Exclusive Services

Collaborative support designed

for real life:

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Collaborative support that meets you where you are.
Coaching sessions are designed to support your real life — your child’s needs, your family’s values, and your capacity. Each coaching relationship is personalized and relationship-based, with flexible pacing, co-created goals, and support that evolves with your journey.

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Parent/Family Coaching

Support for you and your entire caregiving team — grounded in clarity, collaboration, and compassion.
Family coaching focuses on helping everyone involved in your child’s care understand and support their unique needs. Whether you're a two-parent household, co-parenting, working with extended family, or collaborating with schools and therapists, I help create a unified approach rooted in connection and trust.

These sessions offer space to strengthen your family’s understanding, communication, and resilience — so everyone is working together, not in conflict.

 

What family coaching can include:

• Translating medical or educational assessments into everyday strategies that work at home, school, and in the community

• Clarifying the difference between medical and educational diagnoses (and how this impacts services and supports)

• Reviewing and supporting advocacy around IEPs, 504 plans, or informal accommodations

• Building a shared understanding of your child’s sensory, emotional, and executive functioning profile among caregivers

• Consulting with schools, therapists, coaches, and extended family to foster consistency and reduce stress

• Supporting trust-based approaches for children with PDA profiles — including low-demand environments and collaborative routines

• Creating systems that reduce power struggles and improve transitions

• Addressing communication or alignment challenges between caregivers (e.g., parenting style mismatches or co-parenting tensions)

• Supporting gifted and twice-exceptional (2e) children navigating asynchronous development, sensitivity, or perfectionism

• Integrating regulation tools into family routines (e.g., shared sensory breaks, family check-ins, emotion naming strategies)

• Helping your family understand neurodivergent identity through a strengths-based lens — reducing shame and increasing self-awareness for everyone​

• Understand your child’s regulation, sensory, and EF needs

• Use Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) strategies

• Co-create home supports and realistic action plans

• Therapeutic listening, co-regulation, and goal setting

• Guidance for homeschooling, unschooling, and alternative paths

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Adult Coaching

Support for neurodivergent adults and parents navigating their own needs, Includes but not limited to:

• Explore your executive functioning and sensory profile

• Build systems that reduce overwhelm and increase follow-through

• Support for time management, emotional regulation, and self-care

• Understand your neurodivergent identity through a strengths-based lens

Empowering families to better understand and support their child’s neurodivergent profile:

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Each consultation is designed to help you make sense of what’s happening — and what to do next — through a strengths-based, neuro-affirming lens.

 

Consultations may include:

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• Reviewing developmental, medical, or psychoeducational assessments

• Clarifying diagnosis (educational vs. medical) and what it means for your family

• Understanding your child’s sensory, emotional, and executive functioning profile

• Developing neurodiversity-affirming action plans and supports

• Referrals to trusted professionals (SLPs, OTs, psychologists, advocates, evaluators, etc.)

• Supporting school advocacy efforts, including IEP prep or attendance

• Helping your family create more sustainable routines at home

• Support for gifted and twice-exceptional (2E) children, including those navigating the intersection of giftedness and neurodivergence

Practical support for kids, parents, and adults — rooted in neuroscience and compassion:

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Executive functioning (EF) skills are essential for planning, emotional regulation, task completion, and organization. I offer EF coaching for both adults and children — with a strong focus on understanding the why behind the challenges and creating individualized, sustainable supports.                                                                         ​

For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids:

• Understand your child’s EF profile

• Scaffold routines and tools to reduce stress and increase independence

• Implement visual supports, sensory-informed tools, and co-regulation strategies

• Support children navigating PDA, emotional regulation, and task avoidance

• Learn how your own EF profile impacts parenting — and how to create support for yourself, too

 

For Neurodivergent Adults:

• Explore your own EF strengths and challenges

• Build personalized systems for time, planning, and follow-through

• Reduce overwhelm and increase follow-through with sensory-based strategies

• Replace shame with practical tools and routines that honor your energy and capacity

• Navigate caregiving, work, and self-care with clarity and confidence

• My EF coaching is grounded in my training as an Occupational Therapist and informed by Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS), Polyvagal Theory, and Ayres Sensory Integration (ASI).

You can’t pour from an empty cup — and you shouldn’t have to:

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Parenting a neurodivergent child can be emotionally and physically exhausting. I provide space for you to reflect, recharge, and build your own regulation tools with compassion.

 

Support includes:

• Therapeutic listening and emotional validation

• Co-regulation and nervous system support and strategies

• Goal-setting and realistic action planning and strategies

• Understanding and supporting your own sensory and EF needs

• Exploring your parenting identity and long-term vision

In addition to occupational therapy, NDPSS offers structured academic instruction designed specifically for neurodivergent learners.

 

It is ideal for students who benefit from explicit, step-by-step instruction and reduced cognitive load.

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This May Be a Good Fit If:

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• Your child understands ideas verbally but struggles to express them in writing

• Writing feels confusing, slow, or disorganized

• Spelling and sentence structure are inconsistent

• They have difficulty getting started on writing tasks

• They rush to finish writing to escape the effort

• They frequently ask, “How do I start?” or “Is this right?”

