What is Lifestyle Occupational Therapy?

Description text goes hereLOT helps you to recover from injuries and build new skills to help you make sustained improvements to your wellbeing and restore balance in your body and your environment.

We work together to create, tailored packages to meet your individual goals and challenges.

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MY SERVICES INCLUDE:

• Hands-on connective tissue and myofascial therapy

• Therapeutic exercise and adaptive suggestions

• Postural and biomechanics assessment

• Preventative care

• Rehabilitation from surgery or injury

• Therapeutic exercise and activities

• Postural alignment and body mechanics

• Body and mind awareness and self-care

• Myofascial release and connective tissue

• Neuromuscular therapy and manual therapy

• Compression, traction, and stretching.

The benefits of LOT include:

• Increased range of motion, flexibility, and mobility

• Stress relief and rejuvenation

• Injury recovery and prevention           

• Better balance and posture

• Pain reduction                                                  

•  Longevity and increased happiness

This comprehensive and consistent combination of healing methods creates an integration of healthier habits into your daily life and work. It allows individuals to look deeper and discover a new awareness of the habits that contribute to injury so that they can make and sustain positive changes.

We work with people with a vast range of conditions affecting their physical and mental wellbeing.

These include:

• Muscle and joint pain – e.g. pain in the lower back, hip, and shoulder

• Muscle pain and strains – e.g. sports injuries, reduced flexibility, and tendon strain

• Conditions - e.g. tendonitis, carpal tunnel, back pain, neck pain, etc.

The focus of LOT is you as an individual, and is personalized and tailored to your needs, so the quick answer is yes! I work closely with individuals and organizations to establish interventions that may be causing dysfunctional work or living space. I then deliver individualized interventions to reach the outcomes and goals. I work with a diverse range of patients; from actors, bus drivers, dance teachers, musicians, tradespeople, office, and retail workers, a whole gambit of wonderful professions. Each patient also teaches me so much. Grateful to be able to help facilitate people in their careers to be more independent, pain-free, and successful.

Sessions are active and functional, realignment work can be intense. We also give homework and have active suggestions for your well-being. Please practice good hydration before and after each session to avoid any discomfort.

I am here to help, so if you would like to talk to me about whether LOT could help you, please email me at hello@lifestyleot.com. I am a responsible practitioner and I will only agree to provide my services if I think they can make a real difference for you. If I can’t help, then I will refer you to organizations that can.

Yes, and working with organizations and groups is a central part of my work.

I advise and support organizations and groups to empower them to create healthy workspaces to prevent injury and enable employees to live more balanced, healthier, and happier lives.

Together we empower you to create dynamic healthy workspaces. Visit my services page to find out more about how I work with organizations to empower them to harness the power of LOT to create healthier, happier, and more efficient workplaces.

Sessions are offered by appointment only, so please always contact me before attending my practice. The best place to start is by booking an initial evaluation. This will give us the chance to have an open conversation about your needs and options.

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Appointments are fully paperless and reminders will be sent to your mobile phone and email. Please read your insurance guidelines if you have a condition that is covered under insurance. Patients who wish to pay privately are also welcome.

I tailor each assessment to each patient depending on their needs. We will discuss your unique concerns and then work together to create a tailored, dynamic program of treatment to help you.

I follow a tried and test three-stage person-centered approach to treatment–assessment, adaption, and application.

I am a fully qualified practitioner, which means I can provide a range of treatments to meet your needs.

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As of January 1st 2022, Lifestyle OT will be a nonparticipating provider for insurance companies. Patients will receive a superbill for each session that can be submitted to their insurance for reimbursement.  Due to the challenges of running a small practice and transparency, this change was essential to keep serving the public as a value based practice. 

If you plan to use your insurance to cover OT services, it is important that you first check that your insurance policy includes coverage for occupational therapy. Lifestyle OT is not responsible for insurance payments and cannot guarantee reimbursement.  

Before our initial consultation patient is responsible to get:

• A doctor referral with a diagnosis

• Paperwork filled out prior to your visit

• Confirmed insurance authorization before you visit.

• Patient will submit Superbill to Insurance 

We accept all major credit cards and cash and we can arrange mobile and online payments.

The health and safety of my clients is my top priority and I am doing all I can to protect you.  

This includes:

• Automated scheduling and payment and paperless contact to let you know what is happening. Communication via text with updates

• Office seating in the waiting room is physically distanced for therapy and evaluation to encourage physical distancing

• All patients are asked to sign an informed consent form before coming to the session

• Improved ventilation with air purification

• I wear a mask with safety goggles. All patients are asked to wear mask as well

• Appointments are scheduled to minimize having too many people in the waiting room

• Hand sanitizer and disinfectant readily available

If any cases of Covid19 are discovered, clients will be notified

You will be sent some guidelines to follow to protect yourself ahead of your appointment.

I am NOT able to work with students at this time. Please inquire about professional consultation.