47: How To Start Your Nature-Based Pediatric Practice
In this episode, I share the answers to frequently asked questions about starting a nature-based pediatric practice.
You’ll learn:
🌱How I started Outdoor Kids OT (OKOT), my nature-based pediatric practice, and how it grew.
🌱How the ConTiGO (Connection & Transformation in the Great Outdoors) Approach was developed. 😁
🌱Start-up logistics: finding a location, getting liability insurance, and grouping children for services.
🌱Structure of our nature-based OT groups at OKOT: length of sessions and the different activities we include in each group. You can get a bunch of treatment activities to try in my book.
🌱Systems needed for nature-based therapy: Nature-based therapy is not just nature play. There is a therapy process behind nature-based therapy in which you individualize the support for children based on their needs as you carry out your therapy services as a co-facilitator with nature.
Next week on the podcast, we'll delve into the topic of the differences between nature-based learning/enrichment/education versus nature-based therapy. So stay tuned!
Link to download my 2020 article on the ConTiGO Approach™
ANNOUNCEMENT: The ConTiGO Approach™ Nature-Based Therapy Certification & Mentoring Program will open for enrollment next week January 15-19, 2024. If you want to truly develop expertise as a nature-based pediatric therapist, this is for you. Check out the program and join the waitlist at www.contigoapproach.com to be notified when enrollment opens. We open enrollment only 3 times per year.
Welcome to the TGO Podcast!
The Therapy in the Great Outdoors podcast is about the business & practice of nature-based pediatric therapy of all kinds. If you are an outdoor-loving practitioner in the field of occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, social work, behavioral health, mental health counseling, or outdoor education THIS is for you! You'll learn how you can take your work with children outdoors into nature. We'll cover exactly what it takes to run a successful and profitable nature-based practice that changes children's lives (and yours!) forever.
