Experience

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  Self-employed

  • Yoga Instructor

    • Dec 2022 - Present

    -Facilitates weekly meditation groups with a focus on stress relief, self compassion, and self love. Incorporates various breathwork practices and spiritual learnings into sessions to offer tools to use outside of meditation sessions. -Instructs monthly yoga classes accessible for all who arrive on the mat with a focus on grounding and deepening the relationship of listening to your body. Offers many variations of poses for all levels to feel welcome and able to participate.

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  OTA The Koomar Center

  • Occupational Therapist

    • Nov 2021 - Present

    -Supports toddlers through adults experiencing sensory processing based challenges to better integrate their nervous system functioning. Facilitating goals of increased independence with daily living skills, gross and fine motor, and executive functioning based skills necessary to be successful across environments. - Use of intentionality to build a therapeutic rapport during the first stages of therapy to support creating a safe space to facilitate therapeutic sessions. - Uses a playful and trauma informed care approach with an emphasis on building confidence and moving at a clients preferred pace. - Conducts evaluations and curates detailed individualized reports highlighting clients strengths and areas of vulnerabilities. Creates functional, individualized, and measurable goals to track client progress throughout treatment. - Facilitates client and/or parent education opportunities to support families in designing and carrying out home programming to meet their desired goals and live a more functional and manageable life.

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  Italian Home for Children

  • Jamacia Plain

  • Occupational Therapist

    • Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
    • Jamacia Plain

    - Supported students K-8 in a therapeutic day school to build self-regulation, motor, and executive functioning based skills to better access the academic curriculum and engage as a successful and confident student. - Used a trauma informed care approach in working with students who had experienced trauma and presented with varying developmental and neurological support needs. - Conducted and compiled written reports for evaluations, individuals education plans, and tracked student progress. - Facilitated learning and training opportunities for staff to better understand the needs of the students. - Created a mindfulness/meditation group to support the mental health needs of the staff to better serve the student needs.

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  Newton Public Schools

  • Occupational Therapist

    • Aug 2018 - Nov 2018

    - Maintained a caseload of 30 students aged 6-11 with a wide variety of diagnosis including developmental delay, specific learning disability, autism spectrum disorder, visual impairments, musculoskeletal disorders, and neuromuscular disabilities- Assessed and treated students in accordance with AOTA and DESI (MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education) departmental and professional practice guidelines, standards and protocols- Worked as part of the special education team to create team-based goals, track student progress and problem solve solutions to meet the needs of each student

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  PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED

  • Dover, MA

  • Peer Mentor

    • Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
    • Dover, MA

    Peer mentor for an 18 year old Autistic individual. Supported with adapting activities to increase level of independence with completion of daily living, vocational, academic and social skills to increase quality of life and engagement in meaningful activities.

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  Italian Home for Children

  • Fieldwork level II

    • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

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  Bridgeport Hospital

  • Bridgeport, CT

  • Fieldwork Level II

    • May 2017 - Aug 2017
    • Bridgeport, CT

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  ALLIED COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC

  • Personal Care Attendant

    • Jun 2015 - May 2017

    Supported a mid thirty year old man living with Muscular Dystrophy. Assisted him physically with activities of daily living (eating, toileting, showering, dressing, and transfers in/out of bed/car/chair), instrumental activities of daily living (laundry, meal preparation, and money management), work, sleep routines, and leisure activities to support independence in his life.

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  Quinnipiac University

  • Netter Library Desk Clerk

    • Aug 2014 - May 2017

    Greeted all patroons in a welcoming manner at front desk, educated and assisted patrons in locating information within databases and answered general knowledge questions.

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  Saint Mary's Hospital

  • Waterbury, CT

  • Fieldwork Level II

    • May 2016 - Aug 2016
    • Waterbury, CT

    Facilitated task, psycho-educational, and psychotherapy group intervention sessions within an inpatient psychiatric unit for individuals living with diverse mental health disorders. Managed conflicting group dynamics to improve overall group functioning and therapeutic outcomes.