Mel is an advanced sensory integration practitioner who holds a Masters in Sensory Integration and certified with Level 1 in Sensory Attachment Intervention. She specialises in working with children with sensory processing difficulties. Mel is passionate about working with children who have experienced or been exposed to early childhood trauma and integrates a wealth of experience in working with children and young people to help develop their skills and personal achievements in their personal wellbeing, functional skills, education and leisure.

Mel has a positive, enthusiastic approach and draws upon her years of experience of working with children and young people with ADHD, Autism, DCD, associated anxiety, sensory processing and motor difficulties along with children who have experienced trauma in their early years to provide a holistic, practical and flexible approach. Her interventions are unique to each individual and aim to help each child reach their unique potential.

Mel qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1991 and has worked in a variety of different health care and community based settings prior to specialising in working with children and young people. She has worked in a variety of mainstream and additional needs educational settings providing a range of specialised individual intervention, targeted and group work; as well as bespoke programmes and staff training.

Mel is a mother to three children and an advanced yoga teacher and uses yoga to help the associated anxieties many children with complex needs encounter. She is the author of the ‘Yoga of Pregnancy’ book and created a Sensory Processing Yoga programme and training.

Mel is registered and regulated by Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC); is a Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) and a Member of College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section – Independent Practise (COTSS-IP).

  • Sensory Attachment Intervention Certificate Level 1
    December 2019
  • MSc. in Sensory Integration, 2017
    Ulster University
  • Post graduate Diploma in Sensory Integration Therapy 2015
    Ulster University
  • Advanced Sensory Integration practitioner 2014
    Sensory Integration Network
  • Sensory Integration Module 4 – From planning to treatment 2014
    Sensory Integration Network UK
  • Sensory Integration Module 2/3 – Assessment to Practice 2013
    Sensory Integration Network UK
  • Sensory Integration Module 1 – Foundations and Neuroscience 2012
    Sensory Integration Network UK
  • PG Diploma COT
    Salford College of Technology 1991