About us

I was raised on a small farm in Western Pennsylvania with six siblings and very hardworking parents. My father first sat me on a pony when I was barely two and I’ve been riding ever since. My two passions in life are kids and horses, so occupational therapy has been the perfect profession for me, where I can combine the two! I have joyfully worked as a COTA for the last 10 years, providing therapeutic services to Special Needs children of all ages, utilizing hippotherapy, aquatic therapy, and clinical treatments. My hope is to resume my hippotherapy services in the future, as I believe that kids and horses are a perfect pairing!

Carla J Aurandt,OTA/L

“Horses are angels with hooves, sent to Earth to teach us about love, trust and patience.” -Pam Brown

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.

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Sherrie has had a passion to help children since she was nine years old. A television program about a therapist working with a special needs child inspired her. In high school she explored various pediatric careers, and occupational therapy resonated. She graduated from The College of St. Catherine in Minnesota with a Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy in 1987. She has worked exclusively with pediatric patients in a variety of settings for 37 years. After graduation she worked in the Osseo School District in Minnesota and then moved 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 she moved to the small town of Prescott Arizona and worked at Kidabilities until February 2024. With the support of her husband, a retired pastor and psychologist, she decided to pour her years of occupational therapy experience into a new venture. She and her business partner Lisa Bailey opened Pediatrics In The Pines Occupational Therapy in April 2024.

Sherrie has two biological children, one adopted child and two step children. She also has 10 grandchildren. As with her passion to become a pediatric occupational therapist at a young age, adopting a special needs child was also on her heart. In 1998 a set of quadruplets were born just outside of Phoenix. All four infants were severely physically abused by their birth mother when they were 3 months old. This became a national news story. They were known as the “Avondale Quadruplets”. Two of those infants became her patients. She chose to adopt one of them. “Hannah” was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, vision impairment and developmental trauma. She is now an adult and has three beautiful children.

Sherrie’s life journey in raising a child with special needs helps her truly empathize with the families she works with. Her true passion is to help them navigate the challenges they face and find peace in everyday life.

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