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 Support

As an Occupational Therapist, I am uniquely qualified to support neurodivergent individuals to stay in, return to, or succeed in work, a core part of occupational therapy.

I offer:

Individual support sessions to explore your strengths, workplace challenges, and potential solutions
Guidance on applying to Access to Work, including how to explain your needs and request the right kind of support
Occupational therapy informed strategies to manage challenges such as executive functioning, fatigue, pain, or sensory processing
Coaching around workplace routines, communication, and self-advocacy
Advice and strategies related to reasonable adjustments (e.g. scheduling, task management, sensory environment)
AHP Health & Work Reports (Allied Health Professional reports) to support your Fit Note if you’re off work, this can help inform return-to-work plans and conversations with your employer or GP
Signposting to formal workplace assessment providers, if needed (e.g. via Access to Work)

Please note: I do not carry out formal workplace or functional capacity assessments for Access to Work or Occupational Health. My role is to provide tailored therapeutic support following diagnosis, disclosure, or workplace challenges.

As an HCPC-registered Occupational therapist and Neurodiversity coach, I provide functional and coaching-based support to help clients understand and manage their needs. While I may suggest reasonable adjustments based on our discussions, this does not constitute a formal workplace or Occupational health assessment. If a formal assessment is required (e.g., by an employer, HR department, or funding body), I advise seeking an independent provider who specialises in workplace or Occupational health assessments appropriate to your needs.

You may wish to search for SEQOHS-accredited Occupational health services or independent Occupational therapists experienced in workplace functional assessments, particularly those with a background in neurodiversity.

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 neurodivergent. 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!

Report Writing & Documentation

In some cases, clients or employers may request written documentation to support workplace conversations, adjustments, or funding applications. I can provide tailored reports based on the client's needs.

Examples of reports I can provide:

AHP Health and Work Reports

To support return-to-work planning or inform a GP’s Fit Note

Reasonable adjustments letters outlining functional needs and suggesting practical workplace strategies

Session summaries or progress updates

Helpful for Access to Work reviews or employer updates (with client consent)

Support recommendation letters

For use with Access to Work, HR, or occupational health

Return-to-work planning documents

Where therapeutic pacing or sensory needs are involved

Report Fees

Report writing, preparation of supporting statements, and correspondence are billed at the standard session rate, in line with clinical contact time.

Most reports take 1/3 hours depending on length and detail required

A fixed fee can be agreed in advance where appropriate

Please note: Report writing is not included in standard 1:1 session fees unless otherwise agreed. All reports are produced with the client’s consent and collaboration.

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