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Kelly Beins - Sensory OT Consulting

OT services (in-home and virtual) and Sensory Consulting for sensory OT's, sensory parents, and othe OTC offers expertise in sensory integration.

At OTC we know that accurate and comprehensive assessment is the foundation of effective treatment, and finding the root of a functional problem is the first step to a lasting solution; partnering with other agencies & disciplines to offer advanced skills specialized OT assessments & consultations for all ages.

10/02/2025

Beginnings can happen on any given day and I’ve learned that even beginning is an accomplishment. Beginning again, despite the hard and all the obvious reasons there to stop us, is inspiring.

If we have enough of the beginnings we become different.

Here’s to beginning again and again. ❤️

08/22/2025

« A Little Place in the Woods »

Morning yoga out in nature. What a way to start. What a way to practice.

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08/15/2025

A dear friend recently reminded me about the brilliance and beauty of this book .

Clearly I read it. Clearly I liked it. Clearly I used it.

I found it fascinating that the one word showing on all the bookmarks here is the word “shame”. I don’t remember why exactly (I can guess) but I see more clearly now how shame shows up and did show up for me over the years.

In the shame section of her book is this quote about perfectionism and when I turned the page I found my own other note - I’m guessing about the ways that it impacts our professional growth and our capacity to support others. I do still believe this to be true.

Shame and perfectionism is rampant among OT’s (there I said it). It can impact us as practice owners, therapists and parents and people who care. And it’s not ltd to this group but I know many of you are holding these titles & hats.

And titles matter to perfectionists. It’s how we identify with and prove our worth (or did). We over work. We over achieve. We strive. We have poor boundaries with time and over commitment. We hold false expectations of ourselves & others without even realizing it. We do great things but at the cost of self-sacrifice all in the name of caring. Our high standards prevent us from collaborating and feeling truly successful. Action is a buffer for vulnerability. We find real ways to validate the need for improvement but what we’re really doing is validating what we fear the most, that we aren’t enough and that we aren’t special. So we take more action to prove ourselves wrong, only to butt up against this experience again.

Is this a self-serving share? I hope not. These aren’t new a-ha moments for me. And I am good!! But what I’ve come to realize as I work with so many other therapists is that these experiences are not unique to me (I wish they were) and are in fact quite common in our profession.

Polyvagal theory, and somatic therapy, and SSP and friendships and yoga have been my game changers (not necessarily in that order). Please share yours! And mostly know “shame-free” might not be realistic. But acknowledging when and how it shows up might be. And THAT is a real achievement.

08/10/2025

Glimmers might be the new ways you have of responding to yourself or the world. Deb Dana tells us that if we name and share our glimmers with a “glimmer buddy” that helps our glimmers grow.

So let’s have it! What’s a glimmer you’ve noticed lately? Please share so they will grow!

08/09/2025

Perspective.

A pathway to somewhere is truly that middle place of being in one spot, seeing another, knowing roughly how to get there but having few details about what you’ll find along the way. It’s looking ahead and knowing there’s some distance to go and choice to make and trusting yourself, the Universe who presented this path, and the path itself, to get you there despite those details. Even if and especially when you’re choosing a path that isn’t the current or obvious one.

The true analogy for life is that no matter where we are on any path, there’s always a new endpoint and new paths to choose which is why we’re always in that middle place. Whether that feels hopeful or stifling or just ok, depends on the paths we’ve already walked and the one we’re walking now.

May you walk an easy path today and may others you meet along the way make your path a little (or a lot) more enjoyable. Your path isn’t going anywhere so rest under a tree if you need to. 😉

08/02/2025

Not only learning to be our own hype girl but to reconcile and accept our own mistakes is what can come with more nervous system capacity.

Perfectionism and fear of failure work until they don’t. They work if we want to burn out and if we want to stay stuck.

I’ve written & re-written this caption multiple times because there’s so much more to say on this topic. Thus, stay tuned. More to come!

In the meantime, be your own hype girl but be specific. Name the small changes you see yourself making so they stick and so your nervous system knows it’s ok to make them.

07/29/2025

In between happens a lot in life. I’m starting to notice all the maybe’s and the undecided’s and I think it’s part of slowing down and figuring out this phase. And while you don’t need my permission I think it’s important to let you know, it’s also ok to change your mind.

There isn’t one right way to experience this life and all the little in-between’s of every day are part of the story too.

07/24/2025

How many times have you heard the phrase “let it go”? My immediate thought is, “if I could I would!”

A hard day, a challenging client session, family struggles, colleague frustration, an email that took 30 mins to compose (please tell me I’m not the only one)…it all matters; It affects us AND feels oh so personal.

Instead of expecting ourselves to “turn it off” can we ease into caring maybe 2% less? Is that a safe percentage?

Maybe it means enough time to take a sip of water before pressing send. Maybe it means closing your eyes, when you’ve been looking at a screen all day. Maybe it means sitting at your desk for one minute (60 seconds) before going to the waiting room to welcome your next client.

And when you take that 2% for yourself notice - the shift. In your breath, in your energy, and in your body.

