Dr. Emma Field
Dr Emma Field is an experienced counselling psychologist who provides therapeutic, supervision and diagnostic assessment services for young people and adults. She has extensive experience working therapeutically in private practice with a wide range of clients including children, adolescents and adults with neurodiverse traits and diagnoses.
Emma is strongly motivated to understand others and their personal histories, stories and experiences. As a neurodiverse individual, she understands the difficulties that others with these differences may experience when navigating the world they live in, designed by neurotypical others. She feels strongly about providing a neuro-affirmative process with all individuals she encounters. She understands how others may be misunderstood and misinterpreted by those around them.
Aside from extensive training in administering assessment in ASD and ADHD clinical tools, Emma is currently undertaking a masters in neurodiversity.
Emma has worked for over 30 years as a teacher and lecturer in a variety of settings, including schools and colleges. She worked as a pastoral manager in a secondary school bringing a wide range of understanding of children and adolescents to her current practice and assessment. She is currently employed by the Open University as a lecturer in Psychology and Counselling. She also is a qualified coach, yoga teacher, mindfulness teacher and mindfulness practitioner.
Emma works within a strict ethical framework at all times in accordance with British Psychological Society guidelines and is regulated by the HCPC. She values respect for her clients and describes her personal style as warm, curious, reflective, supportive, engaging and analytical.
Maurice Finn
Maurice originally trained as a coach in 2005, working in areas such as business coaching and career and development coaching with individuals and businesses. Since then he has developed his practice to include ADHD coaching and has undertaken specific training in ADHD. Currently he offers relationship coaching and health coaching.
Maurice works with clients knowing how ADHD can affect and impair functioning often leading to ground- hog day for a person with ADHD when they try to move forward with goals and task. Maurice works with his clients to finds ways to achieve goals and make progress possible by finding ways to work around scattered thoughts, memory lapses and disorganisation that often happen with ADHD brains. Maurice helps his ADHD clients realise their ability by using his skills and knowledge to enhance their functioning in day-to-day life.
In your coaching session with Maurice you may:
- Explore ways of improving executive functioning, planning and organisation
- Support to advocate for yourself in different environments
- Support to develop impulse control strategies
- Help with study skills, social skills and problem solving
Claire McKenzie-Sime
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Claire graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2018 with an MSc in Occupational Therapy and has since been working for over 5 years in both in-patient and community settings across the private sector and NHS.
Claire works with people with complex mental health care needs such as Depression, Anxiety, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Schizophrenia.
Claire is an enthusiastic and dedicated to Occupational Therapist, developing her skills with strengths-based Neurodevelopmental objectives.
Claire also has extensive experience in working within forensic mental health environments and in provision of physical rehabilitation through prescription of assistive equipment and environmental adaptation.
She is qualified in the use of several ASD & ADHD assessment and diagnosis tools and is currently earning her PGCert in Sensory Integration to provide assessment and treatment for sensory processing disorders for children and adults.
Claire specialises in developing strategies to help people regain their independence at home, at work and in their leisure pursuits, allowing them to:
- Manage their work-life balance,
- Learn how to set goals and prioritise,
- Learn how to self soothe in times of stress and emotional upheaval,
- Enter, return and/or retain employment by making recommednations to employers for reasonable adjustment to enable their health and wellbeing at work,
- Learn how to improve their skills in performing the daily tasks of living i.e. housework, cooking, bathing, socialising,
- Improve upon the ability to live their lives with independence and dignity.
Claire hopes to achieve this through using years of experience as a mental health practitioner, a lecturer and community worker and through use of Sensory Integration strategies.
Claire is a member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT/BAOT) and a member of the Sensory Integration Network (SIE).
*For more information about Sensory Integration, please contact me.
Dr. Emma Field
Dr Emma Field is an experienced counselling psychologist who provides therapeutic, supervision and diagnostic assessment services for young people and adults. She has extensive experience working therapeutically in private practice with a wide range of clients including children, adolescents and adults with neurodiverse traits and diagnoses.
Emma is strongly motivated to understand others and their personal histories, stories and experiences. As a neurodiverse individual, she understands the difficulties that others with these differences may experience when navigating the world they live in, designed by neurotypical others. She feels strongly about providing a neuro-affirmative process with all individuals she encounters. She understands how others may be misunderstood and misinterpreted by those around them.
Aside from extensive training in administering assessment in ASD and ADHD clinical tools, Emma previously worked for 30 years as a teacher and lecturer in a variety of settings, including schools and colleges. She worked as a pastoral manager for ten years in a secondary school bringing a wide range of understanding of children and adolescents to her current practice and assessment. She is currently employed by the Open University as a lecturer in Psychology and Counselling. She also is a qualified coach, yoga teacher, mindfulness teacher and mindfulness practitioner.
Emma works within a strict ethical framework at all times in accordance with British Psychological Society guidelines and is regulated by the HCPC. She values respect for her clients and describes her personal style as warm, curious, reflective, supportive, engaging and analytical.
Maurice Finn
Maurice originally trained as a coach in 2005, working in areas such as business coaching and career and development coaching with individuals and businesses. Since then he has developed his practice to include ADHD coaching and has undertaken specific training in ADHD.
Maurice works with clients knowing how ADHD can affect and impair functioning often leading to ground- hog day for a person with ADHD when they try to move forward with goals and task. Maurice works with his clients to finds ways to achieve goals and make progress possible by finding ways to work around scattered thoughts, memory lapses and disorganisation that often happen with ADHD brains. Maurice helps his ADHD clients realise their ability by using his skills and knowledge to enhance their functioning in day-to-day life.
In your coaching session with Maurice you may:
- Explore ways of improving executive functioning, planning and organisation
- Support to advocate for yourself in different environments
- Support to develop impulse control strategies
- Help with study skills, social skills and problem solving
Claire McKenzie-Sime
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Claire graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2018 with an MSc in Occupational Therapy and has since been working for over 5 years in both in-patient and community settings across the private sector and NHS.
Claire works with people with complex mental health care needs such as Depression, Anxiety, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Schizophrenia.
Claire is an enthusiastic and dedicated to Occupational Therapist, developing her skills with strengths-based Neurodevelopmental objectives.
Claire also has extensive experience in working within forensic mental health environments and in provision of physical rehabilitation through prescription of assistive equipment and environmental adaptation.
She is qualified in the use of several ASD & ADHD assessment and diagnosis tools and is currently earning her PGCert in Sensory Integration to provide assessment and treatment for sensory processing disorders for children and adults.
Claire specialises in developing strategies to help people regain their independence at home, at work and in their leisure pursuits, allowing them to:
- Manage their work-life balance,
- Learn how to set goals and prioritise,
- Learn how to self soothe in times of stress and emotional upheaval,
- Enter, return and/or retain employment by making recommednations to employers for reasonable adjustment to enable their health and wellbeing at work,
- Learn how to improve their skills in performing the daily tasks of living i.e. housework, cooking, bathing, socialising,
- Improve upon the ability to live their lives with independence and dignity.
Claire hopes to achieve this through using years of experience as a mental health practitioner, a lecturer and community worker and through use of Sensory Integration strategies.
Claire is a member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT/BAOT) and a member of the Sensory Integration Network (SIE).
*For more information about Sensory Integration, please contact me.
