Candia Slaughter

Candia is an experienced Occupational Therapist specialising in working with children and young people. She has focused her work with clients from extremely challenging backgrounds, who have survived trauma, neglect, loss, often coupled with additional needs, neurological differences, sensory processing difficulties or learning disabilities. Her prior experience is in the charitable sector; offering therapy in mainstream schools, alternative education units and dedicated centres for vulnerable children and young people.

Candia often begins her work with supporting children’s nervous systems – helping the children, their families and support systems to understand their survival patterns and how they might be impacting how they interact with the world around them. Often the children and young people who have experienced trauma are easily triggered into their fight, flight, freeze or shut down pattern. Candia builds an understanding of their nervous system alongside the sensory systems. She works for them and their carers to enhance co-regulation and increase stability. This is done through play, connection and understanding. Candia is a certified Sensory Attachment Intervention therapist which is an integrative approach focusing on modulating the body senses that have been aroused or shut down through trauma and neglect.