Finding joy and wellbeing through our senses

We empower kids to live their best lives through occupational therapy

10+

Years of experience

Hi! I’m Korrie Sparks and I’m dedicated to helping families like yours thrive!

Does your child ever...

Experience overwhelming emotions

Overreact to touch, sound, or movement

Appear distressed with dressing, bathing, grooming

Feel anxious at mealtimes or resistant to trying new foods

Have trouble completing multiple steps

Just appear “busy” all the time with constant movement

Break things easily or appear clumsy

Have difficulty with hand-eye coordination

Have trouble following routines at home or school

Take an unusually long time to learn new things

Have messy handwriting, cutting, coloring

Have difficulty navigating friendships

Occupational therapy can support your child to enjoy greater ease around all these things and more

Our therapeutic approach

Dr. Korrie Sparks and her team provide therapy based on the whole child and family system. With advanced training in Ayres Sensory Integration® (ASI), we support kids to register, organize, and act on sensory information in their environment efficiently. This theory and practice not only address the senses of vision, touch, smell, taste, and hearing, but also address body position (proprioception), movement (vestibular), and interoception (inner body awareness). When kids are able to effectively process sensory information without effort or stress, they feel happy, confident, and at ease.

Emotional regulation and self-awareness practices are also integrated into our sessions with additional training in yoga and mindfulness-based practices. The use of art and color are also potent modalities for healing. In addition, we utilize cognitive strategies focusing on emotional intelligence including the Zones of Regulation, the Alert Program®, and other Social Thinking curriculum. Tenets of play therapy are woven into treatment sessions with training in DIRFloortime®.

Use of nature-based therapy is also a passion of Dr. Sparks through extensive study with the Scotland Forest School Training (FSTC) in 2019. Providing therapy within a natural setting has been shown to improve overall wellbeing and attention skills.

What families are saying…

  • We were so thankful to have been recommended to Korrie. We have been seeing her weekly for the past year and a half for for our youngest daughter. Through Korrie's extensive initial evaluation, we were able to identify some areas of need and support for our daughter. We have noticed incredible growth and confidence in our daughter since she began working with Korrie. Korrie's personality, knowledge and ability to engage so well with children has been just what our daughter needed to make such significant strides over the past year.

    Denise

  • Korrie immediately connected with my son and helped cultivate a great passion and enjoyment of the work. After only a few months we are seeing big behavioral and physical control improvements. We are grateful for the great work she is doing and the improvement it has had on our lives.

    Lia

  • Korrie is an absolute gem. She has been invaluable to our family, and we have learned so much in a short period of time. She is kind, patient, creative, and incredibly knowledgeable and gifted at what she does. She was immediately able to connect with our child and make each session fun and engaging. Our child loves sessions with Korrie and looks forward to seeing her every week on “Korrie days.” We have noticed such amazing improvement in only a few months. Korrie is able to pick up on the most minute details and give us insight into what is going on in our child’s brain. We cannot say enough good things about Korrie—if your family is looking into OT options, you have found the one.

    Meta

  • Korrie tremendously helped our son through OT with a number of challenges. She elevated his emotional and sensory regulation, was able to "organize" him by giving him the sensory input he needed, and helped him tolerate stress and impulsive triggers much better than before. Through her work and perceptive observations, Korrie was also able to pinpoint an issue that was confirmed and then positively treated by a vision therapist. I felt that she was always looking for cues and solutions that would help our son. He loved working with Korrie and looked forward to each visit. We are all still reaping the benefits of her work. The progress made was immense and we continue to practice the tools we learned. We can't thank you enough!

    Bill

  • Korrie is such a kind, collaborative soul. She truly listens and problem solves to support children and their families. Our son loved going to his weekly sessions with Korrie and made significant improvements. We highly recommend Korrie!

    Colleen