Qualifications
PGCert Advanced Occupational Therapy
BSC (hons) Occupational Therapy
Accredited BUSS® Practitioner
BWY Level 4 Diploma Teaching Yoga
Teen Yoga & Mindfulness Qualified Teacher
EFT & TFT Tapping Practitioner
Aeron Gates
Aeron is a Specialist Occupational Therapist with over 14 years of experience, specialising in mental health, trauma and sensory processing. She has experience working with children, adolescents and adults with a range of diverse and complex needs, including those with attachment and trauma needs, mental health needs, neurodevelopmental conditions, and sensory processing challenges.
She has a passion for supporting individuals to regulate their nervous system in order to be able to function and thrive in daily life, drawing upon a range of body-based and sensorimotor development modalities. Aeron is also a qualified yoga teacher and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner.
Her post-graduate training has focused on developing a specialist understanding of sensory processing, sensorimotor development and building interoceptive awareness. She values that each person has their own unique strengths, needs, interests, and goals, and she always aims to gain a deep understanding of these in order to provide the most meaningful support and interventions.
Professional Registration:
Health and Care Professions Council: OT58634
Royal College of Occupational Therapists
RCOT Specialist Section: Independent Practice
Post Graduate Training:
Accredited BUSS® Practitioner: Building Underdeveloped Sensory Systems (Sarah Lloyd: BUSS® Model)
Best Practices for Implementing Interoception-Based Supports
Trauma Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing
Interoception-Based Approach Supporting for Traumatised Learners
SAFE PLACE: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Treating Children with Complex Trauma and Sensory Processing Disorder
Loving Them is Not Enough: Trauma and Attachment
Kids Yoga Teacher Training (age 2-17)
Specialist EHCP & Tribunal Training
Irlen’s Screening Practitioner
Sensory Processing: See Behaviour, Think Sensory