Our Team.

Cole

Dr. Cole is the founder and Head Occupational Therapist at CGOT. She is a passionate advocate for neurodiversity-affirming care and is committed to reshaping how we understand executive functioning, mental health, and human development. Through both clinical work and leadership, she is committed to building a more compassionate, forward-thinking model of care. Cole rotates through the practices, supervising the rest of the team weekly.

Sam

Sam is a Senior Occupational Therapist with extensive experience across neurodiversity-affirming practice, working between Claremont and Vredehoek. He works confidently across executive functioning, social development, life skills, and emotional regulation, supporting clients across the lifespan. His preference is adolescent and adult work, but is highly capable in supporting all clients. Sam has a passion for helping people reach their functional goals and achieve success.

Sharyn

Sharyn is the backbone of CGOT and the steady force behind the scenes. As our Practice Manager, she keeps everything (and everyone) on track, ensuring the ship runs smoothly each day. With exceptional organisation, warmth, and attention to detail, Sharyn supports both our team and our families. She is often the first point of contact and brings calm, clarity, and efficiency to every interaction. If anything needs to be done, Sharyn is making sure it happens. 

Saffron

Saffron is a Senior Occupational Therapist with a strong background in neurodiversity-affirming practice. She is deeply passionate about supporting clients to rebuild a sense of competence, confidence, agency and identity, grounded in a strong belief in the importance of creating a life that genuinely feels worth living

Working as a digital nomad, she supports clients remotely, bringing flexibility, depth, and a global perspective to her work.

Coerien

Coerien is a Senior Occupational Therapist working fully remotely from her farm near Sutherland. She brings deep expertise in neurodiversity-affirming care and is passionate about supporting individuals across the lifespan. Known for her calm presence and thoughtful insight, Coerien walks alongside her clients as they navigate the ups and downs of life, build practical strategies, and move toward lives that feel authentic, meaningful, sustainable, and self-directed.

Gillian

Gill is a Senior Occupational Therapist who brings a strong background in mental health and is trained in sensory integration, offering a thoughtful and holistic approach to occupational therapy. She works from our Pinelands, Plumstead and Claremont practices. Gill works across the lifespan, working with emotional regulation, sensory processing, and functional independence. Gill is skilled at helping clients make sense of their sensory experiences and emotional worlds.

Kayla

Kayla is our Vredehoek-based Occupational Therapist, working across both Lighthouse and CGOT. She particularly enjoys supporting adolescents and adults, while also bringing valuable experience in paediatrics.

Kayla is passionate about practical, real-world occupational therapy. She focuses on building life skills that translate directly into everyday independence.

Marnique

Marnique joins the CGOT team after working in Hermanus and is now making the move to Cape Town. She is a passionate and hardworking OT who values a holistic, client-centred approach to care. Marnique believes strongly in both client- and family-centred intervention, with the aim of improving quality of life for individuals and their loved ones. She believes that every person deserves the opportunity for meaningful engagement and connection.

Alice

Alice is our Claremont-based Occupational Therapist, working across both Lighthouse and CGOT. She is a thoughtful and highly reflective clinician who brings depth and care to every therapeutic relationship. Alice particularly enjoys working on executive functioning skills, supporting clients with planning, organisation, emotional regulation, and self-understanding. Alice works with enormous grace and incredible holding for all of her clients. 

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Nina

Nina is our Plumstead-based Occupational Therapist working across both Lighthouse and CGOT. She has a natural gift for connecting with people and bringing out their sense of joy. Her warm, engaging presence helps clients feel seen, understood, and genuinely comfortable in therapy. She works confidently across executive functioning, social development, and life skills, supporting children, teens, and adults to build confidence and practical independence.

Geraldine

Geraldine is our Hermanus-based Occupational Therapist working across both Lighthouse and CGOT. She has experience working across all age ranges and brings a calm, grounded presence to her practice. She is passionate about working alongside her clients to help them achieve meaningful, functional goals in everyday life across home, school, work, and community settings. Geraldine works hard to collaborate with clients on setting and achieving their personal goals. 

Ricci

Ricci is the exceptional OT at our Sandton practice. Ricci brings experience in paediatric occupational therapy and psychiatric mental health, with a passion for working alongside clients to build practical skills for everyday life. She will be working with children, teens, and adults, supporting executive functioning, emotional regulation, and life skills. Ricci really enjoys the journey of walking alongside her clients as they navigate dealing with and overcoming every day challenges. 

Danielle

Danielle has joined the CGOT team at our new Harfield practice.

Danielle provide individual psychotherapy to adult clients. She has a special interest in neurodiversity and addiction. Danielle works to empower others to live meaningful and happy lives. She uses a practical, compassionate, empowering, and problem-solving approach, while making use of dialectical behaviour therapy skills as needed to help clients through the challenges they are facing.

Imrah

Imrah is a new addition to the CGOT team at our Pinelands practice. Imrah has experience working with children, adolescents as well as adults, and is skilled in a wide range of areas. These include working on self esteem, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), addictions, mindfulness, self care and functional activities of daily living.  Imrah has loads of experience working in groups as well as with individuals.