About

I have been doing Occupational Therapy for about 32 years now. If I didn’t have a passion and a drive for helping people this way I would have changed careers long ago. The ability to give a person hope that they can do what they thought was impossible is a good gift, what we do is show that person how to do the impossible.  So many times we Occupational Therapists hear that the only thing a person want to do is walk, “once I walk it will be all better and then I can go home.” So we take their goal of going home and show them how they will be able to care for themselves, we show them how to safely do the things that they had not thought of, such as sweeping the floor, pulling up the bed covers, and even taking care of the cat box. When we start to explore these things necessary to go home we always hear, “but I can’t do that.” Or “I forgot about that”. It is so fun to take a person step by step to the point where they are able to clean the cat box and say “That was easy!” The wonderment and joy I feel when I see a resident succeed has never faded or lost that special magic for me. It is almost like raising a bunch of old kids that you get to see succeeded in life where they want to succeed! And the proudest point in a parent’s life and mine is knowing that they did a good enough job that their “children will be happy and fulfilled and on their own.

The other aspect I really like about being an Occupational therapy Assistant is that in the OT world, everything is adapatable. This means nothing is ever stagnant and the learning of new techniques, modalities and ways of doing things never ends. My personal motto is

“Helping others, help themselves”