Collaborate with Dr. Sankey

• Transitioning to adulthood
• Independent living skills
• Functional performance with ADLs or IADLs
• Attention or impulsivity
• Sustaining recovery
• Time management, planning, organizing, or prioritizing tasks
• Emotional regulation, coping, or self-awareness
• Communication and social participation
• Remembering to take medications as prescribed
• Cooking or meal planning skills
• Managing a monthly budget
• Leisure or hobby participation

• Depression, Anxiety, and Bipolar Disorders
• Autism
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Substance Use Disorder and other addictions
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Hoarding Disorder
• Other mental, cognitive, and physical impairments...

Are you wanting to know how much assistance is needed or how functionally independent your client is? How do you know if your client is safe to live independently?

Dr. Sankey is a life skills expert. As a Mental Health Occupational Therapist, she uses occupations and activities to evaluate functional skills and the type of assistance a person may need. She then works with the client to increase their independence, safety awareness, and functional performance. 

Occupational Therapy helps with:

• create healthy routines and habits
• promote or enhance functional performance
• establish a new skill or ability
• restore function, skill, or ability once lost or diminished
• maintain and preserve function
• modify, compensate, or adapt activities and performance
• prevent or reduce decline or disbilities

Dr. Sankey sees young adults and adults in Cave Cree, Arizona, with mental health or cognitive diagnoses.

She is culturally sensitive and uses a trauma-informed approach while working with her clients. She collaborates using a client-centered approach to identify meaningful goals with her clients and involved parties (families, providers, etc) to:

• Increase functional performance and independent living skills
• Create sustainable habits and routines
• Implement harm reduction strategies and safety awareness
• Learn sensory-based coping skills to improve self-awarenss and self-regulation
• Develop executive functioning and goal attainment skills
• Support medication and chronic disease management skills
• Improve social participation and pro-social communication skills

Dr. Sankey believes communication and collaboration are the keys to a client's success. This is why she encourages clients to have a Release of information (ROI) with providers on their team to support continuity of care.

Dr. Sankey looks forward to working with you to improve our client's outcomes.