Occupational Therapy (OT) or Neurodiversity Coaching (with an Occupational Therapy lens) 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:

Personalised 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
• 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)
• Neurodiversity Coaching around workplace routines, communication, and self-advocacy

Access to Work: Neurodiversity Workplace Coaching

I provide workplace neurodiversity coaching specifically designed to support neurodivergent adults through the Access to Work scheme. This coaching is tailored to help you succeed at work by developing practical strategies, improving confidence, and enhancing workplace functioning.

What I Provide:

Personalised Workplace Coaching

• Explore your individual strengths, challenges, and goals in the workplace.
• Develop strategies to improve organisation, task management, prioritisation, and time management.
• Support with executive functioning challenges such as focus, planning, and following complex tasks.

Self-Advocacy and Communication Skills

• Coaching on how to communicate your needs effectively at work.
• Guidance on requesting reasonable adjustments confidently and professionally.
• Support in navigating workplace relationships, meetings, and team dynamics.

Sensory and Environmental Strategies

• Practical advice for managing sensory sensitivities at work, including noise, lighting, or workspace layout.
• Strategies to create an environment that supports focus, productivity, and wellbeing.

Workplace Routines and Stress Management

• Techniques to structure your day, manage workload, and reduce overwhelm.
• Coping strategies for stress, burnout, or executive function overload.
• Support for maintaining sustainable routines that align with your neurotype.

Access to Work Guidance

• Coaching sessions are structured to fit within Access to Work funding requirements.
• Sessions focus on skill development, practical strategies, and workplace confidence rather than formal assessments.
• I can provide session summaries for your Access to Work case to demonstrate progress and support ongoing funding,

Important Notes:

• The focus is on practical, actionable strategies to help you manage workplace challenges and achieve your professional goals.
• Coaching is collaborative, strengths-based, and tailored to your individual neurodivergent profile.

Who This Service Is For:

• Neurodivergent adults seeking Access to Work-funded workplace support.
• Individuals wanting practical strategies to improve focus, organisation, and productivity.
• Employees looking to enhance self-advocacy, manage sensory needs, and thrive in their work environment.

Support for Older Adolescents (16-18)

I also offer neuro-affirming Occupational Therapy and coaching support for older adolescents aged 16-18 who may be navigating:

• transition to sixth form, college, university or employment
• increasing independence and daily living skills
• executive functioning difficulties
• anxiety, overwhelm and burnout
• emotional regulation
• sensory challenges
• self-advocacy and understanding their neurotype
• routines, organisation and time management
• preparing for adulthood
• education-related stress and reasonable adjustments

Support is collaborative, strengths-based, and tailored to the individual young person’s goals and needs.

Parent/carer involvement and consent will be necessary to ensure safe, supportive and effective intervention.

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!

PIP / Benefits-Related Support Policy

As an HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist, my practice focuses on neurodiversity, sensory integration, and supporting functional participation through online assessment and intervention.

I do not provide functional capacity assessments for welfare benefits such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP), ESA, UC, or Social Care Needs Assessments. This is because a full functional evaluation requires in-person observation and structured assessment tools beyond the scope of online sensory-focused work.

Therefore, I cannot:

• determine or comment on eligibility for PIP
• complete PIP application forms
• advise or coach clients on wording for PIP descriptors
• provide letters of support specifically for benefits
• attend tribunals or case reviews

This policy ensures safe, ethical practice in accordance with HCPC and RCOT standards and protects the integrity of clinical work undertaken with clients.

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.

Client suitability and scope of practice

I work with neurodivergent adults and older adolescents (aged 16+) experiencing difficulties with executive functioning, emotional regulation, daily living skills, education, work, and transition into greater independence.

My work is grounded in neuro-affirming Occupational Therapy and coaching approaches, focusing on functional, practical and psychological support for everyday life.

Suitability for this service

This service may be suitable if you are experiencing:

• executive functioning difficulties (planning, organisation, task initiation, time management)
• overwhelm, burnout, or emotional dysregulation
• challenges with routines, independence or daily living skills
• difficulties related to autism, ADHD or other neurodivergent profiles
• transition-related challenges (education, university, work, adulthood)
• need for structured, practical and reflective support

This service is not suitable for:

• acute mental health crisis requiring urgent intervention
• active suicidal intent or unmanaged self-harm risk requiring crisis services
• severe, unmanaged substance dependence requiring specialist addiction services
• acute psychosis or severe mental health instability
• forensic/legal casework, mediation or court-related disputes
• situations where risk requires intensive multi-agency crisis intervention
• individuals unable or unwilling to engage voluntarily in the process

In such cases, I may recommend more appropriate specialist or statutory services.

Risk and safeguarding

Where concerns arise regarding safety or wellbeing, appropriate safeguarding procedures will be followed in line with professional and legal obligations.

Engagement

All support is voluntary and requires active engagement from the client. For individuals under 18, parental consent and appropriate involvement is required.