Occupational Therapy

Specialties

  • Chronic pain assessment and treatment

  • Severe mental illnesses treatment

  • Equity in healthcare

  • Program development

  • The recovery model

  • LGBT issues in healthcare

  • TBI treatment and recovery

  • Occupation-centered education

“Occupational therapy practitioners ask, “What matters to you?” not, “What’s the matter with you?”

— Virginia “Ginny” Stoffel

Speaking experience

  • Society for the Study of Occupation: “Exploring the transactions between identity disruption and occupational identity disruption following traumatic brain injury” —Presenter 2022

  • Texas Occupational Therapy Association Conference: “Unraveling the power of cccupational identity through an OT's TBI Journey”—Poster presentation (2021)

  • Colorado State University: “Opportunities for practitioner-led research in occupational therapy”- Guest lecturer (2021)

  • NSU: “Research methods in occupational therapy”- Guest lecturer (2020)

  • SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University: “The Global Menstrual Experience”- Panelist (2020)

  • Oregon State Hospital: “Severe mental illness and chronic pain: Gaps and opportunities”- Sole speaker (2019)

  • Oregon State Hospital: “Addressing the needs of transgender patients”- Sole speaker (2018)

  • Colorado State University: “Addressing sex, sexuality and gender in occupational therapy practice”- Guest lecturer (2017)

  • American Occupational Therapy Association-Refereed presentation

    • Poster: “Operationalizing Occupation-Centered Education: Exploring the SCILOT Model in Academic Education”-Sole speaker (2017)

  • Colorado Occupational Therapy Association Conference- Refereed presentations

    • Session: “Subject-Centered Integrative Learning Model for OT: One Light for the Therapist’s Path”- Primary speaker (2016)

  • Colorado Occupational Therapy Association Conference- Refereed presentations

    • Session: “The Keys to Opportunity through Collaborative Fieldwork Supervision”-Secondary speaker” (2015)

Work experience

  • Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, MA- Community mental health (2022-present)

  • St Francis Hospital, Tulsa, OK- Acute and inpatient rehab (2020-2022)

  • Intersectional OT, Tulsa, OK- Research (2020-present)

  • Delta Travel Therapy, Tulsa, OK- Home health (2019)

  • Oregon State Hospital, Junction City, OR- Inpatient Psych (2017- 2019)

  • Med Travelers, LaGrande Post-Acute Rehabilitation- SNF (2017)

  • Colorado State University, Occupational Therapy Fellow- Community mental health (2016-2017)

“Life takes on meaning in the minute-by-minute reality in which we experience ourselves achieving ordinary things.” 

— Gary Kielhofner

Education

  • Colorado State University, MSOT (2016)

    • Nominated by faculty to be featured as “Outstanding Graduate”

    • CSU awarded scholarships: Margery M Wilson Scholarship and Merrill and Pauline Steele Scholarship

    • Member of Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA)

      • Member of Professional Development Committee

      • Organized and facilitated panel with OT professionals on “OT and Mental Health”

  • Covenant College, BA in English (2006)

    • Maclellan Scholar for academic excellence and leadership

    • Deans Scholar

    • Editor of literary magazine, Thorn