Many mothers with disability are navigating systems that don’t make room for their realities.

I’m here to support you in ways that respect your body, your nervous system, your capacity, and your lived experience.

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Parenting is demanding. Parenting while living with disability or chronic illness can add layers of complexity that aren’t always visible to others.

At Ostara Occupational Therapy, I work alongside mothers, parents and caregivers to support the everyday doing of life and parenting, in ways that respect your body, your nervous system, your capacity, and your lived experience.

This support is practical, relational and grounded. It’s about helping you parent sustainably and with more confidence, not about fixing you or pushing you beyond your limits.

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“The most powerful therapy is human connection." 

BRUCE PERRY

Who is this support for?

I work with mothers, parents and caregivers living with a wide range of experiences, including (but not limited to):

  • Intellectual disability

  • ADHD and autism

  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS / hEDS)

  • POTS and autonomic conditions

  • Chronic fatigue and energy-limiting illness

  • Cerebral palsy

  • Complex or chronic health conditions

  • Trauma histories

  • Psychosocial disability

  • Fluctuating, invisible or evolving support needs

  • Vision loss

You don’t need to fit neatly into a category to belong here.

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What support can look like

Support is individual and responsive, and may include:

    • Managing executive dysfunction (planning, initiation, organisation, prioritising and decision-making)

    • Reducing cognitive and emotional load associated with parenting

    • Problem-solving and finding work-arounds that actually fit your life

    • Understanding sensory preferences and sensitivities (yours and your family’s)

    • Sensory profiling or modulation to support regulation and wellbeing

    • Nervous system care in the context of parenting, stress and fatigue

    • Support through matrescence when parenting intersects with illness, disability or neurodivergence

    • Navigating overwhelm when capacity fluctuates day to day

    • Gentle pacing and capacity-aware strategies

    • Setting up your home or nursery to reduce strain and increase safety

    • Modifying baby-care tasks and environments

    • Recommending adaptive equipment where helpful

    • Supporting funding applications when required
      (Clinical recommendations can be provided; funding decisions sit with external bodies.)

    • Supporting mothers to develop play skills that feel accessible, enjoyable and sustainable

    • Exploring ways to connect and engage with your baby or child that suit your energy, sensory needs and confidence

    • Making play less overwhelming and more relational — not performative

    • Supporting mothers to develop play skills that feel accessible, enjoyable and sustainable

    • Exploring ways to connect and engage with your baby or child that suit your energy, sensory needs and confidence

    • Making play less overwhelming and more relational — not performative

    • Emotional regulation skill development

    • Supporting stress, anger, shutdown and overwhelm

    • Mental health–informed occupational therapy support

    • Parent coaching grounded in compassion and practicality

    • Lifestyle redesign and routine development

    • Creating rhythms that honour energy, pain and capacity

    • Building predictability without rigidity

    • Circle of Security Parenting (COSP) support

    • Reflective, relationship-focused parenting without judgement

How support is offered

Support may be provided:

  • In person (where appropriate)

  • Via telehealth

  • Over short- or longer-term engagement, depending on your needs

Every piece of work is grounded in collaboration, respect and realism.

My role is to support parents, not to assess or judge them.

I do not provide reports or assessments for:

  • Child protection proceedings

  • Determining parental capacity or “fitness” to parent

My work is focused on support, skill-building and participation.

Funding

I work across a range of funding streams and private arrangements.
If funding is relevant to your situation, we can talk through options together.

Does this kind of support feel right for you?

You don’t need to be coping perfectly to reach out.
If something here resonates, you’re welcome to start a conversation. I would love to support you on your journey.

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