Kelly Beins - Sensory OT Consulting

Kelly Beins - Sensory OT Consulting OT services (in-home and virtual) and Sensory Consulting for sensory OT's, sensory parents, and othe OTC offers expertise in sensory integration.

At OTC we know that accurate and comprehensive assessment is the foundation of effective treatment, and finding the root of a functional problem is the first step to a lasting solution; partnering with other agencies & disciplines to offer advanced skills specialized OT assessments & consultations for all ages.

Gifts come in all shapes & sizes! #2025
12/26/2025

Gifts come in all shapes & sizes!

#2025

What makes Christmas special? The love & intention we put into it. All the preparation in the world won’t make life (or ...
12/26/2025

What makes Christmas special? The love & intention we put into it. All the preparation in the world won’t make life (or Christmas) go as planned, but I do believe that when love is the intention, there will always be something special remembered. Even through the hard.

#2025

This past Sunday I graduated from my yoga teacher training (YTT). It was on paper a 7 month journey. In reality it’s bee...
12/10/2025

This past Sunday I graduated from my yoga teacher training (YTT). It was on paper a 7 month journey. In reality it’s been about 15 years since I found yoga (or since it found me)!

I can’t summarize the transformation as a result of YTT because I’m still in it. I still feel like I’m transforming. What I realize now that I’ve had some space from the energy (and emotion) of the weekend is that we are all always transforming and that transformation will (I hope), forever be a part of the journey. Yoga just gives us a way to transform with more ease.

I’ve had the opportunity to cross paths with some pretty amazing humans through this experience and I’ve had nothing but support from the amazing humans I already have in my life. From the daily practices at home, the hours of study, random hotel yoga sessions, the full weekends every month and the numerous studio practices we’ve logged and learned from this year, I’ve received many gifts. With sincere gratitude I’m excited to move into offering yoga to others in some shape or form yet to be determined! A gentle reminder to anyone who needs to hear it, when you show up for yourself consistently in whatever way that looks like for you, things shift. Life starts to give you more opportunity to shift and the changes are cumulative. We also need each other. Life can be hard and “It takes a village” isn’t just for raising children it’s for life.

I get to start offering yoga this Saturday at 11 am my first yoga home.

Perhaps controversial but this has been brewing in me for some time. As a provider of mental health services for many ye...
12/04/2025

Perhaps controversial but this has been brewing in me for some time. As a provider of mental health services for many years now, I believe we’ve done entire generations a disservice. We’ve talked about mental health awareness with a lens on identifying problems without also helping to build solutions. It’s because it’s hard. There aren’t one-size-fits-all strategies that are affordable, scaleable, or globally & culturally realistic. I get that.

But what if we begin to focus on what it takes to build resilience and what resilience really means and looks like in our own lives?

Awareness, supports, AND solutions are needed. It starts with us, the adults and providers who are supporting adults who are supporting children.

Let’s prescribe more movement, more story time, more free-play. Let’s prescribe more sunshine, more conversation, analog alarm clocks, more car-rides & more shared meals (even if they’re only 10 mins long).

The absence of mental health problems is not mental health. It’s the absence of a mental health problem.

Moving beyond awareness takes creativity and a community of like-minded others. Let’s help our clients and loved ones find that within and beyond us.

“It takes a village” brings on a whole new meaning when we think in terms of mental health not mental health problems.

OT musings here so bear with me, there’s a point. While away for work I found this cute little coffee shop before gettin...
12/03/2025

OT musings here so bear with me, there’s a point.

While away for work I found this cute little coffee shop before getting on the road for my next stop. As I ordered my coffee I noted the server at the till was leaning on his arm supporting himself and as I stood waiting my turn I I noted he might be over relying on it (propping) or was my OT brain over-analyzing? (Likely). I then noted extra wrist extension when he pulled the receipt from the register to hand to the customer in front of me. (Hmm…definite compensatory movement & bilateral weakness. OT brains rarely turn off). He then “greeted” me with the standard, “Hi how are you what can I get you?” In a bit of a monotone voice. I said hello and said I was good thankyou, then asked “How are you?” He answered again monotone, “I’m alive.” I replied with “well that’s a good thing” and he said “it depends on who you ask.” I asserted, “Well I think it’s a good thing”. I could tell it registered but I wasn’t sure how.

As he turned to prep my order I saw him tremor and wobble as he carefully walked to the coffee urns confirming my suspicion of some possible neuromuscular condition.

As I sat to wait for my breakfast bagel I was struck by these glass flower tables. They were all different and SO pretty and whimsical. I returned to the server to ask him about where they came from and he told me the story of the café & the owners. When he handed me my bagel, I thanked him and he smiled and complimented me on my scarf.

Who knows really what he’s struggling with or if he’s truly down or challenged, as I suspect. And the only real point to this story is that I realized life presents us with simple opportunities to be kind and with little snippets of beauty and reminders of how good we have it amidst hard things. These snippets come & go quickly & can easily be missed. I’m practicing trying to notice and to set myself up with more space to not rush so I CAN notice. My practice this day felt like a win.

