Your Journey is What You Make It

Compassionate, client-centered occupational therapy that puts you first.

Our Services

Client-centered occupational therapy that supports your goals and your everyday life.

Gender Affirming Services

Whether it’s empowering you to access the day-to-day moments of gender euphoria, or helping you reach a major transition milestone, get gender affirming occupational therapy services from someone who gets it.

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Communication & Writing Aids

Written and spoken communication are a human right. We can help you access simple communication & writing aids to maximize your potential in all manners of communication via the Ontario Assistive Devices Program (ADP).

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Education & Consultation

As a collective fully staffed by transgender people with lived experience of disability, we are in a unique position to provide consultation on becoming more inclusive of queer, trans, and disabled communities.

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Other Clinical Services

In addition to our specialty services, we offer ‘generalist’ (all areas) occupational therapy assessment and treatment to individuals across the lifespan to address a wide variety of barriers and impairments.

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About Us

We are a Toronto-Based Occupational Therapy services team whose mission is to deliver compassionate, holistic, and accessible care to Toronto both in-home and through virtual services. Our vision is to create a world where no matter who you are, you can get timely access to occupational therapy services that put you, your goals, and your values first.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Occupational therapy (OT) is a type of licensed, regulated rehabilitation that focuses on your day-to-day life, or ‘activities of daily living.’ OT takes the “functional” approach to rehabilitation, in that it uses the things you want to do as both the end and the means. This can mean working on a specific skill, like building your arm strength so that you can return to work after surgery, or on the task as a whole, like helping you transition back to work. OTs work in a “holistic” model, meaning they consider the whole person–their history, their environment, their social support, their current limitations and strengths, etc–when treating their clients.

Occupational therapists are regulated in Ontario by the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (C.O.T.O). You can read more about occupational therapy and about the standards set for OTs by C.O.T.O. on their website.

Gender affirming care is healthcare that allows people to express and affirm their gender identities in the way that makes them feel the most whole. This can mean anything from care directly related to transition, such as recovering from a gender-affirming surgery, to the day-to-day, such as putting on make-up.

As trans folks ourselves, the staff at Self-Made Rehab are all extremely passionate about making sure that the trans community has access to safe, affirming, holistic healthcare.

The Assistive Devices Program (ADP) is an Ontario government initiative that assists disabled Ontarians access the communication & writing aids they need through assessment and recommendation of certified professionals called ‘authorizers.’ ADP covers 75% of the cost of certain communication & writing aids, meaning the person accessing the device only has to pay 25% of the cost. It also certifies certain vendors to sell these products, so that there is quality control for the products that a person purchases.

Self-Made Rehab offers authorizer services to apply for ADP funding. While there is no guarantee that funding will be granted just because an application is made, and not everyone qualifies, we are also happy to help you find alternate funding sources to help you get what you need.

You can also read more about the ADP program for communication & writing aids on the Ontario government website.