Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is about helping individuals participate more fully in everyday life — managing daily tasks, managing sensory-needs, regulating emotions, enhancing independence, and improving well-being. Key aspects include:

What Occupational Therapy Offers:

  • Assessment & Individualised Planning
    OTs assess sensory processing, executive functioning, emotional regulation, routines, life roles, and environmental demands. Based on this, they co-create bespoke goals and plans that match the person’s strengths and challenges.

  • Skills & Routine Development

    • Developing self-care, grooming, dressing, cooking, or work/school tasks.
    • Support re-engagement in meaningful activities and provide structure around routines to support good mental health.

  • Roles and Identity

    • Explore the roles and responsibilities of individuals and how their mental health might be impacting or creating barriers.
    • Support around maintaining roles and identity, in line with daily demands and social/environmental factors.

  • Executive Function Support
    Helping with planning, organising, sequencing tasks, time-management, following routines or transitions (e.g. moves between school-to-home, home-to-work).

  • Sensory Assessment and Support
    Sensory interventions focus specifically on how someone receives, processes, and responds to sensory information. Sensory assessments can provide specific information about an individuals’ sensory difficulties, following which, targeted support and recommendations can be offered.

  • Environmental Adaptations
    Adjusting surroundings (home, school, workplace) to reduce stressors: managing noise, lighting, layout; using tools or assistive technology; modifying sensory input; designing sensory-friendly spaces.

  • Collaboration & Education
    Working with families, schools, carers, mental health services to embed strategies across settings. Training others in understanding sensory and neurodiversity needs. Empowering self-advocacy.