Clinical and Health Needs: What We Do

Occupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents

•Initial Evaluation

Your first session at Health and Performance International (HPI) will consist of a thorough intake of your past and present medical histories, as well as your current complaints and your perception of what’s going on with your emotional, mental and physical health. We will also record some of your physiological processes (biofeedback) such as: heart rate, respiration, skin conductance, muscle activity, and peripheral temperature. Additionally, we will record your brain waves under various conditions (EEG evaluation).

This data will allow us to customize a plan of care that addresses your personal needs and goals, as well as your idiosyncratic, psycho-physiological functioning.

We will discuss your short-term and long-term goals to, together, build a powerful and clear vision of what you want to achieve.

We will also start designing a home exercise program (HEP), which we will modify as you progress toward your goals.

•Counseling

Your thoughts are connected to how you feel.

We help you to solve present day problems, identifying distorted thinking that causes emotional discomfort.

We will also give you homework to ease your intrapersonal and interpersonal relationship and to lead you towards positive and meaningful relationships.

Biofeedback modalities will help you to analyze behavior, define problems, and select goals. You will learn how to connect thoughts, feelings and behaviors and how to set realistic and attainable goals. Along this empowering process, we will also explore unconscious and conscious motivations.

We will provide you with unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, and the genuineness necessary for your growth and evolution.