In this workshop, we will explore nervous system regulation, brain retraining, and relevant OT strategies for managing anxiety. We’ll discuss techniques like deep breathing, mindfulness, and sensory modulation to help clients regulate their nervous system. The session will cover brain retraining through neuroplasticity, focusing on reshaping anxiety-related thought patterns. Participants will learn practical OT strategies such as graded exposure, self-compassion, and cognitive restructuring to enhance emotional regulation and daily functioning. Emphasizing a client-centered approach, we will provide tools for OTs to tailor interventions and support clients with anxiety, fostering resilience and improving overall well-being.

This two-day interactive workshop explores the presenter’s BEST (Body, Emotional, Sensory and Thinking) evidence-based approach to co-create therapy plans with autistic and other neurodivergent individuals that promote occupational participation.

This webinar will explore evidence-based assessment tools and learn how to interpret findings to create individualized rehabilitation plans. Key therapeutic approaches, such as active rehabilitation, energy conservation, return to work/school, and cognitive rehabilitation will be discussed, with guidance on adapting these methods to client-specific needs. By the end, participants will have a deeper understanding of holistic, client-centered approaches to enhance recovery outcomes in concussion rehabilitation.

This webinar will explore the fundamentals of pelvic health, the occupational therapist’s role in pelvic health, and help you identify assessment and treatment approaches. Further topics include the connection between sexuality counselling and pelvic health, and help to identify collaboration opportunities with other practitioners in pelvic health.

This webinar will discuss the changes that occur with aging can impact occupational possibilities by imposing additional demands on the person’s occupational participation, ultimately challenging their ability to age in place. Lifestyle, social connections, safety factors, and accessibility factors may hinder or facilitate access to and opportunities for occupation in the kitchen. In addition, this webinar will explore how the kitchen design can contribute to limiting independence. Considering ergonomics, task zones, and gerontological design, occupational therapists can address these factors through kitchen modification to improve the safety and efficacy of occupational possibilities in the kitchen.

This webinar will describe the ADHD Identity Development Model, which serves as a roadmap that illuminates where clients are on their journey and also helps healthcare professionals know how to best approach to develop rapport, tailor interventions, and facilitate maximal growth and transformation. This can lead to empowering clients, promoting resilience, and facilitating collaborative goal setting to accelerate therapeutic change and improve overall outcomes.

This webinar will explore strategies for addressing topics including friendships, relationships, and sexual expression with clients who have physical disabilities. Considerations and strategies related to energy conservation, supportive positioning, and toys and tools will be discussed.

This online course aims help Canadian occupational therapy clinicians enhance their leadership skills and apply coaching principles to their practice.

This online course offers occupational therapy professionals an opportunity to better understand dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and how to teach the following DBT skills in their practice: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance.

This webinar will provide research-informed alternatives to ableism in pediatric occupational therapy practice with autistic children. Five examples will be provided of unique autistic neurobiology that occupational therapists should honour and apply to assessment and intervention when working with an autistic population. The definition and application of neurodiversity-affirming and strengths-based practice as well as a roadmap to embrace this paradigm will be provided. Furthermore, practical approaches will be taught for evaluating autistic strengths and challenges, developing neurodiversity-affirming goals and accommodations, and creating strengths-based goals.