ND-Affirming Occupational Therapists
Meet Our Team
We're a team of registered OTs supporting Autistic and AuDHD children, teens, adults, caregivers, and their families across Canada. We integrate evidence, deep clinical expertise, and lived experience with clients at every stage, from recent diagnosis to assessment to daily life.
Free 15-min call. before you book anything.
What's meaningful to you, and how do we make it doable?
Think of OT as the Swiss Army knife of therapies. Your Everyday Engineer™ ⓘ Not licensed engineers, just really practical therapists. . Function-oriented. Pragmatic. Adaptive. Different tools for different parts of daily life and meaningful activity.
Do we build skills? Adapt the task? Shape the environment — physical, institutional, or social? Or harness the strengths you already have?
In good therapy, it’s usually a mix of all four.
Occupational Therapy's Guiding Question
30-min Virtual Body Doubling
Small sessions. Big reliefs.
Sometimes you don’t need to talk it out or book therapy. You just need to get the thing done. Gentle accountability + quiet structure and a trusted source = moving your brain from stuck to started.
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BookPick a 30-min slot—flat $10, no subscription. Reliable start (no random matches).
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Declare your goal(s)Choose your check-in: text-only or ≤30-sec voice. No small talk.
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Work quietly togetherCamera optional, never recorded.
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Mark it complete...and breathe a sigh of relief.
Plot twist: You finished.
Sensory Profiling: What to Expect
EOT Sensory Map™
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Book EOT Sensory Map™Request services, sign consents, setup funding (if applicable).
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Semi-Structured InterviewMeet your OT for a visual-based sensory interview that centers lived experience.
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Complete FormsStandardized, proprietary, and #ActuallyAutistic-built digital questionnaires completed at your own pace.
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One-to-One DebriefingReport finalized and sent ahead for pre-loading. Review results and connect insights to daily life.
Modelling the numbers
Finding an OT who actually works this way is genuinely hard.
Neuroaffirming is a buzzword now, but nuanced OT for Autism and AuDHD across the whole lifespan is not a common specialty anywhere in Canada. It is a rounding error. To show why, here is the arithmetic worked through one province.
occupational therapists registered in British Columbia
One province, used as the illustration.
British Columbia is used as a worked example because its registration figures are public; the pattern, not the precise count, is the point. The first and last figures are counts; the steps between are estimates derived from published Canadian workforce trends (CHCPBC licensure statistics; CIHI, Occupational Therapists in Canada, 2024; Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy). Canada has no autism or neurodevelopmental specialty certification for occupational therapists.
Neurodiversity-affirming occupational therapy across the lifespan is rare across Canada. Worked as an example in one province: as of 2024 there were 3,340 occupational therapists registered in British Columbia. About 2,600 work in direct clinical care. About 650 of those work in the private sector. Roughly 150 work in paediatrics or developmental habilitation. An estimated 40 carry a majority Autistic or AuDHD caseload. An estimated 20 work with Autistic and AuDHD clients across the whole lifespan. Nine of them work at Everyday OT.
$180/ hour
- No formal diagnosis or doctor referral needed
- Sessions from home, anywhere in Canada (excl. QC & SK)
Covered by many insurers, health plans and provincial funding sources, and generally an eligible expense for the Medical Expense Tax Credit.
Ask us about funding options →Specialist OT for Autistic teens and adults
OT you wish you'd have found years ago
If you or your teen have been missed, sent to kids' services, or given supports that never fit, here is what's different.
Self- and late-identification is the norm here, not the exception
Being told you look fine and asked to come back with a report
Built for teens and adults for your real life
A children's clinic squeezing you into their play space as an afterthought
Autistic & Allistic team, practice and lived-experience in Autism across the lifespan
A field where 43 of 44 clinicians could recall no training on Autistic adults
ND-affirming clinically and operationally
Neuroaffirming as a website buzzword, but nowhere else; compliance and behaviour targets in the room
Border-free expertise, from your own sensory-safe space
Care that depends on your postal code, in a bright, loud room you need a day to recover from
OTs with 6-20+ years each, led by health system leaders
A new grad, a life coach, or a behaviour analyst with a certificate
No formal diagnosis or doctor's referral needed. Sessions from home, anywhere in Canada (excl. QC & SK). Covered by many insurers, health plans, charities, workplace supports, and provincial funding sources, and generally an eligible expense for the Medical Expense Tax Credit.
Ask us about funding options →