Jill Maglio, PhD, OTR/L

Dr. Maglio is an occupational therapist with over  15 years of experience using circus as an educational and community-building tool. To date, she has trained nearly 1000 people internationally in the methodology she created called the Holistic Circus Therapy Practice Model.

Holistic Circus Therapy (HCT), LLC is a registered, accredited private practice that combines occupational therapy with circus arts to address the unique health needs of individuals and communities. HCT provides professional development training, fieldwork placements, and direct client services to increase the functional capacities and occupational participation of service recipients.

A Social Enterprise

100% of profits received from HCT’s services fund CircusAid projects. CircusAid is the social innovation branch of our integrated business model that provides free HCT services to help people displaced by war and natural disasters attain transferable life skills to promote greater success in unstable physical and political environments.

CircusAid programs build resilience, mental health and community connection through engagement in circus activities delivered to increase social, emotional, physical and cognitive capacities. The projects are implemented in partnership with local organizations to help service recipients heal from trauma and gain life skills to enable occupational engagement during the resettlement process.

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