Occupational therapy (OT) with a focus on neurodiversity can help you create positive changes in your life by providing personalized strategies to enhance your daily functioning, self-awareness, and overall well-being. I provide a unique service that offers skill development and emotional support. Providing not just solutions but empowerment, enabling you to embrace your neurodivergence Here’s how it can benefit you:

Personalized Support

I work with you to understand your unique needs, strengths, and challenges. Whether you’re managing ADHD, autism, or other neurodivergent traits, I tailor interventions to help you navigate tasks and environments in ways that work best for you!

Improved Daily Functioning

I can help you develop practical skills for everyday tasks, from managing time, organizing, and setting goals, to handling work or education related challenges. I can share adaptive strategies that make life feel more manageable and fulfilling.

Stress Management and Coping Skills

Living with a neurodivergent brain can sometimes feel overwhelming. We can explore coping mechanisms and stress reduction techniques (like mindfulness, or sensory regulation) that help you remain balanced and calm in stressful situations.

Executive functioning challenges

I can support you to develop strategies to improve concertation and organisation

Transition planning

• Life stage transitions: I support clients transitioning between work, job roles, university or independent living
• Career coaching: I can help with CV building, interview preparation and and work readiness
  

Family and caregiver support

I can work with families to align goals and provide support.

Work

As an Occupational Therapist, I am uniquely qualified to support people to remain in, return to, or obtain work, which is a key function of occupational therapy.
I can...

• Give a detailed assessment of your individual capacity and workplace requirements
• Support you to apply for Access to work - a government funded grant to enable your support within the workplace. Once this is approved, we can explore occupational therapy specific solutions and strategies to support you.
• Facilitate you to manage any ongoing condition(s) and related symptoms such as pain and fatigue. Delivering support through agreed goals with the employee and employer.
• Advise on reasonable adjustments to the workplace.
• As AHP’s (Allied Health Professionals) Occupational Therapists can now sign Fitnotes.
• AHP reports - I can provide a health and work report which is a detailed report that supports your fit note. This report can be used as evidence for your fitness to work and can inform on environmental modifications and any support you may need to remain in work.
  

Sensory Regulation

Neurodivergent individuals often have heightened or diminished sensory sensitivities. I can help you understand your sensory preferences and create environments that help you feel more comfortable and focused, through identifying sensory needs and creating a unique sensory profile, environmental modifications and sensory regulation plans. We can explore interoceptive strategies that help calm and support you to navigate overload and shutdowns.

Building Confidence

I can support you to develop your self advocacy skills, manage tasks, and improve your self-regulation, you’ll likely feel more confident in your abilities. This confidence boost can positively affect many areas of your life, from work to relationships to personal growth.

Social Skills and Communication

If you're struggling with social interaction, I can help you learn strategies for navigating social situations, exploring communication and building connections in a way that feels authentic to you.

Guided Neurotype screening

As a qualified autism assessor, I can offer advice if you are questioning whether you may be autistic or neurodivergant. I offer support on approaching your GP and can confidently provide an overview of the diagnostic process and what to expect.

Post Diagnostic Support

I can offer post diagnostic support, supporting your diagnostic report recommendations and provide you with support and orientation to your diagnosis.

Ultimately, neurodiverse Occupational therapy empowers you to understand yourself better, build on your strengths, and develop strategies to overcome challenges, all of which can lead to a more fulfilling and balanced life!