What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational Therapists enable individuals, groups, or communities to participate in meaningful occupations (or the activities you do to “occupy” your time) through holistic, evidence-based practice. Rather than viewing problems or disability from a symptom-focused perspective, Occupational Therapists consider the whole person for assessment, goal-setting, and intervention.

Occupations are not only what we do (i.e. self-care, work, exercise), but how we experience being a human and belonging in this world. Our society is not built to support divergent abilities thus causing occupational deprivation or injustice, or the inability to engage in important activities of life because the systematic or physical environments do not accommodate for diverse experiences. The process and practice of Occupational Therapy synthesizes the interconnected systems at play in each client to empower them to engage in the world as easefully and confidently as possible.