Occupational Therapists
What is an Occupational Therapist?
As rehabilitation professionals, occupational therapists are trained in physical and mental health to help people recover from injury or illness, maximize ability following permanent loss or developmental disability, and regain life roles following mental illness.
Occupational therapists also consult to make buildings, homes, and work environments accessible for people of all abilities. Additional to the following list, you can search for an OT on the Society of Alberta Occupational Therapists database: https://www.saot.ca/
Allison Miron
Offers community-based occupational therapy services in the comfort of the home or community. Is currently taking clients with FSCD funding or privately. Allison specializes in the following areas: strengthening the muscles in the hands to improve coordination (fine motor skills); supporting big emotions for small events (emotional regulation); helping when kids are seeking, missing or avoiding sensations (sensory processing); increasing the variety and quantity of food consumed (feeding support); learning toileting, dressing or grooming skills (self-care skills); building social and play skills.
Amy Tregubov, – Sparking Potential
Provisional Occupational Therapist offering services tailored for neurodivergent children aged 3–8 and their families. Approach is strength-based and play-focused, designed to empower each child by building on their unique strengths and abilities. In-person sessions are limited to the deep SE of Calgary at this time. Virtual sessions are available depending on needs.
Ascend Pediatrics
Has a team of Aides, Behavioral Specialists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Physical Therapists, Psychologists, Respite, Social Activities, Speech & Language Pathologists offering play based in-home private therapy. They are located in Cochrane but also serve Canmore, Chestermere, Banff, Airdrie, and Calgary, AB. Assessments they offer are ASD Diagnostic, Psyco-educational assessments, Giftedness, Fluency, Language and speech sounds, language and literacy, sensory processing, fine motor and visual motor integration, Gross motor and Developmental coordination. They have a social thinking program and offer small interactive respite groups, summer camps and more. They offer a sliding fee scale.
Betsy Care Solutions
Their pediatric Occupational Therapy program helps children develop the skills necessary to lead happy and productive lives. They focus on developing fine and gross motor skills, sensory integration, and social skills. Their area of expertise is ASD, ADHD, Giftedness, Cerebral Palsy. They work within FSCD rates and are an Alberta Aids to Daily Living (AADL) Authorizer.
Beyond Speech Therapy Services Inc.
Provides Neurodiversity affirming, Holistic therapy services. They believe that skills are interconnected and a team based approach is an important way to develop skills through a multidisciplinary lens. They focus on creating strategies and supports that can be easily implemented at home, and in the community. Their area of expertise is ADHD, Language Disorders, Literacy Development, Fine Motor Delay & Social Emotional Learning. They provide Speech Language Therapy (SLP), Occupational Therapy (OT) & Behaviour Consulting Services.They offer Language Assessment, Speech Assessment, Fine Motor Assessment, Sensory Profile Assessments, Gross Motor Assessments & Behaviour Assessments. They direct bill FSCD and some private health insurance companies.
Bridging Abilities
Focuses on growth and connections with thier families and communities. Their team has behaviour consultants, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and counsellors that work with families in achieving goals.
Calgary Youth Physiotherapy
Calgary Youth Physiotherapy therapists are trusted and experienced professionals in the provision of quality physiotherapy and occupational therapy for children and their families in the Calgary and surrounding area. They strive to work on the child’s and family’s most functional goals in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to enhance independence and confidence, and to maximize the opportunity for social and recreational interaction with family and peers. Their area of expertise is sensory profiles, feeding issues, introception, pediatric pelvic health for neurodiverse population, coordination disorders and strength building. They offer direct billing to FSCD and some private health insurance companies and are willing to work within and/or coordinate an MDT.
Charlene Wright
Works with children and adults 2-25 years of age with Autism, ADD, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Brain Injury, Isodicentric 15, Neurofibromatosis, Nonverbal Learning Disorder, and Complex Behavioural Disorders.
Connecting Dots
Connecting Dots is a family centered agency in Calgary, Alberta. They provide support for children, youth and parents in their natural environments, such as home, school or local communities. They use play therapy, evidence-based practices and neuro-diversity affirming approaches to help families learn and grow to meet their potential. Their area of expertise is pan-disability and they offer in-home or online therapy services including Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, and Physiotherapy. They also offer counseling for iIndividuals and families. They provide Speech-language, Psycho-Educational & Occupational Therapy assessments.They offer direct billing to FSCD & work within FSCD rates.
