Practice Settings

Private Practice

Focus Areas

Nature-based

Practice Populations

Pediatrics

Languages

English

Education & Licenses

San Jose State University Texas Woman's University

Nature-Based Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Outdoor Kids OT

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You'll get to work outdoors with kids, have a reasonable caseload, and be part of a fabulous team!

Oakland, California, United States
Full-Time
Salary: 100k+
Required License(s): Occupational Therapist
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“ Nature-based pediatric therapy and entrepreneurship. ”

Laura Park Figueroa, PhD, OTR/L spent the first 15 years of her career as an occupational therapist in pediatric outpatient and school-based practice. On the verge of burnout in 2014, she considered leaving the profession…until she remembered a dream she once had way back in OT school: to work outdoors in nature as an OT. In 2015, she started Outdoor Kids OT, a nature-based private practice specializing in outdoor therapy groups for children, and in 2019, created the ConTiGO (Connection & Transformation in the Great Outdoors) Approach- an evidence-based therapy model to empower pediatric therapists of all disciplines to take their work with children outdoors into nature.

In 2022, she created the free Therapy in the Great Outdoors community to host a variety of free resources for pediatric therapists interested in taking their work with children outdoors.

Laura's PhD research on nature-based occupational therapy is published here.

Laura Park Figueroa's OT Potential Contributions

Nature-based OT
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Nature-based OT

Laura Park Figueroa, PhD, OTR/L

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