Occupational therapy
Occupational therapists help people of all ages participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities or "occupations.”
Abby’s goal is to help families find rhythms that support connection, participation, and well-being in everyday life.
Approach & Beliefs
Abby works within a consultative model, seeing clients on a shorter and/or as-needed basis, rather than traditional, ongoing therapy sessions.
Abby supports individuals and families across the lifespan—from infants to older adults—because meaningful participation, relationships, and well-being continue to evolve throughout every stage of life.
Abby works within a trauma-informed lens, prioritizing felt safety, trust, and empathy. She believes in meeting people where they are at, and that working together is a dynamic process that requires participation and commitment.
Is this service right for you and your family?
Have you worked with conventional therapy but struggle to translate those recommendations into everyday life? This service might be just what you need.
Abby works with families experiencing difficulties related to ADHD, autism, sensory processing differences, executive function challenges, emotional regulation, transitions, routines, school/home disconnects, family conflict around daily activities, caregiver burnout, and difficulties with sleep, meals, dressing, hygiene, and homework.
Additionally, Abby works with multigenerational households — parents caring for an aging parent, grandparents living with children, families balancing parenting children or adolescents while caring for an aging adult, and families adapting a home after illness or injury.
About Abby
Abby brings a thoughtful, whole-person perspective to occupational therapy, shaped by her background in anthropology and a lifelong curiosity about movement, embodiment, and the ways people connect with themselves and the world around them. Her path to occupational therapy was inspired by her grandmother, who returned to graduate school later in life and developed an innovative movement-based program for people living with Parkinson's disease.
Her clinical experience spans outpatient pediatrics, community-based mental health, school-based services, and brain injury rehabilitation. Abby has pursued advanced training in family systems theory, aging in place, sensory integration, rhythmic movement for reflex integration, and DIR/Floortime. She earned her B.A. in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Wesleyan University and her M.S. in Occupational Therapy from the University of New Hampshire.
Movement has always been central to Abby's life. Her experience with dance, yoga, pilates, qigong, and hiking continues to inspire her approach to care, reinforcing her belief that movement can be a powerful pathway to regulation, resilience, and well-being.
FAQs
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Abby serves clients throughout Madison and within 15 miles of the Madison metropolitan area.
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Private-pay allows for more flexibility for families and for therapists.
Insurance companies use what they call “medical necessity” to dictate frequency and duration of therapy services. Abby believes that those decisions should be made between clients and their provider.
If cost is an issue, please reach out about sliding scale fees.
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Families come in all shapes, sizes, and configurations. Abby works with households with two parents and children, single parent households, multigenerational households, and those with roommates, friends, or partners who consider each other family.