Ilona Reef OT
Pediatric OT focusing on family centered, play based Occupational Therapy. FSCD provider. Supporting families and children with self-help skills (including toileting and dressing), interoception, fine motor skills, regulation, sensory processing skills, social interaction and play skills as well as parent training. Their area of expertise are interoception & executive functions. They offer direct billing to FSCD & work within FSCD rates.
Intuitive Therapy Solutions Ltd.
Specializing in Feeding Therapy and Intuitive Parent Coaching; Intuitive Therapy Solutions empowers families to move from surviving to thriving. Intuitive Therapy Solutions offers Teletherapy support to Alberta families.They support FSCD contracts, including Behavioural Developmental Supports (BDS), Specialized Services (SS), and coordination services (MDT).
Jared Shore: Speech-Language Pathologist and Occupational Therapist – The Communication Coaching Centre
Dual certified Occupational Therapist and Speech-Language Pathologist works privately or through FSCD contracts providing services for BDS, SS and Social Skills. Therapy is provided in the office or in the family home. Has a focus on autism, augmentative communication, picky eating, sensory processing and uses a variety of approaches.
Journey OT Inc.
Journey OT provides private OT therapy services in-home, at preschools/daycares, and within the community. The OT services will aim to support the child and family in learning strategies to address areas of self-care, household chores, sensory regulation, emotional regulation, attention, focus, play, social skills, and routines. Occupational therapy, Speech/language pathology services, Behaviour psychology, Behavioural Support (only offered if the individual have a therapist with Journey OT) & Assessments are offered. Their services are play-based and they take the time to build proper relationships with all the children we work with. Services can be covered through approved FSCD coverage and personal insurance plans.
Karen McIntosh
Private Clients in the South of Calgary, Ages 4 to 16 years old with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADD/ADHD, DCD, and Learning Disabilities as well as adults in the area of Sensory Processing Disorder.
Lesley Heysel
Works privately and through FSCD with preschoolers and school aged children specializing with sensory integration, fine motor, ASD, graphics, ADLs and behaviour.
Lindsay White
Offering community based Occupational Therapy services within homes or the community. Working with both FSCD and privately funded children primarily preschool aged but I also have experience with school aged children. I have been a pediatric occupational therapist for the last 9 years specializing in developing fine motor skills, toileting, dressing, sensory regulation and feeding support.
Monarch House
Monarch House provides family-centered, seamless services that are interdisciplinary and evidence-based to families and individuals with behavioral, communication, learning, and motor needs across the lifespan. Supports both Specialized Services (SS) contracts and Developmental Behaviour Support (DBS) contracts. They provide services in agency settings, family home or school. They offer Aide Support, Behavioral Specialist, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychologist, Speech & Language Pathology. They direct billing to FSCD and offer FSCD Rates.
Morgan Dick, M.Sc.OT, Reg.OT: Ready to Eat! Feeding & Occupational Therapy
Morgan is a pediatric occupational therapist serving families in Calgary (in-home or virtually). She has experience supporting children ages 0-18 yrs with a variety of special needs and uses a family-centered, capacity-building approach. She has a special interest in feeding goals (including picky eating, transition to solids, self-feeding skills, and difficulties with chewing, gagging, or food pocketing) and has done extensive additional training in this field. She can also support other goal areas such as toileting, dressing, bathing, sleep routines, fine motor (pencil grasp, scissors, printing/pre-printing), play/engagement skills, and participation in non-preferred routines/transitions.
Nature Play Ltd.
Nature Play uses the inherently therapeutic properties of nature to enhance all areas of child development. They use primarily a group approach to support kids in building skills and confidence with experienced occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech-language pathologists. Their programs are 100% outdoors (weather permitting). Their area of expertise is developmental delay, sensory-processing disorder, gross motor delays, developmental coordination disorder, down syndrome, language/communication delays. Their approach is primarily group OT, PT, social skills. They offer speech and language, occupational therapy (fine motor, sensory processing, etc), and physiotherapy/gross motor assessments. They are willing to work within an MDT.
