About
Outdoor Kids OT offers outdoor OT groups, individual occupational therapy sessions, and summer camps. The program also runs week-long small-group therapy day camps that take place in the great outdoors and in parks and woods.
• Schedule: Week-long small-group therapy day camps
Outdoor Kids OT is a nature-based pediatric occupational therapy practice guided by the ConTiGO (Connection & Transformation in the Great Outdoors) Approach, an evidence-based framework for best practice in pediatric nature-based therapy developed by founder Dr. Laura Park Figueroa. All OKOT therapists are Certified Nature-Based Pediatric Therapists with advanced training and ongoing mentoring in the ConTiGO Approach, and the staff includes pediatric occupational therapists and ConTiGO-Certified Therapists. The leadership team includes Laura Park Figueroa, PhD, OTR/L, OKOT Founder & CEO; Elisabeth Meikle, MS, OTR/L, Lead Therapist; Gabbi White, OTD, OTR/L, OKOT COO (Chief Operations Officer); and Nicole Storms, COTA, OBM, Financial Manager (CFO) & Executive Assistant. Outdoor Kids OT was launched in 2015 and has been operating for the past 10 years as of the time referenced in the content.
The program focuses on social, emotional, motor, and sensory challenges and frames therapy as fun and playful, using play instead of forced exercises. Sessions are held outdoors instead of in traditional clinics, with an outdoor setting that avoids harsh fluorescent lights and noisy over-stimulating classrooms. Outdoor Kids OT emphasizes collaborative goal setting with parents and caregivers and offers parent/caregiver consult calls and updates. The program’s mission is for all kids to have the support and skills they need to feel successful and enjoy life.
Outdoor Kids OT is a California Benefit Corporation with its mission embedded into the company structure and expands access to nature-based therapy through its non-profit partner, the Outdoor Kids Foundation. Core values include excellence, clear communication, growth-mindedness, and passion for the ConTiGO Approach, and the program uses the term “fail-LEARN” instead of “failure.”
Parent feedback includes comments that the nature-based sessions provide a blend of therapy and outdoor play, that each session is thoughtfully planned with activities and natural challenges, and that therapists are attentive and caring. Parents describe the OTs as fantastic and say they “get” the kids and make each session feel like a super fun play time instead of therapy. One parent shared that their therapist was creative, energetic, compassionate, and talented, using the outdoors to work on needs such as planning, frustration tolerance, impulse control, and working cooperatively with peers, and that their child looked forward to going to the woods to have adventures.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
• Schedule: Week-long small-group therapy day camps
Outdoor Kids OT is a nature-based pediatric occupational therapy practice guided by the ConTiGO (Connection & Transformation in the Great Outdoors) Approach, an evidence-based framework for best practice in pediatric nature-based therapy developed by founder Dr. Laura Park Figueroa. All OKOT therapists are Certified Nature-Based Pediatric Therapists with advanced training and ongoing mentoring in the ConTiGO Approach, and the staff includes pediatric occupational therapists and ConTiGO-Certified Therapists. The leadership team includes Laura Park Figueroa, PhD, OTR/L, OKOT Founder & CEO; Elisabeth Meikle, MS, OTR/L, Lead Therapist; Gabbi White, OTD, OTR/L, OKOT COO (Chief Operations Officer); and Nicole Storms, COTA, OBM, Financial Manager (CFO) & Executive Assistant. Outdoor Kids OT was launched in 2015 and has been operating for the past 10 years as of the time referenced in the content.
The program focuses on social, emotional, motor, and sensory challenges and frames therapy as fun and playful, using play instead of forced exercises. Sessions are held outdoors instead of in traditional clinics, with an outdoor setting that avoids harsh fluorescent lights and noisy over-stimulating classrooms. Outdoor Kids OT emphasizes collaborative goal setting with parents and caregivers and offers parent/caregiver consult calls and updates. The program’s mission is for all kids to have the support and skills they need to feel successful and enjoy life.
Outdoor Kids OT is a California Benefit Corporation with its mission embedded into the company structure and expands access to nature-based therapy through its non-profit partner, the Outdoor Kids Foundation. Core values include excellence, clear communication, growth-mindedness, and passion for the ConTiGO Approach, and the program uses the term “fail-LEARN” instead of “failure.”
Parent feedback includes comments that the nature-based sessions provide a blend of therapy and outdoor play, that each session is thoughtfully planned with activities and natural challenges, and that therapists are attentive and caring. Parents describe the OTs as fantastic and say they “get” the kids and make each session feel like a super fun play time instead of therapy. One parent shared that their therapist was creative, energetic, compassionate, and talented, using the outdoors to work on needs such as planning, frustration tolerance, impulse control, and working cooperatively with peers, and that their child looked forward to going to the woods to have adventures.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
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