Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec

What Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec does

The Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec (OEQ) is a professional regulatory order (ordre professionnel) constituted in 1973 under Quebec's Professional Code to regulate the practice of occupational therapy and protect the public. It exercises exclusive statutory authority over approximately 6,500 occupational therapists practicing in Quebec, overseeing licensing, professional standards, continuing competence, disciplinary processes through a syndic and discipline council, and public protection mechanisms including complaint intake and fee dispute resolution. The Order is itself overseen by the Office des professions du Québec and operates with a staff of 34 from its Montreal office.

The Order's core products are operational and regulatory in nature rather than commercial. The Portail OEQ member portal (with an embedded Connexence holographic workspace) handles member registration, certificates and attestations, event sign-up, and continuing-education administration. The Répertoire de pratique privée is a public-facing online directory that allows consumers and referrers to find occupational therapists in private practice by need, age group, and region, and is freely open to therapists. The annual Journée de développement professionnel is a recurring continuing-education event offering up to six hours of recognized training, with early-bird and group-rate pricing for organizations of up to 15 members. Marketing and public education are delivered through a website, an active presence on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook, a professional magazine (Occupation: ergothérapeute), newsletters, video capsules, and a press room.

The revenue model is dominated by mandatory annual membership dues from registered occupational therapists, classified as recurring subscription revenue, with secondary income from professional development event fees. Customers span individual licensed occupational therapists (primary), the general public seeking occupational therapy services, healthcare professionals making referrals, and students and international candidates seeking entry into the Quebec profession. External relationships include oversight by the Office des professions du Québec, coordination through the Conseil interprofessionnel du Québec, recourse linkage with Le protecteur du citoyen, and a 2026 partnership with the Coalition québécoise pour vieillir en santé focused on healthy aging.

Name

Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec

Legal name

Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec

Website

https://oeq.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1973

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec (OEQ) is a Quebec professional regulatory order, established in 1973, that licenses and disciplines approximately 6,500 occupational therapists in the province while providing a public directory, member portal, and continuing-education events.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Regulatory Services

NAICS

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors (92615), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Occupational Licensing Examination Authorities (EDADAFAD)

Keywords

• Professional regulation services
• Occupational therapy licensing
• Professional order oversight
• Continuing education events
• Public directory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Montreal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues and Annual Registration: Annual registration fees paid by approximately 6,500 occupational therapists to maintain their license to practice in Quebec.
2. Professional Development Events: Revenue from professional development events such as the annual professional development day (Journée de développement professionnel) with registration fees including early-bird pricing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec (OEQ) is a professional regulatory body that licenses and oversees approximately 6,500 occupational therapists practicing in Quebec. Its core activities include mandatory annual membership registration, professional standards and ethics enforcement, disciplinary oversight via syndic and discipline council, public protection through complaints mechanisms, and provision of a public directory of practitioners. It also supports members through a member portal and continuing education events.

Product overview

Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec is a professional regulatory body (Order) for occupational therapists in Quebec, established in 1973 to protect the public. The organization operates a member-facing member portal (Portail OEQ) and holographic workspace (Connexence), provides a private practice directory for the public to find occupational therapists, and organizes professional development events including the annual professional development day. The organization's core function is regulatory oversight of approximately 6,500 occupational therapists rather than a traditional product company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Répertoire de pratique privée (Private Practice Directory) Online directory of occupational therapists in private practice in Quebec. The public can search by need type, age group, and region, and practicing therapists can register free of charge to be listed.
• Portail OEQ (Member Portal) Member portal for registered occupational therapists in Quebec providing access to professional development resources, continuing education, event registration, certificates and attestations, and membership management services.
• Connexence Holographic workspace platform accessed through the Portail OEQ, used by members for professional collaboration and development activities.
• Journée de développement professionnel Annual professional development day for occupational therapists offering up to 6 hours of recognized continuing education. The 2026 edition focuses on legal, ethical, and professional practice standards; includes early-bird and group-rate (up to 15 OTs from the same organization) registration options.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Coalition québécoise pour vieillir en santéminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 July 2026The OEQ joined this coalition focused on healthy aging, announced July 13, 2026, to contribute expertise on occupational therapy for elderly populations.
• Le protecteur du citoyenminorOthersReference link to the Protector of the Citizen (Citizen Protector) as a useful external link for public recourse, related to the organization's complaint and recourse mechanisms.
• Office des professions du QuébeccoreOthersThe regulatory body that oversees all professional orders in Quebec, of which the OEQ is a constituent member.
• Conseil interprofessionnel du QuébecminorOthersInter-professional council bringing together Quebec's professional orders to promote inter-professional collaboration.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ): Largest Quebec healthcare professional order, regulating tens of thousands of nurses. Structurally identical to OEQ but at vastly greater scale; useful as a benchmark for digital member services, fee-setting politics, and government relations in Quebec's professional order system.
• Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT): National voluntary professional association for occupational therapists in Canada. Differs from OEQ by being membership-voluntary (not statutory) and national in scope, but pursues adjacent goals of advocacy, continuing education, and practice support for the same OT workforce.
• American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA): U.S. national professional association for occupational therapists, providing credentialing support, practice standards, advocacy, and continuing education for OTs. Functions as a broader incumbent comparable to OEQ on the standards/advocacy dimension, although U.S. licensing is state-level rather than provincial.

Direct peers

• Ordre des psychologues du Québec (OPQ): Quebec's professional order for psychologists. Operates the same mandatory-membership, syndic/discipline, inspection, and continuing-education model as the OEQ, with a similar digital infrastructure for member services and public protection.
• Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Québec (OOAQ): Quebec professional order regulating speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Closely parallel to OEQ in mission, governance structure, member-base size, and reliance on annual dues under the same Professional Code framework.
• Ordre des physiothérapeutes du Québec (OPPQ): Quebec's professional order for physiotherapists, structurally identical to the OEQ: government-mandated licensing body under the Office des professions du Québec, with a comparable member portal, public directory, inspection, and discipline processes. Most directly comparable regulatory peer.
• Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec (OTSTCFQ): Quebec professional order regulating social workers and couple/family therapists. Same statutory framework as OEQ, with analogous member services, public complaint mechanisms, and disciplinary councils under the Office des professions du Québec.

Regional players

• College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (COTO): Ontario's regulatory body for occupational therapists, the closest inter-provincial counterpart to OEQ for the same profession. Comparable mandate (licensing, quality assurance, complaints, discipline) and digital member services, but operates under Ontario's regulated health professions framework rather than Quebec's Professional Code.

Others

• Office des professions du Québec (OPQ): Quebec government body that oversees all professional orders, including OEQ. Not a peer in the competitive sense, but the institutional counterparty whose regulatory oversight shapes OEQ's governance, fee-setting authority, and strategic constraints.
• Conseil interprofessionnel du Québec (CIQ): Inter-professional council bringing together Quebec's professional orders to coordinate positions on policy and inter-professional collaboration. OEQ is a constituent member; CIQ shapes the collective voice and shared agenda of orders including OEQ.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/OrdredesErgotherapeutesduQuebec
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ordre-des-ergoth%C3%A9rapeutes-du-qu%C3%A9bec
• Instagraminstagram.com/ordre_des_ergotherapeutes

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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