About me:
I qualified as an OT in 1993 from Exeter St Loyes . I have over 30 years of experience working as a Children’s Occupational Therapist in Child Health. I have been the Specialist Lead for Children Occupational Therapy in the NHS with neurodiversity for last 20 years alongside this I also have been a Team Leader in a Community development project for 18 years.
For last 20 years as well as my clinical caseload my focus has been on professional development for Child Health Therapists in the 5 areas of BNSSG providing supervision, training, mentoring and coaching.
Story Behind CO-Coach
But NOW My focus is fully on parents The demands on public services are increasing, and parental support is often bottom of the list in services to provide. Parents need support for longer periods of time to make sustainable change. Parents are left to support their children with initial advice and often a list of online resources apps and telephone numbers for you to investigate yourself or implement yourself. This is often without follow up, about how to adjust, grade and change activities to make it successful for you and your child.
My goal:
Is to provide a family-centred approach…
- What is’ just right’ for you and your situation.
- To work at your pace.
- To enable you to bring your expertise on your own child to the coaching relationship.
- To reach as many parents as I can.
- To partner with you in a thought provoking and creative process
What do you get out of it ?
A learning environment that inspires you to:
- Learn the skills you need to understand yourselves and your child/children (regulation, sensory processing, skills acquisition etc.)
- Develop problem solving skills and create more enabling environments for you and your child/children.
- Develop individualised goals so it is what is valued by you and your child/children.
- Generalisation of skills into home environment.
- Embedding therapeutic evidenced based practice into the natural routine and home environment.
- To share the journey with other parents to provide peer support and encouragement