Nancy Rickerson

Rickerson has been an active Occupational Therapist for more than 40 years, practicing in a wide variety of settings including inpatient, outpatient, home and community health, mental health and private practice. She received her bachelor of science degree in Occupational Therapy at the University of Puget Sound and graduate degree in Education, Leadership and Policy from the University of Washington. She has experience working with people of all ages, from children through elder adult. She considers herself a generalist yet specializes in in/outpatient, home and community care and psychosocial Occupational Therapy. Her clinical practice also includes 30 years of leadership positions from manager to vice president, and academic work including Adjunct Professor at Green River College, Psychosocial OT, and Assistant Professor at University of Washington, instructing courses: Occupational Therapy Through the Lifespan. Medical Sciences, and Psychosocial Occupational Therapy. She has provided guest lectures at UW OT and GRC COTA programs in community health, geriatric and gero-psych OT.

She is a mother of two beloved adult daughters with families of their own, with one darling granddaughter. She breeds, raises, trains and shows Chesapeake Bay Retrievers and has a lifetime of working with training and showing dogs in performance events. She is active in the Catholic church in Shelton and Tacoma and lives in Shelton surrounded by trees and wildlife. She loves to jog, hike and walk with her dogs and others who will join her; enjoying nature.