Lani Rapoport

MOTR/L, SIPT, c/NDT

Lani has been a practicing occupational therapist for 8 years. She received her Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Colorado State University. Lani comes to Bend via Seattle where she completed her fieldwork at Seattle Children’s Hospital and then took a position with Children’s Therapy Center. In that position, she was initially mentored as a clinic-based therapist with older children, before she moved to the early intervention team, where she spent 3.5 years seeing children 0-3 years old with their families. Prior to beginning her occupational therapy adventure, she worked as a behavior data specialist, implementing Applied Behavior Analysis, and as a Mental Health Associate, caring for young children living at a residential psychiatric hospital. Later, Lani graduated from the Atlanta School of Massage and practiced therapeutic massage therapy, including pediatric massage, until she decided to go back to graduate school.

Lani grew up playing in the forests and lakes of Michigan. She finally found her way to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, where she gets to play as often as possible with her husband and their 3 dogs.