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Berkowitz TheraPeds

Child and Family-Centred Therapies

Currently offering pediatric Occupational Therapy services in our clinic, at your home or virtually

02/03/2025

📣 Join Our Team 📣

We are looking for another incredible speech-language pathologist and occupational therapist to join our team!!

If you’re looking for flexible hours, competitive contract rates, and a job where you basically just get to play, then Berkowitz TheraPeds could be the right fit for you!!

Please contact us by email for more information or to send in your resume! Berkowitztherapeds@gmail.com

We cannot wait to hear from you!

09/30/2024

🧡National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Day🧡

September 30th marks the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, a day for us to reflect, learn, and understand the action needed.

A call on everyone, including ourselves, to listen, learn and unlearn, with and from Indigenous Peoples and Communities. We are committed to understanding and supporting the impacts that residential schools and colonialism has played in the health and well-being of Indigenous children and their families.

Every Child Matters.

09/16/2024

🌟 Join Our Team 🌟

We are looking for another incredible speech-language pathologist to join our team!!

If you’re looking for flexible hours, competitive contract rates, and a job where you basically just get to play, then Berkowitz TheraPeds could be the right fit for you!!

Please contact us by email for more information or to send in your resume! Berkowitztherapeds@gmail.com

We cannot wait to hear from you!

08/12/2024

📣Welcome OT Megan📣

Megan graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Guelph, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Brain and Cognition.

Megan is a passionate & hardworking OT with interests including regulation, sensory processing, executive functioning, goal setting, and fine and gross motor skill development, among other areas. She enjoys working with children and families through play-based sessions.

Outside of work, Megan enjoys traveling, physical activity, and spending time with family and friends.

Megan is currently accepting new clients for in office and community-based sessions! We are so excited to have Megan joining the Berkowitz TheraPeds team!

08/01/2024

📣Welcome SLP Mélanie📣

Melanie completed her undergrad at the University of Winnipeg and earned her Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology at Western University in London, Ontario.
Her experience spans schools in Winnipeg and in First Nations across Manitoba, as well as supporting pre-schoolers in health centres and children in specialized clinics.

Mélanie focuses on children’s unique communication needs, including articulation, stuttering, and using speech-generating devices or visual supports. She’s passionate about early intervention and family collaboration. Mélanie speaks both French and English fluently.

Outside of work, she loves spending time with her two cats, hiking, camping, and crafting.

We are so happy to have Mélanie joining the Berkowitz TheraPeds team!!

03/26/2024

📣Welcome SLP Karen📣

We are so excited to have Karen joining the Berkowitz TheraPeds team!!

Karen completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba in 2016. She then moved to Montreal for two years to complete her Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology (S-LP) at McGill University. She gained invaluable experience providing S-LP services to children attending First Nations schools across Manitoba for multiple years, and currently works as an S-LP in a school division in Winnipeg.

Karen has worked with preschoolers, children and teens of various skill and developmental levels. She is passionate about finding creative ways to help children express their ideas, feelings, and needs, and has significant experience using speech-generating devices and visual supports to help them communicate. Karen is always incorporating the child and family’s perspective into the services she provides, and believes that communication skills are best built through play and fun experiences.

Aside from work, Karen loves trying out a variety of new activities and sports with her husband. She also can’t turn down an opportunity to try a new restaurant, and is always looking for new recipes to try.

Please share a warm welcome to our newest S-LP, Karen!!

03/14/2024

🧹Contain the Mess🧹

As pediatric clinicians we are all about messy play! But we also know that cleaning up that mess is not ideal.

Over the years we have found some fun and easy ways to keep the mess contained! All the messy play fun for your kiddos, with hopefully less of the cleanup for you!!

⚪️ Bring the play into a kiddie pool - use a plastic or inflatable kiddie pool to contain the mess. Whether you fill the pool with water, rice or toys, or place your sensory bin within the pool, the fun will be endless, the mess will not!

⚪️ Make bath time, mess time - take your messy play into the bathtub, then spray it all down with soap and water! That can be part of the messy play too!

⚪️ DIY - create a contained space with some chairs or bins and a fitted sheet. They also make draw string play mats that you can buy and contain all the mess in one space.

⚪️ Plastic tablecloth for the win - it may seem simple but placing a plastic tablecloth or shower curtain on the ground can go a long way! Try one under the table or set the messy play right on top!

Of course some days you just don’t want the mess in your house at all and that is ok! When in doubt take the messy play outside! Puddles, mud, leaves, rocks, sticks, the play ideas are endless!

And if you truly don’t want the mess, bring them to OT! We’re always happy to get messy, and we will do the clean up!

03/08/2024

🟣International Women’s Day🟣

I am so amazed by all the incredible women that I have met along my journey to create Berkowitz TheraPeds. There are the women who have motivated me, inspired me, challenged me, and supported me. There are the women who made me who I am today, and the women who make me want to keep learning and growing. I want to say Happy International Women’s Day to all the strong, powerful, and capable women, who have taught me that we do not always have to be strong, powerful, and capable. The women who have taught me to ask for help, advocate, be weird and truly myself and to do our best to take a break every once in a while!!

Of course I also want to say the biggest thank you to the women who make up the Berkowitz TheraPeds team! I am so grateful and honoured to work with each of you.

Happy International Women’s Day!

02/20/2024

📣Welcome OT Amy📣

We are so excited to welcome Amy to the Berkowitz TheraPeds team!

Amy graduated from the University of Manitoba with her master’s degree in occupational therapy in 2006. Amy has been privileged to work with people of all ages and support their goals related to physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. She has had the opportunity to work in several health care settings, including work in Winnipeg and in Australia.

Amy spent over a decade volunteering with a therapeutic horseback riding program for children and youth. She has a passion for teaching mindfulness, calming, and coping strategies to support little ones (and big ones) with their emotions and wellbeing. She values lifelong learning and has training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

She is passionate about child and adolescent mental health and currently has a role facilitating cognitive behavioural therapy groups and teaching classes for children and families. She supports all her clients and families to gain understanding of their sensory and emotional needs, while learning skills to manage and thrive in their daily tasks. Amy believes in meeting her clients where they are at and being a guide as they develop goals and strategies.

When she is not working as an OT, Amy loves spending time with her twins, playing games, exploring, and trying new things.

Amy is looking forward to joining the Berkowitz TheraPeds team! She is now accepting new clients!

02/11/2024

📖Think Outside the Book 📖

When a child struggles with reading, even the most engaging book can become stressful.

Try out some of these fun ways to enjoy books and reading with your children! These can also be engaging for the adult when your kiddo just wants to read the same story over and over!

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