Engela Young qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1976 and started in Private Practice. She was frustrated in the results she achieved and felt that her formal training withheld her from achieving maximum success with her patients. She attended numerous courses nationally and internationally and did extensive research, which lead her to develop her own unique programmes in therapy.

Engela treating an adult integrated thinking skills

Treating adults are challenging and fun!

She currently runs a prenatal clinic, where she stimulates unborn babies and does not believe that there is an age-limit in treating patients. She also treats professors and doctors successfully and usually asks the question: “What is normal?” The oldest patient that she treated was 86 years of age.

She passionately believes that one cannot achieve success by seeing a patient once or twice a week. She believes that therapy should be done on a much more intensive scale, involving the parents and educational system in an integrated way to ensure success.

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She is a firm believer of Sensory Integration Therapy but differs in opinion of the application of therapy on this level. She does not believe in labelling people with a specific diagnosis and prefers to identify the root of the problem and to use alternative and natural healing methods and specialized therapy to treat the cause and not the symptom. Her perseverance with patients results in many of her successes. She compares her perseverance with a tick on a dog – she never lets go!