Profile phot of Kim Grabe, clinician at the Minnesota Clinic for Health and Wellness

Kim Grabe, MA OTR/L (she/her)

Kim Grabe is an occupational therapist with 15 years of experience in multiple health care settings. Kim engages her clients in a collaborative approach to address and decrease physical, mental, and emotional barriers to participation in their daily lives.

APPROACH

Occupational therapy offers a client-centered approach, focused on promoting participation in meaningful activities. These can include returning to work, caring for loved ones,managing daily self-care, or engaging in leisure activities. Occupational therapy allows for specialized care driven by the client’s values, interests, and needs.

Kim is passionate about meeting clients where they are at while providing non-judgmental and jargon-free education to promote understanding of their condition. Kim’s goal for clients is to activate their own autonomy in all practice approaches. Kim is available for both in-person and virtual visits to ensure accessibility of services and management of appointment burden.

CLINICAL INTERESTS

For the past 9 years, Kim has worked in an outpatient setting specializing and developing expertise in the treatment of concussions and chronic dizziness with a focus on vision, sensory organization, autonomic nervous system regulation and life management education. She has extensive experience addressing persistent symptoms post-concussion and their impact on the client’s day to day functionality. She believes in the power of neuroplasticity and the ability to demonstrate noticeable improvement well beyond the time of initial injury.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Kim Grabe, MA OTR/L is a graduate of the Master of Occupational Therapy program at the University of Minnesota. She has experience working in acute care, home care, and neuro outpatient settings.

Kim serves as the occupational therapy lead for a local health care system’s concussion program where she engages in program development, training of other providers, and ongoing care coordination with other disciplines.

Kim has a passionate commitment to continuous learning and strives to maintain an awareness of evolving approaches in order to provide optimal care. She has advanced training in visual rehabilitation, concussion management, chronic dizziness and CBT-I for treating sleep issues.

PERSONAL

Outside of work hours, Kim can often be found on the side of the soccer field, basketball court, or aerial arts gym cheering on her kids. She enjoys lifting heavy weights, gardening, and cooking. She loves road tripping with her family in their renovated pop-up camper, but is always happy to return to her favorite place, Minneapolis.
SPECIALTIES
  • Concussion
  • Dizziness
  • Visual Dysfunction
  • Sensory Processing Disorders
  • Nervous System Regulation
  • Sleep Disturbance
SEEING CLIENTS
  • In-person
  • Virtually