The Sensory Brain Occupational Therapy — Local services in Pasadena

The Sensory Brain has been an incredible gift in the form of physical and social confidence for my son. Justine and Emma are an incredible team. Justine is fantastic at explaining the findings of assessments as well as signs and symptoms that are less well defined. Emma is so very kind and expert at establishing trust it was easy for my son to have faith in her instruction. With her help my son was able and excited to play playground sports at school, something he would have avoided before OT. He has even agreed to play rec center basketball! He can even describe where in his body he is feeling weak and in need of more attention (meaning the exercises Emma has taught him). Although motivating him to do his exercises is still challenging, he knows what to do and that he has control over doing it. While my son has “graduated” from OT he still pleads to go back to spend time with Emma. He can trust himself now because he can trust his body. I endorse The Sensory Brain with the utmost enthusiasm as...

We had an absolutely amazing experience working with Justine. We previously went to a local OT at a facility and the care and attention that our child received working with Justine was not even comparable. Justine helped us understand each of our roles as an entire family to support our child and one another through the journey.

She’s patient, calm, understanding and beyond capable. Justine took the time to understand our specific desired outcomes based on the challenges we shared with her. She continually checked in with us on the progress she was making to ensure we were on the same page. And we were time and time again. When we needed to change our approach or try new methods, she helped us do so.

We had three main goals we wanted to achieve and Justine was able to get us there along with our child. We highly recommend working with Justine if your family has the...

Justine was wonderful. I'm in my mid-40s. I received a Tourette's diagnosis as a child, but little support. Years of rejection resulted in me masking many of my tics in public as an adult. My relationship to my tics was repressed and I had never really addressed the impact on self-esteem and the inner experience. Honestly, I had never really talked to anyone about them. When my tics "broke through" my ability to mask, I felt out of control and alone. Justine's implementation of CBIT, along with her genuine curiosity and support, helped me to form a deeper understanding of my tics, their patterns, and their impact on me. We worked together to track and log severity and impact data over time. We built a toolkit of competing responses for situations when I want, or need, to openly tic less. By the end, I had not only built more self-awareness, but also more...