Our Services
Better Mental Health: Finding identity, meaning and coping skills
At Life Balance Therapy, we understand how your mental health can make you feel unable to do things in your daily life you used to do, but there is no judgement or pressure from us when you can't function as well as you want. Occupational therapy for loss, change, depression and sadness, or worry, stress and anxiety, or other psychological challenges help you manage your symptoms, and develop effective coping strategies so you can regain control of your life, rebuild your confidence, and do what matters to you. We can also help you get further along the road to wellbeing with therapy. Occupational Therapy will compliments other treatments you are doing, for example if your GP has given you antidepressants, or other medications, we can support that, and help develop coping skills that rebuild you. We build routines and habits and social connections that help you more settled and content. You will get stronger, feel more confidence, and find your identity. Ask for online or face to face assessment to progress in your rehabilitation journey.
Health and Illness Rehabilitation:
Managing symptoms and impact on your life
At Life Balance Therapy, we understand that physical health issues cause symptoms that can impact your ability to perform everyday activities. We can help by providing ways to manage the tasks during long term conditions or when you are recovering from an illness or disease, or after a hospital stay. We help you manage the symptoms that limit what you do, like musculoskeletal conditions, pain, or fatigue and support you to live the life you want to live. Sometimes circumstances and health conditions are complex and we maximise independence as far as possible, and with compassion and respect, help you explore options for ways around the difficulties. We are strength based and we appreciate what matters to you. Ask for online or face to face assessment to progress in your rehabilitation journey.
Doing Therapy: Activity-focused therapy and rehabilitation
If you just want to focus on action and doing things, we can just help you do the activities that are important to you; whether that is in your self care, productivity pursuits or leisure time - or all three. Sometimes talking is not what you need and acceptance is a place you can move forward from. What you really help is a supportive health professional to lean on while we work through changes, such as a life event, living with a health issue, or coping with loss, the end of a relationship, or making a lifespan transition. When changes happens you might feel out of balance, or disconnected. You might just want to be able to do your job, or perhaps you are finding another important role you have difficult? When changes is imposed on you might feel you don't know who you are, or feel isolated, your values are challenged, or you might feel you lack in purpose. Action is sometimes the best route forward to take, and that is always our primary focus, over talking.
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Because Occupational Therapists are the holistic health professionals who focus on what you want and need to do, we help with all kinds of transitions and facilitate a route forward that works for you. We are trained to be supportive of who you want to be, and value how you want to live your life, and so we coach you to build on your strengths, overcome challenges, solve problems, and learn new skills. We understand how an individual, a task or an activity, a physical context, a social context, and a social and/or domestic context can interact, working for you or against you, and so we have your back.
We can facilitate if this is for you and you want to do things you way, or we can provide more support if this is for someone you care about. Ask for online or face to face assessment to progress in your rehabilitation journey.
SUPPORT FOR CARERS
Sometimes circumstances and physical and mental health conditions are complex and difficult and we provide an important source of professional support for carers and their families. We care for carers because we understand the time and commitment you devote, but also the impact that has on you, and other things you need and want to do in your own life. We are caring and professional, and we support you in taking care of your own needs, leaving you stronger to help and support those you are helping. We can also help when your role changes, for example when someone you cared for has died, and you are making that difficult transition back, so with us you are less alone and more supported. Contact us to see how we can help.
24 hour living: Help to sleep better and lifestyle modification
Sometimes, we know what we are meant to do, but it just hasn't happened. This is most likely not because you are not trying hard enough or have failed. This is when a professional health therapist can help.
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One example is getting good sleep. Sleep is a refreshing tonic that is a completely natural and free way of improving your productivity, emotional and cognitive functioning, and physical and mental health. However, if your sleep is poor you have difficulty learning, focussing and you react more slowly. You might feel frustrated, cranky and worried, or unable to cope with difficult emotions. If you can't get to sleep, can't stay asleep, or wake up too early and can't get back to sleep, we have a programme that can help.
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We all live a 24 hour routine and many of us have very good intentions but they sometimes are hard to implement or keep up for very long. We offer professional health promotion and behaviour change to individuals, groups, and to businesses that can help you build a good routine and lifestyle. Because we consider you, your context and what you want to do we can help you live the life you want to lead. We don't tell you what to do because if it was that easy you'd be doing it already. Our interventions are evidence based and tailored for you and your life, whatever you like or dislike doing. Get in touch to see if we can make life better.​
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We also offer a current lifestyles and recommendations health coaching"MOT" which assesses your physical health as it is today, your long term risk of developing preventable health conditions, and your mental wellbeing. We relate this to your current lifestyle and routines and suggest evidence based personalised SMART goals for physical and mental wellbeing, which give most people quick and noticeable results. Ongoing sessions can help motivate and empower you. Contact us today.
Professionals: Multidisciplinary Teamworking
The work that we do complements rather than conflicts with the work of other professionals. Life Balance Therapy can supplement established approaches to health and wellbeing with additional biopsychosocial assessment of functioning and/or rehabilitative therapy. For example, if you need an assessment of how someone functions in an everyday task, or if you recognise someone's needs are complex or have changed, and you are not sure how to meet them, we can help with that. In the NHS we work effortlessly on shared goals in multidisciplinary teams of doctors, nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, and/or dieticians, who are our allied health professional colleagues. In the community our work complements that of the social worker; homecare, domiciliary, and nursing care agencies; voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations offering social prescriptions, and and independent practitioners. Not every organisation wants a full time OT, but everyone needs one sometimes. At Life Balance Therapy we work on a casework/project/ad-hoc basis - Send us a contact if you'd like to discuss, or book our Assessment of functioning with report.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
What is Occupational Therapy?
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