Recreation Therapy

Recreational therapy is a treatment service designed to restore, remediate, and rehabilitate a person’s level of functioning and independence in life activities. Recreation Therapy embraces the whole person with a focus on enhancing independent functioning within physical, cognitive, spiritual, social, and emotional domains.
As a recreational therapist, I use your child’s interests to promote functional goals and outcomes using a systematic and evidence based approach to therapy. I use leisure and activity based interventions to help children with specific health conditions improve their skills, abilities, overall health, and emotional well-being.
Recreational therapy can be for anyone with the need for improved function in one or more areas of delay including physical ability, strength, endurance, cognitive delay or injury, behavioral challenges, feelings of isolation or depression, social-emotional stability or recovery from injury or illness.
Common diagnosis served include children with developmental delay, acquired injury, brain injury, sensory processing, anxiety, obesity, chronic pain, and many others.
Sessions have a wide range of focus and are based on individual evaluation and person-centered treatment plans. Examples include but are not limited to sibling interaction, social skills, promotion of milestones, habits of health, fitness, community integration, adapted recreation and play as well as relaxation and coping skills.
It all begins with setting up a discovery call to learn about you and your child’s unique needs and get to know a bit about each other. We will then schedule a formal initial evaluation, this can be held in person preferably (or virtually if needed). Along with your input, a treatment plan will be developed along with short-term and long-term goals. Together we will then determine dates and times of sessions moving forward.

Our Mission

To promote health and wellness for individuals by providing therapeutic activities, leisure education, and support services that encourage habits of wellness focused on physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual domains for holistic health.

BENEFITS

Physical

Improve fine and gross motor skills, strength, endurance, balance, flexibility, coordination, milestone achievement, functional independence.
Cognitive

Improve attention and engagement, memory, problem-solving skills, executive function, appropriate decision making, communication and creative expression.
Social-Emotional

Improve self-expression, self-esteem, counteract feelings of isolation, decrease symptoms of depression, strengthen social connections, and positive coping skills
Behavioral

stress management, positive peer interactions, self-awareness, respect for others and self, improve anger-frustration control, sensory processing, coping skills.
Overall Wellness

Individuals become more informed and active partners in their own health, by managing their unique challenges so they may achieve and maintain optimal levels of independence, productivity, well-being, and quality of life.
Healthy Habits

It’s never too early to learn healthy habits and starting young with lifestyle changes can lead to prolonged health with endless benefits for the entire family unit.