Community Therapists

12/16/2025

Our 2025 Holiday Party is a wrap! 🎉

We had a wonderful evening filled with great food, festive spirits, and exciting prizes—including Canucks tickets and a spa day. A huge thank you to everyone from our CTI family who joined us, from operations to our clinical teams, as well as our valued service partners.

It was refreshing to step away from our busy workdays and reconnect together in such a beautiful waterfront setting at Tap & Barrel, Granville Island.

To our clients, team members, service partners, funders, and stakeholders—wishing you a joyful holiday season spent with loved ones, and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year from the entire CTI team.🎄✨

12/03/2025

🎉 We’re honoured to share that Community Therapists has been awarded the Outstanding Allied Health Team for the 2025 Allied Health Professionals Day Awards!

This recognition, presented by the Government of BC and the Ministry of Health, highlights the Ministry’s renewed focus on the essential role of allied health teams in supporting the well-being of British Columbians. It reflects the exceptional care, expertise, and dedication our clinicians bring to clients across the province every day.

We are also proud to congratulate two members of our leadership team who received individual awards:

Sue Reil, Director of Clinical Services, received the Excellence in Clinical Practice Award for her pioneering contributions to Driver Rehabilitation in BC and for more than three decades of supporting occupational therapists to excel in community-based rehabilitation.

Meghan Hughes, Clinical Program Advisor, received the Excellence in Rural and Remote Allied Health Care Award for her outstanding leadership and for being a trusted resource in her community by healthcare professionals, funders, and clients with complex needs.

Additionally, as part of CTI’s team recognition, Clinical Program Advisor Catherine Sykes was acknowledged for her role in leading a recent UBC–OSOT study (Schmidt, Sykes, et al., July 2025) that demonstrated the efficacy of community-based occupational therapy programming.

We couldn’t be more proud of the achievements of our team —both the collective recognition and the individual awards. Our culture of collaboration, lifelong learning, shared leadership, and inclusive practice is at the heart of everything we do, and these awards truly underscore the commitment we make every day, individually and together. These honours belong to every member of our Community Therapists family, including our exceptional operations leaders and team members who support clinicians working in client homes, workplaces, and clinics across BC. Congratulations to our entire team — and thank you for continually raising the bar in allied health care across British Columbia. 💛

10/30/2025

At our recent General OT Meeting, Rebecca McDonald gathered our Island teammates for an in-person connection. It’s inspiring to see our growing OT team across Courtenay, the Comox Valley, Nanaimo and Victoria building strong relationships and making the most of every chance to connect.🤝

Big thanks to Rebecca for bringing everyone together — word is the mainland team is now requesting a couch and a fireplace at the Burnaby head office… uh oh!

10/07/2025

At Community Therapists, every day we see how Occupational Therapists (OTs) help people return to the activities that give them purpose and joy—whether that’s getting back to work after an injury💼, resuming a beloved hobby🎨, or staying active in their community🏃‍♀️.

OTs focus on function—on helping people do the things that truly matter to them. Given October is OT Month, we want to take this opportunity to thank our incredible OT team🙌. Your skill, compassion, and problem-solving creativity make a real difference in helping our mutual clients achieve meaningful goals and return to fulfilling lives.

It’s fitting that October is also Ergonomics Month—OTs are uniquely positioned to bring value to workplaces:
✅ OTs help employees safely return to work—or remain at work—after an injury or illness.
✅ OTs design proactive ergonomic programs that prevent injuries before they happen, benefiting employees and employers alike.

With a unique combination of medical knowledge, return to work strategies and the ability to use equipment (including ergonomic equipment), OTs are an ideal choice for ergonomic interventions in the workplace.

If you’re interested in learning how our team can support healthier, more productive workplaces, visit:

Our OTs draw upon a knowledge base that includes medical impairment, job analysis, ergonomics, disability evaluation, human rights legislation and insurance regulations to provide a comprehensive approach to disability management in the workplace. They are skilled in assisting employees with physica...

09/15/2025

✨ Community Therapists is proud to share that Adalia Jetha and Danae Rau, two of our senior OTs, will be co-lead instructors for the UBC Faculty of Medicine MOT Vocational Rehabilitation module in 2025!

With ~100 students across Vancouver, Prince George, and the Fraser Valley, we’re thrilled for them and the students who will benefit from their expertise.

Adalia and Danae bring years of clinical experience in Return to Work, clinical teaching, and mentorship. They’ve also delivered the practical labs for this module for many years—including Job Demands Analysis (JDA) and Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE)—and have worked closely with past lead instructors.

This module equips MOT graduates with the core skills needed to deliver Return to Work Assessments and Rehabilitation for clients with a range of functional limitations in variety of clinical settings. Students gain both theory and hands-on experience, including completing a real Job Demand Analysis. CTI is proud of our ongoing involvement in developing and adapting this module over time.

👏 A big thank you to all of our past CTI contributors to this UBC MOT module: Monita Sandhu, Salim Janmohamed, and Jasmin Caterer.

08/07/2025

Community Therapists is proud to announce our sponsorship of the 2025 UBC Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) Capstone Conference which was held on July 29, 2025.

This annual event showcases the innovative research, clinical insights, and advocacy projects of UBC’s graduating MOT students. The capstone presentations represent the culmination of two years of rigorous academic and practical training—and a glimpse into the future of occupational therapy in British Columbia and beyond.

As a team committed to advancing the profession and supporting OTs, we were proud to stand behind this event and the incredible work the MOT students are doing. Way to go class of 2025! 🎓 🌟

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.

06/19/2025

CTI is proud to have sponsored the Vancouver and Richmond Fusion FC Soccer club's recent soccer tour in Spain where youth between the ages of 13-15 had the opportunity to compete in Madrid participate in training camps with coaches from the world renown La Liga league, at the CD Leganes official facilities. ⚽

These amazing kids learned valuable skills in teamwork, communication on and off the field, technical skills and experienced European football at its best, contributing to their development as soccer players and enhancing their unity as a team. Not only were the players able to experience soccer at a world class level, but they also were able to enjoy Spain's unique culture and toured the beautiful city of Madrid.

Watch this wonderful video which highlights this amazing experience. Congrats to all the players, parents and community that supported the FCFusion soccer team! Go Team Fusion! 👏 🎉

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! 🎉