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
