Therapist Bios
Lisa M.G. Wolff, MOT, OTR/L
Lisa received her Master’s in Occupational Therapy from Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR in 2005. During her student internship at the Easter Seals Children’s Guild in Salem, OR, she received training in sensory integration therapy. She continued to take classes for sensory integration (SI) while working on-call in hospitals, nursing homes, a hand-therapy clinic, and Portland public schools. She followed her passion for pediatrics to a private pediatric clinic where she worked solely in sensory integration for the following 2 1/2 years, receiving top training from veteran OT’s while continuing her education in pediatrics, SI and primitive reflex integration. In November of 2007, Lisa left the private clinic to open her own, Pediatric Sensory Therapy (PST). PST officially opened its doors in December 2007 as Oregon’s only Medicaid rate clinic. Lisa’s vision is to provide quality occupational therapy that everyone can afford. By keeping costs low, all families, even those with limited insurance coverage, are able to bring their children in for quality and effective therapy.
Lisa specializes in Sensory Integration therapy & Primitive Reflex Integration, working with children experiencing autism spectrum disorders, sensory processing disorder, motor delays, neurologic, social and communication delays and behavioral problems. She also has experience working with the cerebral palsy, down syndrome, torticollis, and genetic disorders populations. Lisa is trained in primitive reflex integration, Therapeutic Listening Program, DIR Floor time, Vestibular Rehabilitation, Therapeutic brushing, Brain Gym, Handle, Bal-A-Vis-X and many more therapeutic modalities.
Lisa is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, the Occupational Therapy Association of Oregon, and has received numerous awards from the Cambridge Who’s Who among American Women Entrepreneurs.
On a personal note, Lisa is a dedicated wife & mother to three boys (Zane, Luke and Ford) and one dog, Murphy. Aside from her love of pediatric occupational therapy, Lisa enjoys hiking, cooking, and healthy eating, traveling when possible, especially to Juneau, Alaska, and movies on rainy nights with her family. She is a member of the Marylhurst Symphony Orchestra where she has played the violin since 2000.
Sally Stepath, PsyD, OTR/L
Sally Stepath, PsyD, OTR/L, graduated from the University of Illinois in Occupational Therapy in 1982 and went right to work in the special education school system through a chapter 1 funded program going to several schools in the same year, including Lighthouse for the Blind, Rubloff UCP, Esperanza (a Waldorf school), and Misericordia, in Chicago. She has worked with children diagnosed with autism, aspergers, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, sensory processing disorder, and blindness. Sally has worked as an occupational therapist full time in the Chicago Public Schools, and in several pediatric outpatient clinics including two years doing hippotherapy with young people on horseback. She took time off from working with children in 1987 to go back to graduate school to get a doctorate in psychology, returning to work with children in 1997.
Sally’s specialties include Sensory Integration therapy, Primitive Reflex Integration, Neuro-developmental Treatment (NDT) and Cranio-Sacral therapy, allowing her to work with children experiencing autism spectrum disorders, motor delays, cerebral palsy, sensory processing disorder, genetic and pervasive developmental disorders and behavioral challenges. She has completed a three year training course in fluid model Cranio-Sacral and also provides Cranio-Sacral treatment. Sally is trained in the Therapeutic Listening Program, therapeutic brushing technique and more.
Sally moved back to the Northwest where she was born, from the flatland of Illinois, to Portland in 2008. In the Portland area, she has worked in early intervention (birth to three) and private pediatric clinics. She has been with PST since 2010 and has no plans to leave anytime soon.
In her spare time, Sally does Aikido, hikes, and takes Tango lessons. Sally has three grown sons who live in Portland, Las Angeles, and Olympia, who she visits several times a year. She has a grandson and a granddaughter in Portland that she loves spending time with. Sally lives in a 120 year old house with her kitty named Mij.
Jasmine Erazmus, MSOT, OTR/L
Jasmine is an active Occupational Therapist (OT) currently working with kids and families in public schools, and the clinic settings.
She knows what it is like to have sensory processing difficulties. Being the last one to turn in tests at school, the clumsy class clown, and a ballet drop-out herself, she has a deep compassion for kids who fly under the radar of the current medical system.
She has dedicated the last 8 years to learning more to learning about sensory processing and reflex integration and is a core-in-training for the MNRI method for reflex integration.
Jasmine and her husband recently added a little boy to their family. She is loving being a mother, while still maintaining her OT role.
Deborah “Debbie” Solomon, OTR/L
Debbie Solomon, OTR/L graduated from Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR in 1987 and went right to work at the Fairview Training Center in Salem working with medically fragile individuals where she began her training in Sensory Integration. She then entered pediatrics in the early 90’s, working for the Easter Seals Children’s Guild, furthering her sensory work with kids. Debbie has continued her journey in pediatrics since then, working in a variety of settings such as outpatient, schools, hospitals, pediatric home health, while also learning hand therapy, acute care, and skilled nursing.
Debbie is trained in Sensory Integration, Therapeutic Listening Program, Primitive Reflex Integration, DIR Floortime, Therapeutic brushing, Brain Gym, Bal-A-Vis-X, Handwriting Without Tears, and many more therapeutic modalities.
Debbie moved to Oregon at the age of 11. She currently resides in her home of 20+ years with her spoiled dogs, Jack and Ellie. Debbie loves to take her dogs on long walks by the river. Jack loves to swim and Debbie ties balloons to the end of his sticks so he can find them when in the water, because Jack is losing his vision.