Close-up of a Gabbert Clinic hand therapist pressing along a patient's forearm while supporting the wrist and open hand

Occupational & Certified Hand Therapy · Vancouver, WA

Get your grip back.

The jar lid you hand to someone else. The seatbelt. The button on your jeans. Hand therapy is its own board certification, and our Certified Hand Therapists hold it. One-on-one, every visit.

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A smiling Gabbert Clinic therapist uses a soft tissue tool on a patient's forearm while the patient holds a light hand weight
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Licensed Occupational Therapists Certified Hand Therapists (CHT) 5.0 on Google We Check Your Benefits First Best in Business 2024

Credentials

Real credentials behind every visit.

Hand therapy is a sub-specialty. These are the certifications that make it one.

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Best in Business 2024

Named to the Vancouver Business Journal’s Best in Business list for 2024, by the community we treat.

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Certified Hand Therapists

CHT takes a graduate degree, 4,000 hours of hand therapy practice, and a board exam. Our Certified Hand Therapists hold it.

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Saebo Certified

Trained and certified in Saebo neuro-rehab protocols, for the hand and arm after a stroke or brain injury.

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5.0 on Google

146 reviews, unedited, from people who came in hurting. Read every one of them on our Google profile.

The 30-Second Pain Check

Not sure where to start?

Three taps. No forms. Tell us what stopped working and how long it has been that way.

Where does it hurt, or what stopped working?

Services

Five ways we get your hands back.

The five we are known for. Fourteen more, from cupping to vision therapy, live on the services page.

Certified hand therapist working with a patient during a warm paraffin hand treatment Certified Hand Therapy Hand Wrist Elbow The sub-specialty this clinic was built around. Our Certified Hand Therapists are board-certified in it. Occupational therapist guiding a patient through a resistance putty exercise Occupational Therapy Daily function Post-op Getting you back to the things your hands actually do: buttons, keys, tools, a coffee cup. Black custom molded finger splint fitted over the index finger, hand resting on a wooden desk Custom Molded Splints Made here Post-op Fabricated in the clinic, on your hand, and remolded as the swelling changes. Not off a shelf. Therapist guiding a patient through a seated arm range-of-motion assessment Neurological Rehab Stroke TBI Saebo-certified work on the arm and hand. Therapist assessing a patient's forearm and wrist Orthopedic Therapy Fractures Tendons Fractures, tendon repairs and joint stiffness, from the first cast change to full strength.
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The Recovery Journey

A plan you can see. Progress you can feel.

You’ll never wonder if it’s working. Four phases, each with a job to do and a way to know you’ve earned the next one.

Phase 1 of 4

Starts visit one

Pain

Calm it down. Protect the healing.

  • Hands-on work on the pain, the swelling and the scar, starting your very first visit
  • If you need an orthosis, it’s fabricated here and remolded as your hand changes
  • You’ve earned the next phase when the swelling settles and gentle motion stops being a fight
Close-up of hands-on therapy work on a patient’s hand and fingers

Once the pain settles

Prime

Win the motion back.

  • Targeted work on the stiff joints, the tight tendons and the scar that are holding your hand shut
  • A home program dosed to your tissue and where it is in healing, not a generic sheet
  • You’ve earned the next phase when the motion you win in the room is still there at your next visit
Therapist performing hands-on soft tissue work on a patient’s forearm

Once the motion holds

Perform

Make it strong enough to trust.

  • Graded strength and grip work built up to what your hands actually get asked to do
  • Practice on the real thing: jar lids, buttons, tools, a steering wheel, a full grocery bag
  • You’ve earned the next phase when you stop bracing, and stop planning your day around the hand
Therapist guiding a patient through a standing resistance band exercise

Before you’re discharged

Prevent

Keep what you got back.

  • We change how you grip, lift and type, so the same tissue stops taking the same beating
  • A short keep-it program you will actually do, built around your job and your kitchen
  • Clear discharge criteria: you’ll know when you’re done, and so will the doctor who sent you
Patient working through a return-to-function ball drill in the therapy gym

Not sure which phase you’re in? That’s exactly what the evaluation is for.

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In Their Words

Devin H.

Great clinic. Everyone is fantastic and extremely knowledgeable. Highly recommend.

Google review ★★★★★

Linda M.

The best group of the most caring, kind-hearted people I have ever met!

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Joe K.

Staff is incredibly friendly, helpful and knowledgeable.

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Josh B.

The Gabbert Clinic has one of the most friendliest staffs everyone here is wonderful they really do Care!

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Maria M.

I do recommend this place .I love tht they care about your well-being

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Virginia G.

So helpful! They are working on my wrist weekly and I am seeing results.

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The Numbers

Proof, in numbers.

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5.0 on Google 146 verified reviews Certified Hand Therapists on staff We check your benefits first

Why Gabbert Clinic

You’ve maybe done therapy before. Not like this.