Nurture, Sound & Movements – Occupational Therapy
Joanna Yuen provides family support, assessment, and treatment for children from 3 years old to 18 years old with a variety of diagnoses including Autism, Sensory Processing problems, ADHD, Developmental Coordination disorder, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, global developmental delay, and Cortical Visual Impairment. Sees children with challenges in the areas of sensory processing /modulation, sensory regulation, emotional regulation, social thinking , social skills, and interoception. She helps improve focus and attention, executive functioning skills, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, oral motor skills, visual motor skills, visual perception, and handwriting. She aims to improve daily living skills and Life Skills such as dressing, brushing teeth, toileting, showering, eating, meal preparation, and household chores. Focused on Sensory Integration. Therapeutic Listening to improve tolerance to sounds. Use Brain Gym exercises to help other kids get ready to learn. Available to help kids with FSCD funding and PUF funding. School consultation available. In person sessions are available at the child’s home or in the community instead. Uses Brain Gym® exercises to help other kids ready to learn.
Peak Health Kids
This is a physiotherapy clinic offering services to support gross motor development. They believe in helping everybody achieve just a little bit more in a fun and welcoming environment. Their space provides the opportunity to work on playground skills, activities of daily living, running, jumping, and all things that kids want to do! They pride themselves in helping kids and adults reach their individual goals through education, hands-on therapy and home exercise programs. They strive to help each individual feel empowered in the rehab process and provide the tools necessary for gaining lifelong peak health.
Pediatric Foundations
Offers in home OT and SLP services using a play based and family centred approach. They believe each family is unique and the strategies provided should reflect that. Using your environment, interests, and natural family dynamic to find strategies that fit your values and lifestyle.
Sahaara Therapy Services Ltd.
Sahaara Therapy Services Ltd. provides support for families and their children. They have a team of OT, SLP, PT, Behavioral Therapist, Clinical Counselor and Aide support. They work in family homes, in the community and in schools to provide individualized, play based support.
Therapy Approach: Play-Based and Neuro Affirming Support
Professionals Available: Occupational Therapist, Behavioural Therapist, Speech & Language Pathologist, Physical Therapist, Clinical Counselling
Billing: Direct Billing to FSCD available
Sheija Abraham: Pediatric Occupational Therapist – Purpose Pediatric Therapy
Purpose Pediatric Therapy specializes in providing Occupational Therapy support for autistic children to enhance their sensory processing, regulation, feeding, toileting, dressing and grooming needs as well as fine motor and motor planning needs along with play skills development. Therapy is community based and therapists come to the family’s home to provide support and strategies. Willing to work within an MDT, direct billing to FSCD at FSCD rates.
Sonya Sawyers
Offers clinic-based, home visits or school observations for private clients with HFA, FSCD or PUF. Works with toddler/preschool age to pre-teen with Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, motor coordination/performance difficulties/DCD, developmental delays, fine motor delays (including printing and/or handwriting), Visual Motor/Visual Perceptual difficulties, ADLs/Self-help skills, and integrated listening system (iLs Practitioner).
Speech Matters SLP Services Inc.
Team of SLPs, OTs and Behaviour Consultants providing pan disability services across BC and AB. Offers Standardized SLP and OT assessments & multidisciplinary assessments for diagnosis. Willing to work within and/or coordinate a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). Provides Gender Affirming Voice Therapy and works with Indigenous families and communities. Direct billing to FSCD, and other Private Health Insurance Companies and work within FSCD rates.
Teunisje Gruber: OT & Counselling
Teunisje is a Registered Occupational Therapist and a Canadian Certified Counsellor that with adults on the spectrum who are experiencing mental health, adult transition, and sensory processing challenges. She has extensive training in the assessment and treatment of sensory processing differences (SPD). She also works with their parents/ caregivers and parents. She utilizes a strengths-based approach to help her clients create realistic goals and action plans towards better functioning in their daily life. Her area’s of expertise are Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, Executive Functioning Dysfunction, mental health problems (e.g., anxiety, depression), adult transition, parenting children with special needs, stress management, and emotional regulation. Ooccupational therapy for sensory processing differences and life skill development (e.g., independent living skills, social skills, education, recreation/leisure, and work). She offers counseling for individuals, parents / caregivers, and groups. Occupational Services are for ADULTS only.