And now I want one of these tables 😉😍

We all need little reminders of our capacity. I guarantee you this one applies to some scenario you’ve navigated. Big an...
10/15/2025

We all need little reminders of our capacity. I guarantee you this one applies to some scenario you’ve navigated.

Big and small, you’ve fumbled through it all and come out gracefully, with the challenge unbeknownst to others. And even if they did see you struggle, I also guarantee they were more impressed by your resilience and stick-to-it-iveness than they were swayed by any fumbling you did along the way.

Be proud of yourself today. You need that. We all do.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the lack of targeted & effective services for adults living with sensory challenges. I’ve...
10/10/2025

I’ve been thinking a lot about the lack of targeted & effective services for adults living with sensory challenges. I’ve received 3-4 calls recently for adult services.

Intervention MUST look different but best practice isn’t fully established yet in an evidence-based way.

If you are are an OT following me here, and you are serving adults in your pediatric practice (seems odd but some clients know you’ve got the expertise nobody else has and are desperate) let me know in the comments the common things you change in your treatment sessions. How would you describe the key differences in how you work with an adult vs a child?

I have some hypotheses about what we need to do differently as a profession but curious to hear your reflections.

Beginnings can happen on any given day and I’ve learned that even beginning is an accomplishment. Beginning again, despi...
10/02/2025

Beginnings can happen on any given day and I’ve learned that even beginning is an accomplishment. Beginning again, despite the hard and all the obvious reasons there to stop us, is inspiring.

If we have enough of the beginnings we become different.

Here’s to beginning again and again. ❤️

« A Little Place in the Woods » Morning yoga out in nature. What a way to start. What a way to practice. gem
08/22/2025

« A Little Place in the Woods »

Morning yoga out in nature. What a way to start. What a way to practice.

gem

A dear friend recently reminded me about the brilliance and beauty of this book .Clearly I read it. Clearly I liked i...
08/15/2025

A dear friend recently reminded me about the brilliance and beauty of this book .

Clearly I read it. Clearly I liked it. Clearly I used it.

I found it fascinating that the one word showing on all the bookmarks here is the word “shame”. I don’t remember why exactly (I can guess) but I see more clearly now how shame shows up and did show up for me over the years.

In the shame section of her book is this quote about perfectionism and when I turned the page I found my own other note - I’m guessing about the ways that it impacts our professional growth and our capacity to support others. I do still believe this to be true.

Shame and perfectionism is rampant among OT’s (there I said it). It can impact us as practice owners, therapists and parents and people who care. And it’s not ltd to this group but I know many of you are holding these titles & hats.

And titles matter to perfectionists. It’s how we identify with and prove our worth (or did). We over work. We over achieve. We strive. We have poor boundaries with time and over commitment. We hold false expectations of ourselves & others without even realizing it. We do great things but at the cost of self-sacrifice all in the name of caring. Our high standards prevent us from collaborating and feeling truly successful. Action is a buffer for vulnerability. We find real ways to validate the need for improvement but what we’re really doing is validating what we fear the most, that we aren’t enough and that we aren’t special. So we take more action to prove ourselves wrong, only to butt up against this experience again.

Is this a self-serving share? I hope not. These aren’t new a-ha moments for me. And I am good!! But what I’ve come to realize as I work with so many other therapists is that these experiences are not unique to me (I wish they were) and are in fact quite common in our profession.

Polyvagal theory, and somatic therapy, and SSP and friendships and yoga have been my game changers (not necessarily in that order). Please share yours! And mostly know “shame-free” might not be realistic. But acknowledging when and how it shows up might be. And THAT is a real achievement.

Glimmers might be the new ways you have of responding to yourself or the world. Deb Dana tells us that if we name and sh...
08/10/2025

Glimmers might be the new ways you have of responding to yourself or the world. Deb Dana tells us that if we name and share our glimmers with a “glimmer buddy” that helps our glimmers grow.

So let’s have it! What’s a glimmer you’ve noticed lately? Please share so they will grow!

Perspective. A pathway to somewhere is truly that middle place of being in one spot, seeing another, knowing roughly how...
08/09/2025

Perspective.

A pathway to somewhere is truly that middle place of being in one spot, seeing another, knowing roughly how to get there but having few details about what you’ll find along the way. It’s looking ahead and knowing there’s some distance to go and choice to make and trusting yourself, the Universe who presented this path, and the path itself, to get you there despite those details. Even if and especially when you’re choosing a path that isn’t the current or obvious one.

The true analogy for life is that no matter where we are on any path, there’s always a new endpoint and new paths to choose which is why we’re always in that middle place. Whether that feels hopeful or stifling or just ok, depends on the paths we’ve already walked and the one we’re walking now.

May you walk an easy path today and may others you meet along the way make your path a little (or a lot) more enjoyable. Your path isn’t going anywhere so rest under a tree if you need to. 😉

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