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OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs
Earn your OT CEUs by listening to our episodes for free, then logging into the OT Potential Club to take a short quiz and download your certificate. Each week (with breaks for major holidays), we host a live-recorded conversation exploring cutting-edge trends, timely hot topics, and the most impactful developments shaping occupational therapy today.
Our expert guests help you pull out actionable insights you can apply immediately in practice. Designed for both occupational therapists…
Episodes
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#158 Interprofessional Education with Michael Sy
In the United States, therapy professionals are mostly educated in silos. So it’s no wonder that when we get into the real world, we often struggle with…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#157 Motivational Interviewing with Sabina Kahn
At the heart of rehab therapy is often behavior change. That powerful lever is how therapy is able to deliver such long-term, life-altering results. But let's…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#156 Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline with Ganesh Babulal
As we've covered on the podcast, the world is heading toward a dementia crisis. The number of people living with dementia is projected to nearly triple by…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#155 Marketing Your Therapy Practice with Erica Stevens
More than 2.4 billion people around the globe live with a health condition that would benefit from rehabilitation, and more than 1 billion are living with a…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#154 OT as Mental Health Providers with Halley Read
For as long as I've been an OT, I've been hearing about occupational therapy's advocacy to be recognized as behavioral health providers. This is frankly a…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#153 Rehab Tech Abandonment with Christopher Gaskins
On one hand, it truly feels like we are on track for health technology to transform healthcare as we know it. On the other hand, we have to weigh the reality…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#152 OT and Aging in Place with Dawn Heiderscheidt
Healthcare has many challenges right now, but so many of them stem back to one looming global reality: By 2050, the number of people on our planet over age 65…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#151 Caregiver Training Codes with Rachel Wiley
Over 53 million people in the U.S. provide unpaid caregiving services. That's a stunning 1 in 6 people. The complex role of caregiving can entail everything…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#150 Medicare Advocacy for 2027 with Dana Strauss
The 2027 Physician Fee Schedule signals a continued restructuring of clinician payment-redistributing funds towards primary care and behavioral health while…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#149 Neurodiversity Affirming OT for Adults with Samantha Valasek
The latest clinical practice guideline for occupational therapy for autistic people across the lifespan urges us to shift away from deficit models toward…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#148 Musculoskeletal Treatment Pathways with Chad Cook
As we’ve interviewed expert clinicians on the podcast, clear trends have emerged. These clinicians have two things in common: They have a pretty set arc to…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#147 OT and Vision in Schools with Jaime Spencer
When you look at the intersection of vision and reading in schools, the gaps are impossible to ignore. Consider the data: Two-thirds of American fourth graders…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#146 Prenatal Therapy with Marissa Ruhl
Only in this past year did it come on my radar that some therapy clinics are offering prenatal therapy. While I can personally relate to the desire to have a…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#145 What is Therapy & How Do We Measure It? with Megan Cornish
The rapid rise of AI chat presenting as therapists has spurred a reaction to differentiate what AI can do versus the work of a licensed therapist. This is…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#144 Therapy and Value-based Care Models with Dana Strauss
It’s hard to overstate how important it is for OTs and PTs to understand the new value-based care models. But, let’s be honest—they are an overwhelming and…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#143 Home Health Therapy Documentation with Rohit Shetty
We all know that documentation is a heavy burden for therapists. But home health therapists arguably face one of the heaviest loads, with mandated OASIS…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#142 The Vagus Nerve and Stroke with Sarah Blair
It feels like in every practice area, the importance of the vagus nerve is being talked about. But nowhere is it being researched as much as vagal nerve…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#141 Therapy Credentialing and Billing 101 with Kara Welke
In talking to therapy start-ups this year, I've heard a common stumbling block: Credentialing. And, honestly, I was shocked when I dug into the space. It feels…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#140 Suicide Prevention for OT, PT and SLP with Christine Weible-Cruz
