How Occupational Therapy and Coaching can dance beautifully together.
How Occupational Therapy and Coaching can dance beautifully together.
What Coaching and Occupational Therapy can offer autistic and ADHD people. And how Coaching can support your sense of empowerment.
My Occupational Therapy background certainly enriches my approach to coaching. It has helped me to develop a lens whereby I’m listening out for ways people can develop their skills and alter their environments so they can engage more successfully in daily activities. An OT might work with you on sensory regulation strategies, executive function tools, or adapting your workspace to help you participate in work.
Coaching, on the other hand, is much focused on being non-directive and prioritises the co-creation of space and partnering with people. It focuses on self-discovery, clarifying your values, and supporting you to set and achieve goals that matter to you. It’s less about teaching specific techniques and more about helping you uncover your own wisdom and direction.
For example, an OT might help you develop a morning routine that works with your brainbody, while coaching might help you to delve deeper into your own resourcefulness, motivation and figuring out how that morning routine fits into your bigger life vision.
Having both backgrounds means I bring a deep understanding of how autistic and/or ADHD brainbodies work, combined with a coaching approach that honors your expertise about your own life.
I might notice patterns in how your sensory needs may affect your energy levels, but instead of prescribing solutions, I’ll be curious about what you’ve discovered works for you. I understand the complexity of executive function challenges, but I’m more interested in exploring how those challenges meet your intersecting identities, values, systems and goals.
This dual lens helps me hold space for both your practical realities and your deeper aspirations. When we combine the OT understanding of how brainbodies work in the world with coaching’s commitment to honoring your inner knowing, something new emerges; a space where you can both navigate daily challenges and expand into who you’re becoming.
At Neurokin Coaching, we can explore not just how to ‘function better’, but how to create an empowering life that integrates your strengths, accommodates your needs, and aligns with your deepest values.
