Where Access To came from…

Access To began in 2025 as a means of implementing occupational therapy in my career as an occupational therapist. While working towards my doctorate in occupational therapy, we were encouraged to use our creativity to solve problems and prioritize our clients’ personal factors, needs, and desires. After practicing in a traditional setting, I began to notice the “box” occupational therapists are placed into in the United States healthcare system, and noticed I was drifting further and further from those foundational theories and ideals of a profession I fell in love with.

Currently, the focus of Access To is to address sex and intimacy from an occupational therapy lens for clients seeking sex therapy. An area of practice that gets overlooked and dismissed in traditional settings, which is well within our role as clinicians. It is an area of practice I have been interested in since I was in my graduate program, though frequently is not addressed in traditional occupational therapy settings… So, I created my own practice to work with clients that want to address it!