Meet Sadie

Hi, I’m Sadie

I’m a Specialist Occupational Therapist and founder of SensoryPie, with over 10 years’ experience working alongside children, families and education teams across schools, CAMHS, Virtual Schools and therapeutic care settings.

Over the years, one thing has become increasingly clear to me: we don't necessarily need more strategies for individual children. We need to get better at noticing the barriers around them.

A child who struggles with the transition into class. The pupil who needs to move in order to concentrate. The child who copes quietly all day but uses enormous effort to do so. The lunchtime that becomes difficult because it is noisy, crowded and unpredictable. The behaviour that makes much more sense when we become curious about what happened before it.

Sensory processing can be part of that picture, but it is rarely the whole picture.

That’s why my work now focuses on participation – helping adults think about what a child is experiencing, what their environment is asking of them, how predictable and supportive that environment feels, and what might make it easier for them to take part.

Through SensoryPie, I work with schools, Local Authorities and education professionals to develop practical, whole-school approaches to sensory processing, predictability, regulation, trauma-informed practice and inclusion.

This includes Experts at Hand programmes, workforce development, training, sensory and participation resources, audits and practical classroom tools designed to build something much more sustainable than one person attending a course and taking the knowledge away with them.

Because meaningful inclusion isn't about creating a sensory expert in every school.

It's about creating shared understanding, shared language and confident adults who notice differently – so that supportive practice becomes part of everyday classrooms, routines, relationships and environments.

My aim is simple: to help make school easier to access, participate in and belong.