Charlaine graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy in 2016. She has worked across a range of ages and settings over the past decade, and now focuses on individuals aged 12 through adulthood.

Charlaine primarily supports people with autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability. Her clinical interests include handwriting, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and sensory processing. Much of her work centres on helping clients understand their own regulation and build sustainable routines so they can participate in the things that matter to them — work, study, relationships, and looking after themselves — without burning out.

She works holistically, taking time to understand a person's environment, values, and what they actually want before settling on strategies. She's drawn to approaches that are practical and that clients can keep using on their own, rather than ones that depend on her being in the room. Activity and task analysis sit at the core of how she works: breaking things down to identify the skills involved and the barriers in the way.

Charlaine sees therapy as something that extends beyond the individual. She works closely with parents, families, and the other people in a client's life, tailoring her approach to their capacity and coaching them so the skills stick. For her, a good outcome is often one where her support is no longer needed — where the client and the people around them are equipped to carry on.

Her practice is shaped by ongoing learning and by the lived experiences of the people around her, both professionally and personally. She draws on the work of Russell Barkley, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare on ADHD and executive functioning; Mona Delahooke on continually reframing what behaviour is telling us; Emily and Amelia Nagoski on burnout and completing the stress cycle, which informs her work on regulation; and Brené Brown on connection, worthiness and belonging.