Leticia Gonzalez is co-founder/owner and executive director for Imagine Therapies, LLC and co-founder of Project Infinity, non-profit. Leti graduated from Southwest Texas University in 1999 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Recreation Administration with an emphasis in Therapeutic Recreation. After completing her clinical internship at Warm Springs Sports in San Antonio, TX, Leti became nationally certified with NCTRC.
She has practiced with a variety of populations and settings, to include; physical rehabilitation, psychiatric treatment, chemical and substance abuse recovery and treatment, and private contracting. Leti has experience working with a wide based range of diagnosis, and has worked with but not limited to ages 3 and up. Leticia has been practicing Recreation Therapy as a CTRS for 20 years.
She currently speaks on a variety of topics in the local community and surrounding areas to include: resources in the community, benefits of Recreation Therapy, leadership skills, therapeutic group games, leisure education, creating therapeutic programs in treatment centers, using arts and crafts as a modality, evidence based documentation and contracting as a business.
Leti is frequently a guest lecturer at Texas State University in the Recreation Therapy Department. Leti is a certified American Red Cross Lifeguard, certified in SAMA and completed low and high element R.O.P.E.S certification in the past. In 2005, Leticia served on a documentation committee at Laurel Ridge Treatment Center. She founded and is a member of the Texas RT COVID-19 Task Force.
Leti previously sat on the Texas licensure task force committee, and is a current member of Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) and Texas Recreation And Park Society (TRAPS). Leti is currently serving on the TRAPS TR Branch board and on the TRAPS communications and marketing committee.
Some of her leisure and recreational interests include: hand lettering, golf carting, arts and crafts, sports, swimming, games, singing and playing guitar. Leti is known for planning yearly scavenger hunts for her daughter’s soccer teams. She emphasizes the importance in making leisure and recreation a part of anyone and everyone’s routine to maintain a good quality of life.