VMTS LTD
BRAIN INJURY
SPECIALIST Occupational Therapist, Counsellor and EMDR Practitioner
Brain Injury Survivors and their families are forced to cope with a unique sense of loss and major life disruption.
My qualifications and experience, both as an Occupational Therapist (OT) and Counsellor, mean I provide unique support for brain injury survivors and their families.
More about my experience.
More about my OT services.
More about my brain injury counselling services.
More about Motivational Interviewing.
Occupational Therapy helps increase independence and improve quality of life.
I provide a client-centred service. Where possible I work closely with the client’s family and significant people around them, as well as any multidisciplinary staff involved in their care.
Caring for someone who has experienced a brain injury can be demanding and can change family life forever. Brain injury has implications for the whole family and other family members are also the victims. I provide counselling support for both the brain injury survivor and their families.
I provide bespoke training workshops and coaching in Motivational Interviewing.
This is a well recognised evidence-based approach when working with clients towards behavioural and attitudinal change.
Testimonials
“I have worked with Verna for many years and have referred a number of my clients and their family members to her for both her neurological occupational therapy services, and her specialist counselling service. In every case, without exception, Verna has been an extremely valuable member of the MDT, and I cannot recommend her compassionate, value-driven, person-centred and outcome-focused approach enough; Verna’s work is so clearly underpinned by her vast experience and training, along with relevant and up-to-date evidence and theory, leading me to trust her immensely to improve the lives of any clients I refer to her”
Patrick Boyd
Clinical Director & Case Manager
"Verna’s continued support was a lifeline for me. Her knowledge of brain injury, coupled with her compassion, care and understanding have helped me enormously, through one of the most challenging times of my life"
Counselling Client
Through the hardest situation that I've ever been through in my life verna listened to me and made me feel valued in the world and not just pushed out to the margins in life. She brought me back from a place that I never thought that I could be and I owe her more thanks than she could understand”
Occupational Therapy Client
"Well what can I say. I’m sat here feeling very sad knowing our session have ended but at the same time feeling positive feeling excited and good about my future.
And its Verna that has made me feel that way. Our therapy sessions were not just all serious getting me to do this or making me feel like I was different because of the accident. The things she showed me and helped me with will stay with me in some form or another for ever"
Occupational Therapy Client
“I have worked with Verna for many years with a shared client who has complex needs. She has been instrumental in both my and my client’s mental health and has ‘kept the ship stable’ many times. This base of stability has enabled my client to achieve pre-injury goals, and her life has been completely transformed from those initial post-injury years. My client, who is rarely positive about the support she has, always makes sure that her sessions with Verna are part of her week.
Verna has been great for me too. The life of a case manager is often challenging, and Verna has on many occasions provided me with invaluable support and strategies which have enabled me to do my job to the standard needed”
Sheena Hardwick
Case Manager
Sherwood Therapy Services
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