Mental Health Occupational Therapy

A MHOT seeks to explore how you function within your meaningful occupations. These are the daily activities of productivity such as work and study, leisure, and relationships that “occupy” your time and have meaning, value, and purpose for you. 

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A MHOT will explore with you how to recover, adapt and adjust to challenges you might have experienced to manage and maximise your mental health and overall health, functioning, and wellbeing. In seeking to understand the holistic experience of clients MHOT’s consider themselves highly skilled in being able to identify and implement support specifically tailored to you and your unique and personal experience.

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Occupational Therapists have education in anatomy and neuroanatomy, and utilising this knowledge MHOT’s aim is to provide both psychological interventions and counseling skills, while also seeking to understand you as a whole person. This means understanding not just your brain, but your entire physical body, its inner workings, and how you function across all environments and occupations.  Mental Health Occupational Therapists (MHOTs) have particular interest and expertise in how our bodies hold and express symptoms, and with this understanding, they can utilise sensory and holistic interventions to help with mental health management and improve overall functioning and well-being.

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Some specific areas of specialisation for Mental Health Occupational Therapist’s

• Sensory based interventions

• Emotional regulation understanding and skills building (utilising a combination of cognitive and body-based strategies)

• Executive functioning skills development

• Exploring and recognising values and developing meaningful occupations using a holistic, person-centred framework

• Develop an understanding of and further develop participation in our daily functioning, productivity, and capacity - promoting and working toward independence across a range of areas in your life

• Recovering and regaining skills following a physical, emotional, or psychological injury