Meet Emilie

 

Occupational Therapy supports us in the success of life’s everyday activities; from dressing, eating, sleeping, toileting, and school, to each routine and transition that comes in between.

Emilie is a provisionally licensed Occupational Therapist with the ability to support children and their families to thrive in their everyday routines. She comes with experience supporting children and families from preterm infants to later teenage years. Emilie offers a family-centered approach, by focusing on the family and child’s goals and values in her interventions.

Emilie’s experience within the Neonatal-ICU and follow up clinic has equipped her to support in early motor skill development, such as rolling, crawling, and hand movement. She comes with interventions to support both cognitive and social skills as well as feeding and ‘picky eaters.’

She also has direct experience in supporting children who are preparing for school as well as older youth both within school and at home. She can implement strategies related to attention, writing, learning, memory, and sensation.

Emilie’s professional background of working with people of all ages with various chronic conditions such as traumatic brain injury rehabilitation and chronic pain management has equipped her with the knowledge, resources, and empathy required to support individuals in the functional impact of many diagnoses.

Emilie values keeping parents informed and educated on their child's growth and challenges. Using a warm, collaborative, and strength-based approach to her care, Emilie aims to provide manageable interventions for both within sessions and outside sessions to support your child’s development.

The first step is with our Client Care Coordinator to ensure that we get you set up with right support for your family’s unique needs.

Areas of treatment

  • Fine motor (e.g. handwriting, typing, playing)

  • Gross motor (e.g. tummy time, rolling, crawling)

  • Feeding challenges

  • Emotional regulation

  • Learning differences

  • Routine maintenance / creation & transition support

  • Attention & ADHD support

  • Sensory needs

  • Brain injury recovery

  • Chronic disease management

  • Recommending equipment / modifications and working with you to obtain them

Techniques Used

A blended approach using evidence-based practice, best practice guidelines, and your families' values and goals. Techniques include various assessments and interventions with influences from a biopsychosocial model, NDT principles, sensory profiles / needs, and family-centered goals to name a few. 

Education

  • Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy from University of Toronto

  • Bachelor of Science in Psychology from University of Ottawa

Research

  • Family Centered Goal Setting Within a Pediatric Rehabilitation Hospital, a Retrospective Chart Review (Current)

Certifications

  • Hearing Our Voices: Indigenous Cultural Safety Training

  • Chronic Pain Self-Management Group Facilitator, Bruyère Continuing Care   

  • Management of Common Hand Injuries for the Outpatient Clinicians - “But It’s Just a Finger...”

  • NDT Baby focused training

  • Pediatric Feeding: Building a Treatment Plan for Success, Pediatric Feeding Institute

  • DIR Floortime Therapy 101

  • Addressing Functional Impairments in Children With ADHD: Organizational Skills Training

  • Trauma informed care

  • Feeding and Early Development elective courses, University of Toronto

  • First Aid and CPR (BLS), Red Cross

  • Handwriting Without Tears Print (K-2) training

    Professional Organizations

  • College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario

  • Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists