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CRUSH therapy is a therapy service that offers relationship, s*xuality and s*xual education to neurodivergent and disabled folk.

CRUSH is piloted by myself (Kate), an Occupational Therapist and Sexologist based in Perth, Western Australia.

16/12/2025

In healthy relationships, space can be an act of care, especially when emotions are high or nervous systems are overwhelmed.

Here's some ideas on how you and your partner/s can take space respectfully (especially with an anxious partner):

• Name it clearly: “I need a break to regulate, not to leave.”

• Give a time frame: “Let’s check back in after dinner / tomorrow morning.”

• Reassure the bond: “We’re okay, I just need a pause to process and regulate my nervous system.”

• Avoid disappearing completely, silence can feel threatening.

• Follow through on reconnecting. Repair builds trust.

Space with intention supports safety, not distance.
Avoidance disconnects. Planned pauses protect.

02/11/2025

Popping on here with less than 9 hours till the end of OT week to say HAPPY OT WEEK Y'ALLLL! 🥳🫶🏼

This OT Week is about celebrating the many ways occupational therapy helps people take part in life in ways that feel safe, meaningful, and possible.

At CRUSH therapy, OT often looks a little different to what people might know OT to typically look like.
It might mean supporting someone to find sensory strategies that help their body feel calm, exploring safe relationships and consent, puberty, engaging in s3×ual health practices, protective behaviours or adjusting routines so daily life feels more doable.

Our focus is always on creating quality of life, equal opportunity, connection, and confidence, NOT forcing anyone to fit into someone else’s idea of “normal."

Here’s to the OTs quietly helping people build lives that feel like their own. 🤝

14/09/2025

🎧 Executive function is the DJ of your brain and therefore your intimacy & relationships! 🎧

(Bear with me on this analogy and let me know if it resonates!)

Struggling to “hit play” on connection? That’s task initiation.

Overwhelmed with the playlist of life and love? That’s planning & organization.

Unsure what’s most important... s3×, cuddles, or just time together? That’s prioritisation.

Running out of energy before you’ve made time for intimacy? That’s time management.

Navigating changes in desire, boundaries, or routines? That’s flexibility & self-monitoring.

Many neurodivergent adults (and their partners) notice these executive function challenges affecting their s3× lives and relationships. The good news is that with tools, self-compassion, and support, you can remix the track.

I welcome you to come talk about how intimacy, s3×, and connection can look different. And how to find rhythms that feel authentic to you.🎶

10/09/2025

Wise words from the legend herself! 💌

Strong, supportive relationships are linked to better regulation, resilience, and overall wellbeing. For neurodivergent people, this often means finding spaces where difference is not just accepted but valued and celebrated.

At CRUSH, we focus on helping people build the kinds of connections that feel safe, authentic, and sustainable.

22/08/2025

💔 These are commonly shared experiences for some neurodivergent people during breakups. They won’t apply to everyone, and your journey may look very different and that’s valid too.💔

Breakups can hit differently when you’re neurodivergent.🫠

Monotropic focus may keep you looping on memories. RSD can make rejection feel unbearable. High-contrast thinking can swing you between extremes. Impulsivity may pull you toward big, sudden choices. Even memory gaps or executive function struggles can make daily life feel harder.

But a strengths based lens (OTs love a person centered strengths based moment!!🌱) reveals that these same characteristics can hold many hidden strengths too. Deep focus can fuel healing. Sensitivity can create profound empathy. Intensity can drive passionate growth. Boldness can open new paths. Even the urge to fill a void can spark new routines and communities.

Which of these patterns feels familiar in your own experiences? Perhaps something to quietly reflect on, or to share in the comments if you’d like? I'll leave it with you. 🤔💭

Click share or send me a DM if something resonates or you have feedback. Always willing and open to hearing the voices, opinions and experiences of others ✨

07/08/2025

"What are my Plan B options if I’m autistic?”

Short answer: The same as anyone else.

Longer answer? You might face extra considerations or barriers getting emergency contraception AND that doesn’t make you any less entitled to it. EVER

Flick through the above post to see ...
💟 Emergency contraception options available in Australia
💟Sensory and neurodivergent-specific barriers
💟 Tips to make accessing Plan B easier
💟 Info for trans & non-binary folks
💟 What you can do if Plan B doesn’t work

Every body and mind deserves accessible, affirming sexual health care, free of judgement, without assumptions or needing to explain why you’re there.

You can be q***r, disabled, neurodivergent and still need (and deserve) contraception. If Plan B doesn’t work, there are still options in WA (where I am based) including safe, legal abortion.

