Our Services

Title: Occupational Therapy

Description: Our OT team provides whole-person care supporting regulation, development, daily living, and meaningful participation across the lifespan. Services include neurodiversity-affirming therapy, sensory processing, pain management, injury recovery, feeding, pelvic health, functional vision, motor skills, ergonomics, home safety, and community-based care.

Bilingual services available in Spanish with Michelle.

In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide. Major insurance panels accepted.

Our SLP team supports children, teens, and adults with communication, voice, fluency, feeding, swallowing, and cognitive-communication needs. Services include speech clarity, language development, AAC and multimodal communication, stuttering, voice disorders, dyslexia and literacy, aphasia, cognitive communication, and feeding and swallowing support.

In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide. Insurance options vary by provider. Contact us to discuss coverage opportunities. Call, text, or reach out through our contact form. We are here to help.

Physical therapy is part of our whole-person collective vision. We are actively seeking an aligned PT who shares our commitment to neuro-informed, real-life focused care that meets people where they are and supports them through every stage of healing.

We are looking for a PT who works with children, teens, and adults across all stages of life, from those learning to walk and children navigating developmental motor milestones, to teens and adults managing injury, chronic illness, neurological changes, and mobility across the lifespan.

Our ideal PT partner brings experience in areas such as pediatric motor development including learning to walk, navigating stairs, and using assistive devices, hypermobility and chronic pain, injury recovery and neurological rehabilitation, balance and vestibular training, fall prevention and fall recovery, mobility and transfers, equipment and assistive device matching and optimization, least restrictive mobility solutions, and home and community based mobility programs that clients and families can do together.

Are you a physical therapist aligned with this vision? We would love to connect. Reach out through our contact form or call and text us at 231.487.2244.

In the meantime our OT team collaborates with and refers to trusted PT providers in our Northern Michigan community.

Compassionate, reliable, and relationship-centered respite and caregiver support across the lifespan. We support children, teens, adults, and older adults with consistent, nurturing care that helps individuals feel safe, seen, and supported in everyday life. Services are grounded in healthy caregiving principles, play-based engagement, and nature-informed support.

Services include direct supervision and respite care, play-based individual and group support, nature-based and outdoor engagement, follow through with school or therapy plans, practical daily living support, and customized caregiver support tailored to individual and family needs.

Private pay and Auto No-Fault insurance accepted. Contact us to discuss coverage opportunities. Call, text, or reach out through our contact form. We are here to help.

Partnering with children, teens, and adults including those who are newly diagnosed, self-identifying, or exploring neurodivergent traits. We also support neurodivergent parents seeking strategies for daily life, regulation, and executive functioning.

Supports: ADHD, Autism, Sensory processing differences, Developmental coordination disorder, Executive functioning challenges, Functional impacts of anxiety.

Primary discipline: OT

Supporting how the nervous system processes, integrates, and responds to internal and external input.

Supports: Sensory modulation differences, interoception challenges, emotional dysregulation, trauma-informed sensory needs, overwhelm, shutdown, or avoidance, behavioral challenges rooted in regulation.

Common needs addressed: Body awareness, calming or activation strategies, tolerance for sensory input, co-regulation, routines, emotional flexibility.

Primary discipline: OT

Occupational therapy has deep roots in mental health and we bring that full scope to our work. We support children, teens, and adults whose daily function, roles, and participation are impacted by mental health conditions, neuropsychiatric differences, and the intersection of mind, body, and nervous system.

Supports: Anxiety and functional impacts on daily life, depression and occupational engagement, OCD and routine disruption, bipolar disorder and regulation, schizophrenia and daily function, neuropsychiatric conditions impacting participation, co-occurring mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, sensory and nervous system contributions to mental health.

Common needs addressed: Daily routine and structure, role engagement and meaningful occupation, nervous system regulation, energy and motivation, social participation, self care and independence, coping strategies grounded in occupation, collaboration with mental health providers.

Our OT team works closely with mental health providers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors to provide coor

Supporting children, teens, and adults recovering from neurological and physical injuries. We focus on restoring function, adapting tasks and environments, and supporting meaningful participation in real life.

Supports: Traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke and acquired brain injury, upper extremity injuries and orthopedic recovery, changes in strength, coordination, sensation or endurance, cognitive and executive functioning changes.

