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Leigh McCabe

CLINICAL OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
NZROT

Leigh is a registered Occupational Therapist with extensive experience across child, adolescent, and adult mental health, maternal health, and physical health settings. She brings a warm, compassionate, and family-centred approach to her practice, understanding that no person exists in isolation. When one family member is going through a tough time, whether navigating anxiety, phobias, mood difficulties, OCD, burnout or other challenges, it ripples through the whole home. Equally, families thrive when they are supported together.

Leigh works with an open, inclusive mindset that respects each individual’s unique worldview. She is neurodiversity-affirming, recognising that no single approach works for everyone. By honoring how each person uniquely experiences the world, especially through their sensory environment and by pacing therapy to match each individual, she tailors support so it makes practical, meaningful sense for them.

Grounded in evidence-based care, Leigh’s practice integrates therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, and Sensory Modulation. She has a dedicated clinical focus on Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), providing assessments and practical strategies that help children and adolescents navigate home, school, and community life with greater ease and confidence.

Life can throw unexpected challenges and transitions our way, and Leigh believes that things do not have to stay the same.  She looks for the strengths and inner resources already within each person and family to foster genuine growth and change. 

Leigh can offer evening appointments to fit around work and school commitments.

Location: Howick & Highbrook