I have been an occupational therapist for 23 years and am currently registered as an occupational therapist in NZ and the UK. I graduated in 2002 from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, and I received my Master of Health Sciences with a Rehabilitation Endorsement from Otago University in 2016. Throughout my career I have worked in a multitude of settings in the UK for the NHS, and in NZ for ACC and MOH. I have experience in acute hospital wards for neuro, medicine and orthopedics, short-term neurological rehabilitation wards, a slow-stream neurological rehabilitation centre, community and vocational rehabilitation, and wheelchair services. My clinical specialty is neurological conditions like traumatic brain injuries, stroke, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, spinal cord injury and dementias, but I also help people with chronic conditions like chronic fatigue, heart and lung problems, cancer, anxiety, depression, long covid, diabetes and complications like visual impairment and amputations. I have experience in housing modifications, wheelchair and equipment provision as adjuncts to my rehabilitation skills. In occupational therapy the focus is not solely on the disease/diagnosis but on problem-solving and returning to the activities that are meaningful to you using OT fundamentals. Furthermore, I don’t separate mental from physical health, as evidence suggests people with mental health issues are more likely to get physical illnesses, and a physical medical condition can still be experienced as traumatic and affect mood.