Your Clients Know What to Do. They’re Just Not Doing It.
And you’re tired of giving the same client education or exercise handouts and then watching clients leave these resources at the door. Tire of feeling like you are not actually helping anyone.
Here’s the truth: You’re not failing. You’re just missing one critical skill that OT school never taught you.
Coaching changes everything.
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Learn how to have conversations that actually create change—and start feeling effective again.
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OT School Taught You Everything Except How to Make Lasting Change
You know your stuff. Health conditions, theories, interventions —you've got it all.
But when it comes to helping clients actually follow through on lifestyle changes? The nutrition, stress , movement, sleep habits that drive chronic conditions?
You default to what you were taught: educate and advise.
“Let's learn how to read a nutrition label.”
“Do this home exercise program twice a day.”
“Here is a guided meditation video for stress management”
Then you document "declined" or "refused" when nothing changes. You feel frustrated. They feel like failures.
But here's what nobody told you: Telling people what to do—even when you're right—doesn't create lasting change.
Coaching conversations do.
And the moment you learn how to facilitate change instead of prescribe it? Everything shifts.
This is what changes
When you learn coaching skills—how to help clients find their own motivation, how to work with resistance instead of against it, how to guide discovery rather than deliver advice—your entire practice transforms.
You start feeling like a real occupational therapy practitioner again:
Your sessions become authentic conversations, not checkbox compliance.
You use your clinical reasoning skills to support clients in addressing their most meaningful issues
You remember why you chose this profession
Your clients actually change:
They discover their own reasons for change, increasing their motivation
They follow through on their goals and even their between session homework
They stop refusing or no-showing sessions, and become excited to go to therapy
You see real meaningful progress
This is what the Heath Coach OT teaches
Practical coaching skills designed specifically for occupational therapy practitioners—so you can feel effective again and expand your impact.
However You Want to Practice, These Skills Transform Your Work
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Enhance your current practice
Use coaching skills to address the lifestyle factors impacting your clients' conditions—with approaches that actually work.
Transform your sessions from only dressing, bathing, and grooming to meaningful health behavior change.
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Expand your role
Add wellness programs, group coaching, or specialized services within your current setting.
Use your full skill set without leaving your job.
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Build something new
Transition to health coaching full-time—private practice, corporate wellness, consulting, or other paths.
Use your OT foundation to create work that aligns with your values.
Hi, I’m Jaclyn
I'm an occupational therapist, scientist, and board-certified health coach.
I've been an occupational therapy practitioner for over 15 years, working across settings with kids and adults. Everything changed on an acute care cardiac floor. I'd help patients after a heart attack, heart failure decompensation, etc. and then discharge them with evidence-based recommendations. Months later, many would get readmitted with the similar issues. What I was doing was important. But it wasn't addressing why clients kept coming back.
That's when I discovered coaching skills. Instead of prescribing solutions, I learned how to help patients discover their own motivation. How to facilitate actual behavior change. How to work with the person, not just the condition. And suddenly, the work became meaningful. Patients engaged differently. They followed through. Real change started happening.
I saw the same transformation in early intervention. There, I used the family coaching model to empower parents instead of just directing home programs.
This approach worked. So I committed to understanding it deeply. I earned my PhD and spent 10 years researching how occupational therapy practitioners can better support chronic disease management. I've led federally funded projects, published 30+ peer-reviewed articles, and became a board-certified health coach.
I created Health Coach OT because occupational therapy practitioners deserve the training that actually prepares us for the work we do—helping people change behaviors, not just prescribing interventions. This is grounded in research, designed for our scope, and built for real practice
Three Ways to Learn Coaching Skills and Transform Your Practice
1) Start with the Podcast
The Health Coach OT features practical episodes on coaching skills and interviews with occupational therapy practitioners using these approaches to transform their practice and expand their impact.
2) Get the Quick-Start Guide + Weekly Tips
Download THE OT PRACTITIONER'S QUICK-START GUIDE TO COACHING and receive weekly insights on shifting from prescriptive advice to coaching conversations that create real change.
3) Transform your Practice
Our coach training program is launching in Summer 2026. This comprehensive 79-hour training you the coaching skills that make you effective with behavior change—designed specifically for working occupational therapy practitioners and students.
Enrollment is limited. Join the waitlist now.
The work gets better from here.
Learn the coaching skills that transform how you practice—and open doors you didn't know existed.
The coach training program gives you the skills to facilitate real change—whether you enhance your current practice or explore new directions.
79 hours. Designed specifically for working occupational therapy practitioners and students
Join the waitlist for Summer 2026 enrollment.