Common needs addressed: Functional upper extremity use, cognitive and executive functioning, daily living skills and independence, participation at home, work, school and community, task and environmental adaptations, return to work, school and meaningful activity.

Our OT team leads this service and collaborates with trusted community partners including physical therapy, bodywork, acupuncture, and other providers as appropriate for each client.

Partnering with children, teens, and adults living with ongoing pain. We focus on the connection between pain, the nervous system, and daily life, helping individuals move through pain with greater regulation, meaning, and participation.

Supports: Persistent or chronic pain conditions, pain-related nervous system dysregulation, pain impacting daily routines work, school or self-care, pain-related fatigue or burnout, shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand recovery, pediatric pelvic floor, and nervous system management for chronic pain.

Common needs addressed: Nervous system regulation, activity pacing and energy conservation, daily routines and habit support, interoceptive awareness, biomechanical support for upper extremity recovery, adapting tasks and environments, participation and quality of life.

Our OT team leads this service and collaborates with trusted community partners including physical therapy, bodywork, acupuncture, and other providers as appropriate for each client.

Services complement, not replace, medical pain management.

Our OT team is trained in a range of therapeutic modalities used to support regulation, pain management, recovery, and functional participation. Modalities are always integrated into a whole-person, occupation-based approach and used in service of your real life goals.

Body Based & Manual Approaches: Cupping, instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (scraping/IASTM), manual therapy, active release techniques, kinesiotaping, compression therapy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), thermal and cryotherapy, foam rolling and myofascial release.

Nervous System & Sensory Regulation: Proprioceptive input and heavy work, interoceptive awareness and body based regulation, vestibular regulation strategies, auditory, tactile, visual, olfactory and gustatory sensory approaches, custom sensory regulation protocols tailored to each individual's nervous system profile.

Mind-Body & Somatic Approaches: Somatic techniques, breathwork, guided meditation and down regulation practices, mindfulness based regulation strategies, co-regulation support.

Orthotic Support, Positioning, Posture & Bracing: Posture assessment and support across functional activities and daily life, positioning recommendations and supportive bracing for recovery, function, and participation. Saebo certified upper extremity rehabilitation and neuromuscular re-education. Orthotic recommendations and adaptations tailored to individual needs and goals. We collaborate with orthotists and other providers when custom fabrication is indicated.

Modalities are preparatory tools woven into a comprehensive, individualized program. Our goal is to equip you with strategies and skills you can take the lead on at home and in the environments where you actually live your life. You are an active participant in your own growth and recovery.

Supporting children, teens, and adults living with hypermobility spectrum disorders, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), dysautonomia, and related chronic illness. Our OT team understands the complex and often invisible nature of these conditions and provides practical, nervous system informed care that fits real life.

Supports: Hypermobility spectrum disorders, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTS and dysautonomia, chronic fatigue, pain related to joint instability, nervous system dysregulation, functional impacts of chronic illness on daily life.

Common needs addressed: Energy conservation and pacing, activity modification, joint protection strategies, nervous system regulation, daily routine support, adaptation of home and work environments, fatigue management, return to meaningful roles and activities.

Our OT team leads this service and collaborates with trusted community partners including physical therapy, bodywork, and other providers as appropriate for each client.

Services complement, not replace, medical management of chronic illness.

Optimizing function in real-life environments for children, teens, and adults. Our OT team can travel to your home or worksite to provide ergonomic analysis and personalized guidance.

Supports: Work-related pain or discomfort, repetitive strain or overuse patterns, poor workstation or home setup, fatigue or pain impacting participation, return to work following injury or medical change.

Common needs addressed: Workstation setup, task modification, body mechanics, reducing strain, improving endurance and efficiency, environmental recommendations, sustainable participation.

Our OT team leads this service and collaborates with trusted community partners including physical therapy, bodywork, and other providers as appropriate for each client.

Supporting children, teens, and adults with ADHD, autism, executive functioning challenges, learning differences, or functional impacts of anxiety to build practical skills for everyday life.

Common needs addressed: Time management, task initiation and completion, organization, routines and scheduling, habit formation, breaking tasks into manageable steps.

Our OT and SLP teams collaborate to provide this service depending on each client's needs.

