About Us
Meet Our Team!
About Hannah
Hannah is an Occupational Therapist and owns this practice! She graduated from Queen’s University with a Master’s degree in Occupational Therapist. Hannah has undergraduate degree from Saint Thomas University. She loves talking about how liberal art degrees make great therapists (Read more about this here!). She started this practice so she could work as an OT in a way that fits with her values and do the things she finds fun.
She looks forward to going to work every single day. Hannah sees school age kids, teenagers, and adults.
Hannah loves working with children and families, and sees any adults who come for OT!
Hannah is always learning and has completed training in:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from Wilfred Laurier University, an intervention for mental health
- Interventions for Executive Functioning, including the Cognitive 360 method
- Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Anxiety Management Strategies for Children
- Sensory Processing Assessment and Intervention, including specific training in trauma informed practices
- Anxiety Management for children
- Chronic Pain management (and worked in this field!)
- CO-OP Interventions for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder or Apraxia
- Self Regulation Interventions, including specific training to support people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- Exposure-based therapies, including therapy for people with PTSD and OCD
About Julia
Julia is a passionate, fun loving Occupational Therapist. She graduated from Glasgow Caledonia University in Scotland with a Masters in Occupational Therapy and has a Bachelor of Kinesiology from St. Francis University. In Scotland, Julia completed her thesis on Occupational-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Complex Trauma. Julia grew up in Saint John and was excited to return when she became an OT!
Julia sees all our kids under 5 years old but loves seeing big kids and teenagers too!
Julia is always learning more. Since becoming an OT she has taken extra training in:
- Early Intervention, through Learn Play Thrive’s methodology which promotes neurodiversity affirming practices and alternatives to ABA
- Self Regulation Interventions for people with FASD
- Autism Level Up, an affirming approach to regulation
- Get Permission Approach to feeding, which is a supportive and responsive approach to supporting young eaters
- Interventions for Executive Functioning, including interventions specific to ADHD, Autism, and FASD
- Goal setting and goal writing for neurodivergent people in a course created by Rachel Dorsey, an autistic SLP
- Sensory Integration and Sensory-Based Intervention
- Integrative Psychotherapy for Occupational Therapists
- Behavioral Activation as Management for Depression
Values
InfinOT Occupational Therapy believes:
- Neurodiversity is an asset to our communities. All brains are beautiful.
- Children do well when they can.
- Playfulness, joy, and fun are important for every person.
- OTs have to listen to disabled voices in order to be evidence based.
To live these values, InfinOT Occupational Therapy commits to:
- Provide low cost therapy to members of the community who cannot access support they need.
- Avoid using compliance-based strategies, rewards/punishments, and behavioralism.
- Use identity first language when it is the best fit.
- Sharing neuroaffirming resources with people in our office.
- Use play based strategies as much as possible.
- Continue to access and pay for education created by disabled people.