What Is Mental Health Occupational Therapy?

Mental health occupational therapy focuses on how anxiety, depression, ADHD, and everyday stress affect your ability to manage work, relationships, and daily routines. Instead of focusing only on symptoms or diagnosis, sessions look at the practical side of getting through your day: sleep, focus, energy, and follow-through. Rachel blends occupational therapy strategies with cognitive and behavioral tools to help you build routines that actually stick.

Who Mental Health Occupational Therapy in Sudbury Is For

Many clients come to mental health occupational therapy while managing anxiety, depression, burnout, or the everyday impact of ADHD and executive functioning. This is also a good fit for adults exploring a late-in-life ADHD or autism diagnosis who want practical, goal-based strategies. Care is available to adults and older teens, 16 and up, including women, non-binary and gender-diverse clients, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Meet Rachel Schooley, Occupational Therapist in Sudbury

Rachel holds a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from McMaster University (2016) and is a member in good standing with the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario. She is an ADHD-Certified Clinical Service Provider and a Certified Grief Informed Professional, and she draws on CBT and Internal Family Systems to help clients build practical routines around focus, energy, and follow-through. Her occupational therapy background keeps sessions grounded in real-world function, how you sleep, work, and manage your week, not just how you feel about it. Care is collaborative and adjusts as your goals change.

Conditions We Support: Anxiety, Depression, ADHD & Burnout

Rachel provides mental health occupational therapy for adults and older teens navigating anxiety, depression, burnout, and the daily impact of ADHD or autism. She also supports clients through grief, major life transitions, and general struggles with motivation, focus, or routine.

This is a good fit when your mental health is affecting the basics: work, sleep, relationships, or your own follow-through, and you want practical, occupation-based strategies alongside emotional support. Every plan of care is built around your goals and adjusts as your needs change.

What Mental Health Occupational Therapy Sessions Look Like

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Free 15-Minute Discovery Call

Talk through your goals and whether mental health OT is the right starting point for you.
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Practical, Goal-Based Sessions

Build routines around focus, energy, and follow-through, not just talk through what's wrong.
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NIHB-Covered Treatment

Eligible clients can access fully covered care through Rachel's NIHB provider status.

Occupational Therapy Alongside Our Full Sudbury Care Team

If your main concern is a specific trauma history, our trauma-informed occupational therapy page focuses on that work directly. Mental health occupational therapy here is better suited to the everyday impact of anxiety, depression, ADHD, or burnout on your routines and relationships. Both are delivered by Rachel Schooley, and she can help you figure out which starting point fits best. Sudbury Health Collective also offers physiotherapy, naturopathic medicine, and psychotherapy under one roof, with every appointment one-to-one.

Mental Health Occupational Therapy FAQs, Sudbury

No diagnosis is required. Many clients start with a general sense that anxiety, low mood, or attention and energy struggles are getting in the way, whether or not they have an official diagnosis.
Yes, for eligible NIHB clients, treatment is fully covered under Rachel's provider status. Many extended health plans also include occupational therapy, so it's worth checking your specific plan.
Rachel's caseload starts at age 16, and most of her clients are adults.
Both are delivered by Rachel using a similar client-led approach. Mental health occupational therapy focuses more on the everyday functional side of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and burnout, while trauma-informed occupational therapy is built specifically around processing a trauma history. If you are not sure which fits, the free discovery call is a good place to start.

Book Mental Health Occupational Therapy in Sudbury

Start with a free 15-minute discovery call

Whether you are managing anxiety, ADHD, burnout, or just want more structure in your day, Rachel offers sessions in person in Sudbury and virtually across Ontario.

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Sudbury Health Collective

888 Regent St, Suite 100
Greater Sudbury, ON
P3E 6C6

7055860138

admin@sudburyhealthcollective.com

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