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We're so pleased to announce our new Adult Sensory Wellbeing Course starting on 30th July! 🧡

Learn more & sign up here: https://ot4me.co.uk/adultsensorywellbeingcourse

Taking place over 4 separate workshop dates (with a money-back no-risk guarantee), Occupational Therapist Lucy Thompson will take you on a journey of understanding four concepts:

1. Neurodiversity & Your Nervous System (Weds 30 July)
Explore what neurodiversity really means and how your nervous system shifts between feeling safe, feeling on edge, and shutting down when things become too much. We'll bust a few myths, look at the hidden cost of masking, and learn simple ways to calm your system by stimulating the vagus nerve.

2. Understanding Your Senses (Weds 6 August)
Discover how your eight senses shape the way you experience the world, and why some days simply feel like too much. You'll learn about high and low neurological thresholds and start building your own sensory ladder and plan.

3. Sensory Regulation (Weds 20 August)
Learn to recognise your different arousal states and what tips you over the edge. We'll explore self-regulation and co-regulation, take a closer look at interoception, and share small, practical tools that help you feel more like yourself.

4. Occupational Balance (Weds 27 August)
Think about what makes your days feel meaningful, what drains you, and what genuinely restores you. We'll look at reasonable adjustments, activity scheduling, and why rest matters far more than we're often told.

Every session sends you away with practical tools to try straight away. No jargon and no pressure, just a clearer understanding of yourself and how to feel your best.

🟢 The details:

- Four live workshops: 30 July, 6, 20 & 27 August
- Two times to suit you: 12 to 1pm or 6 to 7pm
- £87 for all four workshops, around £22 a session - which is incredible value for money
- Every session recorded, so you never miss one
- 100% money back after session one if it is not for you

Learn more & sign up here: https://ot4me.co.uk/adultsensorywellbeingcourse

Tonight, millions of us will sit down to watch England vs Argentina. And whatever the score, our nervous systems will be on quite a ride.

Racing heart at kick-off. That knot in your stomach before a penalty. The urge to pace, shout, or hide behind a cushion. The flat, wrung-out feeling after the final whistle. That is your nervous system moving through its states in real time, reacting to threat, excitement and relief.

What would change if you understood exactly what settles your nervous system, and what tips it over?

Not just on a big match night, but at work, at home, and in everyday life.

This free webinar for adults explores just that. Register here 👉 https://ot4me.co.uk/webinar

Join Lucy Thompson, Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner, for a free, relaxed introductory webinar exploring how our nervous system and our senses shape the way we feel, work and rest.

This taster session offers a gentle first look at OT4me's four-week course, Sensory Wellbeing for Adults. It is designed for everyone, whether you identify as neurodivergent, support someone who is, or are simply curious to understand yourself a little better. Every activity is optional, and there are no right or wrong answers.

Across the hour, Lucy introduces the four themes of the full course:

1. Neurodiversity and polyvagal theory, understanding your nervous system and the states it moves through, and everyday ways to feel calmer and more settled.
2. Sensory processing, making sense of our eight senses, sensory differences and thresholds, and practical tools such as sensory ladders.
3. Sensory regulation, learning to notice your body's signals before overwhelm, and how we regulate both on our own and alongside others.
4. Occupational balance, looking at meaningful activity, support at work, and the importance of deep rest.

Attendees will leave with a kinder understanding of themselves and a small set of practical tools they can start using straight away, along with the option to continue on the full four-week course.

Whatever happens in Atlanta tonight, come and learn what helps you feel settled.

Register for free via our website here 👇

🔗 https://ot4me.co.uk/webinar

The OT4me team are coming together on a staff away day today, we know how important these times where we learn are.

We're exploring team values, the direction of our business, how we support our clients and how we support each other along the way. It's a chance to step back from the day-to-day, share honest reflections, and make sure we're all pulling in the same direction.

As an occupational therapy team, we talk a lot about self-regulation with the people we work with, but it's just as important for us. Days like today give us the space to pause, reconnect, and check in with ourselves, not just as professionals, but as people. A team that understands and practises self-regulation is better placed to stay calm, present, and responsive when it matters most, whether that's in a session with a client or supporting a colleague through a tough week.

We can't pour from an empty cup. Investing in our own wellbeing and regulation isn't a nice-to-have, it's what allows us to show up fully for the families and clients who rely on us.

Conversations like these matter. They shape how we work together, how we show up for the people we support, and how we keep growing as a team. We're leaving today with fresh ideas, a stronger sense of purpose, and plenty to bring back into our everyday work.

Some of the OT4me team enjoyed lots regulating activities at Pool Bridge Farm today.

Cold water swimming, a wood fired sauna, and an afternoon by the river. It looked like a lovely day out, and it was, but it is also a genuinely great example of self-regulation in practice.

