Kids’ Social Emotional Book List from an Occupational Therapist

***As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.*** I have the joy of working with children as an Occupational Therapist, which requires a lot more creativity and planning than they teach in school. With my kiddo clients, my assessment and interventions often have to be very creative and flexible to keep them engaged. ThisContinue reading “Kids’ Social Emotional Book List from an Occupational Therapist”

Coffee date update – COVID holidays and 2020 reflections

This will be my third coffee catch up post (check out the second and first one here), as a way to connect a bit with my readers and to reflect on my own thoughts and experiences from the last little while. I thought that this post might be a nice way to wrap up 2020Continue reading “Coffee date update – COVID holidays and 2020 reflections”

Coffee date catch up – new jobs and new realizations

A couple weeks ago I decided to start a Coffee date catch up post (you can read the first one here), as a way to connect with my readers a bit deeper, and to give myself a moment to reflect on my own thoughts about the past week! Last post got a bit of excitementContinue reading “Coffee date catch up – new jobs and new realizations”

“Occupational therapy… So you do physio?” and why you’re kind of right but only just.

I’m a new occupational therapist, freshly graduated from Queens University last year, and I honestly don’t think my family fully understands what I do. But most people don’t. In our first year of our two year Masters program, we spent at least a small part of EVERY course practicing explaining what an occupational therapist does.Continue reading ““Occupational therapy… So you do physio?” and why you’re kind of right but only just.”