• They benefit from structured routines, visual scaffolds, and immediate feedback

• For many neurodivergent learners, writing difficulties are not about intelligence — they are about working memory load. When too much cognitive energy is spent on forming letters or spelling words, fewer resources remain for idea generation and organization.

• This instruction focuses on reducing cognitive overload while building automaticity and confidence.

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Structured Literacy + Handwriting Instruction

(EBLI-Informed — Certification in Progress)​

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• Instruction is grounded in principles from Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI), which integrates structured literacy with Peterson Handwriting® motor patterning.

• Renal is currently completing the EBLI certification program.

• This integrated approach supports:

• Explicit phoneme–grapheme mapping

• Spelling automaticity

• Sentence construction and expansion

• Paragraph organization

• Structured revision routines

• Reduced working memory demands

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Handwriting Development Includes:

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• Explicit letter formation routines

• Rhythmic motor sequencing

• Baseline orientation and placement consistency

• Letter size differentiation

• Prevention of incorrect motor patterns

• Short, focused fluency-building practice

• The goal is automaticity — freeing cognitive resources for thinking and composing.

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Not Sure Which Path Is Right?

• Some students need therapeutic support.
  Some need structured literacy support.
  Some benefit from both.

• During consultation, we determine the most appropriate and effective plan for your child.

• Personalized 1:1 Occupational Therapy for Children & Teens in Aliso Viejo

• I provide individualized, private occupational therapy services designed to support children and adolescents with executive function challenges, emotional regulation differences, sensory processing needs, ADHD, autism, anxiety, PDA profiles, and related neurodevelopmental differences.

• Each session is tailored to the child’s unique neurocognitive profile, sensory system, relational needs, and family context. Intervention is rooted in occupational performance — meaning we focus on helping your child function successfully in real-life environments such as home, school, community, and peer settings

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What We Focus On

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Executive Function Development

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We help children build the foundational skills needed for independence and success, including:

• Task initiation and follow-through

• Working memory (verbal and non-verbal)

• Cognitive flexibility

• Organization and planning

• Time management

• Inhibitory control

• Self-monitoring and problem-solving

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Emotional Regulation & Nervous System Support

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Using trauma-informed and Polyvagal-informed approaches, we support:

• Emotion identification and awareness

• Somatic and interoceptive awareness

• Distress tolerance

• Flexible coping strategies

• Co-regulation and self-regulation skills​

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Sensory Processing & Integration

Intervention is informed by Ayres Sensory Integration® principles and may include:

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• Sensory modulation strategies

• Environmental adaptations

• Personalized sensory plans

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Executive Function & Written Output Development:

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We help children and teens build the foundational cognitive and motor skills needed for independence across school, home, and daily life.

Executive functioning impacts everything from starting homework to completing multi-step tasks — and writing is one of the most demanding executive function activities.

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Support may include:

• Task initiation and follow-through

• Working memory (verbal and non-verbal)

• Cognitive flexibility

• Organization and planning

• Time management and prioritization

• Inhibitory control

• Self-monitoring and problem-solving

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Written Output & Handwriting Support

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Writing requires the integration of executive function, fine motor coordination, visual-motor skills, and emotional regulation. When these systems are overloaded, children often experience frustration, avoidance, or shutdown.

Intervention may include:

• Handwriting legibility and fluency

• Pencil grasp and fine motor endurance

• Visual-motor integration

• Motor planning for written tasks

• Organizing ideas before and during writing

• Paragraph structure and sequencing support

• Reducing overwhelm and avoidance around written assignments

Our focus is not on tutoring -  but on strengthening the neurological, cognitive, and occupational foundations that make written work more efficient, sustainable, and less emotionally taxing.

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Healthy Relationships & Social Problem-Solving:

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We support the development of:

• Perspective-taking

• Flexible thinking

• Conflict resolution

• Boundary setting

• Collaborative communication skills

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Our Clinical Approach using

Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving® :

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We utilize the evidence-based Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving® approach to:

• Identify lagging skills

• Reduce power struggles

• Address unsolved problems collaboratively

• Build frustration tolerance and flexibility

This approach shifts the focus from behavior management to skill-building and partnership.

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Trauma-Informed, Neuro-Affirming Care:

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We prioritize emotional safety and autonomy.
Behavior is understood through a developmental and nervous system lens — not as defiance, but as communication.

Your child is not “difficult.” They are navigating challenges that deserve understanding and skilled support.

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Why Parent Coaching Is Integrated:

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Private OT is most effective when caregivers are part of the process.

Parent coaching ensures:

• Consistent language and strategies at home

• Proactive CPS conversations

• Environmental adjustments that reduce overwhelm

• Sustainable support systems for executive functioning

When parents understand the “why” behind their child’s challenges, change becomes more effective -  and more connected.

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Who This Is For:

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This service is ideal for children and teens who:

• Experience frequent emotional overwhelm

• Struggle with transitions or flexibility

• Avoid tasks due to executive function challenges

• Have ADHD, autism, anxiety, or PDA profiles

• Need individualized, relationally grounded, evidence-based, neuro-affirming therapeutic support