“The joy in helping someone achieve their goal, whatever it may be, is a true privilege of being an Occupational Therapist.”
Anna is a Senior Occupational Therapist with more than twenty-seven years of NHS experience, specialising in neurological rehabilitation and rehabilitation for older adults. She provides home visits across the New Forest and surrounding area — from Lymington, Brockenhurst and New Milton to Totton, Romsey and Southampton — working with people to rebuild the everyday activities that matter most to them.
A career across hospital and community
Anna graduated from Brunel University, London, in 1998 and has spent her career working locally in both hospital and community settings. She has built up extensive knowledge across a wide range of conditions — from acute medical assessment and stroke rehabilitation to adult neurology (including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease and Guillain-Barré syndrome), elderly rehabilitation, orthopaedics and outpatient hand therapy. Alongside her general rehabilitation work she has developed particular expertise in upper-limb rehabilitation and splinting, and in driving rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation in your own home
Since 2005 Anna has worked as a community-based rehabilitation occupational therapist — first in Wiltshire, and now in Dorset. Years of working with people in their own homes have honed her ability to tailor each assessment and treatment to the individual and their environment. “Working with someone in their own home lets you build rehabilitation around the things that genuinely matter to them,” she says — whether that’s getting dressed independently again, returning to a favourite hobby, or getting back behind the wheel.
How Anna works with her clients
With a real passion for excellent care, Anna works to maximise each person’s independence and quality of life, keeping their own goals at the centre of everything she does. Expect a calm, practical and encouraging approach, grounded in nearly three decades of specialist experience and focused on the progress that means the most to you and your family.
