8944 182 Street NorthWest, Edmonton, Alberta T5T 2E3, Canada
PHONE: (780) 890-0393
Co-Founder and Lead Occupational Therapist
Rubina Dhanji
Hello, I’m Rubina Dhanji, a registered Occupational Therapist in Edmonton practicing since 2005 after graduating from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with clients from age 4 to 84, alongside their families, teachers, care aides, physiotherapists, and other healthcare professionals. This extensive experience allows me to help individuals with various abilities, challenges, and goals, whether it’s through adult occupational therapy or other supportive strategies.
Like many OTs, I blend science with creativity to help people overcome barriers that may limit them from doing the activities that matter most—whether that’s being a student, parent, grandparent, cook, dancer, driver, fisherman, painter, or anything in between. Barriers can come from within ourselves or from our environment, but with the right approach, they can be navigated or removed.
If you’re not quite sure what an Occupational Therapist does—you’re not alone. My goal is to make occupational therapy approachable and understandable, including specific services like driving evaluation referrals. You can connect with me directly through this website or explore my YouTube channel, The Generalist OT, where I discuss topics that relate to everyday life and well-being.
I look forward to sharing my experience, skills, and knowledge with you and helping you discover abilities you didn’t even know you had.
Let’s connect—and find the right OT support for you today.
CEO/ Co-Founder
Karl N. Driver
Karl brings more than 25 years of experience spanning both business leadership and healthcare to his role as CEO and Co-Founder of Abilities Occupational Therapy. That combination is deliberate — building a clinic that runs well operationally and keeps clinical quality at its centre requires someone fluent in both worlds.
Alongside leading the organization, Karl serves as the clinic's On-Road Driving Evaluator. It's a role he takes seriously, because he understands what's genuinely at stake for the people in the passenger seat. For many clients — particularly older adults and those recovering from a medical event — a driving evaluation isn't really about a licence. It's about independence, dignity, and the ability to stay connected to the people and places that matter. Karl approaches every assessment with that in mind: thoroughly and objectively, but never losing sight of the person.
His focus at Abilities Occupational Therapy is on making sure families and referral partners experience a clinic that is responsive, professional, and genuinely easy to work with.
Occupational Therapist
Taylor Stringer
Born and raised in Alberta, Taylor completed her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology at the University of Alberta before earning her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy in the United Kingdom — an experience that gave her exposure to a different healthcare system and a broader perspective on how therapy can be delivered.
Taylor's clinical strengths lie in surgical recovery and neurological rehabilitation, supporting clients through the practical work of regaining function and independence after injury, surgery, or a neurological event. Her kinesiology background gives her a particularly strong grounding in movement, biomechanics, and how the body rebuilds capacity over time.
Taylor has also completed training in the SOS Approach to Feeding and leads our paediatric feeding program for picky eaters and problem feeders. Families consistently describe her as gentle, adaptable, and deeply respectful of their individual needs and dietary requirements — meeting each child exactly where they are and adjusting her approach in real time when something isn't working.
Whether she's working with an adult rebuilding strength after surgery or a toddler learning that food can be safe and interesting, Taylor's approach is the same: start where the person is, build genuine confidence, and celebrate the small wins that add up to real change.
Occupational Therapist
Abid Valji
With more than 10 years of experience in occupational therapy, Abid brings depth and practical problem-solving to some of the most technically demanding areas of the profession.
His clinical focus includes neurological rehabilitation, seating and mobility, and home modifications — work that sits at the intersection of clinical assessment and real-world engineering. Getting a wheelchair configuration right, or specifying the modification that turns an inaccessible bathroom into a usable one, requires both clinical reasoning and meticulous attention to detail. These interventions often make the single largest difference in a person's day-to-day independence.
Abid's experience makes him especially valuable for clients with complex needs, where the right equipment and the right environment matter as much as the therapy itself.
Outside the clinic, Abid is a devoted family man with a genuine enthusiasm for food and the arts — interests he brings back into his practice through a real curiosity about what makes each client's life meaningful to them.