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About Be You Occupational Therapy
Founded by experienced clinician Kimmy Lane, Be You OT is a warm and inclusive environment where OTs and autistic women can safely explore who they are and what they aspire for. Kimmy provides online professional supervision, occupational therapy, life coaching and emotional freedom techniques.
Kimmy’s mission: empowering you to know yourself and be yourself
Kimmy believes knowing yourself and being yourself are the foundations for feeling fulfilled in your life. Settle into a warm, inclusive and compassionate therapeutic environment where you are honoured for being you.
A humane approach
At Be You OT, the focus is on cultivating meaningful connection and supporting you in a way that honours your individuality.
Drawing from her background in occupational therapy, life coaching and emotional freedom techniques, Kimmy uses evidence-based practices in a warm and empathetic way so you feel safer to be the unmasked you.
Here to help you:
Develop your career and meet clinical competency standards through professional supervision for occupational therapists.
Develop clarity and confidence to cultivate a meaningful, balanced lifestyle through life coaching designed for health professionals and neurodivergent women.
Overcome burnout and stress by consciously cultivating sustainable growth, achievement and fulfilment practices.
Explore and release emotional blocks through evidence-based emotional freedom techniques.
Feel supported in a compassionate, inclusive and empowering space that respects your individuality.
Be You OT Values
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Connection
Kimmy invests in cultivating therapeutic relationships where you can explore and affirm your true self. Your authentic self belongs right here.
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Cultivation
Kimmy values meaningful, kind and joyful growth practices. I trust curiosity and joy to guide learning. Kimmy creates safe environments for energy restoration and growth.
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Fulfilment
Kimmy values fulfilment as a foundation to well-being. Kimmy believes fulfilment is about living a life that feels authentic and worthwhile.
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.
Supporting Occupational Therapists, other health professionals and neurodivergent women to thrive in work and life.
Supporting Occupational Therapists, other health professionals and neurodivergent women to thrive in work and life.
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 an autistic 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.
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.”
Meet our support team
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Michelle Sayer
Admin Assistant
Michelle is the friendly presence you will usually encounter first at Be You. The warmth with which she communicates is practically therapeutic! Michelle has over 15 years of experience in medical administration, and now works her administration magic for multiple allied health providers across Australia through her business, Virtual Connect Administration Services.
Michelle’s wish for you: “May you feel empowered to live a life with limitless opportunities!”
Let’s begin
Ready to create a more fulfilling OT career and life?
If you’re feeling burnt out, stressed or like you’re making decisions based from busyness and fear — Kimmy can help guide you toward a kinder, more compassionate and fulfilling way of working and living. Choose from a suite of evidence-based services — including professional supervision, life coaching, EFT and OT.