Mayumi Aaberg

Mayumi is a licensed and registered occupational therapist and graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and a master's in occupational therapy from Rush University Medical Center in 1996. She immigrated from Okinawa, Japan when she was 7 years old.

Early in Mayumi's OT career, she dedicated many years to treating adults in a variety of settings. Mayumi began transitioning into pediatrics at preschools and early elementary schools in 2011 and had experience working at a local middle school between 2018-2021. Mayumi has been with Therapeutic Links since 2013 and is dedicated to working with children and their families with a hoistic and creative approach. Her ongoing training includes MNRI (8+ courses), ADHD and executive functioning, autism (Learn, Play, Thrive approach), Cranial Sacral, Sensory Processing, handwriting programs, Kinediology taping, and Early Intervention. She has also volunteered with Camp Avanti, an intensive sensory integration camp for children with special needs both in-person and virtually from 2018-2021.

Mayumi is a passionate life-long learner with a special interest in the holistic connection between the health of nature and the health of people. She strongly believes healing the land and healing people are intricately related and lives out those values through natural gardening. She has also applied these values by developing a vegetable and pollinator garden at Therapeutic Links.

While not wearing her OT hat, Mayumi is volunteering as a Master Gardener, practicing or teaching tai chi, enjoying her own garden, reading, and cuddling with her cats, running trails, cross country skiing, baking or cooking, and Zooming with her two grown sons. She and her husband Nathan live in Grayslake.