The cold water gives the nervous system a big, unmistakable jolt, the kind of input that is hard to ignore. The sauna heat does the opposite, slowing everything down and settling the body. Moving between the two, hot to cold and back again, is a built in regulation circuit. It teaches the body to notice its own state and to recover from big shifts in arousal, which is exactly the kind of skill we help adults, young people and families build every day.

Sometimes the best way to understand regulation is to feel it for yourself.

This is what we're going to be talking about in our upcoming free webinar on Thursday at midday.

You can sign up here: ot4me.co.uk/webinar

Ever react to something small like it's a genuine threat?

A packed inbox. A room that's too loud. A day that quietly tips from "fine" to "too much" without warning.

That reaction isn't you overreacting. It's your nervous system doing exactly what it's built to do: scanning for safety, and sometimes reading danger where there is none.

Understanding why it happens changes everything.

In our free introductory webinar, OT Lucy Thompson explores the ideas behind it, in plain, human language:

– Your autonomic nervous system, and the three states it moves through: safe, fight-or-flight, and shut-down
– Masking, and the hidden cost of holding it all together
– Simple, everyday ways to calm your vagus nerve and signal safety to your body

No pressure, no jargon, nothing to get "right". Just an hour to understand yourself a little better, whether you identify as neurodivergent, support someone who does, or are simply curious.

You'll leave with something you can use straight away.

Because when your body feels safe, everything else gets easier.

Feeling at Home in Your Body
A free webinar with Lucy Thompson, Occupational Therapist & Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner
Thursday 16 July 2026 · 12–1PM (UK) · Online · Free

Save your place: https://ot4me.co.uk/webinar

Planning days out and trips this summer with a child who finds busy places a lot?

Comment the word ACTIVITY and the OT4me team will send you a free guide to help your child enjoy every summer adventure.

Summer holidays are full of the good stuff: days out, new places, little adventures. And with a bit of gentle planning, they can be brilliant for your child too, especially if new sights, sounds and busy places sometimes feel like a lot.

Bev, one of the occupational therapists at OT4me, has put together all the tips she shares with the families she works with into one free guide: Summer Holidays, Trips & Travel, sensory-friendly ideas for parents and carers.

Inside you’ll find:

🎒 How to build a simple sensory toolkit your child loves
✈️ Easy ways to prep for airports, trains and busy days out
🧩 Social stories and practice runs that help everything feel familiar
🌻 The little lanyard that helps staff offer your child a bit of extra understanding

Small, doable steps that help your child feel calm, confident and ready to enjoy every adventure.

👉 Just comment ACTIVITY below and the guide will be sent straight to your inbox. Completely free, and full of ideas you can use this summer.

(New here? Give OT4me a follow so the guide can find its way to you.)

What would change if you understood exactly what settles your nervous system, and what tips it over?

This free webinar for for adults, register here 👉 https://ot4me.co.uk/webinar

Join Lucy Thompson, Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner, for a free, relaxed introductory webinar exploring how our nervous system and our senses shape the way we feel, work and rest.

This taster session offers a gentle first look at OT4me's four-week course, Sensory Wellbeing for Adults. It is designed for everyone, whether you identify as neurodivergent, support someone who is, or are simply curious to understand yourself a little better. Every activity is optional, and there are no right or wrong answers.

Across the hour, Lucy introduces the four themes of the full course:

1. Neurodiversity and polyvagal theory, understanding your nervous system and the states it moves through, and everyday ways to feel calmer and more settled.
2. Sensory processing, making sense of our eight senses, sensory differences and thresholds, and practical tools such as sensory ladders.
3. Sensory regulation, learning to notice your body's signals before overwhelm, and how we regulate both on our own and alongside others.
4. Occupational balance, looking at meaningful activity, support at work, and the importance of deep rest.

Attendees will leave with a kinder understanding of themselves and a small set of practical tools they can start using straight away, along with the option to continue on the full four-week course.

Register for free via our website here 👇

🔗 https://ot4me.co.uk/webinar

Summer holidays can feel like six weeks of "what do we do today?"

For some kids, especially those who need a bit more sensory input, movement or structure, that stretch of unstructured time can be hard on the whole family.

That's why we're running our Summer Groups at OT4me this year, therapist-led, play-based sessions designed to give your child a joyful, confidence-building summer, while giving you a bit of breathing room too.

From high-energy Floor Is Lava sessions to calming Sensory Stories and hands-on Den Building, every group is led by two HCPC-registered occupational therapists, kept small (just 4 children), so your little one gets real attention, not just supervision.

We also offer 1:1 sessions if your child needs more individual support this summer, working directly with our OT team on the strategies that help them feel calm and confident.

Running every Tuesday and Thursday from 21 July to 27 August in York. Spaces are limited to 4 per group, and they fill fast.

Look at the timetable on our website 👉 https://ot4me.co.uk/summergroups/