22/07/2025

🌟Monthly supervision spots available 🌟

If you are looking for a safe, reflective, neuroaffirming supervision set up that actually makes space for the real stuff and stuff you don't usual cover. Things like uncertainty, nuance, identity, intimacy, gender, puberty and complexity then definitely slide into my DMs🤠

Each month, I offer two 1:1 supervision slots through CRUSH therapy for professionals supporting neurodivergent or disabled clients. Already a number of clinicians have accessed supervision support sessions for specific and general clinical support. Many come to me for additional supervision and coaching on how to manage and support clients presenting with goals under s3×uality and intimacy, protective behaviours, puberty and challenging s3xual behaviours.

This option is ideal for:
✔️ OTs, educators, support workers, counsellors, and students
✔️ Case reflection, boundaries, ethics, sensory/s3×uality topics
✔️ Unpacking practice through a neuro-affirming lens
✔️ Bringing questions you might not feel safe to ask elsewhere

This is a paid supervision spot, available monthly on a first-in basis. Casual, no lock-ins. One-off or ongoing.

📩 DM or email to book in! And let's chat!!

01/07/2025

💥 CRUSH therapy turns ONE! 💥

One year ago, I opened the CRUSH therapy doors with a vision to create a space where neurodivergent, disabled and q***r people feel seen, supported, and empowered.

It’s been a year of hard work, passion, learning, love (and a few late nights!) — and I am so grateful for the incredible people who’ve backed me, worked with me, referred to CRUSH, and believed in what I do.

In the past year, CRUSH has...

🧠 Delivered 1:1 therapy with care and curiosity
🎓 Presented PDs and workshops to workplaces across sectors
🤝Provided supervision, consultation and collaborative support
🗺️Travelled interstate and attended worldwide Congress's
🌱 Grown to almost 1000 followers across platforms and reached over 60k in views (and trust me - after numerous content warnings, account bans and any content mentioning s*x, it's not easy)
🛜 Created numerous free and accessible resources
💬 Sparked conversations around identity, regulation, sexuality and access

This is just the beginning and I'm excited for year TWO! More resources, more partnerships, more advocacy, and more spaces for connection and change.

Thank you to those who have supported this first year in whatever form or capacity, and for being here for the ride. I am so very grateful. I'll do my best to keep CRUSHing it (s'cuse the pun)
💛

29/06/2025

"Wait, OTs talk about s*×?”

Yep. And we should.

S*×uality is a key part of identity, health, and participation — and for many people, it's an area affected by disability, trauma, sensory processing, motor skills, or access needs.

As OTs, we support people to engage in meaningful occupations. That includes the ones that are often ignored, silenced, or seen as "too complex" or "taboo".

Pleasure, !ntimacy, and agency are valid and matter.

18/06/2025

Today is Autistic Pride Day—a day to honour the unique ways autistic people exist, relate, love, feel, and express.

Autism isn’t something to “fix.” It’s a valid and invaluable neurotype with its own strengths, complexities, challenges, and needs. As an OT and s3×ologist, I work alongside autistic folks of all ages—supporting sensory regulation, communication, and safer, self-led exploration of identity, boundaries, and int!macy.

Let’s move beyond awareness.
Let’s move toward celebration, access, and pride.

❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍🩷

17/06/2025

A common theme throughout the symposiums and workshops that I have attended so far at WAS 2025... Call-In Culture👐🏼

Call-in culture is about being strategic, relational, and compassionate—especially when things go wrong, someone makes a mistake or is still learning. It requires space holding, education, awareness and nuance. It involves acknowledging the privilege of already having knowledge, education and training in certain spaces, and calling people who don't into that.

When we call someone in, we invite growth with them—not at their expense.

It’s how we build real change in our work, our communities, and ourselves. 🌿

16/06/2025

One major take away for me from , .ot and 's Collective Wisdom OT and Int!macy PD Day yesterday was actually a question...

It’s easy to get stuck in what we haven’t done yet and why — in the discomfort, the silence, or the perceived gaps in our training.

But what if we asked instead: “Why not me?”

This encourages us to look forward and foster a growth mindset. As OTs, we’re already working at the intersection of function, participation, and identity. Task analysis, and problem solving is our schtick! With the client and their meaningful occupations at the centre of it all.
This work is ours too! 🫰🏼🫰🏼🫰🏼

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Richardson Street
Perth, WA
6005

Website

http://www.crushtherapy.com.au/

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