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Starfish Occupational Therapy provides private community based occupational therapy for children 0-18

07/31/2025

They’re always listening, always watching.

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Each day at the mud kitchen, we shared a health fact about the benefits of mud play. One day, I forgot… and thought no one would notice. But the children did. With wide eyes and excited voices, they reminded me—‘What’s the health fact today?!’ They were eager to learn, eager to share, eager to grow.

It was a beautiful reminder that our words, our actions, and even our silence matter. In occupational therapy, we know play is powerful—but so is presence.

Every interaction is a chance to plant seeds of love, health, curiosity, and generational wisdom. 🌿💬 Never underestimate the impact of your presence in a child’s world.

07/17/2025

~ Fairy Gardens, Bug Hotels, annddd… Oreo Mcfluffy’s at Benchmark Camp~

MRI’s have confirmed that children’s exposure to green spaces and natural elements positively alters their brain structures specifically in the frontal lobe. Exposure to natural elements increased the children’s grey and white matter leading to improved cognition and emotional health specifically in working memory, attention, and self regulation. (Citations below)

Today’s opened ended “fairy” theme at the mud kitchen encouraged each child to visualize, sequence, plan, and execute their creativity. Plenty of problem solving, regulating emotions, and team work was involved.

Encourage open ended imaginative nature play to support your child’s frontal lobe development 🧚🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️

I am always grateful to the .school for allowing me to bring my work of combining nature + research + and childhood development to their campus!

Dadvand et al. (2015), Environmental Health Perspectives, DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408215

Dadvand, Payam et al. “The Association between Lifelong Greenspace Exposure and 3-Dimensional Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Barcelona Schoolchildren.” Environmental health perspectives vol. 126,2 027012. 23 Feb. 2018, doi:10.1289/EHP1876

Kühn, Simone et al. “Spend time outdoors for your brain - an in-depth longitudinal MRI study.” The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry vol. 23,3 (2022): 201-207. doi:10.1080/15622975.2021.1938670

04/10/2025

These piggys are doing something right! Did you know that mud contains a wide range of microorganisms that support our gut microbiome, improve blood circulation, and decrease inflammation?

A recent 2022 research study, confirmed that children who live in more rural areas such as farms are at a significantly lower risk for developing allergies and asthma. This is due to the children’s prolonged exposure to a diverse range of microbes which positively influence a child’s immune response.

But also how fun is it to incorporate piggys and mud into your brain-body work?

Let those babes dive into the mud and get messy ~ That is childhood, That is health!

04/07/2025

The best part about the AOTA Conference was connecting with these brilliant therapists. Surrounding myself with out of the box thinkers and intelligent entrepreneurs has only stretched me in my practice for the better!

03/20/2025

Some of the most therapeutic and productive sessions happen when we completely pivot from my original plan! My current group of kiddos are walking right beside me as I explore and learn all about this new beautiful land

Searching for the perfect spot to hang our hammock looked a little different than we expected (1 tree instead of two ha!) but we persevered and worked on some pretty amazing skills at the same time!

🌳Flexibility, Team Work, and Problem Solving
🌳Visual Convergence and Tracking
🌳Full Body Coordination, Balance, and Strength
🌳And finally relaxing Vestibular linear rocking after all our hard work!

03/19/2025

Thank you for inviting me to present on the how a child’s visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems must all work in concert together for optimal school participation!

90% of information that our bodies interpret from the environment is first processed through the visual system! 90%!!!!

In 2024, along with giving birth to my beautiful baby girl, I obtained my Pediatric Functional Vision Rehabilitation Certification to better serve my clients. I truly believe that ocular motor testing needs to be a part of every child’ occupational therapy evaluation! Have questions? I can talk vision all day!👀

02/19/2025

Beyond grateful to do this work as a “Nature Based Occupational Therapist” supporting families on their journey raising our next generation.

Here at Starfish OT we bridge traditional OT modalities with Nature and Root Cause Healing. Building our children’s nervous systems + gut microbiome + immunity + coordination is critical to achieving higher level cortical brain involvement. See our services below!

❄️ Primitive Reflex Integration

❄️Ocular Motor Skills

❄️ Community Direction/Support for Root Cause Healing including Constipation, Lip/Tongue Tie, Eczema, Poor Immunity

❄️ Pediatric Chronic Pain Management and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

❄️ Gross and Fine Motor Skills

❄️Limb Differences

❄️ Falling in love with Plant Based Whole Foods!

02/14/2025

Regulating and centering ourselves this week with the view of these cuties 🐑🐏

01/29/2025

Today at Starfish OT, we had the opportunity to watch this not even 24 hour old lamb nuzzle into her mama, become steady on her feet, and begin to interact with her environment.

Watching this lamb feed from her mama and snuggle in close to her body is a reminder that our babies need their mama’s. The attachment between a mama and a child in the first years of life is a key building block and the foundation for their neurological, physiological, and psychosocial development. It promotes positive growth of a child’s emotional regulation, felt safety, intelligence, academic performance, social skills, and most importantly confidence.

There are many circumstances when this attachment may have been impacted by life circumstances (I.e adoption) but always remember that the connection and attachment between a mama and child can start today at this very moment and our babes will always be better for it❤️

01/24/2025

Our goal at Starfish OT is to afford both our pediatric clients and their caregivers with a healing and restorative environment. Every family that walks through the “barn” doors is in a season of life that requires a little extra love and tenderness.

In a world of constant overstimulation and when our children are at the sickest in our country’s history, today at Starfish OT we all slowed down. We had the intimate experience of watching this mama sheep begin her labor to soon meet her baby lamb with this beautiful sky as our backdrop.

We are here not only to support your children, but your entire family ❄️🩵

01/17/2025

Today was a Winter Wonderland at Starfish OT’s “Sensory Gym”! We are so excited for these mama sheep to birth lambs in the next few weeks.

Looking for pediatric based occupational therapy but with an outdoor twist? Message me today! The benefits are endless❄️

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Media, PA
19063

Telephone

+16103577057

Website

http://www.starfishot.com/

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