Meet Christie, an occupational therapist dedicated to helping individuals and families thrive. She received her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Davenport University and calls the greater Grand Rapids area home, where she lives with her husband and two children. In her free time, she loves gardening, cooking, and thrifting.

While Christie has experience in many clinical settings, she's always felt a special connection to working with children, teens, and young adults. She works with a variety of diagnoses including autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, sensory processing disorders, and developmental delays, and uses a holistic, client-centered approach.

She incorporates a variety of techniques into her practice, such as sensory-informed activities, supportive strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Astronaut Training and Bal-A-Vis X protocols, the Zones of Regulation model, mindfulness based yoga practices, integration of primitive reflexes, and more.

Her heartfelt goal is simple: to help clients and families build confidence and skills so that every day can have moments of joy, meaning, and peace.