Access to Work Coaching for Neurodivergent Adults

As a multiply neurodivergent Occupational Therapist, I understand the spiky profiles, demand avoidance, executive functioning challenges, and sensory needs that can affect your work life.

My support is person-centred and designed with you in mind. Some of my specialisms to support with include:

• Executive functioning support (eg planning, transitions, getting started)

• Understanding your sensory profile

• Creating sensory tools that support your nervous system

• Support for preventing and during burnout

• Lower energy & fatigue support

• Mapping out your longer term goals and breaking them down

• Creating weekly/monthly etc plans or routines to support you

• Accountability-partnering 

• Identifying workplace adjustments

• Unmasking safely

• Nervous system regulation & emotions

• Anything at home which is impacting you at work e.g equiptment

• Building confidence & self-advocacy at work

You can choose to have a personalised pathway on the topics of your choosing, or if you're not sure where to start, you could use one of my pre-set themed packages (click here and scroll to 2.)

As an HCPC registered independent occupational therapist, I bring an OT approach to coaching. While I describe it as coaching for access to work purposes, it’s really occupational therapy at its core. This offers my clients the added reassurance of working with a professional who is insured, accountable, and adheres to robust record-keeping, GDPR compliance, and ethical standards.

Sessions are tailored to the individual but generally look like a mix of validation and verbal processing & practical support strategies (and if wanted, accountability partnering), e.g creating the plans and figuring out and experimenting.

I use the OT process in my work:

1) we have an initial evaluation of your needs to give me a holistic picture of your life right now this helps to inform our work

2) Pathway clarity - we map out how we will use your sessions and clarify your goals (can be loose or specific) we are working towards

3) Core sessions start - each session we focus in on one of your goals/topics from the pathway clarity session and start to work towards it together. I use documents which I put on the screen so you have something to look at and complete in session together.

I help neurodivergent adults -including those who are undiagnosed, late-identified, or still figuring out what their neurodivergence and health conditions mean for them - to navigate daily life, work, and wellbeing in ways that are built around who they actually are.

I believe I am the only independent Occupational Therapist in the UK offering this specific combination of specialist clinical expertise and lived experience.

I'm an HCPC registered Occupational Therapist with a background in anthropology and a Master's in OT. I'm also multiply neurodivergent, disabled, with several chronic health conditions. My training and my own experience aren't separate things they inform each other constantly. You won't need to explain or justify your experience to me. I already get it.

My lived experience includes:

If you've ever felt like traditional services don't quite get you, you're not alone. Many of the people I work with have spent years navigating systems that misunderstand, pathologise, or overlook their experiences. I bring personal experience of:

• Autism

• ADHD

• Dyslexia

• Dyspraxia

• Depression

• Anxiety

• OCD

• Trauma

• Endometriosis

• Hypermobility

• Chronic pain and chronic fatigue

• Using walking aids and a wheelchair

• Being part of the LGBTQIA+ community

These experiences shape not only how I understand the world, but how I show up in my work with empathy, nuance, and a deep respect for each person's autonomy.