Supporting children with feeding challenges to make mealtimes easier, more comfortable, and more enjoyable for the whole family.

Supports: Sensory-based feeding challenges, oral-motor delays, picky eating, mealtime overwhelm, GI-related feeding struggles, medically complex feeding needs.

Common needs addressed: Expanding food tolerance, mealtime routines, sensory comfort, oral motor skills, caregiver coaching, coordinating feeding across home and therapy settings.

Our OT and SLP teams collaborate to provide this service depending on each client's needs.

Supporting children, teens, and adults with visual processing and oculomotor challenges that impact learning, reading, and daily participation.

Supports: Visual tracking difficulties, scanning challenges, convergence insufficiency, reading-related visual strain, visual motor integration, oculomotor dysfunction.

Common needs addressed: Visual tracking, saccades, convergence, reading stamina, hand-eye coordination, posture for visual comfort.

Primary discipline: OT

Supporting children with delayed milestones, fine motor or coordination delays, handwriting challenges, motor planning needs, or weakness affecting participation in daily life.

Supports: Delayed developmental milestones, fine motor delays, gross motor coordination challenges, handwriting difficulties, motor planning needs, weakness impacting daily participation.

Common needs addressed: Grasp and hand strength, handwriting, bilateral coordination, visual motor skills, motor planning, developmental play skills.

Our OT team leads this service and collaborates with trusted community partners including physical therapy and other providers as appropriate for each client.

Neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and shame-free pelvic health support for infants, toddlers, children, and teens. Our primary focus is children ages 0-10 whose pelvic health needs intersect with sensory processing, regulation, and neurodevelopmental differences. Teen support is considered on a case by case basis.

Supports: Constipation and withholding, urinary urgency and accidents, delayed toileting skills, sensory-based toileting challenges, anxiety or fear related to toileting, difficulty with toileting steps and clothing management, pelvic pain and tension, stress-related pelvic symptoms.

Common needs addressed: Toileting routines, posture and positioning, interoception cues, bathroom independence, caregiver coaching, body awareness, regulation skills, reducing stress and shame around pelvic health and toileting.

We collaborate with pelvic floor physical therapy providers in the community when additional or complementary support is needed.

Services provided by qualified OT.

Educating and empowering families and caregivers navigating the daily demands of raising or caring for a neurodivergent, medically complex, or developmentally diverse child or adult. We meet caregivers where they are with practical, compassionate, and sustainable strategies they can use in real life.

Supports: Sensory-informed parenting needs, high-stress transitions, co-regulation challenges, daily structure and routine building, behavior rooted in sensory or emotional overwhelm, caregiver burnout and sustainability.

Common needs addressed: Routines and expectations, transitions, emotional support, co-regulation strategies, communication tools, building confidence as a caregiver.

Our OT and SLP teams collaborate to provide this service depending on each family's needs. We also connect families with trusted community partners as appropriate.

Therapy-informed evaluations and assessments for families and individuals preparing for surgery, managing mobility changes, recovering from injury, navigating auto no-fault claims, or planning for aging in place. Our experienced and qualified OT team assesses your real environment and provides practical, actionable recommendations.

Supports: Fall risk reduction, post-surgical planning, mobility changes, aging in place, recovery from injury or medical change, auto no-fault functional assessments, attendant care evaluations, caregiver safety training.

Common needs addressed: Home safety and fall risk reduction, environmental modifications, bathroom, bedroom and entryway safety, mobility and transfer considerations, attendant care need determination, supporting independence with daily activities, recommendations for safe and sustainable routines.

Our OT team leads this service and collaborates with trusted community partners including physical therapy and other providers as appropriate for each client. Auto no-fault and attendant care evaluations completed by experienced and qualified OT.

Supporting real-life participation where it actually happens. Our team provides therapy and coaching in your home, neighborhood, school, workplace, and community settings, helping clients generalize skills beyond the clinic walls.

Supports: Community confidence and navigation, home routine challenges, social participation, independent living skill development, school and workplace participation, nature-based and outdoor engagement.

Common needs addressed: Community confidence, environmental navigation, home routines, social participation, generalization of skills from clinic to real life, building independence across settings.

Our OT and SLP teams collaborate to provide this service depending on each client's needs. We also connect clients with trusted community partners as appropriate.

