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Whenever I had a difficult decision to make, one of my favorite mentors would always ask me this question: Does it make you sparkle? It was the best evaluative question and one I’ve come to guide my life by. Sometimes when I can’t decide if Path A or Path B feels like the better option, I sit and envision myself living in that life. I wait to see if I feel like little something rise up in me - that sparkle. Sparkling doesn’t always feel safe. Sparkling is sometimes the scarier route. Sometimes I can only see about as far down the path as an actual sparkle might light. But, so far this method hasn’t led me down the wrong path. A little while back, I started to feel that sparkle dim and I knew it was time for a change. Opening a private practice wasn’t the safest choice and it has been scary at times - but, I certainly feel my sparkle. Here’s a little more of my story...
Prior to working as an Occupational Therapist, I worked in Public Health developing and delivering health education programs to children and adults. I loved helping people learn about new things. I especially loved finding creative and fun ways to teach those lessons. But, I knew I wanted to have a more direct, one-on-one impact with people. I chose Occupational Therapy because it emphasizes engagement in the activities that matter to a person and bring meaning to their life - in fact, in “OT Speak” we call those activities “occupations”.
I’m a proud graduate of the University of Florida and have been an Occupational Therapist for 7 years. I’ve worked with young children and adults throughout that time, focusing on neurological injuries. My work often led me into the psycho-social aspects of Occupational Therapy - helping people cope with a new way of life after significant injury, finding new meaning in different occupations when old occupations didn’t fit anymore, and walking with clients through life’s difficult moments like chronic or terminal diagnoses, traumatic life events, or coping with the daily stresses of parenting. Working in traditional hospital or outpatient settings can be fast-paced. I often felt I did not have enough time to fully listen to my clients, to fully understand the nature of their concerns and to apply to the best treatments possible. I chose to start a private practice so I could treat my clients with individualized attention, provide them with consistent access to the same therapist, offer well-researched evidence-based interventions and offer the authentic caring atmosphere everyone deserves.
I enjoy working with my clients collaboratively to help them meet their goals. I work with kids and adults using a functional treatment approach - that means we’ll work together to identify the things that are the most problematic for you, then develop a treatment plan to work on them, together. I specialize in life-skills training, executive functioning/cognition, feeding therapy, community re-integration, psycho-social functioning, and the emotional regulation/developmental/sensory impairments associated with the experience of trauma.
