24. Amelia's Journey - Behind the Scenes through A Sensory Emotional Lens

In the last episode, we met Amelia and heard about her perspective on her sensory-emotional journey and lifestyle. As she spoke, I found myself reflecting on her journey through the therapist’s lens—thinking through the clinical reasoning that we used as therapists to support each piece of her sensory-emotional personalities through her early childhood and now pre-teen experiences. Welcome to Behind the Scenes of Amelia’s Journey! In this episode you’ll discover: The whole body experiences that caused anxiety for Amelia  The need for clinical reasoning for intervention to go well beyond sensory sensitivity strategies to address presenting challenges with clothes, sounds, and separation anxiety How increasing body awareness, spatial awareness, and strength (all through sensory-rich play!) deceased Amelia’s separation anxiety The progression of treatment beyond initial strategies as new anxieties surfaced Ways in which the new anxieties correlated with the progression of sensory-motor development Supporting overall sensory-motor and social-emotional development from early childhood through teenage years with the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model Join our community! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesensoryemotional_ot/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatkidsplace/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/ Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/ and https://sensoryemotional.org/   About Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E® Founder & Director, Great Kids Place  Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™ Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.   Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books.  She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.