Flexible, accessible therapy and coaching for clients across Michigan and nationwide. Virtual services are a great fit for those with distance or travel limitations, sensory or regulation needs, busy schedules, or those who simply prefer support from the comfort of home.

Supports: Regulation coaching, executive functioning, pelvic health education, home program carryover, follow-up care, caregiver education and training, ongoing support between in-person sessions.

Common needs addressed: Regulation, coaching, routines, visual supports, activation strategies, functional follow-through, caregiver guidance.

Our OT and SLP teams provide virtual services depending on each client's needs. Available to clients in Petoskey and throughout Michigan and nationwide.

Supporting neurodivergent children, teens, and adults with mental health care that honors how they think, feel, and process the world.

Supports: Anxiety, emotional regulation, or social challenges connected to neurodivergence, family and caregiver support around neurodivergent needs, school or community participation concerns.

Common needs addressed: Affirming, strengths-based coping strategies, communication and self-advocacy support, guidance for families and caregivers.

Our mental health and OT teams collaborate on this service depending on each client's needs.

Supporting children, teens, and adults navigating anxiety, low mood, and difficulty managing big emotions.

Supports: Anxiety, worry, and fears impacting daily functioning, low mood, withdrawal, or loss of interest in activities, difficulty coping with stress, change, or transitions, emotional dysregulation and behavioral outbursts.

Common needs addressed: Coping skills development, emotional identification and expression, calming strategies, building tolerance for stress and change.

Primary discipline: Mental Health Therapy

Supporting individuals and families impacted by trauma, adverse experiences, and safety concerns, with care grounded in relationship and trust.

Supports: History of trauma impacting functioning, exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), safety concerns or risk of harm to self or others, difficulty feeling safe or regulated after a traumatic experience.

Common needs addressed: Rebuilding a sense of safety, processing difficult experiences at a manageable pace, nervous system regulation, restoring trust in relationships.

Our mental health team leads this service and coordinates with families, schools, and providers as needed.

Supporting children, teens, and adults moving through grief, bereavement, and major life changes.

Supports: Grief, loss, or bereavement support needed, difficulty adjusting to family changes (divorce, new sibling, illness, etc.), difficulty coping with change or transitions.

Common needs addressed: Space to process loss at their own pace, coping strategies for change, support naming and normalizing difficult emotions, adjusting to a new family or life structure.

Primary discipline: Mental Health Therapy

Supporting parent-child relationships, family communication, and connection during periods of conflict or strain.

Supports: Parent-child relational conflict or attachment concerns, family communication or co-regulation strategies needed, support for caregivers navigating a child's mental health needs.

Common needs addressed: Strengthening the parent-child bond, communication tools for the whole family, co-regulation strategies, caregiver support and guidance.

Our mental health and OT teams collaborate on this service depending on each family's needs.

Supporting children, teens, and adults building a stronger sense of self, self-esteem, and personal identity.

Supports: Difficulty with self-concept or self-regulation, low mood or withdrawal tied to self-worth, challenges with peer or social relationships.

Common needs addressed: Building confidence and self-advocacy, developing a positive sense of identity, strengthening social connection and belonging.

Primary discipline: Mental Health Therapy

Supporting children, teens, and adults with speech sound production, articulation disorders, motor speech disorders including apraxia, and lisps. We help clients communicate with greater clarity and confidence in everyday settings.

Common needs addressed: Speech sound accuracy, motor speech coordination, intelligibility in conversation, confidence in communication.

Services provided by our SLP team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Supporting children, teens, and adults with expressive and receptive language development. We help clients understand, process, and use language effectively across home, school, work, and community settings.

Supports: Expressive and receptive language delays, mixed language disorders, language processing challenges, functional communication across environments, IEP-aligned language goals.

Common needs addressed: Understanding and following directions, expressing thoughts and needs, vocabulary and sentence structure, functional communication across settings, collaboration with educators and families.

Services provided by our SLP team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Supporting children, teens, and adults with social communication challenges including reading social cues, conversation skills, and connecting with others in meaningful ways. Our approach is neurodiversity-affirming and strengths-based.

Supports: Autism spectrum disorder, pragmatic language differences, social communication challenges, peer interaction and friendship skills, workplace and community communication.

Common needs addressed: Conversation skills, turn taking, reading social cues, perspective taking, flexible communication across social settings, building confidence in social interactions.

