Cassie Zimmerman, MOT, OTR/L, QMHP

Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Approach

Cassie’s approach is compassionate and respectful, with a genuine curiosity about each person’s strengths, interests, and story. She works with trauma histories, large and small, and holds a long view of progress, trusting that meaningful change unfolds over time. She is committed to honoring human difference in all its forms, with a particular dedication to affirming neurodiversity.

Specializes in:

LGBTQIA2S+ affirming care
Trauma (including systemic and generational)
Sensory processing
Executive Function or Cognitive Changes
Anxiety, depression
Developmental Disabilities
Neurodivergent-Affirming Care

Provides services:

Values

Cassie is committed to equity, human dignity, and social inclusion, reflecting a deep awareness of how stigma and marginalization shape an individual’s life and sense of self. She believes every person deserves respect and the autonomy to define what flourishing looks like for them. Her work is grounded in the conviction that when one person rises, we all rise together.

Experience

Cassie’s background includes work with adults with severe mental illness and dual diagnosis in subacute and hospital-based settings. Additionally, she is shaped by professional experience in outpatient pediatric therapy for youth with neurodevelopmental conditions and sensory processing differences. She also brings lived experience as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent person, which meaningfully informs her clinical perspective.

Education

Cassie has the following degrees and training:

Cassie maintains the following licenses and certifications: