Services

Comprehensive OT Assessments


Exploring sensory processing, motor skills, play, social interaction, and daily routines using standardized tools and clinical observation to identify your child’s strengths and needs.
Results inform a personalized, functional therapy plan tailored to your family’s goals.

In-Home & In-Clinic OT Sessions


Flexible, relationship-based sessions delivered in your home or at our West Vancouver clinic to support real-life skill development, where your child learns

best.






Small Group Therapy Sessions

Targeted, play-based groups designed to build social skills, emotional regulation, motor planning, and confidence alongside peers in a supportive environment.

Special Programs

Aquatic OT (Pool-Based Therapy)

Aquatic Occupational Therapy sessions leverage the unique properties of water to help individuals achieve therapeutic goals, improve function, and increase independence in their daily lives. By moving the therapy environment into the pool, we can provide a supportive and dynamic setting for rehabilitation and skill development.

Key Therapeutic Elements

Harnessing the Properties of Water: Water acts as a dynamic tool, offering simultaneous support and resistance; for example:

Buoyancy reduces gravity's effects, providing support that can reduce joint compression and pain, making movement easier for individuals with limited strength or mobility.

Resistance: Water's viscosity provides natural, adjustable resistance that strengthens muscles without the need for traditional weights. Movement speed dictates the level of challenge.

Hydrostatic Pressure: The pressure exerted by water helps reduce swelling, improve circulation, and provide a calming, deep-pressure sensory input.

Core Engagement and Strength: The aquatic environment's instability naturally challenges balance and stability, thereby enhancing core engagement and strength. Clients actively recruit trunk muscles to maintain position and control movement, which is essential for better posture, functional mobility, and reducing the risk of falls both in and out of the water.

Enhanced Body Awareness (Proprioception): The constant feedback from the water's pressure and resistance heightens proprioception (the sense of where the body is in space). This improved sensory input helps clients develop better motor planning, coordination, and control over their movements, leading to greater confidence and efficiency in functional tasks.

Aquatic Occupational Therapy is an engaging and effective way to overcome physical and developmental challenges, making therapy feel less like work and more like play.

A child with long brown hair wearing a pink sweatshirt is cutting paper with scissors that have a ladybug design. The paper has a black outlined shape drawn on it, possibly as part of a craft or art project.
A person sitting on a carpeted floor with one leg extended, using a red massage pillow on their knee. There are colorful string lights in a jar to the left, illuminating the scene with a pink and purple glow.
A girl in a pink hoodie writing on a piece of paper with a blue marker in a classroom setting.
Child sitting at a table, drawing on a piece of paper with a blue marker. The table has colorful animal-shaped and vehicle-shaped toys connected with strings. The child is wearing a striped shirt and dark jeans.
Three children standing in front of large superhero-themed drawings hung on a green wall, with their hands raised, possibly showing or pointing at the drawings.
Indoor swimming pool with three women in swimwear engaging in swimming lessons or exercise, with a water depth sign of 4.5 feet and 5 feet 13 inches. A metal pipe or pool equipment hangs from the ceiling, and there is a warning sign on the beige wall.
A young boy with wet hair and a blue shirt is smiling while holding onto the edge of a swimming pool.
A child with wet dark hair, wearing an orange shirt, holding onto the edge of a swimming pool.
A woman is assisting a child in a swimming pool, holding their head as they practice swimming. The pool has a metal staircase and large windows in the background.

SPECIAL OFFER

Free 15-minute Meet and Greet

to help you determine whether occupational therapy is the right fit for your child’s needs.

Email us to book your free Meet and Greet