Services provided by our SLP team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Supporting children, teens, and adults who use or may benefit from augmentative and alternative communication. We believe every person has the right to a reliable, functional communication system that supports autonomy and authentic connection.

Supports: AAC device implementation and training, PECS, Tobii eye gaze technology, PODD communication systems, multimodal communication including speech, gestures, visuals, and writing.

Common needs addressed: Building a functional communication system, supporting communication partners, integrating AAC across home, school, and community, increasing independence and self expression.

Services provided by our SLP team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Supporting children, teens, and adults with voice disorders and fluency challenges. We provide compassionate, evidence-based care that helps clients communicate with confidence and ease.

Supports: Hoarseness, vocal fatigue, loss of voice, breathy or strained vocal quality, difficulty projecting voice, pain or discomfort when speaking, stuttering, cluttering, and other fluency disorders.

Common needs addressed: Vocal quality and health, vocal endurance, speech flow and fluency, reducing struggle behaviors, building confidence in communication, gender affirming voice support.

Services provided by our SLP team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Supporting children, teens, and adults whose communication is impacted by cognitive changes, neurological differences, or acquired brain injury. We focus on functional communication skills that support real life participation.

Supports: Traumatic brain injury, stroke and acquired brain injury, aphasia, memory and attention challenges, executive functioning impacts on communication, postconcussional syndrome.

Common needs addressed: Memory and recall, attention and concentration, problem solving and reasoning, organization of thoughts and language, functional communication at home, work, and community, return to school and work support.

Services provided by our SLP team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Supporting children, teens, and adults with dyslexia and literacy challenges. We use evidence-based approaches to build reading, writing, and language skills that carry over into real life learning and participation.

Supports: Dyslexia, reading delays, decoding and phonological awareness challenges, written language difficulties, literacy skills across academic and functional settings.

Common needs addressed: Phonological awareness, decoding and word recognition, reading fluency and comprehension, written expression, building confidence as a learner, collaboration with educators and families.

Services provided by our SLP team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Supporting children, teens, and adults with feeding and swallowing challenges across the lifespan. Our SLP team works closely with our OT team and trusted community partners to provide coordinated, whole-person feeding support.

Supports: Dysphagia, oral phase and oropharyngeal swallowing challenges, pediatric feeding disorders, sensory based feeding challenges, gastroesophageal reflux impacting feeding, coordination of respiration, voice and swallow.

Common needs addressed: Swallowing safety and coordination, oral motor and neuromuscular support, strength and endurance of the swallow mechanism, coordination of breathing and swallowing, caregiver education and mealtime coaching.

Services provided by our SLP team in collaboration with our OT team. In-person in Petoskey, MI and virtually nationwide.

Physical therapy is part of our whole-person collective vision. We are actively seeking an aligned PT who shares our commitment to neuro-informed, real-life focused care that meets people where they are and supports them through every stage of healing.

We are looking for a PT who works with children, teens, and adults across all stages of life, from those learning to walk and children navigating developmental motor milestones, to teens and adults managing injury, chronic illness, neurological changes, and mobility across the lifespan.

Our ideal PT partner brings experience in areas such as pediatric motor development including learning to walk, navigating stairs, and using assistive devices, hypermobility and chronic pain, injury recovery and neurological rehabilitation, balance and vestibular training, fall prevention and fall recovery, mobility and transfers, equipment and assistive device matching and optimization, least restrictive mobility solutions, and home and community based mobility programs that clients and families can do together.

Are you a physical therapist aligned with this vision? We would love to connect. Reach out through our contact form or call and text us at 231.487.2244.

In the meantime our OT team collaborates with and refers to trusted PT providers in our Northern Michigan community.

Trustworthy, compassionate, and relationship-centered respite and caregiver support across the lifespan. We support children, teens, adults, and older adults with consistent, nurturing care that helps individuals feel safe, seen, and supported in everyday life.

Services include direct supervision and respite care, play-based individual and group support, nature-based and outdoor engagement, follow through with school or therapy plans, practical daily living support, and customized caregiver support tailored to individual and family needs.

Private pay and Auto No-Fault insurance accepted. Contact us to discuss coverage opportunities. Call, text, or reach out through our contact form. We are here to help.