In the United States, approximately 49,000 people die by suicide each year. And, unfortunately, the rate of suicide has increased substantially since 2000, up…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#139 Healthcare, Therapy, and the Senate with Dan Osborn
Fixing healthcare is simple: More people need preventative, conservative care earlier. But getting to this fix is a massively complex web of structural policy…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#138 SEO for Therapists with Saroosh Khan
SEO has long been the absolute best way to maintain a consistent therapy client caseload for outpatient therapists. But, for therapists in all settings really…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#137 OT in Primary Care with Ashley Halle
For years, "Occupational Therapy in Primary Care" has felt like a professional aspiration-a "gold standard" we discussed in classrooms but rarely saw in job…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#136 Osteoarthritis of the Thumb with Preston Lockwood
Thumb osteoarthritis is a common condition in older adults. By age 50, the prevalence is about 8% in men and 25% in women-and it increases with age, with…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#135 The Ethics of AI as Therapists with Megan Cornish
The landscape of healthcare has been changed forever with the introduction of AI. Already, 1 in 3 adults are turning to chatbots to ask health related…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#134 Starting an OT Practice in 2026 with Christopher Gaskins
The landscape of private practice changed forever this year. With Amazon officially adding physical therapy to its marketplace, accessing rehabilitation…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#133 Intro to Travel Therapy with Laura Latimer
Travel therapy offers some of the highest compensation in rehab, yet it remains one of the most logistically challenging practice areas. Succeeding on the road…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#132 Deciding if a Child Needs OT with Alyson Stover
Most parents start their OT journey with a frantic Google search: “Does my child need OT?” Unfortunately, the answers they find are often buried in vague…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#131 OT and Multiple Sclerosis Treatment with Makeda N. Jackson
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) remains the leading cause of non-traumatic disability in adults aged 18–65. Because of its prevalence and the vital role of therapy in…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#130 How OTs and PTs Get Paid with Dana Strauss
Why does therapy often feel undervalued by the systems we serve? To change the future of our professions, we must first understand the forces that shape…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#129 Therapy Documentation in 2026 with Pedro Teixeira
While the landscape of healthcare is shifting beneath our feet, the most tangible change in daily practice since the arrival of AI has been our documentation…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#128 How to Plan a Great OT Session with Rachel Egan
There is a foundational skillset essential to occupational therapy that often isn't covered in school: The ability to design a 60-minute session that is both…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#127 Intro to NICU OT with Nicole Bazinet
Occupational therapy in the NICU is one of the most specialized and sensitive practice areas in our profession. The transition from traditional clinical…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#126 Neuro Recovery After Stroke with Henry Hoffman
Are you fully using the critical window of opportunity after stroke to support neuro-recovery during your OT sessions—or are you unintentionally devoting…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#125 Intro to Mental Health OT with Michelle Burlyga
Mental health is one of occupational therapy’s smallest practice areas. Because relatively few OTs work in traditional mental health settings, it can feel like…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#124 What is OT in 2026? with Katie Jordan and Angela Macauley
Through OT Potential, we’ve released more than 124 podcast episodes exploring the research, ideas, and conversations shaping occupational therapy. Each year…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#123 Selective Eating and Autism with Britt St. John
Research suggests that anywhere from 46% to 84% of autistic children experience selective eating. And the downstream risks are substantial: selective eating is…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#122 AI in Education with David Foster and Melissa Kimmerling
AI is going to reshape OT education—rapidly and profoundly. The real question is: How do we harness its strengths for good? How do we protect the parts of…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#121 Negotiating with Payers with John Hutchinson and Chad Herzog
For many of us, payer negotiations feel distant—something handled “somewhere up the chain,” far removed from the day-to-day work of helping patients. But…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#120 Vision Remediation and OT with Alicia Reiser
We, at OT Potential, keep hearing stories of more and more OTs teaming up with optometrists to provide vision remediation interventions. (Vision remediation…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#119 OT and PT Collaboration with Rebeca Segraves
