We have just a few spots available for occupational therapy services for young non-speaking or unreliable autistic kids with Medical Assistance or Aetna insurance. Reach out to [email protected] or call 613-913-7111 to schedule an evaluation today!
Adrienne Ero-Phillips
Offering occupational therapy services and sensory aware neurodivergent inclusive open play gym / ceramic studio sessions in South Minneapolis.
Currently taking straight MA and Aetna clients.
02/21/2026
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02/18/2026
Check out this awesome event! I’ll be on sote helping with the sensory situation. Would love to see you there!
01/16/2026
WE HAVE PIVOTED!
You are probably here looking for brain-based, child-led, nature-forward occupational therapy services in the heart of South Minneapolis.
That's what we were until very recently... And as those remain our values, we are excited to say....Nature Kids Therapy is pivoting!
Current administration limiting Medicaid funding? Major health insurances such as Health Partners, Medica, and Ucare not giving us contracts? No problem!
While we are no longer able to take clients for traditional occupational therapy due to the current third party payor constrictions...
..we are doubling down and even more determined to be a vital resource for our South Minneapolis community for both neurotypical and neurodivergent kids and their families.
We are now Nature Kids Therapy Art Center.
A sensory-aware, neuroinclusive open play gym and ceramic studio.
Offering an essential third place for regulation, movement, art, creativity, and community.
Affordable packages and memberships for children, teens, and adults provide access to Open Play and Ceramic Studio sessions.
Plus caregiver education to understand your child’s nervous system and support emotional regulation, motor coordination, sensory processing, and social skills...
..an ideal option while you’re on long OT waitlists or need a fun space to go to get out of the house!
https://naturekidstherapy.com/pages/ceramic-studio
Therapy space here and beautiful and fun! Ceramic studio with pottery wheels coming in February…
Nature Kids can now bill Medicaid! Woohoo! Grateful.
10/27/2025
Life is overwhelming in 2025
For me too
The world is cracking open
Cracking apart
Systems as we know them are falling into the abyss
Yet holding on for dear life
And we are here, parenting
Getting food on the table
Trying to find a moment for action, for justice
And what if taking a 10 minute break in nature
Was actually the antidote, the action, the justice
The alchemizing balm
The creation of the new paradigm in this moment
Amidst the loud chaos of the flailing old?
What if parenting from a calm, oxegenated nervous system
Was the small drop of change in the collective pond
That rippled out and helped
Your child feel loved seen and heard
And connected to the new paradigm they came here to lead?
Let this fresh 10 minute breathwork session
Bring you into your heart and breath
So that you find joy and presence and love
Tending your precious seeds
Planting the trust that carries us on the wind
To the new ancient we are living into...
May this guided breathwork session fill your body with oxygen and and your heart with trust.
https://youtu.be/waiHfyJfjH0?si=xIE46hU1oBmvp4XM
With warm gratitude,
Adrienne
P.S. If you know someone who might benefit from a quiet moment with their breath and a poem share, I'd be deeply grateful if you sent this their way... I love you.
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10/07/2025
I’m reaching out because I recently took a huge leap and opened Nature Kids Therapy, an occupational therapy and mental health clinic in South Minneapolis that serves neurodivergent children and their families. We’re building something meaningful, a space that’s brain and play-based, child-led, and nature-forward.
The work is deeply needed (we already have a waitlist!), but as you can imagine, the start-up phase comes with real challenges, from insurance credentialing to taking the time out from working with clients to create a cozy, welcoming and therapeutic space.
Nature Kids Therapy exists to serve families. We have a waitlist for services. And we are still waiting to hear back from some insurance companies whether we will be in-network with them. We have heard back from Medica and UCare that “there are enough OT practitioners in the area” and didn’t get the contract with them and had to turn away excited clients with these insurances. We heard back from Medicare that we are now approved and credentialed! Yay! Except that this is insurance for people 65+. We are crossing our fingers that we will get the contracts with Health Partners, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and United Health Care and Medicaid and need to be able to cover rent for the building in the mean time while we wait to hear back from them to be able to start seeing clients.
I created a GoFundMe to help cover these costs and keep the doors open while we wait on insurance approvals.
Please consider donating to this worthy cause of helping a q***r woman-owned business navigate through the choppy waters of the start up phase in the shark-filled waters of the health care system. We are just trying to be a boat for the community. Please help us float!
Thanks so much for considering… ❤️
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-nature-kids-therapys-startup-journey/cl/o?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_US
09/26/2025
It’s here!! My first-ever YouTube video is live!
This one’s for all the amazing parents of neurodivergent kids who want more peace, calm, and confidence in their day. 💜
Watch now: https://youtu.be/oyVoFYRDs38
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I love you!
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09/05/2025
Hello fellow pediatric helping professional colleagues,
I am so excited and proud of the therapeutic environment that has been cultivated here and I am excited to share it with you!
Unique opportunity: Know anyone I am also wanting to let you know that there is a unique opportunity opening up at the end of October to share the space!
The upstairs to the building is opening and my landlords are looking to either rent it to me or rent it to another person as an apartment. It's a beautiful 2 bedroom 1 bathroom with gorgeous built-ins and a newly renovated kitchen. It's gorgeous up there as well as down here!
I am imagining a pediatric speech therapist or mental health therapist who would be interested in a unique live-work situation (or just work) where we would both share the upstairs and the downstairs with each of us having a private bedroom that we could turn into an office or an actual bedroom. I imagine this person having a kid or 2 and wants to lean into a new and ancient way of living (maybe part-time, maybe full time) above their work environment!
If this is not you, do you know someone who might be interested?
Please send share as I would love to be able to share this space!
Hope to see you on Saturday the 20th and connect and have tea and talk about how we can support each other!
Love love,
Adrienne
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