ABOUT ME
Welcome to my website! I'm Amy Stephens, a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and an Accredited Coach and Mentor with a particular focus on supporting allied health professionals with ADHD. With over two decades of experience in the field, I bring both professional expertise and personal insight to my clinical mentoring and supervision practice.
I'm passionate about empowering other neurodivergent AHPs to flourish in their personal and professional lives. Using my lived experience of navigating healthcare and education workplaces to tailor the skills I developed as part of my prize-winning Masters in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University and additional specialist ADHD coaching qualifications, I offer coaching, clinical mentoring, and supervision services specifically designed for allied health professionals with ADHD. Whether you're seeking strategies to enhance focus and productivity, tools to manage time and workload effectively, or support in overcoming obstacles unique to ADHD, I'm here to guide and support you every step of the way.
In addition to my specialised services, I have extensive experience of using Ayres Sensory Integration as an intervention in my speech and language therapy work. Through keynote speaking engagements, educational workshops, and advocacy initiatives, I strive to foster a culture of empathy, inclusivity, and support for individuals with sensory differences.
When you work with me, you'll find what works specifically for you to make your working life less stressful and more enjoyable - and who couldn't use a little more joy in their life?
MY WORK
I work with Allied Health Professionals and others offering Clinical Supervision, Clinical Mentoring, Specialist Ayres Sensory Integration support, and ADHD Workplace Coaching.
I can also offer bespoke and online training and inset/service training for organisations and schools.
AHP - ADHD Workplace Coaching
"It exceeded all my expectations and my expectations were high! I feel very privileged to have had the experience of being coached by you. It has been life changing."
Parent - Specialist Second Opinion
"I would just like to thank you for all your help and advice, and of course for seeing B and for listening to me, I appreciated it so much and still do. You gave me the confidence and knowledge to ask questions and not to take the first diagnosis given to me. I can't thank you enough."
NQP SALT - Clinical Mentoring
"An amazing journey that I was sad when it finished. I felt very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with Amy and hear her inspirational words of advice."
SENCO - School training
"Thank you again for such an inspiring and interesting training morning yesterday. It has been great hearing everyone around school talking about students in their classes with a new level of understanding, and so many people are now looking at behaviours and thinking about their possible sensory underpinning and things they are now going to try with their pupils!"
NQP SALT - Clinical Mentoring
"There is nothing else like this out there for NQPs and the expertise and skill set that Amy has will truly support you so much.
SALT - Webinar Training
"Thank you so much for your highly informative and rather entertaining presentation on Sensory Integration. Your facts and observations make so much sense to me in the context of autistic children... and others. I work in an autism diagnosis team. In my clinic sessions this week, I have been looking at the children we see for assessment with an SI eye, very revealing! I have been able to improve my advice to parents and teenagers. Much appreciated.
A huge thank you for your presentation, certainly the best training session I have attended in a very long time."
Manager - Opportunity Group
"We thoroughly enjoyed the training and it has stimulated such interesting discussion since then. Staff are looking at children’s learning in a very different way, and I think it has had a very positive impact on our playroom practice. We are always looking to build on the skill set of our playroom staff and improve on what we do."
Specialist SALT - Older Adults
"You are always a very inspiring speaker to listen to. You not only know your stuff but you also explain it very well. Staff look at behaviour in a different light, not just with more interest and understanding but also with more respect. You gave them lots of easy things that they can do. So I think it was the perfect talk for meeting their needs."
AHP - Clinical Supervision