IntimaOT
Hi, I’m Dr. Fay Gersh, OTR/L,OTD, MBA I am a clinical performance and professional development coach and the founder of IntimaOT, my service-based practice focused on delivering clinically grounded, achievable, and sustainable solutions. I support high-performing professionals in cultivating sustainable success, emotional well-being, meaningful connection, and intentional living in everyday life.
Dr. Fay offers remote Telehealth service and can be conducted in the following ways:
- Live tele-therapy video
- Telephone Conversation
- Transmitting Home Exercise/Education Programs Electronically
Occupational therapy with Dr. Fay supports high-performing individuals in functioning at their best across work, relationships, and everyday life, using clinically grounded, sustainable strategies that honor the whole person.
What Are the Benefits of Occupational Therapy with Dr. Fay?
Key Benefits Include:
Sustainable Performance Without Burnout
Learn how to manage energy, roles, and routines so success remains fulfilling rather than depleting.
Improved Emotional Regulation and Stress Resilience
Develop tools to regulate your nervous system, reduce overwhelm, and respond with clarity in high-pressure environments.
Lifestyle and Habit Redesign
Create realistic daily systems that support focus, productivity, and well-being within your actual life demands.
Stronger Communication and Intimacy Through Connection
Enhance your ability to connect with others through improved self-awareness, emotional attunement, and intentional communication supporting deeper trust and meaningful relationships in both personal and professional settings.
Whole-Person, Clinically Informed Care
Benefit from an evidence-based occupational therapy approach that considers how habits, environments, roles, identity, and relationships intersect.
Personalized, Practical Solutions
Receive strategies that are actionable, adaptable, and aligned with your values designed to integrate seamlessly into daily life.
Support Through Transitions and High-Demand Phases
Gain structure and clarity during burnout recovery, leadership growth, career transitions, or shifts in personal identity.
What Is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy (OT) is a client-centered health profession that helps individuals function optimally in their daily lives by addressing how habits, roles, environments, identity, and health intersect. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms or diagnoses, OT looks at how people actually live, work, relate, and perform and provides practical, evidence-based strategies to support meaningful participation in everyday life.
At its core, occupational therapy is about helping people do what matters to them with greater ease, clarity, and sustainability.
How Occupational Therapy Supports This Area of Practice
In the context of performance, burnout recovery, emotional well-being, and relational health, OT provides a uniquely comprehensive lens. Occupational therapy addresses:
- Daily routines and habits that impact energy, focus, and stress
- Nervous system regulation and stress recovery
- Role overload, identity strain, and life transitions
- Work-life integration and boundary setting
- Communication, emotional attunement, and relational connection
- Lifestyle redesign that supports sustainable success
Rather than offering generic wellness advice, OT translates insight into actionable, real-world strategies that fit into a client’s actual life demands.
What Sets Occupational Therapy Apart
Occupational therapy is distinct from other health and coaching professions because it focuses on function in context.
OTs are trained to assess:
- What a person is doing
- How they are doing it
- Why it feels difficult or unsustainable
- How their environment, routines, nervous system, and roles contribute
This allows OT to bridge the gap between insight and implementation. While many professions address mindset, physical health, or emotional health in isolation, OT integrates all of these domains into daily living.
In this niche, OT stands apart by:
- Addressing burnout at the level of daily life, not just mindset
- Supporting intimacy as connection, presence, and attunement
- Translating emotional awareness into sustainable routines
- Designing systems that support long-term performance, not short-term fixes
Why Work With a Doctor of Occupational Therapy with an MBA?
Working with a Doctor of Occupational Therapy who also holds an MBA offers organizations a rare and powerful blend of clinical expertise and business acumen. This dual perspective allows for solutions that are not only evidence-based and human-centered, but also strategically aligned with organizational goals, performance metrics, and sustainability.
As a Doctor of Occupational Therapy, I am trained to analyze how people function within systems, how roles, routines, environments, stress responses, and interpersonal dynamics impact performance, well-being, and engagement. This clinical lens allows me to identify root causes of burnout, inefficiency, disengagement, and communication breakdowns at both the individual and team level.
My MBA equips me to translate these insights into scalable, measurable strategies that resonate with leadership teams. I understand organizational structures, productivity demands, change management, and return on investment, ensuring that interventions support both people and performance.
What This Means for Organizations
Organizations benefit from an approach that:
- Addresses burnout, stress, and disengagement at the systems level
- Improves performance, focus, and decision-making without sacrificing well-being
- Strengthens communication, emotional intelligence, and team dynamics
- Supports sustainable productivity through habit and workflow redesign
- Integrates human-centered strategies with business objectives
Rather than offering surface-level wellness initiatives, this work focuses on how people actually operate within high-demand environments—and how small, strategic changes can lead to meaningful, lasting impact.
A Strategic, Clinically Informed Partner
With training in both healthcare and business, I serve as a strategic partner to organizations seeking to improve performance, retention, and workplace culture. My work bridges the gap between employee well-being and organizational success, offering solutions that are practical, ethical, and results-oriented.
This integrated approach supports not only healthier individuals, but more resilient teams and stronger organizations.
Services & Scheduling
Services are offered on a fee-for-service basis and may include remote or in-person sessions, depending on location and availability.
To learn more about services or explore working together, please visit the Services section or contact: Email: dr.faygersh@gmail.com