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ACTIVATE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Our vision is to understand and nurture children, teens, and young adults who are struggling to cope with the world around them. to flourish and lead a happier life. We also help the families to understand the strengths and challenges and to support the young person and family to flourish and lead a happier life.

We follow a 3 step action plan:

Explore the daily strengths and challenges.

Take Action to develop skills, understand, apply self-compassion, validate, and HAVE FUN!

Life change to conquer those mountains and level up!

Reaching the goals

At Activate Occupational Therapy we provide an assessment, report and therapy service, useful for home, educational settings, and workplace adaptions.

Our approaches are individual to the child and guided by research for lasting results.

We provide face-to-face and online occupational interventions to those in the central Scotland area and further afield.

Kirsteen Chassels, Advanced Practice Occupational Therapist

Expertise and qualifications

  • Occupational Therapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council to practice in the UK.

  • First-class honour Bachelor of Science Degree In Occupational Therapy.

  • Post Graduate Certificate in Sensory Integration (distinction) with Ulster University.

  •  Certification as a tester in the International Normative Data Collection (INDC) for the Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI).

  • Certificate Programme in Ayres Sensory Integration module 1,2, 3,4 & 6.

  • Certification Sensory Beginnings.

  • DIR Floortime

Member of the following

  • Royal College of Occupational Therapists.

  • Ayres Sensory Integration Wales Ireland Scotland England ASIWISE.

  • Sensory Integration Network.

  • Scottish Ayres Sensory Integration Network.

  • Royal College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section – Independent Practice.

  • Royal College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section –Children, young people and families.

  • Royal College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section –People with learning disabilities.

What We Do

  • Functional Occupational Therapy Assessments.

  • Ayres Sensory Integration® Therapy Assessments.

  • 1:1 person-centered therapy.

  • Support when communicating with school, college, university, or in the workplace.

  • Provide webinars.

  • Provide short educational talks for groups.