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Career profile: Mental health

Sonia Smith works as Project Coordinator for Coping Through Football, a project that engages with and improves the wellbeing of adults and young people experiencing mental health issues.

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Sonia Smith, occupational therapist, mental health

If you are able to focus on a person’s strengths and their own goals and aspirations, then occupational therapy is the profession for you. As I see it, occupational therapists have a clear purpose: to enable the person to meet their own goals and plan their own recovery journey. We view people as individuals with their own resources and as their own agents of change.

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