Because taking 2% may feel a whole lot different than giving over 100! And I promise you (I don’t take promises lightly) your client will be BETTER served as a result. As if doing it for yourself isn’t enough (which it totally is).

Take the 2%. Keep me posted.

06/16/2025

I woke up this morning tired & a little homesick. I will be honest, I’m still learning to love travel and learning what kind of travel suits me (can we say climbing a mountainside? 😍)!

I am beyond grateful for the experiences we’ve been able to have (on this trip and in years prior) but I’m also figuring out that travel takes its toll. It’s hard for me to “rest” when I don’t have the comforts that typically help me to rest (big delicious bold creamy coffee in the morning on my living room couch, my people, my yoga mat).

So today for me became about tuning in. Asking myself, What do I need to feel ok? And that attunement led me to this beautiful handmade bag (the shoe shop in Venice was closed all 3 times I returned & tried to buy them. Now I know why. My one thing to purchase was still waiting for me). This bag was made by a woman outside of Milan who finds the fabrics for her one-of-a-kind creations (at least that’s what they told me 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️)

While I jest (only slightly), this bag represents me accepting that sometimes it’s not all about what everyone else thinks is fancy and enjoyable. This bag makes me smile. And that’s what travel (for me) is about.

01/24/2025

Current pet peeve… when people are connecting, sharing good vibes, everyone is regulated and happy, it’s a “feel good all the way around” kind of experience and someone says, “that was so Polyvagal.” IYKYK

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all about “sharing the love”. But it rubs me the wrong way that people are assuming/suggesting being Polyvagal means ONLY being positive and in a ventral place. We don’t all have to be regulated and feeling good to be “Polyvagal”. In fact, the opposite. When we all have capacity to share in a range of emotional experiences and maintain relationship in that… THEN it’s Polyvagal.

Polyvagal informed means being aware of states of arousal (whatever they are) and staying aware of and responsive to your own needs and the needs of others so you have capacity to co-regulate not dysregulate or fully disengage in the moment.

It doesn’t mean avoiding hard conversations.

It doesn’t mean pretending to be ok with things.

It doesn’t mean keeping everyone happy.

And it doesn’t mean avoiding saying something that might upset someone.

It also doesn’t mean only giving compliments, or praise or regulating strategies to avoid meltdowns at all costs.

Practicing awareness of one’s nervous system and paying attention to and responding to the autonomic signs we feel in ourselves and see in others is being Polyvagal informed.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, calm is over-rated. The practice of re-regulating after upset is not.

THAT’s Polyvagal. (Maybe it’s just me. Stepping down from the soap box now).

12/11/2024

Intuition comes from somewhere.

It isn’t made up and shouldn’t be ignored.

Parents have it. Clinicians have it. How do we combine these sources with other sources of data to make the best decisions for our clients and for each other?

How many times have we heard from parents, “I just know…”, “I can’t explain it but…”, or “I knew something was off but (so and so professional) said they were fine.”

A big problem is that parents often don’t trust their instincts until they’ve suffered along with their child for too long and then it’s the frustration and fear that drives the seeking of support OR they do trust and seek support but then defer to and aren’t given the space to continue sharing and partnering with providers. Ignoring intuition as a guide is ignoring what science now tells us is how our brains and bodies work. Intuition is based in sensation, our autonomic nervous system detecting and interpreting cues at a subconscious level.

An integrative approach to therapy means parent partnership is necessary and this means including intuition as part of the equation. It also means we need to build and rebuild parent capacity and a parent’s ability to trust themselves in all occupations of parenting.

HOW we do this is longer than this IG post but we can start by creating space in our therapeutic process for parents to share and engage. I boldly suggest we also require parents to share and engage. We can’t impact just one part of the family equation.

Treating only the child is no longer an option if we want effective lasting change. Intuition is a starting place.

12/05/2024

I’ve got a love-hate relationship with the word “strategy” but I’ve got a love-love relationship with the need for more capacity around “co-regulation”. Making co-regulation accessible to parents and to our clients is one of our primary roles as OT’s… but it’s not taught or named overtly in our pre-grad or post graduate clinical worlds.

I’d love to change that.

I had the honor of supporting a pediatric team yesterday and we talked through how many on the team already do the things listed on this page. We then talked through, using “I wonder statements” alongside these things, so they aren’t just “strategies” that get applied TO clients but become a therapeutic means to encourage engagement, awareness of self, connection and a felt sense of safety.
🤔I wonder if your body feels like breathing or moving?
🤔I wonder what feels better right now, big deep breaths or just normal breathing?
🤔I wonder what kind of activity feels good…Should we sit, stand or should we do this lying down?
🤔I wonder if it feels the same or different if you do this while listening (to the SSP)?
😉I wonder what prompted you/your child to do that? I wonder what you/they need?

Wondering out loud creates space for possibility. It’s an invitation to consider something new. It can bridge the divide of disconnection from self or others. And it’s only possible from a ventral state of arousal. Leading with wonder infuses ventral influence into the interaction and situation.

I wonder what you might notice today, as you wonder out loud with your clients? (Please share)

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