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Occupational Therapy For Early Adulthood.

 

For neurodivergent young adults navigating university, work, independent living, late diagnosis, and the transitions of early adult life. Specialist OT built around how you actually function.

Early Adulthood (18 - 25)

This is for you if you recognise yourself here:

  • You have had a late diagnosis of autism or ADHD and want to understand your full sensory and functional profile

  • You are applying for DSA, exam arrangements, or university access support

  • You need PIP evidence, whether for an initial application or an appeal

  • Workplace adjustments are needed and you are not sure what to ask for

  • Independent living skills and routines are not working the way they could

  • Sensory and regulation needs are becoming more visible as life demands increase

  • You are in or recovering from burnout from masking through school, college, or university

  • You want to find a vocational pathway that fits how you actually function

  • You want practical, respectful support that does not pathologise you

Comprehensive Functional and Sensory Assessment
 
One environment - £750  |  Two environments - £850

A full OT assessment exploring how sensory, motor, regulation, and executive function differences are impacting daily life.

 

One environment: home, work, our Ilkley office, or community setting.

Two environments: typically home plus community setting - particularly useful where you present differently across the two.

 

Includes pre-assessment intake forms, face-to-face assessment, parent interview, standardised assessments where appropriate, observational and play-based work, written report, and an optional remote feedback meeting.

 

Report within 4-8 weeks of assessment. Full pathway typically 2-3 months.

​Functional Advocacy Reports

Independent occupational therapy evidence for disability benefit and access applications. Each report describes how your conditions affect everyday life, written to the criteria the decision maker uses.

The price depends on whether we've already assessed you.

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For existing clients

You're an existing client if we've assessed you within the last 12 months. If things have changed a lot since then, an update session may be needed (£120 per hour). We will tell you before you book.

 

Supporting Evidence Report - £360
OT evidence drawing on your existing assessment, written to the criteria of the application you're making:

  • PIP: new applications, reconsiderations and appeals

  • DLA to PIP at 16

  • Blue Badge or Access Card

One report per application.

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For new clients

A full assessment comes first, so the report rests on current evidence.

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Comprehensive PIP Assessment and Report - from £1,440
Covers all 12 PIP activities, the reliability criteria (safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly and in a reasonable time), fluctuation, and the combined impact of all your conditions. Includes questionnaires, an interview, live observation of everyday tasks, a daily diary and, if you choose, an interview with someone who knows you well.

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DLA to PIP at 16 Assessment and Report - from £1,440
The full PIP assessment, adapted for young people. Includes input from a parent or carer and, with consent, school or college.

 

Blue Badge / Access Card Assessment and Report - from £600
A focused assessment of walking, journeys and safety, with a report written to access application criteria.

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How it works

  • Assessments are by secure video anywhere in the UK, or in person in Ilkley, Harrogate, Otley, Skipton and surrounding areas. Travel costs may apply.

  • Allow at least 4 weeks for a new client assessment. If your deadline is sooner, get in touch and I'll tell you honestly whether it's possible.

  • A 50% deposit books your assessment. The balance is due before the final report is released.

  • You'll see a draft first to check for factual errors.

  • The report comes to you. You decide whether to submit it.

Please note

  • All reports are independent. They describe your function as we assess it.

  • We don't diagnose or give medical opinions.

  • The fee is the same whatever the outcome, and we can't guarantee any decision.

  • Not included: attending hearings, letters to DWP or councils, and further reports. These are quoted separately.

Exam Access Arrangements Report - £360

Professional OT evidence to JCQ requirements where applicable, documenting the functional impact on exam performance.

 

Supports requests for extra time, rest breaks, scribe, use of a laptop, or sensory adjustments.

 

Includes pre-assessment intake, face-to-face assessment (approximately 1.5 hours), university liaison where appropriate, and a written report addressing the exam access criteria.

 

Tell us which arrangements are being requested when you enquire and we will tailor the report focus.

Workplace and Vocational Consultation - £360

For neurodivergent adults wanting to identify workplace adjustments, accommodations, and sensory-friendly working arrangements.

 

Includes intake form, 90-minute consultation, written summary of recommended adjustments, and supporting evidence for Access to Work or for an employer reasonable adjustments request.

 

The consultation looks at sensory environment, executive function support, task adaptations, communication preferences, and how to advocate for what you need.

Vocational Pathway Programme

From £3,200 | Enquiry only | Cohorts launching subject to interest | Delivered online

For neurodivergent young adults navigating the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

 

This is a 12-week specialist OT-led programme for young people aged 18-25 who have not found their pathway through the conventional routes - and who know that the standard advice has not fitted because the standard advice was not built for brains like yours.

 

We start from the assumption that you already know more than the systems around you have given you credit for. You know what drains you. You know what lights you up. You know what masking has cost you. You know which environments shut you down. The problem is not lack of insight - it is that no one has helped you turn that insight into a vocational pathway built around how you actually function.

 

That is the work.

 

What we do together

  • Map your special interests, deep knowledge, and natural patterns, and use these as the anchor for vocational direction, not the thing you are supposed to put aside

  • Build a clear picture of your sensory, regulation, executive function, and occupational profile - what makes environments work for you, what does not, and why

  • Name the impact of masking, autistic burnout, and the wear-and-tear of fitting in, and plan recovery alongside next steps

  • Identify the actual barriers (sensory, environmental, structural, communication) that have been getting in the way, and the practical scaffolding that removes them

  • Design a vocational direction that fits you - whether that is specific employment, training, self-employment, or a path nobody has named yet

  • Take small, achievable steps in that direction with structured support

 

How it works

The programme is delivered online over 12 weeks, combining 1:1 specialist OT input with weekly group calls so you have peer connection alongside personalised support.

 

Both our Founder, Katie, and our specialist OTs are neurodivergent. Several have built their own businesses or non-traditional careers as neurodivergent adults. The lens is not theoretical.

 

For young people local to Ilkley, some face-to-face sessions can be arranged within the programme by agreement.

Room to Move - ACT-Informed Occupational Therapy

£2,400 | Enquiry only | Cohorts launching subject to interest | Delivered online

Some thoughts and feelings are loud. This is not about silencing them. It is about learning to carry them and still move toward the life you want.

 

Room to Move is an 8-session online programme using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), delivered by occupational therapists who are neurodivergent themselves. We do not pathologise you. We help you notice what is happening, make room for it, and take small, doable steps toward what matters.

 

Who it is for

Neurodivergent adults aged 18-25 who want practical, respectful support. Not to be fixed.

 

How it works

  • 2 sessions to map where you are and what matters to you

  • 6 sessions building real skills: grounding, unhooking from hard thoughts, acting on your values

  • An optional review a few weeks later

  • Online, paced to your nervous system, no forced weekly grind

 

What you will build

A clearer sense of what matters, more room around difficult thoughts and feelings, and small steps you can actually take in daily life.

 

This is occupational therapy, not psychotherapy or crisis support. No diagnosis required.

Treatment-Only Package

 

3-hour review consultation £440 + £120/hr intervention

For individuals with a thorough OT assessment from another provider completed within the last 12 months.

 

Please attach the existing assessment when you enquire. We will review briefly to ensure it provides enough information for us to plan intervention.

 

Includes a 3-hour review consultation, a written intervention plan, and intervention sessions typically delivered weekly or fortnightly in blocks of 6 to 8 sessions.

Man in Blue
"It felt like she could be their spokesperson, translating their behaviour so we could finally understand them."

- Parent 

Not Sure Where To Start?

Submit an enquiry. We'll listen to what you are navigating and help you decide what kind of support is the right fit.

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