OTs and PTs compete in many ways. We can be found competing over: Patient time Who gets to bill which code on which day Recognition And scope of practice But…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#118 AI Chat and Clinical Decision Support with Jen Weaver
One year ago, we released an OT Potential Podcast episode exploring what AI could conceptually mean for clinical decision support. Fast forward to today—and AI…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#117 OTA Hot Topics with Amy Mahle
Occupational therapy assistants are the bedrock of treatment provision in many OT departments throughout the country. In fact, In large rural SNFs, around 58%…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#116 OT and Heart Disease with Sabina Khan
Heart disease is the most common serious chronic condition among adults. In fact per the latest report staggering 1 in 3 US adults received care for a…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#115 Intro to SNF OT with Trent Brown
Hot take: I loved working in a Skilled Nursing Facility. Skilled nursing facilities are one of the highest paid settings for occupational therapy…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#114 OT, Nitrates, and Cancer Prevention Post with Jesse E. Bell
It’s no secret that I believe occupation therapy is entering its prevention era. We are starting to leverage our skillset not after a terrible health incident…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#113 AI’s Potential in Child Development with Mati Kochavi
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare—and pediatric occupational therapy is no exception. This course aims to spark your imagination about…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#112 Intro to School OT with Bryden Carlson-Giving
School-based OTs is one of occupational therapy’s most distinct practice areas. The style of practice and the systems you work within, all take a mindset…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#111 Medicare Cuts & Opportunities with Dana Strauss
When you adjust for inflation, OT and PT reimbursement is down around 40% since 2002 on our key CPT codes. Now the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#110 Legal Considerations for OT (Part 2) with with Alyson Stover and Monika Lukasiewicz
OT reimbursement from traditional models is on the decline, while the need for OT services on the rises Thus, entering into private practice is an important…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#109 Cancer Rehab for Young Adults with Vanessa Monique Yanez
Unfortunately, rates of cancer have been on the rise for young adults in multiple cancer types—including breast, pancreatic, and gastric cancers. Cancer rehab…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#108 Legal Considerations for OT with Alyson Stover and Monika Lukasiewicz
While many therapists dream of private practice, the risk of hitting a legal landmine holds many back. In this episode, we are going to zoom in on one OT who…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#107 OT and Purpose with Alix Sleight
Here’s a question I can’t stop thinking about: Is “sense of purpose” the true secret ingredient that makes occupational therapy unique and effective? I ran a…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#106 AI and Treatment Planning with Cody Lee
You know that sinking feeling you get before walking into a patient room, when you suddenly think: “Wait.. what exactly am I going to do with this patient?”…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#105 OT and Prevention with Alyson Stover
Far too often, people are not referred to occupational therapy until their disease course has progressed to a level of high complexity. But, what if we could…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#104 Chronic Stroke Rehab with Christopher Gaskins
Stroke rehab is an area where we have some of the most abundant research to draw on as occupational therapists. But, this can also make it feel difficult to…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#103 Pediatric Sleep and OT with Amy Gore Hartman
Between 20-30% of typically developing children experience sleep difficulty in childhood. The percentage of neurodiverse children with considerable sleep…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#102 Value-Based Care Contracts with Dana Strauss & Carlin Reaume
While many OTs work in a fee for service model, the reality is that we are undergoing a seismic shift towards value based care. In fact it's estimated that…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#101 Sleep, Mental Health, and OT with Amanda Carroll
Nearly one third of people experience sleep disturbances. And, about 23% of adults experience mental health illness. These high percentages mean that both…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#100 Starting an OT Private Practice with Carlin Reaume
Starting a side hustle private practice is one of the best ways to safeguard your career, pursue a niche interest, and meet some of the many unmet needs in…
OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs#99 Carpal Tunnel and OT with Rachel Egan
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome affects quality of life in 1-5% of people. The first step in treatment of carpal tunnel should be non-surgical treatment, which includes…