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Candace Shetzler, OTD, MS, OTR/L

Clinical Leadership Advisor

Candace is an occupational therapist who has spent most of her career cultivating greater service options in Kent and Sussex counties of Delaware and working with community partners to advance OT on a community health platform. With over 28 years of experience, she is the owner of A Child’s Potential, pediatric consulting business, and Pursue Your Potential, a consulting and mentoring business, and continues to work as a treating occupational therapist. She previously founded and owned an integrated preschool and developmental resource center in Sussex County, DE. As a business owner, she has worked as part of Cape Integrated Wellness, extending OT as part of the mental wellness continuum and starting two different pediatric sensory and play clinics. Starting businesses, writing a children’s learning curriculum, teaching in masters of OT programs, and managing budgets and supporting personnel have culminated into unique experiences she hopes to offer to fellow therapists, parents, caregivers, administrators, and students. www.pursueyourpotential.org