About Angela Rizo Rosales, M.A., OTR/L

Humans are born with a set of innate primary reflexes and movement patterns that are the essential building blocks of development and serve as our survival mechanisms. This process begins in utero, and functions as the basis for all of our learning, development, and future life experiences. During periods of stress (in utero, during birth, or at any time during development or later in life), the body retains or reverts back to inefficient reflex patterns, resulting in impaired function of higher-level skills. Working at the foundational level through reflex integration and repatterning, we are able to create more efficient pathways in the brain, which leads to improved brain function.

I use safe, gentle touch and specific movement patterns to address a wide variety of concerns, including:

• Sensory processing difficulties 
• Sleep concerns
• Breathing concerns
• Decreased motor coordination (fine and/or gross motor)
• Mental or neurological health diagnoses (i.e., ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, ODD, Autism, OCD, etc.)
• Academic concerns (reading, handwriting, math, processing skills)
• Chronic pain (including tension or pain in jaw)
• Focus and attention difficulties
• Bedwetting or incontinence
• Picky eating
• Difficulty with swallowing or sucking
• Trauma (acute and post)
• Airway Health
• Sports performance
•  Cognitive Processing (concussion and stroke)