The Accreditation Council for OT Education (ACOTE) added Complementary and Integrative Health to the standard of Well-Being as an intervention to support well-being in its 2023 Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE®) Standards and Interpretive Guide (effective July 31, 2025). This is a big step forward to see Complementary and Integrative Health mentioned as…
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Become more confident in your skills as a practitioner. Are you a health care professional or occupational therapist who would like to understand more about holistic and integrative health, wellness, and prevention? We have an array of courses for you. Many of these courses are self-paced as recorded video classes. Go to our “Classes” page and…
Give Feedback for Integrative Health to The AOTA Commission on Education
Do you want see integrative health taught in all occupational therapy educational programs in the U.S.? Please give Feedback for Integrative Health to The AOTA Commission on Education by July 18, 2023. Details below: The AOTA Commission on Education (COE) is seeking your feedback on the revised Position Paper entitled Philosophical Base of Occupational Therapy. Background:…
Yoga and Occupational Therapy
Yoga can be used with occupational therapy to enhance health, wellness, prevention of disease, and rehab and recovery. This is something OTs have been doing for several years now. We keep getting questions and inquiries from OTs about how to use this in their practice. This is good new! More OTs are learning about the…
Nature Through An Occupational Lens
The OT Well-Being Summit is in full swing! 12 hours+ of CEU, self-paced with fabulous interviews. Hear from speakers on topics, such as “The Benefits of Nature Through an Occupational Therapy Lens and How to Incorporate it into Your Work” with Bronwyn Paynter, Occupational Therapist. Learn more and register here. Full members of…
OT Well-Being Summit
The OT Well-Being Summit will be available on April 29! It is organized by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L and Rhiannon Crispe, OT. Holistic OT Members receive 20% off with code from members page. REGISTER NOW The OT Well-Being Summit empowers occupational therapists around the globe to have confidence with holistic health and wellness skills for their OT practice. The OT Well-Being Summit…
Reiki Works! Free Live Webinar – February 13
Reiki Works! Discover Your Natural Healing Ability and Explore Afterlife Communication Would you like to reduce stress and restore a sense of calmness to your life, and imagine living without anxiety about the future? Our lives have been turned upside down during this past year of cataclysmic change. Do you wonder if you can ever…
Holistic Healing Certificate Program Graduates 2020
Congratulations to these occupational therapists who recently completed the Holistic Healing Certificate Program taught by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L. Hear in their own words how the program his impacted them and how they are creating the present and future of holistic and integrative health, wellness, and prevention. Learn more about the program here. Next program begins…
OTs Guest Speak about Complementary & Integrative Health at Ithaca College
Michelle Bradshaw, D.C., OTR/L teaches a Complementary Health & OT course at Ithaca College. It is an elective course that we hope one day will be required in all occupational therapy programs. The course explores complementary health approaches and integrative health (CHAIH) within the current healthcare environment. Students discover and clarify their personal health perspectives…
Reiki at AOTA Conference
Rebecca Austill-Clausen, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Reiki AOTA speaker and founder of Complementary Health Works, Inc. will be offering Reiki training at the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference for the 6th year in a row. The conference is held March 26 – 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. Reiki, A Complementary Health Modality used with OT,…