My Recess Therapy

02/17/2026

✨ Sensory Friendly Performance ✨

We will be there with our "Sensory Retreat Tent" for a chill spot for ANYONE who needs a break during the show!

We can't wait. Click the LINK for tickets!

Join us for a Sensory Friendly Performance of Disney’s Descendants: The Musical 💜 Designed with reduced lights and sound, this special performance offers a welcoming, supportive experience for individuals who are autistic, neurodivergent, have epilepsy, or prefer a low-sensory environment—plus their families.

📅 Saturday, April 18, 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM
📍 Hemmens Cultural Center
🎟️ FREE event (suggested $10 donation at the door; cash or Venmo)

Come enjoy a fun-filled musical adventure with your favorite Disney characters in an inclusive, judgment-free space! ✨ Register today at https://cteelgin.com/descendantssensory/

02/10/2026

✨ Welcome Payton OT to ELGIN ✨

To say we are excited is an UNDERSTATMENT. When this dynamo walked in the door her smile, passion, and OT SKILLLLLLLZ had us so excited!

🍕 Feeding Therapy: She LOVES this area of child life skills. She is bringing us experience and passion to sensory based feeding.

🤸‍♀️ Reflex Integration: Supporting coordination, attention, and overall development. Working through primitive and retained reflexes!

💜 Sensory Processing: She is HERE FOR IT. Supporting kids through sensory processing and regulation!

A little from Payton:

”I am deeply committed to respect and inclusion—celebrating neurodiversity, creating welcoming spaces, and cheering children on as they take brave steps, try new things, and build confidence along the way.”

02/09/2026

We can't WAIT for this event! We will be there brining some FUN and doing the RUN!!!

💜 ✨ New sponsor alert! ✨ 💜

We're so excited to welcome My Recess Therapy as a sponsor for our 2026 Color Outside the Line 5K and Family Fair.

"We provide specialized therapists for your child’s care along with trusted and like-minded community resources to create a trusted team approach. Our goal is to empower and educate parents each session through learning new strategies to help build your 'parenting bag-of-tricks.'" Check them out: https://www.myrecess.com/

Thank you to My Recess Therapy, and be sure to register for Color Outside the Line! Our 5K early bird discount is still available through the end of February, and entrance to the family fair is free. https://www.playnextgeneration.com/premier-events

12/17/2025

✨ Miss Jackie coming in with her TOY choice of the year and it’s a TWO-fer!!!
⚡️ Vib Plate: OTs are loving the vibration plate to target so many things - sensory input, constipation, strength and coordination tool…so many more!
🐻 Beanie Babies or small Plush toys can be so versatile! Work on coordination through toss and targeting, put on belly and work on breathing, and you can just PLAY and imagine…the best therapy of all!

12/09/2025

✨ Miss Brooke's Fav OT Toy ✨

"We have been loving the Cactus Game! It's a 4 in one game that focuses on coordination, timing, reaction time, focus/attention, and is a great way to focus/harness energy! At home both my 5 and 8 year old play different levels of each game and we have a BLAST"

Found on Amazon!

10/31/2025

Can’t stop won’t stop having Halloween fun!!! 🎃

10/27/2025

✨ Occupational Therapist - Come play with us ✨
We are always on the hunt to add to our amazing team! What makes us unique you ask?
💜 Sensory Based Locations in Elgin and St. Charles
🌳 Nature space during spring summer and FALL!
🗓️ Flexible Schedule supporting family needs
📦 Benefits Package: Designed for life. Focus on flexibility, wellness, and time!
♥️ This Team: Go ahead - peep our website. This crew is seasoned specialized and amazing. Working together allows for learning and collating amongst an amazing team!
👋 Therapist Owned: It's me...Brooke...I'm typing this! Our team helps create this place. We talk about what's working and what's not. How's the world changing. How are our family needs shifting our needs...and we problem solve. What do we see our clients and parents needing. How can WE support the community with our gifts and talents. We develop this place based on what WE need and how to keep these families supported by the BEST of the BEST therapists that are heard and supported.
Wanna learn more? Click our careers page for our latest job posting!
https://app.careerplug.com/j/02rn74b

10/27/2025

🎃✨ Our Hearts (and Trunks!) Are Full! ✨🎃

We are still smiling from ear to ear after this year’s Sensory & Allergy-Friendly Trunk-or-Treat — 37 incredible trunks, hundreds of families, and a whole lot of joy! 💜🧡

Throughout the day, we heard words that remind us exactly why we do this:
💬 “I want to stay all day!”
💬 “There’s no other event like this — thank you for creating it.”

Those simple words mean the world to our team. This event is built with love — for the kids who need extra time, for families navigating sensory or allergy needs, and for every child who deserves to celebrate Halloween in a space where they feel safe, supported, and included.

We are endlessly grateful to our amazing community partners and trunk hosts who made this magic happen — all 37 of you brought creativity, compassion, and inclusion to life in the most beautiful ways. Thank you for showing up, dressing up, and giving from the heart. 💫

From all of us at and — thank you for helping us create a space where every child belongs. 🧡

10/14/2025

🍕 Pizza Party for Amazing Attendance 🍕OT and Speech are kinda like working out! You want a 6 pack abs you can’t just go to the gym once a week, amiright? The more you go the stronger you get! Just like weekly therapy AND that home programming is what really make it happen…and ya know what…that takes the work from the Parents!!!! We know it’s extra and we SEE you doing it all! Congrats to this family coming every week, doing the home programs, and bringing the joy always! Pizza on US!

09/30/2025

Our friends Riverview Counseling Services, Ltd. With this amazing and timely presentation!

The presentation is in just 2 days!

FREE Online Parenting Workshop:
School Anxiety and Avoidance
Wednesday, October 1st
12 PM (online)

This session will explore the causes of school anxiety and share parenting strategies to help you support and encourage your child through their stress.

No registration is required.
Simply visit our website homepage on the day of the event to get the link.