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Emotional regulation is a skill - and skills can be learned.

When simple daily tasks become daily battles, there is often more going on than motivation.

Austin Functional Therapy helps children and adults 18+ build emotional regulation, executive functioning, communication, confidence, and independence. Many of the people we work with have autism or ADHD. A diagnosis is never required.

Jess - parents of children ages 7-15 · Daisy - adults 18+

How we help

Functional Therapy
Skills-first occupational therapy for the parts of daily life that take the most out of a household: routines, responsibilities, and follow-through.
Emotional Regulation
Learning strategies to identify, understand, and manage emotions effectively - and to use them when it counts, not just name them in session.

What these two words mean

Emotional regulation
Emotional regulation is our ability to cope internally and externally across environments - matching emotion to scale.
Executive functioning
Executive functioning is our ability to perform tasks, and manage behavior and cognition within age-expected parameters.

Emotional regulation is one executive functioning skill - the one families notice first, and the one sitting alongside all the others we work on. See the full set →

Who we work with

Children and adults 18+, including people with autism or ADHD, and people still looking for answers. A diagnosis is never required.

Emotional regulation for children ages 7-15
with Jess Hale, OTR/L
30-minute sessions
Executive functioning and emotional regulation for adults 18+
with Daisy Lee, OTD, supervised by Jess Hale, OTR/L
1-hour sessions

No diagnosis required

A diagnosis has never been the price of admission. If daily life feels harder than it should, that's reason enough to reach out.

Built on strengths

We start by finding what someone is already good at, then build the harder skills on top of it.

Real skills for real life

Our goal is helping you apply these skills outside of session - not just learn about them.

What sessions cost

We don't post rates. Session length and price differ between Jess and Daisy, so email whoever you'd be working with and you'll get the number for your situation.

Email is the way to reach us. There's no online booking yet, so a note to Jess or Daisy is the first step.