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About Be You Occupational Therapy
Founded by experienced mental health occupational therapist Kimmy Lane, Be You OT provides occupational therapy and EFT via telehealth for late-identified neurodivergent women and women in perimenopause. Be You OT also provides online clinical supervision for OTs across Australia.
Supporting your mental health and everyday life.
When you’re overwhelmed, anxious or exhausted, everyday responsibilities can take more effort than others realise. Work, relationships, caring for yourself and running a household may leave little room for recovery or the things you enjoy. Together, we identify what is difficult, what matters to you and what could help — whether that involves practical strategies, therapeutic support or changes to your routines and environment.
A humane approach
Kimmy prioritises understanding your experiences, health, capacity and circumstances. Your therapeutic collaboration with Kimmy is guided by your priorities and with respect for your autonomy.
Kimmy’s practice is neuroaffirming, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive. This means considering how neurodivergence, trauma, health, relationships and social expectations affect your mental health and daily life. It also means recognising when the demands placed on you need to change.
We work towards changes that are meaningful and manageable for you, at a pace that allows time to reflect, practise and recover.
Here to help you:
Understand yourself as an autistic woman or woman with ADHD, including making sense of late identification and years of masking.
Recognise your sensory and executive functioning needs, communicate what you need and develop routines that support your wellbeing.
Recover from autistic burnout and find more sustainable ways to manage work, parenting, relationships and everyday responsibilities.
Manage the impact of perimenopause on daily life, including changes in sleep, energy, concentration and emotional wellbeing.
Adjust activities, balance demands and recovery, and stay connected with what matters to you during perimenopause — with support coordinated (with your consent) alongside your broader healthcare team.
Be You OT Values
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Connection
The trust that develops through being heard, understood and respected is essential to a safe therapeutic alliance. Kimmy brings warmth, honesty and curiosity to your therapeutic relationship, taking time to get to know you and understand your experiences.
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Cultivation
Kimmy supports curiosity, self-understanding and growth at a pace that respects your capacity. Together, you identify what supports your wellbeing and create opportunities for rest, enjoyment and meaningful change.
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Fulfilment
Fulfilment is personal. Kimmy supports you to nurture the relationships, activities and aspirations that matter to you, and to design a lifestyle that reflects your needs and values. It’s ok if you don’t know what would fulfil you prior to commencing OT - we can discover this together.
An OT practice for women to be celebrated for who they truly are
When Kimmy Lane quietly founded Be You OT in 2020, she wasn’t trying to build an empire. She was aspiring to create a work space she could live an authentic, joyful and fulfilling life within. A space she could be her authentic self.
‘I’ve definitely created this,’ she says. ‘Although, the being of my authentic self is a gradual process.’ There’s a sense she finds this delightful. ‘I do!’ she says. ‘I love continuing to discover who I am underneath the masking to fit in. It’s like meeting myself again and again. Each time I feel a little more free.’
There’s no pressure to perform here. Instead, there’s something rare: the sense that you don’t have to explain yourself to be understood.
‘That’s one of the benefits of collaborating with a neurodivergent therapist,’ Kimmy says. ‘There’s a special kind of shorthand between neurodivergent women; a knowing. I can feel the moment a woman realises she doesn’t have to mask or explain herself here. It’s thrilling!’
Kimmy’s practice is less about functioning and performing, and more about feeling good and flourishing.
‘Functioning is a natural byproduct of feeling good and flourishing,’ Kimmy says. ‘So we begin there. It makes for a more effective and ethical therapeutic experience.’
The women who come to Be You are often carrying more than anyone sees: unspoken grief, years of masking, a nervous system on high alert… Many have succeeded in ways that looked good on paper while feeling a lack of belonging in their own lives. Often they are utterly exhausted. Kimmy greets them calmly and with a refusal to pathologise what’s simply human.
‘I want to live and work in a way that’s humane,’ Kimmy says. ‘I want the women I serve to feel held by the therapeutic process, not wrung out by it.’
OT at Be You isn’t about changing yourself. It’s about being yourself. ‘I called the company Be You OT because a fulfilling life is cultivated on a foundation of being yourself,’ Kimmy says.
You belong here. Just as you are.
Mental health occupational therapy for neurodivergent women and women navigating perimenopause.
Mental health occupational therapy for neurodivergent women and women navigating perimenopause.
Meet Kimmy
Director, Occupational Therapist, Certified Coach & EFT Practitioner
Kimmy became an AHPRA-registered OT in 2005 and has since maintained various clinical and leadership roles within the allied health industry.
Kimmy’s lived experience of being a neurodivergent woman has enabled her to excel in clinical, leadership and supervision roles.
She is a voluntary member of Occupational Therapy Australia and holds numerous post-graduate qualifications, including:
A Graduate Certificate in International Health.
ICF-accredited personal coach training, via Coach U.
Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner Training.
Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead training.
Professional Supervision training, via Occupational Therapy Australia.
Compassion focussed therapy training.
Acceptance and commitment training.
OT driver assessments and vehicle modifications training.
Kimmy believes in the healing power of love, kindness and gratitude.
Kimmy’s wish for you: “May you feel free to be you, and be personally fulfilled.”
Let’s begin
Ready to create a more authentic & sustainable lifestyle?
If you’re navigating autistic burnout, executive challenges, masking or feeling weighed down by overwhelm - Kimmy can support you to uncover ways to honour and nurture your neurodivergence. Choose from a suite of evidence-based, neuroaffirming services - including occupational therapy, professional supervision, body doubling and EFT.