Qualifications & Advanced Training

I am committed to ongoing professional development and to using evidence-based, child-centred approaches in my work with children and families. Over the years, I have completed extensive postgraduate training in sensory integration, regulation, attachment, trauma-informed practice, and play-based intervention.

My advanced training includes:

• Advanced Mentored Clinician in Sensory Processing
  Star Institute for Sensory Processing Disorder, Denver, Colorado (USA)

• Sensory Attachment Intervention
  Level 1 and Level 2 Therapist Training

• Sensory Integration Certification Programme
  Course 1 and Course 4 – University of Southern California and WPS

• Sensory Integration Training
  Foundation Module – University of Liverpool
  Foundation Module – University College Cork
  Level 2 – University of Liverpool and the Sensory Integration Network

• Trauma-Sensitive Practice
  Kim Barthel

• Psycho-Sensory Intervention
  Kim Barthel

• Polyvagal Theory Certification
  Polyvagal Institute

• Integrated Listening Systems
  Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)

• Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Dyspraxia
  Assessment and Intervention

• The SOS Approach to Feeding

• Assessing Play – Test of Playfulness (ToP)
  Anita Bundy

• The Spirit of Paediatric Occupational Therapy
  Tracy Stackhouse

How this benefits your child

This breadth of training allows me to look beyond surface behaviours and truly understand the why behind a child’s challenges. I integrate sensory processing, emotional regulation, attachment, play, and nervous system understanding to support children in a way that is respectful, strengths-based, and developmentally appropriate.