About us

Lisa Bailey has been an Occupational Therapist since 1996. She fell into OT quite by accident as she was taking a creative writing class and the instructor was adjunct faculty from the COTA program at Manchester Community College in Connecticut. She was intrigued by what this woman shared and started researching just what Occupational Therapy was all about. It didn’t take long to realize that this was her calling.

Lisa attended Texas Woman’s University. This program is entrenched in the roots of Occupational Therapy. She was blessed to look at the whole person, their roles and occupations (meaningful and purposeful activities). These core values have guided her practice in many different settings. She graduated with honors and after three field work rotations was offered a job from her first, The Center for Neuro Skills in Irving, TX.

Here she gained a wealth of knowledge about the brain and how type and location of injury impacts function. She worked with both adult and adolescent individuals with brain injury in a strong team based setting. Families were an integral part of the “team” and this has been a guiding principle in her practice since.

Throughout her career Lisa has worked in pediatric home health, acute rehab, level 1 trauma hospital, skilled nursing, children’s services medical therapy unit and most recently pediatric outpatient settings. While loving every setting, she has found working with children to be most rewarding.

When the opportunity to create a practice with Sherrie presented itself, it just seemed a natural progression of her career. Sherrie and Lisa share strong common values and a vision for the families they serve. Pediatrics in the Pines Occupational Therapy is the culmination of that vision.

Sarah became an OT after a lifetime of positive interactions with other OTs led to a career change from early education. Previously she had spent 5+ years working in two preschool programs, one at Franklin-McKinley School District in San Jose, Ca, and the other at Prescott’s own Discovery Gardens. Sarah attended Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Ct, for her Occupational Therapy degree.

Originally intending to write children’s books with her bachelor’s degree in English, Sarah has shifted that focus to communicating effectively with her pediatric patients and their families. She has a passion for supporting young people with developmental delays and mental health issues due to her own professional and personal experiences with both.

Sarah’s major career goal is to facilitate a community for neurodivergent people and everyone in their support systems. She believes a clinical setting is not the only place where people should be able to find professional help in improving skills like emotional regulation and social communication, and that growing alongside a community is a strong motivator to internalize those skills. Pediatrics in the Pines OT is serving as a great training ground for that kind of community focus.

In her free time, Sarah engages in many creative occupations including knitting, embroidery, digital art, and writing; as well as video-chatting with her long-distance fiancée. Her career credo is to: “Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Sherrie Wethey has had a passion for helping children since she was nine years old. She was inspired after watching a television program about a therapist working with a child with special needs. During high school, she explored various pediatric career paths, but occupational therapy quickly resonated with her.

Sherrie graduated from The College of St. Catherine in 1987 with a Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy. For the past 37 years, she has worked exclusively with pediatric patients in a variety of settings.

After graduation, she began her career in the Osseo School District in Minnesota before moving to Arizona in 1995. While living in Phoenix, she worked at the Foundation for Blind Children, Pediatric Therapy Specialists Home Health, Horizon Pediatric Therapy, Yuma Home Health, the Deer Valley School District, and United Cerebral Palsy.

In 2016, Sherrie moved to the small town of Prescott, where she worked at Kidabilities until February 2024. With the encouragement and support of her husband, a retired pastor and psychologist, she decided to pour her years of occupational therapy experience into a new venture. In April 2024, she and her business partner, Lisa Bailey, opened Pediatrics In The Pines Occupational Therapy.

Sherrie is the mother of two biological children, one adopted child, and two stepchildren. She is also blessed with ten grandchildren. Just as she felt called to become a pediatric occupational therapist at a young age, she also carried a deep desire to adopt a child with special needs.

In 1998, a set of quadruplets born just outside of Phoenix became the focus of a national news story after suffering severe physical abuse by their birth mother at only three months of age. The children became known as the “Avondale Quadruplets.” Two of the infants later became Sherrie’s patients, and she ultimately chose to adopt one of them.

Her daughter, Hannah, was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, vision impairment, and developmental trauma. Today, Hannah is an adult and the mother of three beautiful children of her own.

Sherrie Wethey’s personal journey raising a child with special needs has given her a deep sense of empathy and understanding for the families she serves. Her greatest passion is helping families navigate the challenges they face while finding hope, support, and peace in everyday life.

Opening Pediatrics In The Pines Occupational Therapy in the small town of Prescott has truly been a labor of love for Sherrie. Collaborating with her colleague and business partner, mentoring new therapists, supporting families, and creating a space centered on healing, connection, and hope has been a lifelong dream come true.