Your hands are how you do your job, hold your kid, and sign your name. You don’t get to put them on a shelf and wait. So here is what matters: hand therapy is its own board certification, and most clinics don’t have one. Our licensed Occupational Therapists include Certified Hand Therapists who have earned it.

Amy Gabbert working one-on-one with a patient during a hand therapy session
Portrait of Jennifer Allen, OTR/L, CHT
One-on-one Every visit
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One-on-one, every visit

You’ll never be handed off to an aide or share your therapist with three other patients.

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Board-certified hand therapists

CHT takes a graduate degree, 4,000 hours of hand practice, and a board exam. Our Certified Hand Therapists hold it.

03

Your splint is made in this building

Custom orthoses are fabricated here and remolded as your hand changes shape. No shipping it off and waiting.

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We handle the insurance maze

We check your benefits before your first visit and tell you exactly what we find.

Your First Visit

Know exactly what to expect.

No mystery, no surprises: here’s your first visit with us, in order, from the door to the plan.

Step 01

You’re greeted by name.

Paperwork’s done at home. We already have your referral and we’ve already checked your benefits.

Step 02

We measure, and we listen.

Motion, grip, sensation, swelling. Then the question nobody has asked yet: what have you stopped being able to do?

Step 03

Treatment starts today.

Hands-on work on visit one. If you need a splint, it’s molded to your hand right here. Nothing gets forced.

Step 04

You leave with the plan.

What’s wrong, which of the four phases you’re starting in, what to do tonight, and what has to be true before you’re done.

One visit. You walk out knowing what’s wrong, who is treating it, and what happens next.

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Meet Your Therapists

Board-certified hand therapists, one-on-one.

CHT is not a weekend course. It takes a graduate degree, 4,000 hours of hand practice, and a board exam. Amy, Leslie, Rachel and Jennifer all hold it.

Portrait of Amy Gabbert, OTR/L, CHT

Amy Gabbert

Owner, hand therapist

  • OTR/L
  • CHT

Baylor, then a master’s in occupational therapy at Texas Woman’s University. Started in pediatric hand therapy at Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, then adult hands. Board certified in 2019.

Ask me about

Ehlers-Danlos, pediatric congenital upper-extremity conditions, CRPS

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Portrait of Leslie Harvell, OTR/L, CHT

Leslie Harvell

Hand therapist

  • OTR/L
  • CHT

Raised in Issaquah, Washington. UW, then a master’s in occupational therapy at Dominican University of California. Moved into hand therapy in 2019 and board certified in 2021.

Ask me about

Nerve injuries and wound care

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Portrait of Rachel Graves, OTD, OTR/L, CHT

Rachel Graves

Hand therapist

  • OTD
  • OTR/L
  • CHT

Grew up in Vancouver. Music and Kinesiology at Rice, then her doctorate at Washington University in St. Louis. Completed a hand therapy fellowship at Mayo Clinic.

Ask me about

Musicians and performing artists, complex hand and upper extremity surgical cases

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Portrait of Jennifer Allen, OTR/L, CHT

Jennifer Allen

Hand therapist

  • OTR/L
  • CHT

Western Michigan University, then a clinical internship that turned into a career in hands. Worked as a traveling therapist before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1997.

Ask me about

Elbow and wrist injuries, hand fractures, repetitive motion injuries, wound, scar and edema management, custom orthotics

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Patient Stories

Real hands. Real comebacks.

  • Excellent staff all around with lots of knowledge and tools to help. I had seen several people regarding my hand issues and it took 1 visit with them to dial in to the actual condition. Follow-ups since then have been very helpful towards recovery.

    Philip H. · Google review

T Terri S.

Amy & her staff are amazing! They really take their time with you to make sure they are taking care of any & all issues you are having. They gave me exercises to do at home to help with my healing & build back up my strength after breaking both my wrists. Couldn’t ask for a better team to work with!

via Google

K Kimberly K.

I went to Gabbert Clinic for hand and arm therapy and Emma was AMAZING! She took great care to make sure I received the best treatment and to meet my target goals. I enjoyed each visit and highly recommend them!

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S Shinko D.

I’d definitely recommend this clinic to all the people who need care. I wish I knew them before I had a capo tunnel and trigger finger surgeries. Staffs are knowledgeable and courteous. Very professional !!

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A Annie A.

Everyone here is ultra helpful and personable -- - from the front desk staff to the therapists themselves. I would recommend anyone that has any hand therapy or occupational therapy needs come here immediately!

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D Don C.

Gabbert Clinic has been helpful, caring and supportive in their therapy to reestablish strength and dexterity to my finger. Following the surgery to repair my damaged finger, they have regularly modified the cast to meet the changing needs of my finger as the healing has progressed. Thank you Gabbert Clinic!

