teammates for taking time out of their day to break bread and share ideas.

2025 is off to a great start! 🥂

12/30/2024

Each year the Community Therapists operations team and clinicians who frequent head office get together for our White Elephant Gift Exchange. It’s a chance to break bread with one another, laugh and exchange gifts in a fun atmosphere.

This year’s office party did not disappoint. Many gifts were given and many more were “stolen” while we listened to Christmas favourites. Many thanks to all that attended and participated. And…. it wouldn’t be an office White Elephant Gift Exchange at CTI without our customary Salim-Swag, Salim-o-belia, not sure what to call it…..would you hang this stocking at your fireplace!? Thank you Salim Janmohamed for being a good sport. You know we expense these right? For some strange reason these are the most coveted items at our gift exchange…go figure. Happy Holidays from all of your silly, happy colleagues at CTI! 🎄

12/17/2024

Every holiday season, the CTI team comes together to support a worthy cause and have some fun in the process. This year many of our team members participated in the Neil Squire Hackathon where we volunteered to "hack" and adapt commercial toys so they could be accessible for children with a variety of disabilities.

Every child deserves to play.

But for many kids with disabilities, toys can be hard to use independently, and commercially adapted versions can run upwards of $300. However, with a little bit of tinkering, we can switch-adapt toys and make them accessible for a fraction of the cost. So along with other volunteers, that’s just what the CTI team did!

Thank you Neil Squire Society and the Community Therapists team members for an amazing evening.

Check out this inspiring video to see how adapted toys make a difference in the lives of children: https://lnkd.in/gi7KN4fg

11/08/2024

Last month we were excited to host our annual professional day with clinicians from around the province in the beautiful UBC Boathouse venue in Richmond. This waterfront setting was a great backdrop for an energizing day to reconnect with colleagues, review the year behind us and the plans for the coming year and also take in a valuable professional development course. We were delighted to invite Raj Dhasi for an engaging and educational presentation: From Conflict to Collaboration. Raj’s dynamic presentation was tailored for our group and allowed us to walk away with tangible and actionable strategies to improve our communications and outcomes with clients, funders, each other and of course, family and friends outside of work! Thanks to Turning Point Resolutions and Raj for a wonderful seminar and thanks to all our clinicians and team members to be with us!