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S Suzette S.

Gabbart Clinic provides the best possible hand therapy. They went above and beyond in helping heal my delicate musician’s hands after surgery. I’d give them 10 stars if I could.

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A Antoneila W.

Ive been seeing Leslie, now since October and all I can say Amazing. She definitely is someone who sees beyond the now. this is the second time I’ve don’t hand therapy and this is a completely different experience for me at the Gabbert clinic for me 10 out of 10.

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J Jane N.

The care I have received at this clinic has been thorough, thoughtful, and helpful. Each of the providers I have worked with are personable and knowledgeable and help me work through and understand the range of motion and end goal of our work together. I couldn’t be happier with the care I am receiving here.

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G Ginger L.

Gabbert Clinic has been amazing with my elderly mother. They have provided neurological rehab for her concussion after a fall and, most recently, hand therapy for her arthritis. They are incredibly professional, easy to work with, and kind and personable.

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P Patricia P.

They really do know all about hands. I wish I had their expertise when I first injured my hand 2 years ago. My wrist is healing quickly. And since it’s my dominate hand, they have given me great ideas to accomplish tasks in other ways.

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S Sandy L.

Everyone at the Gabbert Clinic is awesome. They are friendly, informative, and all the therapists work so well together that I actually feel like I have a whole team helping me with my recovery. I highly, highly recommend them.

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H Heidi O.

Love the team here from the front desk to my hand therapist. They’re all very kind, knowledgeable and empathetic. Got great service here and looking forward to my hand continuing to improve as time goes on!

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The Honest Truth

Pain rarely waits with you.

Stiffness does not pause while you think it over. Here are both paths.

If you keep waiting

  • Scar tissue keeps laying down, and it sets in the position you leave it
  • A stiff joint gets stiffer, and motion is easier to keep than to win back
  • The good hand takes over, and the injured one keeps losing strength
  • Jar lids, buttons and the steering wheel stay on the list you avoid

If you start this week

  • A cause-first evaluation with a licensed Occupational Therapist: visit one
  • Splints fabricated and remolded here, as your hand changes
  • A plan with an endpoint: Pain, Prime, Perform, Prevent
  • You leave knowing what is wrong and what happens next

Nobody regrets starting too early. Read our reviews and you will find people who wish they had come sooner.

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The Boring Stuff, Handled

Insurance and paperwork, without the headache.

Plans we accept

We check your benefits before your first visit and tell you exactly what we find. Being on this list is not the same as your plan covering therapy, so we verify yours.

  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • Humana
  • Medicare
  • Regence BCBS
  • And more

Don’t see your plan? Call us. We’ll check for you: (360) 989-1200

Out-of-network with Molina and United Health Care. We can still see you and give you what you need to file for reimbursement.

Know before you come in

Send us your insurance details. We verify what your plan covers, then call you with the answer. No guessing at the front desk.

Your details are used only to verify your coverage, nothing else. Then a real person calls you with what your plan says.

Questions, Answered

Everything you’re wondering before you book.

Straight answers: no medical jargon, no runaround.

Most of our patients arrive on a referral from a surgeon or a physician, and many insurance plans require one before they will pay for therapy. Some plans do not. Tell us your plan when you call and we will find out what yours needs, then help you get it, so paperwork is not the thing holding up your hand.

You leave your first visit with a plan that has an endpoint. We work in four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform and Prevent, and each phase has a job and a way to know you have earned the next one. The count depends on your injury, your surgery and how your tissue responds, so we give you a real number after we evaluate you, not before.

The first phase is called Pain for a reason. We calm the tissue down before we ask it to work. Your therapist stays inside what your surgeon has cleared and what your hand can tolerate that day, and you always know what we are doing and why we are doing it.

This is an insurance-based clinic and we accept most major plans, including Regence BCBS, Medicare, Providence, Aetna and Tricare. The full payer list is on our insurance page. Send your card details through the benefits check on this page and we will verify your coverage and call you with what we find.

Hand therapy is its own board certification. A Certified Hand Therapist has a graduate degree, 4,000 hours of hand practice, and a passed board exam behind the letters. Most clinics do not have one. Our Certified Hand Therapists hold it, so hands here are a sub-specialty and not a side offering.

Yes. Custom splints are fabricated here and remolded here as your hand changes, which matters because a splint that fit two weeks ago can be the reason motion stalls today. Nothing waits on an order from somewhere else.

No. Alongside hand and upper-extremity care, we treat adults after a stroke, a brain injury or a concussion, and adults living with multiple sclerosis or a spinal cord injury. The work is the same either way: the arm, the hand, and the daily tasks that depend on them.

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Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person from our front desk calls you back to get you scheduled. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon–Fri 7:00am–5:00pm · Sat–Sun closed
  • (360) 989-1200 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • One-on-one with a licensed Occupational Therapist, every visit

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